Man, I’ve had nightmares with most of my web hosts at one point or another. But thankfully some of them are actually great at customer support and helping you work through a problem. That’s the key. Here’s a list I found today of 13 of the best web hosts which stand above the rest.
Lots of stuff I hadn’t heard of on this list – 69 Free or Open Source Tools For Students
Here’s a list of some of the top t-shirt sites on the Internet right now. Lists like of good sites in a niche like this are constantly changing so it’s good to find an article like this to catch up on what’s hot.
You know the Internet has become something awesome. When we were all using dial-up modems, there were quite a few limitations. We tried to squeeze everything we could out of the 56kbps or whatever it was, but really it was tedious. But with the advent of high speed internet and broadband the Internet has [...]
I don’t know whether google will count this link since it is a tinyurl, but it’s nice to see your work get rewarded via an editorial link on a major newspaper blog: MInd hacking
Hmmm. Had never heard of clipmarks before. Looks like an interesting site though.
I love bold, bombastic articles like this: 5 Reasons I Hope Classmates.com Gets Sued Into Oblivion
It’s so gratifying when one of your websites gets linked to by a major company like Spike.
It’s always fun to get linked by foreign sites. The fun part is figuring out what the site says.
Maybe I’m just old school or something, but I’ve had this feeling deep in my gut for a long time that online college educations are watered down and don’t prepare the student in the same way that a traditional college education prepares them. I can’t shake the feeling and I’m genuinely curious how companies perceive [...]
Just in case you have been living the life as a hermitic troglodyte, Firefox 3 has been released and is in the wild. Go and download it.
It’s everywhere on the interwebs now: Microsoft and Yahoo! are back at the table. This time Microsoft aren’t out to buy the company, rather they want to buy into it an retain an option to buy the entire company. Well, at least that’s what is rumoured. Seriously, I really like that Yahoo! are planning to [...]
As a telecommuter I frequently had to make trips to clients just to show them a mockup of something new, a list of changes etc. It gets a bit tedious after a few times, and more than time wasting. However, there are ways round this problem: web conferencing. But there are all sorts of flavours [...]
TorrentFreak reports that The Pirate Bay has surpassed 12 million users, which, given the huge publicity the site has garnered, isn’t very surprising. What caught my attention wasn’t the number of people giving the RIAA two fingers, rather the fact that they now have more seeders than leachers!
Fancy a change from Google’s sparse look? Try Searchme, a visual search engine. That’s visual as in you get screenshots of the pages rather than titles and snippets in your results. What makes it even cooler is how they used a CoverFlow’esque effect to jazz it up!
Statistics show that the average browser will give a site a generous 7 seconds to perform or they’re outta there faster than you can click a mouse. Add the rumours that Google are factoring site response times into their algorithm and it becomes even more important. Check out these tips to speed up your site [...]
It’s a joyous day in the land of browser-watchers, all 3 of us are ecstatic about the revelation that Internet Explorer usage has dropped below 80%! Firefox has a 16% share with Safari at 3%. CSS designers rejoice!
There’s something to be said for a good 404, but even so many sites just have staid “there’s an error” pages that do very little to stop the visitor leaving. Treat this as an example of a well thought out 404 that actually appeals to the site’s target audience.