Category Archives: Internet

How to Quickly Clean Out Your Yahoo Inbox

After writing the article on how to clean out your Hotmail inbox using their Sweep feature, I decided to take a quick look at my good ol’ Yahoo inbox to see if it hid a similar feature. Sure enough, it did! Although you won’t find it listed under sweep, with just a couple of clicks [...]

How to Clean Out Your Hotmail Inbox with Hotmail Sweep

I don’t know about you, but my old Hotmail email address has become a major dumping ground for junk email over the last few years. I still use my Hotmail login to access certain Microsoft features, but I allowed my Hotmail email to fall by the wayside. The result was a Hotmail inbox filled with [...]

Facebook Changes Font Sizes – How to Change it Back

This week, Facebook changed the the standard font size for their website and the question instantly crops up, “Why?” As a web designer, I occasionally make changes to my websites – with every change geared towards improvement. Unfortunately for Facebook, I think they made a mistake. The smaller font size can cause some difficulties for [...]

LimeWire Shut Down

Well, it’s official – the popular file sharing program known as LimeWire has been shut down. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York accused LimeWire of apparently facilitating the transfer of illegal downloads – well duh! Honestly, I’m not sure how any company like LimeWire had any type of sustainable business model [...]

Firesheep Exposes Problems with Unsecure Wi-Fi Hot Spots

As of this week, there is a major shift in the web industry to force SSL encryption on all websites (but especially on ecommerce websites, those that require a login, or deliver cookies – which is just about every website on the internet). A web vulnerability was discovered through a Firefox web browser extension called [...]

‘Back to the Mac’ Event: Live Stream Excludes Windows Users

Feel left out? I know I did when I tried to tune into Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event streaming live from Cupertino, California on apple.com and saw this screen: Available shortly? Please check back soon? At the bottom of the page, there was another note in small type that said, “Streaming video requires Safari [...]

How Much Server Space and Bandwith Do You Really Need?

Here’s a question I get all of the time: How much server space and bandwith does my website need? The quick and honest answer is that it varies widely from one website to another and each website should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for it’s server requirements. For most simple websites, 10 GB of [...]

The Game Has Changed Again – Introducing Google Instant

Yesterday, hospitals across the United States saw emergency room visits increase nearly 300%. The patients were primarily suffering from headaches, chest pains and confusion. Some victims even entered a zombie-like state and began gathering en-mass in several cities across the country. Fearing that is was an outbreak of some kind, the Centers for Disease Control [...]

Is My Website SEO Ready?

Poor coding can lead to poor results when you’re marketing your website through the search engines. There’s a few simple things you can do to make your website SEO ready. I will describe five things that will make your webpages shine and make them more visible in the search engines.

IE6 Should Just Go Away!

Internet Explorer 6 is perhaps the worst web browser ever conceived by those glorious minds at Microsoft. Web designers around the globe have been in a constant battle with this horribly outdated browser. However, there is hope on the horizon – the end of IE6 may be closer than we realize.