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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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Free Web Site Analytics
2007-11-12 16:09:00 Earlier this year, I posted about tracking visitors that come to your web site and with this post, I wanted to give some examples of a couple of free tools that you can use on your site to do just that. First, the one that we use mostly: Google Anal ytics . If you are interested in ... More About: Free , Site , Web site
Is Your Web Site in the Sandbox?
2007-11-10 14:09:00 I have been in the search engine optimization field for close to 2 years and the most commonly asked question by clients is: Why is my website not listed in any search engine and not ranked? I have always tried my best answering this question, coming up with 101 theories and saying things like “Google algorithms are ... More About: Site , Web site , Sandbox
Search Engines Best for Local Search
2007-11-09 22:34:00 When you are looking for a local business, do you reach for the phone book or do you head to your favorite Search Engine? That is one of the topics researched by WebVisible and Neilson and blogged about by Search Engine Land. The roughly 2,000 respondents were chosen at random and asked several questions related ... More About: Search Engines , Local , Engines , Loca
HP is moving away from Camera Business
2007-11-08 17:18:00 HP announced that the company would be focusing more toward its Print 2.0 solutions. This move includes furthering HP’s leadership position in home photo printing and online photo services, while accelerating the company’s retail photo-finishing business, thrusting itself to be a more print-media-information based company. They are also searching for an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner ... More About: Business , Camera , Moving , Sine
Internet Advertising Expected to Double
2007-11-08 16:06:00 According to a report released by Internet Marketing research firm eMarketer, Internet advertising spending by US advertisers is expected to double by the year 2011. This is bad news for traditional advertising methods such as newspapers, television and magazines. Internet advertising includes methods such as: Display ads (banner ads seen on web sites) Paid Search ads (also ... More About: Advertising , Double , Vert
Microsoft and Reliance in Partnership
2007-11-05 18:50:00 India’s Reliance Communications Ltd is set to pay Microsoft Corp. about $500 million in license fees to use its technologies for Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV services, which delivers high-quality video over phone lines to home television sets. Reliance Communications is set to launch the service in March next year. India has probably 100 ...
?Do Not Track? Cookie Coming Soon
2007-11-02 13:01:00 Imagine surfing the internet with the option to choose whether to allow internet advertising companies to track your surfing habits on a particular website? This might come true in the near future, in fact very soon. Some US independent privacy support groups, together with consumer bodies are seeking to create an opt-out list for internet users ... More About: Security , Track , Cookie
Facebook Has a Big Week
2007-10-25 14:39:00 First, RIM announced “Facebook for Blackberry” which will give users instant access to Facebook, send them Facebook notifications, allow them to upload pictures, etc. T-Mobile is the first US carrier that will offer the service to its Blackberry customers. Then, news that Microsoft had finally beaten Google at something when it paid $240 million for ... More About: Week , Big Week
Blog Action Day - 2007
2007-10-16 01:55:00 Blog Action Day - 2007 is about the environment and I decided to concentrate our post on the impact that discarded electronics have on landfills. Each year, millions of computers are dumped into landfills in the US alone. The Environmental Protection Agency tells us that the number is between 50 million and 75 million (link ... More About: Technology , Blogging , Blog
Symantec Internet Security Threat Report
2007-10-02 14:12:00 Symantec released their Internet Security Threat Report covering the first half of 2007 and there were some disturbing findings on the Internet Security front: During the first half of 2007, there were 52,771 bot-infected computers per day. Symantec detected nearly 200,000 unique phishing messages, which is an increase of 18% over July-December 2006 figures One can purchase a ... More About: Symantec
TJ Maxx Not Really Helping Consumers
2007-09-29 16:03:00 That’s my opinion after reading the details of the proposed TJX lawsuit settlement. You can read the details here for yourself - but be warned - do not attempt to operate heavy machinery while reading this document because all the lawyer jargon will surely put you to sleep. Here are a few of my issues with their proposed ... More About: Consumers , Ally , Maxx
New Project Completed
2007-09-26 23:41:00 We are proud to announce that we have put the finishing touches on the new web site for the Carteret County Chamber of Commerce. This was one of the larger projects that we have undertaken and we are pretty proud of it. When they approached us, their main goal was to have a site that ... More About: Web Design , General , Project
Microsoft Offering Web Analytics With Gatineau
2007-09-19 12:57:00 Microsoft is finally getting ready to launch Gatineau , its version of Google Analytics . Tamar blogged about this back in January and there are all types of screenshots from the lucky few that have been able to get a sneak peek. Microsoft’s Gatineau web site is setup to accept applications, though it will cost you $5. I’m ... More About: Microsoft , Offer , Erin
Retail Space for Lease in Swansboro
2007-09-17 23:02:00 I posted back in June about Ward Farm, a new community offering office and retail space for lease and homesites for sale in Swansboro. This community is really going to be super (think Charleston, SC style architecture in a small-town setting) and we are really excited to be helping them market it. As I said, ... More About: Space , Retail , Lease , Tail
GuerrillaMail Temporary E-Mail Addresses
2007-09-16 23:46:00 I came across a really cool site today and wanted to do my part to spread the word. The site is called GuerrillaMail and they will automatically create a temporary e-mail address for you which will stay active for 15 minutes and doesn’t require you to enter a single shred of information. We have all ... More About: Internet , E-Mail , Lama , Temp
