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…
Free word invoice template
Here’s a free Microsoft Word invoice template. We use it ourselves from time to time. We like that it’s easy to customize and has all the important things to make the billing process simple. Feel free to use it however you want, and please visitWeb Host Pro sometime 🙂 Download the free invoice template here:…
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…
.co.uk domain registration now available with DWHS
Register your .co.uk now with DWHS. The price is $19.99 for two years. Existing customers can use their domain section to register new .co.uk domains, or new customers can choose a .co.uk domain when signing up. We still allow all domain name TLD types for hosting and will be adding several more TLDs for registration…
Western Digital to snap up Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion
Western Digital said on Monday that it was buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for the equivalent of $4.3 billion. The move includes a combination of $3.5 billion in cash as well as shares worth about $750 million. The deal will see the WD name remain but see Hitachi GST’s CEO Steve Milligan join WD as…