October 16th, 2008
Having the need for, and recently come across an article by Mark Schenk on the use of scaled images a a background with CSS, I thought that I would add my 2¢ to the equation as i think he is missing out a couple of points that would be super handy for any casual reader [...]
October 15th, 2008
If you are getting a lot of SPAM sprayback, bounced emails and the like for your domain, you might like to consider the creation of SPF records to help inform receiving mail servers about what are and what aren’t valid mail relays for your domain.
SPF records create a "Sender Policy Framework" in your domain zone [...]
October 12th, 2008
In this article we will be using Outlook 2003 as an example, but all versions of Outlook operate pretty much the same way, with the same looking screens. In the article we also assume that you have already set up the required email account under the "Mail" section of CPanel. If you don’t have an [...]
October 8th, 2008
Having recently read the following blog entry “Halloween Special: Secure Erase” about how easy it is to secure erase files in Apple’s latest version of the Mac operating System, codenamed Leopard, I thought I would write a quick review of ways to secure erase, files and entire hard drives for those of us using not [...]
October 7th, 2008
Hype Machine seems to have joined the political fray today by coming out in Support of McCain and Palin, or have they? It’s kinda tricky to tell, but one thing is for sure, pictures of John McCain are all over the site as default user images.
To be honest it is pretty off putting and doesn’t [...]
October 5th, 2008
Lawyer-by-day and all-round-creative-genius-by-night, Charlie Kratzer, has decided to decorate the basement of his South Lexington, KY home with Sharpie Magic Markers. The feat of artistic endeavor includes cameos of Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, as well as British war time leader Winston Churchill and eminent Irish author George Bernard Shaw.
He obviously has a gift and [...]
October 3rd, 2008
Even the mighty CBS corp isn’t resilient to the adverse monkey behaviour of naughty social media subverts. User-generated content is all and well, and the internet’s cheap means of production, much like reality shows are for tv, but if you don’t maintain such content properly, it can easily and quickly come back to bite you in the arse, much like CBS has found out on the project, CBSmobileeye.com.
October 2nd, 2008
I am frequently asked by clients to set up a web page where their clients can upload files. These are often design firms who have to share files with printers and viceversa, and although the file transfer protocol was designed for this, it seems that FTP clients are not something that "most" people have, or [...]
October 2nd, 2008
So you have the book, you finally got it published and you even have a web site. Where to go from there? How do you make sure your book reaches a critical mass online? How do you generate interest and reach out to the prospective audience? In this article I cover a few points of [...]
October 2nd, 2008
One of the first things that any visitors considers doing when they hit your web site is to search. This is all and well if you are running an PHP/MySQL driven web app like OScommerce or Expression Engine, but what if your site runs on static pages like this one? You can’t always rely on [...]