ADP Latest Database Hack Victim
2007-09-16 18:58:00 ADP (Automatic Data Processing) announced Friday that hackers had broken into a third-party database and stolen business contact information. The hackers were then sending out phishing emails to those contacts in an attempt to gain account access. ADP said that their own systems were not compromised and that the hackers did not get any bank ... More About: Security , Hack , Database , Base , Victim
TJ Maxx Data Thief Irving Escobar Sentenced
2007-09-15 15:17:00 Irving Escobar, one of the main parties responsible for the T.J. Maxx database theft, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and has to pay about $600,000 in restitution. This is the latest news in the T.J. Maxx Identity theft fiasco, where more than 45 million personal records of their customers were stolen over an ... More About: Data , Sentenced , Thief , Irving , Sentence
Google Sponsors X-Prize Moon Landing
2007-09-14 12:43:00 It seems that Google is not satisfied with Earth domination . As part of the latest X-Prize, Google is shelling out $30 million to the team that lands a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon . Um, hello, Wallace and Gromit already did that in, like, 1989 - duh. Google’s Senior VP of Engineering ... More About: Technology , Sponsors , X Prize
Marketing Budgets Being Trimmed
2007-09-12 19:36:00 According to an article on Bloomberg.com, for the second consecutive quarter, U.S. companies are spending less on advertising. As a web design company, we try to stay up-to-date with advertising topics because of the Search Engine Marketing connection. So, reading the article, I noticed some interesting figures presented dealing with the advertising market decline: Advertising on ... More About: Trim , Budgets
Stay Away from Quechup
2007-09-09 14:53:00 Trying to get back into blog mode, I naturally checked out one of Garry’s blogs and saw his post on the Quechup Scam. I then ran across a post on eWeek about Quechup’s viral marketing. It boils down to Quechup spoofing email origins - what a bunch of morons. Can you believe that a ... More About: Stay
Web Design Blog Back Online
2007-09-08 23:27:00 Wow! What a chaotic few weeks. We have recently migrated to a new web server to get away from the worst web hosting company on the planet (more on that in an upcoming post) and it has been quite a process. So, needless to say, posting on the blog was put on the back burner. Well, I am happy to say that it seems we are back in business (fingers-crossed). Most importantly - we would not even be n early this far without the awesome help from ... More About: Web Design , Design , Blogging , Blog , Online
Opera Browser Mouse Gestures
2007-08-27 12:48:00 Since my recent Firefox issues, I have switched to using the Opera web browser and I must say that there are several features that have really impressed me. One is what Opera calls Mouse Gestures. By clicking a mouse button and moving the mouse in the prescribed direction at the same time, you can navigate ... More About: Browsers , Opera browser , Browser
Opera Browser Mouse Gestures
2007-08-27 12:48:00 Since my recent Firefox issues, I have switched to using the Opera web browser and I must say that there are several features that have really impressed me. One is what Opera calls Mouse Gestures. By clicking a mouse button and moving the mouse in the prescribed direction at the same time, you can navigate ... More About: Browsers , Opera browser , Browser
Blog Action Day 2007
2007-08-26 17:28:00 Ben from the Instigator Blog alerted his readers to an upcoming event called Blog Action Day. This is one day per year where bloggers everywhere use their blogs to bring attention to a common issue. This year’s Blog Action Day is set to take place on October 15, 2007 and the theme is “The Environment”. Since ... More About: Blogging
Blog Action Day 2007
2007-08-26 17:28:00 Ben from the Instigator Blog alerted his readers to an upcoming event called Blog Action Day. This is one day per year where bloggers everywhere use their blogs to bring attention to a common issue. This year’s Blog Action Day is set to take place on October 15, 2007 and the theme is “The Environment”. Since ... More About: Blogging
Firefox Memory Leak
2007-08-26 00:07:00 It may just be me, but is Firefox having some memory leak issues? I have noticed it over the past few weeks and today it has finally forced me to exclusively use my second favorite browser – Opera, which is a super browser in its own right. When I fire up Firefox, immediately 50Mb gets ... More About: Browsers , Memory , Leak
Firefox Memory Leak
2007-08-26 00:07:00 It may just be me, but is Firefox having some memory leak issues? I have noticed it over the past few weeks and today it has finally forced me to exclusively use my second favorite browser - Opera, which is a super browser in its own right. When I fire up Firefox, immediately 50Mb gets ... More About: Browsers , Memory , Leak
U.S. Based Web Sites Spit Out Most Malware
2007-08-24 14:33:00 A report by Cyveillance found that most malware found on the Internet comes from web sites hosted in the U.S. Here is a link to their report as a PDF document. The report states that visitors to web sites based in the U.S. run a higher risk of identity theft due to malware than do visitors to ... More About: Security , Malware , Web Sites , Sites , Base
U.S. Based Web Sites Spit Out Most Malware
2007-08-24 14:33:00 A report by Cyveillance found that most malware found on the Internet comes from web sites hosted in the U.S. Here is a link to their report as a PDF document. The report states that visitors to web sites based in the U.S. run a higher risk of identity theft due to malware than do visitors to ... More About: Security , Malware , Web Sites , Sites , Base
Yahoo Dynamic URL ReWriter
More articles from this author:2007-08-24 13:48:00 From the Yahoo Search Blog comes the announcement of the Beta version of a pretty cool tool which will rewrite your dynamic URLs. Login to Yahoo Site Explorer, identify all the pesky parameters (prod=1&sid=23yadh56) in your URLs and Yahoo will strip them out and spit out a spanking new URL for you. Then, you will ... More About: Yahoo! , Dynamic , Nami 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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