Everyone Wants to ‘Own’ Your PC
When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is designed to serve others, over the owner’s objection, it is oppressive. There’s a battle raging on your computer right now — one that pits you against worms and viruses, Trojans, spyware, automatic update features and digital rights management technologies. It’s the battle to determine […]
PayPal Shopping Cart
I was speaking to someone the other day who was looking to contract out work for a website because he had no experience with e-commerce. While it’s ture that some shopping carts can be quite a job to install and debug I recommended “If your customer willing to use PayPal to process credit cards you […]
How to Locate and Evaluate Good Websites
How do you identify and separate the really good resources on the web from all the other websites out there? How do you know the sites you’ve found offer practical, reliable information? How do you know you can trust a site you’d like to order products from? These are some of the questions Business Know-How […]
Microsoft Awarded ‘Super Cookie’ Patent
A new Microsoft patent is causing a little heartburn in some quarters, but the patent for a so-called “super cookie,” may have come so long after Microsoft’s application that it’s been superceded by newer technologies. U.S. Patent 7,039,699, or ‘699, will provide developers with a permanent cookie that can contain bits, counters, dates and strings […]
Design Quiz
Andy Rutledge has written an excellent design quiz I invite everyone to take a look at. In order to help spark a bit of interest in fundamentals and/or inspiration for readers (I hope) I?ve put together a little multiple-choice quiz to help test your understanding of design. While I do provide the answers for checking […]
TheOpenCD project
TheOpenCD project aims to introduce users of MS-Windows to the benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a broad audience. We provide a description and screen-shots of each program, so you can get an […]
Section 508 Law
In 1998, Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Inaccessible technology interferes with an individual’s ability to obtain and use information quickly and easily. Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people […]
Three rules for safer Wi-Fi away from home
Almost everyone has heard about wardriving, the geek sport in which you drive around and see what wireless access points (WAP) you can find and access. Because of the ink wardriving has received over the years, many home and business users have wised up and added security to their WAPs. But how about the busy […]
New Keyword Optimization Rules
Maintaining and marketing a website can be a difficult task especially for those who are inexperienced or who have very little experience. SEO rules are constantly changing and even then, many SEO professionals disagree on the actual specifics required to optimize a website. This is in no small part due to the search engines themselves. […]
Google PageRank Explained
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of […]
