Everyone is so caught up complaining about the upcoming Instagram newsfeed change – that we’ve almost missed another huge changing coming to Instagram. Videos on Instagram are going to change from the current 15-second limit to 60-seconds! That’s 4x the original amount, and 2x the size of Twitter. Furthermore iOS users are also getting back the ability […]
Author Archives: Michael Boguslavskiy
Warning: cPanel User Account Verification Scam
Every now and then I get a scam email that I just have to share with everyone – mostly because I could see how the average webmaster might get caught up by it. This is one of those times – a scam has landed in my inbox taking the form of a fake email from the famous […]
12 Free WordPress Templates April 2016
If you’ve ever spoken to me, at any length, regarding the Internet, or even read the about page, you probably know that I’m a big believer of free when it comes down to webmaster resources. Free scripts, templates, and resources have been a huge driving force behind creating the Internet we know and love today. […]
Using A Public Computer? Quickly Log Out From Multiple Sites At Once with UltraLogout!
Ever logged into you’re email on a public computer and then worried you forgot to log out? Maybe you logged into several different websites. Oh God! Did you leave you’re WordPress blog logged in on that BestBuy display computer?! Next time, use UltraLogout. A simple website you can access via numerous different domain names, and instantly […]
Google Is Rolling Out Another Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost
Google has been strongly pushing all webmasters to have mobile-friendly websites. The first major push happened back in April of 2015 when Google officially made mobile friendliness an SEO ranking signal. Now Google has announced that starting May of 2016 they will start rolling out another mobile ranking signal in an effort to help mobile […]
Twitter Updates Moments to Make Link Browsing Easier
One of the most annoying parts of following links within any social media post on your mobile device is that it usually takes you away from what you wanted to be doing. Facebook solved this by opening links in an internal browser within the Facebook app, and now Twitter has launched a similar feature within […]
Opera Wants You To Have An Ad-Free Browsing Experience
Opera is fed up with online advertising, and as such has announced a developer version of its browser, which comes with an ad-blocking technology which is turned on by default. For those totally against ad-blocking the technology can be turned off easily – however the ad blocking technology does offer a roughly 40% faster browsing experience when compared […]
Instagram Wants To Change The Way Your Feed Is Displayed
The first major change to you’re Instagram feed is coming. Much in the style of Facebook, Instagram (owned by Facebook) is looking into changing the order in which we see posts in our IGfeeds. The concept being that we’re just not seeing the posts that we should be seeing. You may be surprised to learn […]
Google, Mozilla & Microsoft Roll Out Support for WebAssembly File Format
WebAssembly, announced last year in June, is a phenomenal effort put together by the W3C, and backed by Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari browsers, to develop a binary format for web-based applications. According to the WebAssembly design guidelines, the new file format would allow developers to compile their “code” to a binary, which […]
10 Premium Responsive WordPress Themes for March 2016
You may agree that one of the main characteristics for a modern website is its responsiveness. You’d hardly find somebody in a big city who doesn’t have a mobile phone, a tablet or a laptop. Sometimes they have all of the above. Together with a much faster Internet connection, responsiveness is becoming an integral part […]
Student Applications Are Officially Open for Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is an amazing program that lets university students learn and perfect their coding knowledge by spending 3 months working on an open-source project – entirely online! That means it’s a global program – and you can participate from anywhere in the world! For twelve years running, GSoC gives participants a chance to […]
Most Popular Google Web Fonts
Typography is crucial in the world of website design where the right font can make or break an entire website. Google Fonts (previously Google Web Fonts) has made it extremely easy for seasoned designers and novice developers to make use of hundreds of fonts throughout their web projects. Recently a new analytics section has been added, […]
Google Removing Public Access to PageRank
Google’s publically viewable PageRank hasn’t been updated in ages – and Google’s John Mueller stated back in 2014 that we probably shouldn’t expect to see it updated ever again. Frankly when Google dropped PageRank scores from Google Webmaster Tools (now Google Search Console) – alarm bells should’ve started going off. Alas there’s still plenty of […]
MIT Develops Algorithm That Increases Website Load Times by 34%
When it comes to speed – history has shown us that there is never enough speed. Race car drivers always want to go faster, gamer’s always want faster graphics and a higher FPS, and webmaster’s always want their websites to load faster. A team over at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL […]
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Facebook Live Videos Are Changing The News Feed Algorithm
Back in early December, Facebook starting letting a small percentage of users within the U.S. stream live video from their phones directly to Facebook. This then expanded to all verified pages, and eventually all U.S. iPhone and Android users, and all business managers via the Facebook Pages Manager app. A new content format was not […]
Microsoft SQL Server is Coming To Linux!
Want to utilize Microsoft’s SQL server for you’re next project? In the past this meant that you would be forced to use a Microsoft based hosting platform – however this is all scheduled to change throughout 2016/2017 as Microsoft announces plans to port SQL Server to Linux! Today I’m excited to announce our plans to […]
The United States of Spam
Unfortunately – spam is part of most of our daily lives, so much so that we have laws and regulations surrounding how spam can actually be used. A new study from Comodo Threat Research Labs took a look at all of the email that Comodo has filtered throughout the second half of 2015, and put […]
Use Social Media to Provide Better Customer Support & Increase Brand Visibility
There are few things more annoying than needing customer support and having no way to quickly get it. Alas this is exactly the predicament I found myself in recently when I was placing an order via GrubHub one Friday night. I got my order in with no hiccups – everything seemed to be going as […]
Facebook Launches Canvas Ads – A New Fullscreen Mobile Experience
With a plethora of mobile-only users on Facebook, and with mobile ads performing up to 5 times better than their desktop counterparts – Facebook has been hard at work at building an ideal mobile-only advertising platform that can bring together a cornucopia of display options. This week, Facebook introduced the world to Canvas, a new ad […]