For all the talk of how HTML5 will be the future of the Web, and how, in particular, it will replace Flash for rich interactive and animated content, the reality is that the technology is out of reach for a lot of the designers and animators currently using Flash. While HTML5 developers are working directly…
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100 Internet Based Business Ideas (2011)
I have said these hundreds of times… “It’s NOT the idea as much as how you APPLY it. The best ideas in the world are wasted because whoever had them simply didn’t know how to apply them well. Typically, there are thinkers and doers, it is very rare to be able to do both. So…
The Internet Has Run Out of IPs
On Thursday, the internet reached a major milestone: the central supply of traditional IP addresses officially ran out. The nonprofit organizations responsible for distributing internet addresses announced that the last available blocks of IPv4 addresses had been allocated. IPv4 is the addressing system that has supported most of the internet since its early growth. “This…
Donating Old Computers
As technology changes and trust us we know how fast it does. What to do with old hardware or to keep using it is a common question for web hosting companies. At one point we did calculate the risk vs reward of running older hardware, this was about 9 years ago (2005). It was one…
New Desktop Background to Get You Motivated
How to Change Your Desktop Background on Windows Changing your desktop background on a modern Windows PC is quick and easy. You can use a photo, a solid color, a slideshow, or Windows Spotlight. Step 1: Open Personalization Settings Right-click on an empty area of your desktop and select Personalize. You can also open it…
Do You Blog Poll? (finished)
Do you blog? Choice # of Votes Percent of Votes I run my own blog on my website 104 22.13 I have one with a blog service website 43 9.43 I have a microblog like Twitter 31 4.51 I have too many to list 38 7.38 No I don’t 225…
Sony and IBM Stop the Floppy Disk
The days of the 3.5-inch floppy disk are officially coming to an end. Sony, which still controls roughly 70% of the shrinking floppy disk market, announced that it will stop selling 3.5-inch floppy disks in Japan in March 2011, according to a report from the Mainichi Daily newspaper. For nearly three decades, the 3.5-inch floppy…
HTML5 Knocks Out Adobe Flash in Reader Vote
A few weeks ago, the tension between Adobe and Apple reached a new level after Apple made the highly visible decision to leave Flash support off the iPad. Steve Jobs’ public criticism of Adobe, calling Flash unreliable and Adobe slow to adapt, only intensified the debate. At the center of the issue is a larger…