Posts by ISeeTWizard

GeForce RTX 4090

187,6

1,66

139,2

2,23

87,4

3,56

310

GeForce RTX 4080 Super

167,4

1,44

112,6

2,14

65,4

3,69

240

GeForce RTX 4080

164,7

1,47

110

2,19

63,6

3,83

241

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super

152,5

1,61

97,8

2,52

55,1

4,44

244

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

149,1

2,24

100,5

3,34

58,1

5,76

334

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

146,7

1,55

90,6

2,52

50,4

4,54

227

GeForce RTX 4070 Super

139,5

1,4

84,5

2,31

46,1

4,22

194

Radeon RX 7900 XT

138,5

2,17

89,2

3,36

49,3

6,1

299

GeForce RTX 4070

125,1

1,43

73,5

2,45

38,9

4,71

179

Radeon RX 7900 GRE

124,4

2,02

76,7

3,3

40,8

6,28

251

Radeon RX 7800 XT

115,9

2,08

70,2

3,41

37,9

6,46

239

Radeon RX 7700 XT

103,7

2,2

60,4

3,78

31,4

7,32

227

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

101,8

1,38

55,2

2,53

28,1

4,96

139

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

101,3

1,47

56,1

2,64

29,2

5,1

148

GeForce RTX 4060

82,7

1,51

44,5

2,82

22,2

5,64

124

Radeon RX 7600 XT

75,5

2,49

40,3

4,68

19,9

9,84

187

Intel Arc A770 16GB

71,6

2,87

43,5

4,74

0

204

Radeon RX 7600

71,2

2,13

35,9

4,31

14,8

10,79

151

Intel Arc A770 8GB

68,6

3,18

38,6

5,68

0

216

Intel Arc A750

66,4

2,86

38,7

4,97

0

189

Intel Arc A580

60,6

3,13

34,6

5,53

0

188

Intel Arc A380

25

2,76

0

0

69

Microsoft PS Modules

A list of popular PowerShell modules presented by Microsoft

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Microsoft References

Windows PowerShell 4.0 and Other Quick Reference Guides

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PowerShell Cookbook

A very interesting book about PowerShell 4 - The one is use to learn

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PowerShell Gallery

The central repository for sharing and acquiring PowerShell code including PowerShell modules, scripts, and DSC resources.

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$host

Shows information about the actual connection
The version shown here is the PowerShell Version from the Host Application and not from PowerShell itself

$pshome

Displays the folder of the current PowerShell DLL

$PSVersionTable

Use this to determine the engine version
If the variable does not exist, it is safe to assume the engine is version 1.0

Add-PhysicalDisk

This command will add a disk to a storage pool

Enter-PSSession (alias ETSN)

The cmdlet starts an interactive session with a single remote computer
During the session, the commands that you type run on the remote computer, just as if you were typing directly on the remote computer
You can have only one interactive session at a time.

Get-Command

The Get-Command cmdlet gets all commands that are installed on the computer, including cmdlets, aliases, functions, filters, scripts, and applications
Get-Command gets the commands from PowerShell modules and commands that were imported from other sessions
To get only commands that have been imported into the current session, use the ListImported parameter

Instead of displaying all the commands you can just display the cmdlets:
Get-Command -CommandType Cmdlet

Get-Verb

The Get-Verb function gets verbs that are approved for use in PowerShell commands

read-host 'TEXT'

The cmdlet reads a line of input from the console
You can use it to prompt a user for input
Because you can save the input as a secure string, you can use this cmdlet to prompt users for secure data, such as passwords, as well as shared data

sion

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Where-Object

Selects objects from a collection based on their property values.

%

ForEach-Object

Performs an operation against each item in a collection of input objects.

ac

Add-Content

Appends content, such as words or data, to a file.

asnp

Add-PSSnapIn

Adds one or more Windows PowerShell snap-ins to the current session.

cat

Get-Content

Gets the contents of a file.

cd

Set-Location

Sets the current working location to a specified location.

chdir

Set-Location

Sets the current working location to a specified location.

clc

Clear-Content

Deletes the contents of an item, but does not delete the item.

clear

Clear-Host

Clears the display in the host program.

clhy

Clear-History

Deletes entries from the command history.

cli

Clear-Item

Deletes the contents of an item, but does not delete the item.

