Backing up your files can never be spoken about enough. There is nothing worse than losing everything, or even something, important. Find out why DVDs and CDs are no good for backing up and read an introduction to other more reliable methods.
Online banking has some catching up to do. While certainly one of the oft quoted reasons for using the internet, banking online has so much more potential. The field has taken a blow recently, at least in the UK, with the introduction of “card readers” passing security problems onto the user and creating a barrier. Read on to find out more about why the card reader is a mistake, good examples of online banking and how improvements could be made.
For many years, one way or another, I have been stumbling back to an interesting and funny article: What is the Monkeyspehere by David Wong on cracked.com. Essentially the article explores the limit of people we can care about. This “Monkeysphere”, cited as about 150, is the rough maximum number of people we can have…
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a method of preventing spam commonly used in web forms. The user is shown a distorted image of numbers, letters or words and is asked to type them out. This ensures that the form is not filled out automatically by a bot…
Some people are unsure exactly what Google Gears is, what it does and how you can use it. Read on for a quick and dirty guide that will give you an understanding of this technology by Google so you can benefit from it and even use it in your websites/applications.
Deaths of public figures and celebrities usually don’t affect me, but the news of Sir Bobby Robson’s Death came with a bit of emotion for me. The 1990 world cup was a big part of my youth. Amongst the memories that stick out from it is Bobby Robson’s interview after being knocked out of the…
Coda is a Web Development application by for the Mac, produced by Panic. Despite being a relatively young project it has gained a large following. Here are my reasons for being one of those followers.
A couple of years ago the web exploded with tags – user defined words or phrases to identify information such as photos and bookmarks. The hype has since faded away but tags are still popular and usually always included in new information based websites. Here we look at the effectiveness of tags and how useful they really are.
Magento eCommerce took the open source software world by storm when it officially launched on March 31st 2008. Many developers, including myself, jumped on board and started using it. While the feature set and branding is unquestionably great what is it actually like to work with?
Read on as we take a look at the code, architecture, complexity, hosting issues and the goals that an open source eCommerce system should strive to achieve.
Link building is an important part of Search Engine Optimisation and different methods are discussed in forums, blogs and meetups every day. Here we take a look at an alternative approach to finding link building opportunities.
