Should I use PayPal or Google Checkout?
I have been advising my customers for quite a while now that for processing credit cards on the web PayPal is just as good of an option as any other real time credit card processing option. A couple of years ago a site using PayPal for payment options was seen as amateurish, someone running an […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Hunting for the world’s worst sound
Here?s something for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) What sounds worse to you: fingernails dragged across a chalkboard or the incessant honking of a broken car alarm? It is this kind of distinction that Professor Trevor Cox of Manchester’s Salford University is studying with his BadVibes […]
Sorry About That
My RSS feed has not been working for several days now. The RSS2 feed wasn’t affected. It seems that you can’t use an ampersand in your posts. I pasted one in a link to another site and my feed froze at that point. I just replaced it with the word “and” and just like magic […]
Do You Need Techies To Build Technology?
Computer World has an interesting story at the moment on what the hot skills are expected to be four years down the track. Predictably, technical skills are seen as being less important than business and soft-skills. More… Paul Knapp editor of brainbox.com.au says pretty much the opposite. “In almost every successful IT project I’ve ever […]
Free 10 Week Online AJAX Course by Sun Microsystems
A free 10-week “AJAX Programming” online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX frameworks and […]
Marketing Yourself
When you are selling your service on the web what you are really selling is yourself. So when a potential client’s first encounter with you is your website it should give them an idea of what you are all about. I have long believed that for a site to be friendly and approchable it needs […]
Why Not Have Open Hardware As Well?
Open Source software is taking the world by storm and changing everyone’s business model to one degree or another why not use the same model for hardware as well. I think many manufacturers are missing the boat on this issue and the one who steps up now can stake their claim as the industry leader […]
Nice CSS How-To and Template site
CSS started out as a means to replace the font element. In the meantime, it has grown to a powerful layout language. Even though it is not fully supported by all of the browsers, I believe it will be one day. As with HTML, a working group exists for CSS who concerns itself with development […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Tremulous: The best free software game ever?
Here?s something for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Linux and open source software lag behind the proprietary market in the number and quality of available video games, especially in the realm of first-person shooters (FPS), a genre dominated by the likes of Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half-Life, […]
What is Click-Fraud?
I have and will advise my clients to think very carefully before investing in any pay-per-click advertising program. The main reason for that is click fraud. How this works is that you bid on a “keyword” which can be one word or multi-word combinations. If you are one of the high bidders your ads are […]