clp

Clear-ItemProperty

Deletes the value of a property but does not delete the property.

cls

Clear-Host

Clears the display in the host program.

clv

Clear-Variable

Deletes the value of a variable.

cnsn

Connect-PSSession

Reconnects to disconnected sessions

compare

Compare-Object

Compares two sets of objects.

copy

Copy-Item

Copies an item from one location to another.

cp

Copy-Item

Copies an item from one location to another.

cpi

Copy-Item

Copies an item from one location to another.

cpp

Copy-ItemProperty

Copies a property and value from a specified location to another location.

curl

Invoke-WebRequest

Gets content from a webpage on the Internet.

cvpa

Convert-Path

Converts a path from a Windows PowerShell path to a Windows PowerShell provider path.

dbp

Disable-PSBreakpoint

Disables the breakpoints in the current console.

del

Remove-Item

Deletes files and folders.

diff

Compare-Object

Compares two sets of objects.

dir

Get-ChildItem

Gets the files and folders in a file system drive.

dnsn

Disconnect-PSSession

Disconnects from a session.

ebp

Enable-PSBreakpoint

Enables the breakpoints in the current console.

echo

Write-Output

Sends the specified objects to the next command in the pipeline. If the command is the last command in the pipeline, the objects are displayed in the console.

epal

Export-Alias

Exports information about currently defined aliases to a file.

epcsv

Export-Csv

Converts objects into a series of comma-separated (CSV) strings and saves the strings in a CSV file.

epsn

Export-PSSession

Imports commands from another session and saves them in a Windows PowerShell module.

erase

Remove-Item

Deletes files and folders.

etsn

Enter-PSSession

Starts an interactive session with a remote computer.

exsn

Exit-PSSession

Ends an interactive session with a remote computer.

fc

Format-Custom

Uses a customized view to format the output.

fl

Format-List

Formats the output as a list of properties in which each property appears on a new line.

foreach

ForEach-Object

Performs an operation against each item in a collection of input objects.

ft

Format-Table

Formats the output as a table.

fw

Format-Wide

Formats objects as a wide table that displays only one property of each object.

gal

Get-Alias

Gets the aliases for the current session.

gbp

Get-PSBreakpoint

Gets the breakpoints that are set in the current session.

gc

Get-Content

Gets the contents of a file.

gci

Get-ChildItem

Gets the files and folders in a file system drive.

gcm

Get-Command

Gets all commands.

gcs

Get-PSCallStack

Displays the current call stack.

gdr

Get-PSDrive

Gets drives in the current session.

ghy

Get-History

Gets a list of the commands entered during the current session.

gi

Get-Item

Gets files and folders.

gjb

Get-Job

Gets Windows PowerShell background jobs that are running in the current session.

gl

Get-Location

Gets information about the current working location or a location stack.

gm

Get-Member

Gets the properties and methods of objects.

gmo

Get-Module

Gets the modules that have been imported or that can be imported into the current session.

gp

Get-ItemProperty

Gets the properties of a specified item.

gps

Get-Process

Gets the processes that are running on the local computer or a remote computer.

group

Group-Object

Groups objects that contain the same value for specified properties.

gsn

Get-PSSession

Gets the Windows PowerShell sessions on local and remote computers.

gsnp

Get-PSSnapIn

Gets the Windows PowerShell snap-ins on the computer.

gsv

Get-Service

Gets the services on a local or remote computer.

gu

Get-Unique

Returns unique items from a sorted list.

gv

Get-Variable

Gets the variables in the current console.

gwmi

Get-WmiObject

Gets instances of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes or information about the available classes.

h

Get-History

Gets a list of the commands entered during the current session.

history

Get-History

Gets a list of the commands entered during the current session.

icm

Invoke-Command

Runs commands on local and remote computers.

iex

Invoke-Expression

Runs commands or expressions on the local computer.

ihy

Invoke-History

Runs commands from the session history.

ii

Invoke-Item

Performs the default action on the specified item.

ipal

Import-Alias

Imports an alias list from a file.

ipcsv

Import-Csv

Creates table-like custom objects from the items in a CSV file.

ipmo

Import-Module

Adds modules to the current session.

ipsn

Import-PSSes

Imports commands from another session into the current session.

