Archive | December, 2006

Web Hosting Industry Needs Charisma

Dec/05 in Web Hosting

Random Web Hosting Complaint #1:

Now I have had my complaints about the Web hosting industry before, that much is for sure. One thing that I really think that the Web hosting industry needs is more charisma.

The entire industry is built around the idea of being dull and boring. To the outside world it is a business about nothing else than gray boxes and guys in suits and ties. Now you might be fine with that, but I am not. There are a few stand outs here and there, but not nearly enough.

Where are the attention getter? Where are the people who are not afraid to speak their minds? Where are the bad guys and the good guys in the Web hosting industry? When you look for personality – you are going to be looking for a really long time. Take the Web Host Industry Review.

Now it might be one of the more popular Web hosting magazines out there today, but it is boring. I keep it by my bed to help me during nights I have a hard time sleeping. OK, maybe it has not gotten that bad yet. It isn’t the one thing I want to show folks though when it comes to sharing how exciting the industry I am in can be.

If you are not going to talk about things that excite me, at least try to talk about it a way that will excite me.

I noticed one of my old Web Hosting Show video tutorials got some praise over at the Web Hosting Finds blog. Now that was something I created just for the sake of doing something a little different. Being the six hundred foot penguin dressed in a chicken suit in a sea of guys wearing black and white is never a bad thing.

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What Yahoo Mail Needs

Dec/04 in Online Apps

The Yahoo Mail team came out with some excellent tips for searching my E-mails in the new Yahoo Mail Beta that has been out for a while now. I really love the new Yahoo Mail, but there are a few things that I wish they would hurry up and finish or do.

1. I want a better RSS feed reader. The one included right now sucks. Give me something like Google Reader and I will switch in an instant. It would be nice to have my mail and RSS feeds all in one spot, but right now when it comes to RSS Google is just giving me a lot more.

2. Let’s hurry up and get Calendar and Notepad working. I never really used these features in the old Yahoo! Mail, so give me something that is worth using. If you do not, then at least give me the option of getting rid of the buttons. (That could also be said for the RSS reader)

3. Give me the option to always reply in plain text. I really don’t like having to switch back to plain text every time I reply to a message. There should be a setting in the options somewhere that says “only send E-mail with plain text”. Get that in there and I would be happy.

Have anything else that needs to be done that I might have missed?

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Faster and Free E-mail Checking

Dec/03 in Desktop Apps

When you have more than one email account, managing them all can become a real pain. You either have to do your best to import them all into one place or you have to do the email checking dance and go from Web site to Web site to get things done. I needed a freeware program that would allow me to control all my email accounts at once central location. My solution was found in POP Peeper.

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Build Your Own Demos

Dec/02 in Desktop Apps

What if I told you I had a program that would make others love you more? You’d probably say it would be worth using, no matter what the cost.

Demo Builder does just that. It gives a very simple and easy to use interface when it comes to building Flash video tutorials.

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Proud of Lunarpages Blog

Dec/01 in Web Hosting

Over the past few weeks, it really has been an hour to be a small part of the Lunarpages team.

I am really happy with the way their blog is shapping up as well. Once just a place for their “master of marketing” Amy Armitage, it is now quickly becoming one of my favorite places to read (and write!). This goes way beyond just being a blog for a Web hosting company. They are putting together one heck of a writing team – and it shows.

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