You may have noticed some changes around here recently. Today we have finished changing the main design of our site. We tend to do this every 4 years or so. Mainly we just wanted something wider, more functional, and easy to read, but it helps that it looks sharp as well. The new site is…
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A Busy Summer for Internet Scams
While many of us have been taking advantage of three-day weekends and relaxing, online scammers have been hard at work this summer. They’ve come up with a grab bag of hacks, hoaxes, and other creative ways to separate law-abiding citizens from their money. Here are just a few: The overpayment scam. The victim lists an…
Adobe Edge beta brings Flash-style design to HTML5
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…
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…
How to make transparent layer over an image
We wanted to put a image over everything on a web page, so we searched and searched the web until we finally found this simple little code: <div> <img src=”/images/404a.png” alt=”” style=”position:absolute;” /> <div style=”position:absolute;width:Xpx;height:Ypx;background-color:#000000;filter:alpha(opacity=0);opacity:0;-moz-opacity:0;”></div> </div> It’s great, just throw this about anywhere in the body of the web page and it will create a…
ATT blocks outgoing email for residential customers
We just found out that ATT blocks outgoing email for residential customers. They now want you to pay twice as much for the same thing (the business DSL package). Sorry, but slapping a business name on your DSL just to charge more is not going to work. We know the speeds are the same and…
Google changes, effect 12% of all search results
Google made one of the biggest changes ever to its search results this week, which immediately had a noticeable effect on many Web properties that rely on the world’s biggest search engine to drive traffic to their sites. The major tweak aims to move better quality content to the top of Google’s search rankings….
Google Targets Content Farms With Major Search Algorithm Tweaks
Google made a substantial revision to its search algorithm today, the company says. And while no one in particular is being called out, it’s clear that the big losers are content farms and related spammy-content producers, who have been having an absolute field day on Google over the last couple of years. 11.8% of search…