irm

Invoke-RestMethod

Sends an HTTP or HTTPS request to a RESTful web service.

ise

powershell_ise.exe

Explains how to use the PowerShell_ISE.exe command-line tool.

iwmi

Invoke-WMIMethod

Calls Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) methods.

iwr

Invoke-WebRequest

Gets content from a web page on the Internet.

kill

Stop-Process

Stops one or more running processes.

lp

Out-Printer

Sends output to a printer.

ls

Get-ChildItem

Gets the files and folders in a file system drive.

man

help

Displays information about Windows PowerShell commands and concepts.

md

mkdir

Creates a new item.

measure

Measure-Object

Calculates the numeric properties of objects, and the characters, words, and lines in string objects, such as files of text.

mi

Move-Item

Moves an item from one location to another.

mount

New-PSDrive

Creates temporary and persistent mapped network drives.

move

Move-Item

Moves an item from one location to another.

mp

Move-ItemProperty

Moves a property from one location to another.

mv

Move-Item

Moves an item from one location to another.

nal

New-Alias

Creates a new alias.

ndr

New-PSDrive

Creates temporary and persistent mapped network drives.

ni

New-Item

Creates a new item.

nmo

New-Module

Creates a new dynamic module that exists only in memory.

npssc

New-PSSessionConfigurationFile

Creates a file that defines a session configuration.

nsn

New-PSSession

Creates a persistent connection to a local or remote computer.

nv

New-Variable

Creates a new variable.

ogv

Out-GridView

Sends output to an interactive table in a separate window.

oh

Out-Host

Sends output to the command line.

popd

Pop-Location

Changes the current location to the location most recently pushed to the stack. You can pop the location from the default stack or from a stack that you create by using the Push-Location cmdlet.

ps

Get-Process

Gets the processes that are running on the local computer or a remote computer.

pushd

Push-Location

Adds the current location to the top of a location stack.

pwd

Get-Location

Gets information about the current working location or a location stack.

r

Invoke-History

Runs commands from the session history.

rbp

Remove-PSBreakpoint

Deletes breakpoints from the current console.

rcjb

Receive-Job

Gets the results of the Windows PowerShell background jobs in the current session.

rcsn

Receive-PSSession

Gets results of commands in disconnected sessions.

rd

Remove-Item

Deletes files and folders.

rdr

Remove-PSDrive

Deletes temporary Windows PowerShell drives and disconnects mapped network drives.

ren

Rename-Item

Renames an item in a Windows PowerShell provider namespace.

ri

Remove-Item

Deletes files and folders.

rjb

Remove-Job

Deletes a Windows PowerShell background job.

rm

Remove-Item

Deletes files and folders.

rmdir

Remove-Item

Deletes files and folders.

rmo

Remove-Module

Removes modules from the current session.

rni

Rename-Item

Renames an item in a Windows PowerShell provider namespace.

rnp

Rename-ItemProperty

Renames a property of an item.

rp

Remove-ItemProperty

Deletes the property and its value from an item.

rsn

Remove-PSSession

Closes one or more Windows PowerShell sessions (PSSessions).

rsnp

Remove-PSSnapin

Removes Windows PowerShell snap-ins from the current session.

rujb

Resume-Job

Restarts a suspended job

rv

Remove-Variable

Deletes a variable and its value.

rvpa

Resolve-Path

Resolves the wildcard characters in a path, and displays the path contents.

rwmi

Remove-WMIObject

Deletes an instance of an existing Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) class.

sajb

Start-Job

Starts a Windows PowerShell background job.

sal

Set-Alias

Creates or changes an alias (alternate name) for a cmdlet or other command element in the current Windows PowerShell session.

saps

Start-Process

Starts one or more processes on the local computer.

sasv

Start-Service

Starts one or more stopped services.

sbp

Set-PSBreakpoint

Sets a breakpoint on a line, command, or variable.

sc

Set-Content

Replaces the contents of a file with contents that you specify.

select

Select-Object

Selects objects or object properties.

set

Set-Variable

Sets the value of a variable. Creates the variable if one with the requested name does not exist.

shcm

Show-Command

Creates Windows PowerShell commands in a graphical command window.

si

Set-Item

Changes the value of an item to the value

3DO

4DO

Atari 2600

Stella

Atari 5200

Standalone kat 5200 (don't use RA)

