Ever since I switched over to using a Mac, I’ve been struggling to find a really simple yet powerful blogging client. On PC platform nothing beats Windows Live Writer, it’s simple design with powerful editing capabilities make it a must for offline blogging. It also downloads your WordPress theme so that you can see exactly what your post will look like.
Quick post on how to take screenshots using keyboard shortcuts.
Take a screenshot of the entire screen and save it as a file on the desktop
Select an area and take a screenshot of that area, save as file on the desktop
Click on a window and take a screenshot of that window, save as file on the desktop
Take a screenshot of the entire screen and save it to the clipboard
Select an area and take a screenshot of that area, save it to the clipboard
Click on a window and take a screenshot of that window, save it to the clipboard
The hosts file is a text file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. Upon typing a url address in the browser, the system first checks if there is a relevant entry in the hosts file and if exists gets the corresponding IP address. If no entries exists it resolves the IP via the active connection’s DNS servers.
The hosts file can be edited to block certain hostsnames, like ad-serving/malicious hosts, or used for web development purposes, i.e. to redirect domains to local addresses.
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