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Technology News and Software ReviewsTechnology News and Software ReviewsOur blog has all sorts of technology news and tips on Internet security. Plus, we review FREE software designed to make your life easier. To wrap it up, we have some SEO, Web Design and CAD stuff thrown in for good measure. 
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Our First International Web Design
2007-12-26 17:20:00 We recently put the finishing touches on our very first International web design. Dive Aventuras is a dive shop in Puerto Aventuras Mexico and our web design blog has the details of what we did for them. We really appreciate them allowing us to create their new presence and want to welcome them to our ... More About: Web Design , Design
Dad Sells Son?s Guitar Hero Video Game
2007-12-19 18:11:00 A Canadian father sold his son’s Guitar Hero video game on Ebay after he caught his son smoking pot w/ some looser friends. It seems that some feel the father is out of line by doing this. Some have left comments on the auction saying that he is publicly humiliating his son. ... More About: Video , Game , Video Game
Pittsburgh Steelers Disappointing
2007-12-19 17:47:00 I am a die hard Steelers fan, have been for 35 years, but their inconsistent play this year has led me to feel sorry for them. They lost to the Jets and the Broncos. They lost to the Cardinals and nearly lost to the lowly Dolphins, (who won their first game of the season Sunday ... More About: Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh Steelers
Get $500 to Replace Counterfeit Software
2007-12-18 17:38:00 Did you purchase your software from an illegal software vendor? If you did so unknowingly, by the time you realized it, you surely felt probably ripped off. You spent your money and didn’t get warranties or even manuals to operate the program. The good news is that the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) ...
Web Design Mistakes
2007-12-16 20:37:00 The Internet has plenty of examples of bad web design. I think most honest webmasters will admit that they have some sites out there that are, shall we say, “less than perfect.” I have created some sites that make me cringe. But, the Internet is always moving forward and that means designers have to ... More About: Web Design , Design , Stakes , Mista
Use .htaccess Files for Web Site Security
2007-12-15 16:53:00 I just wrote a tutorial post on our web design blog that outlines how you can use an .htaccess file as an additional layer of protection for your web site hosted on a Linux/Apache server. No web site is completely safe from hackers. If someone wants in bad enough, they will keep prodding the defenses ... More About: Security , Site , Files , Web site
Autocad 2008 Free Trial
2007-12-10 16:32:00 Autocad continues to be the industry standard for CAD and Autodesk has done a great job with their 2008 Autocad product. The 2007 version had some hiccups but they seem to have ironed them out with the newest version. The full version of Autocad 2008 can be downloaded here. After you install it, Autodesk ... More About: Free , Trial
Google Owns SEO Firm
2007-12-10 14:09:00 When Google purchased DoubleClick, they also became the owners of Performics, a Search Engine Optimization company. Some have called this a conflict of interest and even unethical. I don’t know about unethical, but it does seem that Google is talking out of both sides of their mouth. Our web design blog has more details and perspective. Share ...
Boost Your Blog Traffic
2007-12-08 22:03:00 If a blogger posts on a blog and no one shows up to read it, why bother posting at all? How many bloggers do you know that would post every day if no one cared? Not many. In fact, unless you use your blog as an online diary, you are really ... More About: Blog Traffic , Traffic , Blog , Boost
Free Microsoft Office Alternatives
2007-12-08 20:20:00 Almost everyone loves free. Almost everyone hates paying several hundred dollars for Microsoft Office . Well, fellow bottomfeeders unite! Here are some Free alternatives to Microsoft Office : ThinkFree - Each account gets 1GB online storage, document collaboration and more. Glide - Slick Flash interface and lots of storage space. Plus, in my opinion, the ... More About: Alternatives
Symantec Mislabels Solid Oak CyberSitter
2007-12-07 14:35:00 Some users of Soli d Oak CyberSitter software are not happy after a routine Symantec Security Response update labeled their software as a virus and prevented their computers’ from accessing the Internet. CyberSitter is a program used by some schools and libraries to restrict Internet access to certain web sites and to monitor users surfing habits. “In my ...
Web Site Templates Not Always Best
2007-12-06 03:22:00 We have had a few clients contact us after they had signed up with one of the web design template services. They usually complained about not showing up in Search Engines or not having complete control over their content. But there are some other things (like not having ownership of your domain name) ... More About: Templates , Site , Web site , Temp
How to Stay Safe Online?
2007-12-05 22:56:00 There are approximately 200,000 malicious programs in existence, with at least 80% of it targeting the Windows based platforms. The question of who made them and why they spread like wildfire remains somewhat of a mystery. These threats usually come about in various ways: via electronic mail, instant messenger, and even suspicious websites which an ... More About: Online , Safe , Stay
TJ Maxx Might Be Getting Off Easy
2007-12-03 21:21:00 Evan Schuman reports on his blog that a few days ago, a judge denied a request by banks to allow class action certification when they sue TJX, owners of TJ Maxx , TK Maxx, Homegoods and Marshalls. This means that banks will have to sue TJX individually, which is more costly and, therefore, less appealing ... More About: Easy
How to make an Office 2007 document compatible with Office 2003?
2007-12-03 15:48:00 Question: How do you convert an Office 2007 document to make it compatible with an Office 2003 document? I was searching for the longest time to solve this problem because a friend of mine claims that he can’t open any office documents he receives from his boss. He tried explaining to his boss that he could ... More About: Make , Document , Office 2007 , Compatible
What is Up with YouTube?