Atari 7800

Prosystem

Atari Jaguar

VirtualJaguar

Atari Lynx

Handy

Dreamcast

Demul Standalone

Game Boy

Gambatte

Game Boy Advance

mGBA

Game Boy Color

Gambatte

Game Gear

Genesis Plus GX

GCE Vectrex

Vectrex

NeoGeo AES

MAME

NeoGeo CD

MESS

NeoGeo Pocket

Metnaphen NGP

Nintendo (NES)

Nestopia

Nintendo (NES)

Nestopia / FCEUmme

Nintendo 64

Mupen64, Dolphin, standalone for some games, PJ64 standalone for others

Nintendo DS

Desume

Nintendo Game Cube

Dolphin standalone

PC Engine

Metnaphen PCE Fast

Playstation

beetle PSX hardware, with the software render (vulkan, still experimental)

PlayStation

PCSX-ReARMed

Playstation 2

PCSX2 standalone

PlayStation Portable (PSP)

PPSSPP standalone

Sega 32

Pico

Sega CD

Gens

Sega Genesis

Genesis Plus GX

Sega GG

Gens

Sega MD

Gens

Sega MS

Gens

Sega Saturn

Yabause

Sega Saturn

Mednafen (standalone still recommended)

Sega SG1000

Gens

Super Nintendo (SNES)

Snes9x

Super Nintendo (SNES)

BSNES

Turbo CD

Metnaphen PCE Fast

TurboGrafx 16

Metnaphen PCE Fast

Virtual Boy

Mednafen VB

Wonderswan/Color

Metnaphen wonderswan

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3D FlipBook

3D FlipBook allows to browse images, PDFs or HTMLs as flipping book. It can be used for demonstration magazines, books, cards, brochures, booklets and much more in natural way. It helps to attract user attention and make more impression on him.

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Advanced Custom Fields

Customise WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields.

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Advanced noCaptcha & invisible Captcha

Zeigt noCaptcha oder unsichtbares Captcha in Kommentar-Formularen (hinter den Kommentarfeld und vor dem Senden-Button), Contact Form 7, bbPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, Anmeldung, Registrierung, bei verlorenem Passwort und beim Passort zurücksetzen. Es kann auch leicht in jedes andere Formular eingebunden werden.

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Auto Amazon Links

Formerly, Amazon Auto Links. The plugin generates links of Amazon products just coming out today. You just pick categories and they appear even in JavaScript disabled browsers.

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Back Button Widget

Back button widget for WordPress

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Better Search Replace

A lightweight migration plugin for WordPress

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Blog Filter – Post Filters Post Portfolio Gallery

The Blog Filter is best post filtering plugin for WordPress. You can filters posts using category and tag filters.

Blog filter has a really simple and easy to use (user-friendly) interface. It can filter your blog posts according to categories and tags. All your posts will be shown in beautiful grid layout. Just click on any category/tag filter, and it will filter posts instantly. This feature can help visitors to get the filtered content easily which they are looking for. it is so easy to use for both beginner and expert users because you don’t have to do anything, just install and activate the plugin. You can generate the shortcode and paste it where you want to show blog post filtering or post portfolio. It will automatically fetch all blog and categories itself.

Many options are available to configure color and button color, show/hide title, show/hide Details/Permalink/Gallery buttons etc. It also has option to select image quality so you could load smaller or bigger images whatever is required according to your needs.

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CAPTCHA 4WP

Easily add any type of CAPTCHA (such as noCaptcha or invisible Captcha) on any website form, including login pages, comments and password reset forms, and also forms by third party plugins such as Contact Form 7, WooCommerce & BuddyPress.

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Code Widget

Code Widget is simple widget allow you to insert any arbitrary Text/HTML and run PHP Code or Short Code. This Widget parse PHP code into simple text and much more.

Only users with the unfiltered_html role will be allowed to insert unfiltered HTML. This includes PHP code, so users without admin or editor permissions will not be able to use this to execute code, even if they have widget editing permissions.

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Comments – wpDiscuz

AJAX realtime comment system with custom comment form and fields. Designed to supercharge WordPress native comments. Super fast and responsive with dozens of features. This is the best alternative to Disqus and Jetpack Comments, if you want to keep your comments in your database.

