Ever get tired of the same poor-quality sites coming up for your search engine queries? As effective as Google usually is, it hasn’t always been successful in stopping search spam from content farms. Enter the Personal Blocklist. This extension for Google Chrome allows you to block specific websites from displaying in search results. While you [...]
Believe it or not I still, on rare occasions, find myself having conversations with people who don’t see a great need for their business to have a website. An even tougher sell, but an increasingly important one, is whether or not to create a mobile-specific version of an existing website. It’s estimated that smartphones will [...]
It took me a minute to remember, too. I think I’ve still got a MySpace profile collecting spam out there somewhere, but who knows the last time I logged in. I don’t think anyone I know still uses it either. So the announcement that the once-largest social network has finally conceded to Facebook came as [...]
As greater numbers of smart phone users abandon Blackberry for Android offerings I’m increasingly asked about the poor battery life that comes with it. There is no shortage of blog postings out there with tips to squeeze every last ion from your device, including killing background apps, turning off animations, live wallpapers, even clearing cache [...]
If an article by Spa! is to be believed, the Apple CEO was detained at Kansai International Airport in Japan recently for carrying throwing stars. According to Apple, however, the story is “pure fiction.” Read more here and here.
At first glance MOG appears to be just another streaming music provider not unlike Pandora. There’s a lot more to like about MOG, however. While it doesn’t offer a free service beyond the initial trial, its monthly cost is nominal for what you get. Less than $10/mo gets you access to 8 million songs, ad-free [...]
One of the latest phishing vessels to set sail has been christened “Tabnabbing” by web designer Aza Raskin. Here’s how they catch you: Let’s say you visit an infected website. The malicious agent will wait, biding its time until you open a new tab or minimize your browser window. When you’re not looking your window [...]
I don’t know about you, but when I’m looking for information I like to get it in as few clicks as possible. What I don’t like is first having to find the website with my desired data, then hunt through a myriad of befuddling fly-out menus and web forms, all the while closing those annoying [...]
It’s not often that I find a smart phone app worthy of recommendation. It’s even less common for me to discover one that I personally use with consistency. Many available apps are novel at best, while countless others are just a waste of space, destined to dishevel your Blackberry or iphone’s menu and memory. A notable exception, [...]
It’s a gross understatement to say the internet has revolutionized the way we live. In the last 15 years or so, most of us have completely changed the way we communicate and access information. It takes little effort to identify numerous ways our daily activities have been streamlined as a result. We bank online, keep [...]