Cybercops wanted
There are calls for the internet to be policed if the amount of frauds and threats to personal data are to be controlled, according to Mary Landesman of ScanSafe.
Recently there has been a huge increase in the amount of scareware being pushed around the internet; this is where computer users are being lured into downloading [...]
ISP’s filter Wiki
Customers of some UK based internet service providers have been finding it hard to access the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. This is because a certain article has sparked off a blacklisting by the Internet Watch Foundation.
This blacklisting has been caused because of images that have been linked to child pornography, but because of this, all surfers [...]
Sell your Mp3’s
There is a huge market in second hand records and even tapes. However, what happens to your collection of Mp3’s when you have had enough of them, you have to just delete them to free up space from the hard drive.
But now there is a place where owners of Mp3 tracks can put them up [...]
Data sharing between Facebook and Microsoft
It is becoming increasing difficult to prevent your personal details even if it is only your email address from getting into the hands of spammers, marketers and other businesses that see that this type of personal contact is the most cost effective way of getting their products and services in front of potential new customers.
It [...]
Twenty five years ago Windows appeared
It’s amazing to think that twenty five years ago a fresh face Bill Gates was introducing the world to Microsoft and the first Windows operating system, the year was 1983 and it would take a further two years before the operating system known as Windows 1 would be inside computers and on the shelves of [...]
October 23, 2008Free website tools
One of the main questions that often appear is from people who would really like to have their piece of the web, but have no idea where to start. Well of course, there are many places out there, which offer free hosting and more importantly for some people hep with design.
These applications can in fact [...]
What to do after a Google update
Every time a Google make a page rank update, most website owners and webmasters hold their breath to see what the outcome is going to be. However, it is always going to be a nightmare for some and a disaster for others, so what can be done about it?
Bookmarking
Link Development
Leave Comments on Other Blogs
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Apple throws weight around
Despite being the most successful music sales sites iTunes is feeling the pressure from the music industry, but instead of caving in to their demands, the management of iTunes have other more drastic plans.
It all boils down to what happens at the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C. after the National Music Publishers’ Association had [...]
YouTube cleans up
The video sharing site YouTube are preparing to make some sweeping changes in the wake of the high profile court case taken out by media giant Viacom.
It was through the court case that YouTube had to provide the court with a list of all YouTube members and their online activities. Although there was no possibility [...]
The oldest websites
For many of us it would seem that the internet has been around for all of time, but there some people who actually remember life before the internet. However, in those early pioneering days of HTML who were the people with their fingers on the pulse of technology, who actually bought those first domain names?
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What makes a good webmaster?
There are many things that make a good webmaster, but these qualities are changing all of the time, simply because the industry is changing all of the time.
But just producing a nice looking website is no longer any good; as there are many factors which need to be taken into consideration and all of [...]
July 7, 2008Firefox increases market share
Despite a long wait, users of the Firefox browser made a great effort to get Mozilla into the record books for having the most downloads in one day, which they did although there was not a record in the first place, but an excellent piece of marketing there is no doubt to that.
In fact [...]
June 23, 200850% of IT workers look at confidential files
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June 4, 2008Media Defender being killed off
Like anyone who sticks their neck out, you are often likely to get it in the neck from the people that you are trying stop. This could be said to be true about ArtistDirect and their company MediaDefender.
Apparently their sales have been hit so much that they could be in serious trouble. But is [...]
May 19, 2008Domain names running out
What would happen if the internet ran out of domain names?
If you think that this is never going to happen, then you could be wrong. Current estimates figure that by the year 2011 there will be no new domain names for sale, which means for some people and indeed businesses something of a dilemma.
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Let Google know you’re in the UK
Having a .com site is fine, because it is a universal domain, but when are a specific UK site who only sells to the UK market, you are going to need the site to be right up there on the site rankings for the UK. But what happens when the site turns up on the [...]
May 1, 2008The internet is still a baby
It’s unbelievable but the internet is approaching its fifteenth birthday, which was when the first piece of code was placed onto a domain which was powered by CERN, the lab where the internet was first developed.
The man who was behind this was Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and the decision to make the internet free for [...]
April 25, 2008The Pirate Bay hits twelve million users
Despite all of the efforts to get it shut down, the Pirate Bay is even more popular now than ever before. It was not that long ago when they celebrated passing the ten million user mark and it was thought that may be the limit, especially as there are so many people trying to prevent [...]
April 16, 2008CAPTCHA cracked in sixty seconds
By now we have all got used to the sign up feature that is supposed determine between a human and a machine, the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) where there is a series of letters and numbers which are sometimes distorted.
Most of time this has proved a [...]
April 7, 2008The internet is under attack
Most of us feel that the internet will last for ever, but could there ever be a time when the internet actually breaks and suddenly we find ourselves with nothing to look at and no way of carry on the work, it sounds like a nightmare. But this could happen one and here are the [...]