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Conditional Menus

Conditional Menus is a simple yet useful WordPress plugin developed by Themify, which allows you to swap the menus in the theme as per specific conditions. In short, you can have different menus in different posts, pages, categories, archive pages, etc. It works with any WordPress theme that uses the standard WordPress menu function.

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Cooked – Recipe Plugin

Cooked is the absolute best way to create & display recipes with WordPress. SEO optimized (rich snippets), galleries, cooking timers, printable recipes and much more.

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Cool Timeline Pro

Cool Timeline Pro is an advanced WordPress timeline plugin that showcases your life history timeline or your company’s story timeline in a responsive horizontal or vertical chronological order based on the year and the date of your posts. It is best plugin to create a timeline theme. You can also convert your blog posts into a blog timeline by using this awesome timeline template maker plugin.

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Date Published Shortcode

The short description really says it all. No bullshit, no complex stuff, just a simple shortcode that you can copy and paste to save a few seconds. I really made this so that I wouldn’t have to glance at the date every time that I posted an article; quite lazy, I know, but automating stuff is cool, and now I at least know how to put up a plugin on the WordPress repository.

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Gmedia Photo Gallery

Manage files, show image galleries and photo slideshows, play music on your site with Gmedia Gallery plugin. Gmedia Gallery plugin provides a comprehensive interface for handling galleries, images, video & audio files. With Gmedia Gallery plugin you can upload an unlimited number of photo and audio files, create dozens of galleries and playlists, group pictures and other files in albums, add tags for each file. Handle any file format and link any files with images in few clicks. You can import images with captions from Worpress Media Library, Flagallery plugin and from NextGen Gallery plugin right to Gmedia Library.

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Knowledge Base for Documentation and FAQs

The Best WordPress Knowledge Base Plugin

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Memphis Documents Library

Memphis Documents Library (mDocs) is a documents library for WordPress with a robust feature set. It is a great tool for the organization and distribution of files.

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Ninja Tables Pro – The Fastest and Most Diverse WP DataTables Plugin

Ninja Tables is the Best Selling WordPress table builder plugin with a user-friendly layout, easy to use settings, and enticing front-end. Build a table right from the comfort without having any coding experience. Do whatever you want – create, edit, maintain and customize. Ninja Tables is the ultimate solution for designing WordPress tables for any purpose.

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PDF Image Generator

By uploading a PDF attachment, this plugin convert the cover page to jpeg and attach it as a post thumbnail file. It also allows displaying a thumbnail icon and inserting PDF link with a cover image into the editor.

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Redirection

Manage redirects with WordPress

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Responsive Lightbox & Gallery

Want to create engaging, stunning, responsive galleries for your WordPress website? Interested in making the most of images, videos, and galleries on your site? Then you need the Responsive Lightbox and Gallery plugin!

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Responsive Tabs

Responsive Tabs PRO will allow you to display tabbed content on your website. This is useful for arranging content-heavy pages into a set of tabs. Thanks to the tab/accordion system, your content will be divided into sections that you can show/hide by clicking the tabs. This plugin is responsive and will turn into an accordion when chosen breakpoint is reached.

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The GDPR Framework By Data443

Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc., has secured the global technology, branding, and ongoing management rights to leading WordPress GDPR solution: The WordPress GDPR Framework.

The WordPress GDPR Framework is an open source plugin that operates with the world’s leading web hosting and content management ecosystem – WordPress. WordPress powers roughly 50 to 60 percent of the world’s content management and e-commerce sites with over 20,000,000 organizations using the open-source software for their primary corporate website, a significant number of which deliver e-commerce services.

Globally, millions of organizations are subject to data privacy laws such as the EU’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), yet many organizations don’t have a significant existing capability for compliance. The WordPress GDPR Framework delivers easy-to-use tools that help organizations speed GDPR and other data privacy compliance.

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The SEO Framework

You don’t need more clicks that bounce. You need more clicks that pay.
Join over 150 000 businesses and grow using proven SEO tactics.

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Titan Anti-spam & Security

Titan includes anti-spam, firewall, malware scanner, site accessibility checking, security and threats audits for WordPress websites. Our security functions provide Titan with the latest firewall rules, malware signatures, and database of malicious IP addresses – all you need to ensure the security of your website.