2007-12-01 19:01:00 YouTube used to have loads of funny and amazing videos right on the home page. Usually, the ones in the Featured Videos section on the home page were enough to keep me howling in laughter, loudly hollering “No Way!” and forwarding to my friends. These days, um - not so much. As of this ... More About: Youtube , With You
Manipulate Google Results
2007-12-01 16:09:00 Every SEO out there would love to be able to control Google ’s SERPs. Can you imagine being able to move your site above your competitors or even being able to delete them completely? Oh, the power! Well, you can do just that - sort of. Our web design blog posted about the Google ... More About: Results , Pula
Advertisements to Be Placed in PDFs
2007-12-01 14:20:00 Just as we have seen advertisements in the newspaper, television, and blogs, Yahoo! is taking is a step further - to advertise in PDFs. Yahoo! have successfully negotiated a deal to start running advertisement campaigns in Adobe’s most popular PDF document reading format. This deal will allow publishers to make money by inserting relevant advertisements linked to ... More About: Advertisements , Vert
New Condo Rendering Completed
2007-11-30 12:51:00 We recently put the finishing touches on another architectural rendering using 3d Studio Max. It is a rendering for a development company located on Emerald Isle, NC. They are going to be building some beautiful new condominiums in the Swansboro area and wanted to create a photo-realistic image that would show the finished building. ... More About: Condo , Erin
Blog Writer Update
2007-11-28 15:08:00 Cris is the other writer for our blog and he does an awesome job! I have no idea how he finds time to handle everything that he has going on but, somehow he does and what a great job he does . When he first began writing for the blog, I did an introduction ... More About: Blog , Update , Writer
5 New Nifty Features of Gmail
2007-11-28 13:27:00 I’m so glad that Gmail has made some new enhancements to their online email application. If you are a Gmail fan like me, who checks at least 3 gmail accounts daily, I believe the 5 new nifty features announced by Gmail Blog will be right up your alley! “Archive and next” Shortcut It can be very frustrating ... More About: Features , Nifty
Internet?s Most Useful Free Products
2007-11-26 13:11:00 BusinessWeek recently published an article where they searched high and low for the most useful, free products available for the public on the Internet . We thought we would share with you some of the most useful products. Microsoft and Apple Alternative If you are not a Windows and Mac fan, you should be a Linux-based Ubuntu fan ... More About: Products , Free
Amazon?s Next Gen Product: Amazon Kindle
2007-11-25 22:31:00 If you are a book lover like me, but you really hate carrying books around, Amazon ’s next generation product, Amazon Kindle might just be your next purchase for Christmas! It has: An electronic-paper display which provides a sharp, high-resolution screen No Computer, no confusing cables and no syncing Wireless connectivity for you to connect to Amazon’s Kindle store ... More About: Product , Amazon Kindle
New Web Design Blog
2007-11-24 18:20:00 Our Tech blog has become somewhat ungainly. We have posts about CAD, Search Engine optimization, technology, recent projects we have completed, web design news and the list goes on. We no longer run a blog…we run a blob. So, we are going to be splitting the blog into two blogs. You are ... More About: Web Design , Design , Blog
Search Engine Market Share for October
2007-11-23 13:22:00 According to a comScore release, Google has made one of the largest single-month jumps in Search Engine market share. In September, Google fielded about 57% of U.S. online searches. But in October, their percentage increased to 58.5%.This translates to Google handling 6.1 Billion of the 10.5 Billion tracked U.S. Internet searches. That ... More About: Market , Search Engine , Share
Where Can I Find 80GB Zune?
2007-11-18 16:08:00 Excited consumers are posting comments like that on online message boards as they seem to be unable to find the new Zune anywhere. The 80GB version was just launched Tuesday by Microsoft and there are reports that it has already sold out across the Internet. So, the reported manufacturing delays of the 80GB ... More About: Technology , Find
We?re Number Two!
2007-11-17 16:45:00 That is what Microsoft hopes to be saying about its Internet Advertising Market share in three to five years, according to a report on Reuters. Actually, they want to be in the top two but normally, a company shoot for the number one spot straight away. However, in the $40 Billion a year ... More About: Number Two , Number
The Top 5 World Fastest Supercomputers!
2007-11-15 23:40:00 It seems that every month we hear motherboard and other hardware chip makers boasting how fast their products can process. Today, Crystal Coast Tech Blog is presenting you the world top 5 world fastest supercomputers starting from: The world’s fastest supercomputer is the BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and the Department of Energy’s ... More About: World , Supercomputer
8 Things to Expect from a GPhone!
2007-11-14 14:58:00 Yes, I managed to find out some of the 8 things you can expect from a Google Phone aka GPhone. Google recently released its Open Handset Alliance project, listing all its working partners for its Android Project. There are many theories one can think of without analyzing and understanding, considering that there are so many “under ... More About: Expect , Things , Gphone
Microsoft Windows Patch Tuesday
More articles from this author:2007-11-14 14:38:00 Yesterday was “Patch Tuesday ”, Microsoft ’s monthly patch program for Windows Operating System. This month, they released 2 patches, one of which is rated “critical”. Critical by definition means that a bad-guy could access an unpatched computer and basically take it over for his own use - send out spam, steal passwords and other personal information. This ... More About: Microsoft Windows 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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