Who says you can’t still have fun with a rubik cube?
Yet another video blog Web site has opened up. It looks nice, but it needs more pictures.
This MPEG4 recorder is cool, but name me ten people who will find a real functional use for it. Hell, I’d be happy with knowing ten people who bought the damn thing.
Domain name prices keep coming down. Is $3 average the new industry sweet spot?
Even though I had some technical difficulties all weekend long, the Web Hosting Show was recorded and is now ready for the masses. What would be a better way to enjoy your Thanksgiving Day leftovers? Help yourself to the dressing while you learn about the Web hosting industry.
1&1 Internet, Inc., has introduced an innovative photo gallery tool that gives users a fast and easy way to load, organize, edit and publish digital photographs online. The 1&1 Photo Gallery is being included at no additional cost with the company’s shared hosting plans.
It looks like the holidays are coming early for the customers of 1&1 Internet. I love it when hosting companies give back to the customer base, and this is a quality example of just that. More companies should be worried about keeping the hosting customer they have, not worried about bringing in new ones.
Leading Internet presence solution provider, Aplus.Net announced the addition of two site map tools to its feature-rich Control Panel. Aplus.Net has made the site map and Google site map available to its web hosting customers at no extra charge.
The Google Site Map tools are helpful for any Webmaster wanting to make sure that Google has their information. For those of you who don’t have a Web host as nice as Aplus.net, you can sign up for Google Site Maps on your own. It might seem like a lot of trouble, but it is worth it.
Domains.Live.com is a free new email service offered by Microsoft. It’s a simple but very useful tool. And, like Office Live, it is disruptive to the existing domain name registrar market.
Is this just a sneak peak at what Microsoft wants to do in the Web hosting world? Some of the other features include: Create up to 20 e-mail accounts within your domain; Get a 250 MB inbox for each account; Check your e-mail from any Web-enabled PC; Junk e-mail filter protection using Microsoft SmartScreen technology; Virus scanning and cleaning of e-mail; Seamless access with MSN Messenger, MSN Spaces, and more. Big brother is doing more than just watching you, he’s putting out a pretty nice offer as well!
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Don’t you hate it when you visit a Web site and you are afraid to click on any of the links? OK, so maybe “afraid” isn’t the right word. It would be nice to know what Web site or Web page you were going to before you click on the link. Thanks to the Alt-Text for Links extension for Firefox, now you can.
So what does this Firefox extension do? It displays a link’s destination URLs in a “tool tip window”. Well, it displays it in a tool tip window if the link hasn’t been already defined by the HTML code on the Web page.
Have no fear though, you can also find out what link you are about to visit by looking at the bottom left of your screen.
Now as I said before this could be helpful if you are on a Web site where you might be afraid to click on a link. It is also handy to have to see where the next link is leading you. I know on some Web pages out there, going from link to link is tricky business. At least with this extension, you should be ready to get what you click on.
There are some improvements to be made to the extention.
I’d like for the text to come up as a tool tip as well as at the bottom of the browser. My eyes don’t always focus toward the bottom of the screen a lot while I’m surfing around the Web. Other than that, it is a perfect fit if you are looking for a way to find out where you click, before you click.
Okay, so greatest wrestler alive might be a little ‘bit of an overstatement. He is damn good, so good.. I decided to help him out and get him a Web site started up. Well, I guess it doesn’t hurt that he’s one of my best friends as well. I had almost forgot how much of a pain some aspects of starting up a new Web site can be. I’ll tackle them on another day though.
Till then, go check out SB1Online.com and let me know what you think of what I’ve been able to put together so far! Also, if you have any suggestions, I’ll be happy to hear them as well.
This has been a fun side project for me to work on, because it has nothing to do with Web hosting or technology. Sometimes your brain needs a break from the “norm” before it turns to mush.
I hate it when I loose a sock. No mater where I look I can’t find it. No mater what kind of way I look, I can’t find it. After a few hours, it is just a lost cause. That is the same way I feel about using most Online search engines as well. Well, that was untill a BetterSearch came knocking on my proverbial door.
BetterSearch delivers many more choices and flavors when it comes to Online searching. It enhances Google, MSN Search Yahoo Search, A9, and many more by adding thumbnail previews, Amazon product images and information, and a preview feature.
It doesn’t stop there. It also lets you choose to “Open in a New Window”, find out more about the “Site Info” and a “Wayback Machine” link so that you can search the previous versions of the Web site as well.
Now there is one simple reason why none of these search engines do this on their own right now. It would mean they would have to work together with these other companies. That just ain’t going to happen. What it takes is imagination from outside the box to make these Web features and support work together as one.
We all want more form and functionality from an Online search, right? If you fall onto that waggon or one even close, then you should give BetterSearch a shot. With better searching tools at your fingertips, then you will hopefully be able to get out of the searches quicker and find what you are really looking for.
It happens to everybody. You want to see the Web page that is making all the news, and once you finally get the link to go there it times out on you. You can’t see the content and you will have no idea what folks will be talking about around the water cooler tomorrow. What is a geek to do?
The Firefox extension this time around is called Cacheout. What does it do?
Too frequently on sites such as Slashdot.org and digg.com, articles that are posted are flooded with thousands of people trying to simultaneously access the same Web site. Unless the article is being hosted on a provider that has the infrastructure to support massive hits, the server essentially stops responding to any more web requests.
The service they use to bring the Web sites back up is the Coral Content Distribution Network. Coral is very reliable for distributing the server loads around so that you can view a Web site that is in very high demand. Right now they are only using Coral for the back end, but if you know of any other content distribution networks out there, let them know.
Although the content for the Web page hasn’t gone too in depth with the extension just yet, I have high hopes for this extension in the future. Go check it out, and never be left out of the conversation at work again.
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