Here's How to Send a Link to Your Browser on Your Computer from Your iPhone!
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Here’s How to Send a Link to Your Browser on Your Computer from Your iPhone!

You know how sometimes you are looking at your browser on your phone, and want to send the link to yourself so that you can open it in your browser on your computer? How often have you thought “I wish I could just transmit the link to my computer and it would automatically open the page in my browser”? Well read on!

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How to Find Your Paypal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) Settings and Info

If you accept payments via Paypal, there are all sorts of things that you can connect to your Paypal payments that require you to set your Paypal Instant Notification (IPN) settings. For example, you can have someone who has paid you by Paypal automatically sent a customer email, or have them added to an autoresponder or mailing list. Here’s how to turn on your Paypal Instant Payment Notifications, and how to edit your IPN settings.

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How to Make a Custom Playlist URL on YouTube

It’s fairly trivial to make a playlist on YouTube, whether of your own or others’ videos. And of course, you can make a custom channel URL. But what if you want to make a custom playlist URL – i.e. a custom URL for one of your playlists?

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Does Upper Case or Lower Case Matter in Domain Names?

We often are asked whether it matters whether you use upper case or lower case letters when typing doman names (which some people mistakenly calls “IP names”) such as in a URL. Do you need to exact match domain upper case or lower case, so long as you are typing the name properly? Read on…

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New Service Creates PDF of Any Web Page Right on Your Desktop

The new ‘PDF My URL’ (PDFmyURL) service from OpenTracker will take any web page, whatever it finds at any URL, and instantly turn it into a PDF file on your desktop – for free!

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Spammers Turn to Short URL Services to Cloak Spammed Sites URLs

Spammers and malware pushers have turned in increasing numbers to the URL shortening services such as TinyURL, SNURL, bit.ly and is.gd as a way of getting by spam filters that recognize the actual URLs to spam and malware sites.