Web designer mistakes
Do web designers make mistakes or are they just in rut with their designs? These are questions being asked by many people who try to get a website developed the way that they want it, rather than how the web designer wants it.
Webmasters Mistakes:
“I Know What Looks Good (and I Have Photoshop)”
“Just Use Blue [...]
Same server search
There is a handy little tool around which will allow you to check up on other websites to see if they are hosted on the same server, this can come in very handy sometimes.
You Get Signal have introduced the Reverse IP Domain Check, this will give you a quick and easy way of tracking domains [...]
Hit man sort on Craigslist
They say that you can get almost anything on Craigslist from flats, jobs and now it seems you can even hire a hit man to get rid of your cheating partner!
Well that was what a woman from Michigan; USA thought when she tried to hire a hit man to kill the woman that was having [...]
Google translator messes up
Even the mighty Google machine gets it wrong sometimes, despite the amount of cash they have to spend on their various projects like the very handy Google Translator. But when you type in your piece of text how do you know that what is returned is correct?
The example given is a dedication at the sad [...]
Jan 30th a day to remember
This should a very interesting day, its possible that not many people respond to this although it must depend on the users experiences, however at the moment the 30th January 2008 is pencilled in as “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day.”
Many users have been disappointed with MySpace and here is an account of one user’s [...]
What makes a great Digg story?
For many people Digg is a great source of news, but these stories are always the ones that are hitting the front pages of the newspapers or what we may be seeing on the TV. This is what makes Digg so exciting to people and the fact that the top stories are those ones that [...]
January 21, 2008New search from Google
The great thing about Google is the fact that they are always looking at improving the service that they offer, which in business is a great thing for both customers and the businesses future.
This new so called experimental search is a glimpse into what we could be seeing from Google in the future, or if [...]
How the web got started
The internet was conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee from the UK but had some of the wrinkles ironed out by him and Robert Cailliau a year later.
From this point things began to take off fairly quickly by the standards of the day with the basic software being completed and ready for action by the [...]
US to have instant data on the British
It called the server in the sky and symbolises Americas aim to secure its borders from anyone it deems to be a threat. This means that the FBI would be able to instantly gain access to all the data held by a government, including the UK, on anyone planning on entering the States.
The information [...]
Bit Torrent has Jericho S2
Jericho is one of those shows that you either love or hate; in this case at one stage the second series had been cancelled. But has been brought back due to popular demand and the fact that one fan dumped five thousand pounds of peanuts, the ones in the shell, into the offices of CBS [...]
January 11, 2008Some great web apps
If we listen to the news, then we would think that the internet is made up of just a few popular websites, who have attracted attention from the bigger companies who have been liberal with their cash when buying a stake in these popular sites.
But this is not a true picture of the internet today, [...]
Who are the free software users?
There seems to be a culture developing in the software world, on the one hand there are those people who will only buy the branded products, but it is the free users who are of interest today. They come in all different shapes and sizes, but have one thing in common; they would not use [...]
January 8, 2008Torrents under attack
There is a little known war going on between the torrent sites and an organisation named Scene, their sole purpose is to totally eradicate all torrents, with tags like “Destroying the P2P’s, one step at a time”.
We already saw when Super torrents had their donations hacked and donated to charity; this is the sort of [...]
PSP to get Skype soon
By the end of January all Sony PSP owners will able to talk to each other with the help of Skype the phone service that enables users to talk to each other over the internet at no or reduced costs. There are around 250 million registered users all around the world.
The service will become available [...]
Top sixteen virtual games
Games that take you back your youth are all the rage these days, that retro feel and simple graphics make for a great evening of fun and games.
The top 16 games as compiled by OMG Nintendo:
Super Mario Bros. 3
Kirby’s Adventure
Balloon Fight
Wrecking Crew
Super Castlevania IV
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Kirby’s Dream Course
Pokemon Snap
Mario [...]
Master gmail like an expert
Becoming a master of gmail could be a few simple steps away if you were interest in becoming a master gmailer in the first place that is.
By following this course you will be able to master the following skills:
Features:
Creating Labels in Gmail
Creating Filters in Gmail
Learning the keyboard shortcuts is essential to becoming a Gmail Jedi [...]