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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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Yahoo Dynamic URL ReWriter
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
Blog Comment Issues
2007-08-23 15:23:00 We are still having comment issues with the blog. Last weekend, Garry Conn, who offers plenty of awesome Blog Tips on his blog, was gracious enough to take time from his busy schedule to look into it for me (thanks, Garry!). Basically, there is probably a single line of code that is causing the problem, ... More About: Blogging , Issues , Comment , Issue
Blog Comment Issues
2007-08-23 15:23:00 We are still having comment issues with the blog. Last weekend, Garry Conn, who offers plenty of awesome Blog Tips on his blog, was gracious enough to take time from his busy schedule to look into it for me (thanks, Garry!). Basically, there is probably a single line of code that is causing the problem, ... More About: Blogging , Issues , Comment , Issue
Web Design Articles
2007-08-21 22:35:00 We have compiled a list of our web design articles and posted them on the corporate web site. If you are in the market for a web site, you might benefit from the article “Choosing a Professional Web Design Company” or if you are going to try your hand at designing your own site, check out ... More About: Articles , Artic
Web Design Articles
2007-08-21 22:35:00 We have compiled a list of our web design articles and posted them on the corporate web site. If you are in the market for a web site, you might benefit from the article “Choosing a Professional Web Design Company” or if you are going to try your hand at designing your own site, check out ... More About: Articles , Artic
Web Searcher Research From SES
2007-08-21 14:13:00 Here is an interesting highlight from Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, CA. Stuart McKelvey from TMP Directional Marketing gave the results of a study of how people use the search engines for local search: The most common activities resulting from the online search were in-store visits and contacting the business via telephone. Meaning: People ... More About: Research
Web Searcher Research From SES
2007-08-21 14:13:00 Here is an interesting highlight from Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, CA. Stuart McKelvey from TMP Directional Marketing gave the results of a study of how people use the search engines for local search: The most common activities resulting from the online search were in-store visits and contacting the business via telephone. Meaning: People ... More About: Research
Michael Vick?s Attorney
2007-08-21 13:41:00 Ok, this is not technology, SEO or web design related. It is really an “are you kidding me?” statement and its my blog so I get to do this from time to time . Quote from Michael Vick ’s attorney, Billy Martin in July ‘07: “We look forward to the opportunity to being able to walk ... More About: Attorney , Michael Vick
Michael Vick?s Attorney
2007-08-21 13:41:00 Ok, this is not technology, SEO or web design related. It is really an “are you kidding me?” statement and its my blog so I get to do this from time to time :). Quote from Michael Vick ’s attorney, Billy Martin in July ‘07: “We look forward to the opportunity to being able to walk inside ... More About: Attorney , Michael Vick
Minimize Your Blog?s Duplicate Content
2007-08-20 13:48:00 Duplicate content on blogs is usually a big issue if left unaddressed. By properly using your robots.txt file, you can significantly cut down on your blog’s duplicate content. For example, if you make a blog post that is relative to multiple categories, that very same content will appear in multiple places on your blog. ... More About: Blogging , Blog , Content , Tent
Minimize Your Blog?s Duplicate Content
2007-08-20 13:48:00 Duplicate content on blogs is usually a big issue if left unaddressed. By properly using your robots.txt file, you can significantly cut down on your blog’s duplicate content. For example, if you make a blog post that is relative to multiple categories, that very same content will appear in multiple places on your blog. ... More About: Blogging , Blog , Content , Tent
Valid Robots.txt File
2007-08-19 22:55:00 Here is a pretty cool tool which may save you from some robots.txt errors. Now, writing a robots.txt file is not the most difficult thing in the world, but it never hurts to check. All you have to do it create your robots.txt file, upload it to your web server and then paste the URL ... More About: Web Design , Robots , General , File , Robo
The Best Free Web Development Software
2007-08-19 19:36:00 Everyone loves FREE. So, here is a list of some of the best free software we have found with regards to web design and development. We personally use or have used the software listed here and none of these software makers paid us to get listed here. We did it because we ... More About: Software , Security , Graphics , Internet , Web Design
Popular Blog Topics
2007-08-19 15:01:00 Most of our blog traffic comes from Google and other Search Engines but, oddly enough, the “Search” function on our blog gets quite a workout. So, I decided to post some of the most popular searches and maybe you will see something that grabs your attention. For example, topics related to good passwords are always ... More About: General , Blogging , Blog , Topics , Popular
Reduce Image Size Before E-mailing
2007-08-17 18:15:00 Here is a quick tip that will let Microsoft Windows automatically reduce the size of your photo before emailing it. This assumes that you don’t have any other image editing program to edit the image (Photoshop, Paint, etc.). In order for this to work, you have to be sending the email from your computer using ... More About: Graphics , General , Reduce , Image , Size
South Carolina License Plates Feature Web Site
2007-08-15 14:14:00 After 10 years of the “Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places” slogan, South Carolina is changing up their license plate design. I know, I know. License plates are not exactly “technology news”. But I am mentioning North Carolina’s neighbor to the, er, south because their new license plate is going to feature South Carolina’s tourism website: ... More About: Web Design , General , Site , Feature
Nokia Cell Phone Battery Advisory
2007-08-14 16:34:00 If your ears have been burning lately, it may not be because people are talking about you. It may be your cell phone battery overheating if you use a Nokia cell phone. Nokia has issued a product advisory about their Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured between December ‘05 and November ‘06 by the Matsushita Battery Industrial ... More About: Technology , Phone , Cell Phone
Top-Ten Placement On Google, Yahoo and MSN
2007-08-14 15:09:00 Have you ever seen an Search Engine Optimization firm advertising an irresistible offer like that? Chances are, you have. In fact, if you subscribe to WebPro News eNewsletter, you receive an offer for that very thing about 314 times a month. And you don’t have to look very hard on Googl e to find about ... More About: Yahoo , General , Yahoo!