Titan is a comprehensive WordPress security solution, completed by a set of additional features as add-ons, which was placed into a simple and intuitive interface.

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Tooltip Glossary for WordPress | Knowledge Base Plugin

WordPress Tooltip Plugin is the best WordPress knowledge base plugin to host a glossary of terms or information repository on WordPress

Build an online dictionary, encyclopedia, wiki, or glossary, with the best WordPress Glossary plugin out there! Enjoy this mobile-friendly plugin with AMP support, alphabetical index and SEO features!

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Video Gallery – Vimeo and YouTube Gallery

Origin code has been working on an ultimate video gallery plugin for months. And you can already check the results.

A responsive multifunctional video gallery plugin with multiple ways and designs for uploading and displaying a video.load the plugin on your WordPress dashboard and create any of these video galleries:

YouTube Gallery
Vimeo Gallery
Video Gallery Mix

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Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics

isitor Traffic Real Time Statistics is a Counter and statistics plugin for WordPress to display your WordPress blog statistics and traffic. Ranging from general total statistics
This plugin will help you to track your visitors, browsers, operating systems, visits and much more..
When it comes to ease of use, Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics comes in first, You will have a real Counter and statistics plugin for your WordPress website..
This plugin will help you to track your visitors, browsers, operating systems, visits and much more in one dashboard page..

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Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan

Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Our Threat Defence Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by 2FA and a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available.

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WP Links Page Pro

A WordPress plugin that allows you to create a dynamic link gallery with screenshots of each link. It will automatically create screenshots of each link and save you from creating a hardcoded links page or finding images for each site. It allows sites to create a links page with several different views. The screenshots for the links can be updated on a set schedule and with the click of a button. WP Links Page Pro will also fetch the favicon and meta title/description for your displays.

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WP Server Health Stats

WP Server Health Stats plugin will give you the ability to monitor your WordPress site at its core level. With all-important server health stats like allocated PHP memory, memory usage, realtime RAM usage, CPU usage etc. you can always identify if something wrong is going on with your site.

Now you don’t have to contact your host every single time for minor things. You can easily see the server health stats in your WP admin dashboard and make critical decisions based on that, like if enabling some plugin is consuming a lot of memory or CPU etc.

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wp-stardate

A powerful versitale lightweight stardate plugin with a wide array of functionalities for integrating stardates with your wordpress blog.

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YotuWP - YouTube Gallery

The longer you keep vistors on website, the better. Video was a game-changer for us personally in regards to keeping people on the site longer.

YotuWP is your solution for embeding videos YouTube on your website. YotuWP is modern and mobile responsive video gallery. Easy embed videos from YouTube video playlist, channel and videos IDs to your WordPress website.

1973

Gary Kildall writes a simple operating system in his PL/M language.
He calls it CP/M (Control Program/Monitor or Control Program for Microcomputer)

1979

February

Apple Computer releases DOS 3.2.

July

Apple Computer releases DOS 3.2.1

1980

April

Tim Patterson begins writing an operating system for use with Seattle Computer Products’ 8086-based computer.
Seattle Computer Products decides to make their own disk operating system (DOS), due to delays by Digital Research in releasing a CP/M-86 operating system.

August

QDOS 0.10 (Quick and Dirty Operating System) is shipped by Seattle Computer Products. Even though it had been created in only two man-months, the DOS worked surprisingly well. A week later, the EDLIN line editor was created. EDLIN was supposed to last only six months, before being replaced.

September

Tim Patterson shows Microsoft his 86-DOS, written for the 8086 chip.

October

Microsoft’s Paul Allen contacts Seattle Computer Products’ Tim Patterson, asking for the rights to sell SCP’s DOS to an unnamed client (IBM). Microsoft pays less than US$100,000 for the right.

December

Seattle Computer Products renames QDOS to 86-DOS, releasing it as version 0.3. Microsoft then bought non-exclusive rights to market 86-DOS.

1981

February

MS-DOS runs for the first time on IBM’s prototype microcomputer

July

Microsoft buys all rights to DOS from Seattle Computer Products, and the name MS-DOS is adopted.

August

IBM announces the IBM 5150 PC Personal Computer, featuring a 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 CPU, 64KB RAM, 40KB ROM, one 5.25-inch floppy drive, and PC-DOS 1.0 (Microsoft’s MS-DOS), for US$3000.