Tag Archives: interesting internet

Top Searches of 2014: Bing

Much like Yahoo recently did; Bing is also taking a look back at 2014 with their own list of top searches for 2014. Unlike Yahoo however Bing isn’t providing a general list – instead they have created a wide array of different categories allowing you to see the top movie searches, top celebrity searches, and […]

Top Searches of 2014: Yahoo

As 2014 comes closer to it’s end Yahoo has published their Top 10 searches for the year. These lists are always a great way to look back at the major events during the year that really struck the interest of internet users amongst the world. How exactly does Yahoo compile this list? The company states , […]

Media Temple Launches Google Apps for Work

Media Temple has partnered with Google to offer Google Apps for Work to its customers, the company announced Wednesday of this week. Through the new partnership, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Hangouts will be fully integrated with Media Temple’s premium web hosting and cloud services, and supported by its 24/7 phone […]

Facebook and Google Make Up 80% Of All Social Logins

As a regular internet user chances are that you’ve logged into a website or two using one of your social profiles. These days you can use Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIN, and a slew of other social profiles to login almost anywhere. However while it might be cool to offer your users the ability to login […]

Bing Updates Homepage, Goes HD

Bing made a few significant visual improvements to their homepage over this weekend – and as someone who utilizes a 37″ Samsung HDTV as his at-home monitor – I love every single one of them. First up the images that most of us absolutely love about Bing will now be wide-screen and HD! You should see […]

Icecream Apps Launches Free PDF Converter

Back in July of this year I introduced Iceream Apps to our Free Webmaster Resources Directory – listing their 3 initial applications: Media Converter, PDF Split & Merge, and the Icecream Image Resizer. As of this weekend Icecream Apps has launched another freeware application called PDF Converter, a great tool for converting a range of […]

Free SSL Certificates Coming Next Year?

As the interweb slowly moves over to HTTPS from the standard HTTP a new venture between Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, Cisco, the University of Michigan and IdenTrust has formed Lets Encrypt – a new authority out to attempt to completely eliminate the headaches and costs associated with the switch. See switching your website over to SSL has […]

Yahoo Becomes the New Default Search Engine for Firefox

Google Chrome obviously defaults to their own Google search engine. Internet Explorer defaults to the Bing search engine. So it was only appropriate that Mozilla default to a search engine that wasn’t their direct competitor – i.e. Google. As of yesterday night Mozilla has made Yahoo the new default search engine for the Firefox browser. […]

NYC Looks to Replace Payphones With Wi-Fi Hotspots

While payphones aren’t nearly as popular as they once used to be – they’re still at strategic places all over New York City and the surrounding boroughs. Alas these days they rarely get much use – however a new project dubbed LinkNYC is looking to change that by converting New York City payphones into Wi-Fi […]

Google Trends Now Shows Trending YouTube Videos

The Google Trends is a great little service that lets you easily keep up with all the popular news of the day. This used to be based solely on searches, however as of yesterday Google Trends will now also showcase trending Youtube videos which will surely have video marketers excited. If you click into Trending […]

Mozilla Launches Developer Edition of Firefox Browser

As announced last week the Firefox Developer Edition browser has been released today by the Mozilla Foundation – and upon downloading it the first thing you’re bound to notice is how much more developer friendly things look. The browser boasts a new minimalistc, dark UI which matches well with whatever IDE you also have open. […]

Twitter Makes It Even Easier To Compose Tweets

Twitter has introduced a small change to the Twitter home stream by moving the new tweet box off the left-hand side to the top of users’ feed. This means when someone wants to compose a tweet they no longer have to click on the small box on the left. This gives Twitter much the same user […]

Google Upgrades Search On Google Developers Central

Being a search engine it only makes sense that Google upgrades their own internal search functions they use across their various properties. While the main Google search engine has had autocomplete and suggestions for a while now – this feature was just integrated into the search function on Google’s Developers Central (http://developers.google.com). The upgrade now […]

New gTLD Domains for November 2014

There are some awesome new domain name extensions coming out this month. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. November 5th: .market, .mortgage November 12th: .gifts, .restaurant November 19th: .engineer November 25th: .click, .hosting, .property, .help, .diet