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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. Articles
Yahoo OnePlace for Mobile Browsers
2008-03-25 12:06:00 Yahoo is not sitting back waiting for the next bid from Microsoft. They are launching new products and services. A new addition to the Yahoo Mobile family is called OnePlace and if your phone doubles as a web browser at times, you might want to check this out. Face it, in their current form the ... More About: Software , Browsers , Internet , Yahoo
Unexpected Spammer
2008-03-20 13:59:00 We, like most blog owners, get TONS of spammy comments from bottom-feeders just looking to get an easy backlink. Every few days, I wade through all kinds of comments about pictures of some famous person or pills to enhance certain parts of my anatomy. Sometimes I chuckle at the spelling and sentence structure of ... More About: Spammer
North Carolina Tar Heels ACC Champions
2008-03-16 22:36:00 I know that this post is not technology related, but it is my blog and I can post what I want . Couple today’s Tar Heel victory over the Clemson Tigers to win the ACC Champions hip with yesterday’s loss by the WAY overrated Duke Blue Devils and this was a spectacular weekend of college basketball. It ... More About: North Carolina , North , Carolina , Heels
Green Public Transportation: City Car
2008-02-26 16:09:00 MIT students, with some collaboration from GM, are developing an idea for the City Car. Their concept works with any existing public transportation infrastructure by placing easily accessible electric cars near subways and other public transportation points throughout a city. As a passenger leaves the subway, they can go to the Vehicle Stack ... More About: Public , Transportation , Green , Public Transportation
Windows Vista SP1 - Microsoft Still Going Backwards
2008-02-24 15:23:00 When is the last time you “upgraded” to the new and improved version of something and ended up with less functionality than you had with the old version? Probably when you purchased that new computer with Vista installed, right? Well, just when life in Vista land was starting to get back to normal, Microsoft decided ... More About: Windows , Windows Vista , Backwards
Tech Blog Pagerank is Back
2008-02-04 14:20:00 I happened to notice that at some point over the past few days, our pagerank was restored to the tech blog. That is good news, I guess. My main concern w/ our “offending” blog was the potential risk of de-listing (de-indexing). That would be a big problem, of course. Anyway, yay for us, ... More About: Pagerank , Tech , Blog , Back
Our Pagerank Still MIA
2008-01-27 17:07:00 Ok, I am going to try my best to make this my final post on the whole “‘Google cracking down on paid links” thingy. I have done 3 posts on the web design blog about this subject: De-indexing in Google Google Penalizes Advertisers Google Sells Links So, I am going to work very hard to make this the last ... More About: Pagerank
Cool Tech
2008-01-05 15:00:00 File this in the “Wow, the World is a Small Place” category: I ran across this site the other day. It lists public Internet camera feeds from around the world and I thought it was pretty cool (these are only family-friendly camera feeds, so any pervs out there are going to have to ... More About: Tech , Cool , Cool Tech
Things I Learned About Myself This Year
2007-12-31 23:33:00 I could successfully defend myself against a fearless swarm of not more than 25 five year old children. I feel cheap because my dead body is not even worth $4,000. But my wife holds my life insurance policy that says otherwise . The amount of electricity produced by my body could light up 3 ... More About: General , Things , Year , Learned
Popular Blog Posts for December
2007-12-29 17:11:00 Here are a few of our more popular posts for the month of December based on our Search Engine traffic: Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office Is TJ Maxx Getting Off Easy? How To Manipulate Google Results These are the top 3. I am not sure how popular they really are because no one is commenting on them ... More About: Blog , Popular , Posts , Pula
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