Wordpress Comments Issue
2007-08-14 13:47:00 If you have tried to comment on the blog recently, first and foremost I must say, “Thank You for taking the time.” No, really. I comment on other blogs quite often and it does take a certain amount of effort, so we really appreciate it when our readers comment on our blog. However, if ... More About: Wordpress , General , Comments , Issue
Toshiba Recalls Sony Laptop Batteries
2007-08-12 17:19:00 If you own a Toshiba laptop, your rechargeable battery by Sony could be on the recall list. The CPSC has announced that the batteries have been overheating and causing a fire hazard. Here are the Toshiba laptop models on the latest recall list: Toshiba’s Satellite A100 Satellite A105 Tecra A7 If you own one of these laptops, ... More About: Technology , Laptop , Batteries , General
What Does Google Know About You?
2007-08-11 21:51:00 Google technology is everywhere these days. We use it to e-mail, instant message, plan our day, watch videos and, of course, search the Internet. But all that convenience gives Google plenty of opportunities to gather information about us. Take a look: Google Mail – Your e-mail history and the default setting stores your ... More About: Google , General , Googl
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August
2007-08-11 19:05:00 Microsoft is prepared to issue patches for 9 holes in the Windows operating system and in Microsoft Office with 6 of the 9 fixes being labeled as “critical”. A “critical” flaw is defined by Microsoft as: A vulnerability whose exploitation could allow the propagation of an Internet worm without user action. Of the 6 critical patches, ... More About: Security , Microsoft , General , Patch , Tuesday
Few Days of Web Server Issues
2007-08-09 19:31:00 Ok, after a few days of Web server issues, I think the blog is back up and running. It was totally my fault and this problem illustrates the importance of getting your .htaccess file correct. If you are not a web developer OR you are not concerned with your web site’s search engine rankings, you ... More About: Web Server , General , Issues , Server , Days
Google ?unavailable_after? Tag
2007-07-31 13:31:00 Last week I mentioned that Googl e was putting the finishing touches on its latest META tag – unavailable_after. Now, it is officially ready for use, according to Dan Crow on the official Google Blog. If you have a temporary page that you will eventually want to drop out of Google’s Index, this is the tag ... More About: General
Make 71 Million Dollars In a Weekend
2007-07-30 14:09:00 How would you like to do that? Well, that is what the Simpson’s Movie did this past weekend. Granted, I am sure A LOT more than that was spent on creating the movie. But, the Simpson’s Movie had the 5th best movie opening this year. As Li points out in her Search Marketing ... More About: General , Weekend , Make , Million , Dollars
Web Development Quick Reference Guides
2007-07-28 15:41:00 Cameron Chapman over at Mashable has compiled a flaming-hot list of web development resources. The very first one on his list is the one that I keyed in on. It is a list of cheat sheets and quick reference guides found over at Tech Cheat Sheets. It should be of particular interest to anyone ... More About: Web Design , Web Development , General , Development , Guides
Wikia Acquires Grub Web Crawler
2007-07-28 14:45:00 Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is serious about taking on Google and Yahoo in the Search Engine market. Earlier this year in Tokyo, Wales shed a little more light on his goal. He plans on creating an open-source, human-powered Search Engine. This stands in contrast to the standard “robot” powered Search Engines such as Google, ... More About: General , Wikia , Acquire , Crawler
McAfee Offers Free Rootkit Detector
2007-07-27 14:02:00 McAfee has released Rootkit Detective 1.0 to help uses detect and remove any pesky rootkits that may be running on their computers. Here are a few of the features of this free tool from McAfee: Detect any system objects which the user cannot usually see, including files, processes and registryn entries. Provide details of all processes running on ... More About: Security , Internet , General , Free , Offers
New Google Tag Coming Soon
2007-07-25 20:06:00 Jill Whalen from HighRankings reports that Googl e ’s Dan Crow announced a new META tag named “unavailable_after” which Google will be using soon. When the new “unavailable_after” tag is used on a web site page, it will notify Googlebot when that particular page should no longer be crawled. Particularly effective for Limited Time offer pages of ... More About: General , Ming
Firefox Add-On Blocking Adsense
More articles from this author:2007-07-25 18:34:00 If you use the Firefox Web browser and have the Adblock Plus add-on installed, you may have experienced some trouble when trying to access your Google Adsense account. Evidently, I was not the only one experiencing this problem because Rajiv Sud posted about it on the Inside Adsense blog along with some suggested steps to take ... More About: General , Sens , Block 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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