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Search For Sound Files On The Interwebs

As it sits right now you can’t use Google or Bing to search specifically for a sound – so what do you do if you absolutely need to find a cute kitty meow to include in your next YouTube video of cute cat videos? You can try Google and Bing but this might turn into […]

Infographic: 42% Of Us Check Our Emails In The Bathroom

Since the concept of emails has been around for such a long time it’s common to think that it may be a dying piece of technology – especially with today’s smart watches, push notifications & all the various messengers available out there. Boy would you be wrong. Email is far from dead. In-fact a recent […]

Did The Google Homepage Look A Bit Different To You Today?

Did the Google homepage look strange to you this morning – but you couldn’t place what was different? Sure there was a new animation for the logo – but we’ve all come to expect the Google Doodles. And yet something just felt different? That’s because Google has, quietly, made their search box larger. Take a […]

Google Chrome No Longer Displays Flash Ads

Starting right meow, Google Chrome will no longer happily support Flash based AdWords advertisements – and as such will no longer show them. Like at all. To help designers along Google made a post on Google+ yesterday showcasing some methods to migrate their Flash based ads over to HTML5. If you’re big on using Flash […]

Add As Many Dots As You Want To Your Gmail Email Address

Encrypting or hiding your email address when posting it online has always been a highly recommended way to protect your email address from excess spam – and a little known trick lets you make use of that feature with your Google gMail account. See gMail doesn’t actually recognize periods – and as such you can add […]

HostGator Has Increased Their Hosting Prices & I Fully Support It!

Earlier this week Host Gator announced a price increase on their Shared and WordPress hosting plans – and personally I am all for it. I fully understand that everyone wants to have a website on the internet and pay almost nothing for it – and for a long time this has been the case. However […]

Top 300 Freeware Software by winAddons.com

Back in 2007 winAddons.com published an awesome list of 300 freeware software, organized by category. There’s some great software listed here – and the majority of them are still around and functioning perfectly in 2015. Unfortunately somewhere between the end of 2014 and now the winAddons.com domain name began to point to a default GoDaddy parked domain […]

Infographic: We Like 4,166,667 Posts Per Minute On Facebook

DOMO, a business management platform in the cloud, has compiled an infographic showcasing how much Internet activity happens every minute across sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, Netflix, Snapchat, Vine, Uber, and more. The infographic embedded below shows some staggering info that says two things. There is absolutely no excuse for a business to NOT […]

Create A Fake Profile In Seconds

These days almost every place you visit asks you to register and create a profile to get access to something, and these days with online security the way it is – not everyone is comfortable using their own name or email address to create these profiles. This is where fakena.me comes into play. Fakena.me generates […]

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter & Yahoo Join Together To Fight Child Pornography

Earlier this week Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter & Yahoo officially joined forces with the Internet Watch Foundation to help fight child pornography online. Utilizing a hash-based platform the companies hope to prevent the ability to upload and share any child pornography online. Microsoft already utilizes this technology within PhotoDNA – a standalone tool which has […]

Bing Doesn’t Want You Buying Fake Drugs Online

As our way of life changes, and we start to rely more and more on the Internet there will always be people out there trying to anonymously scam you out of your hard earned money by selling you fake products/services behind a shady website name. Over the years we’ve all seen those emails advertising cheap prescription […]

.ORG Domain Name Prices Increased At Most Registrars

Are you shopping for a new .ORG domain name and noticing that the prices seem to be changing everywhere? That’s because the Public Interest Registry, the registry responsible for the .ORG domain name has raised it’s annual costs for new .ORG domain name registrations, renewals, and transfers – and most registrars will be passing that […]

Google Now Displays Only 3 Local Results

I have some rather unfortunate news to report guys. Google has changed their search layout once more – getting rid of the seven local results they used to show for appropriate queries and displaying only 3 local listings now. I first noticed this around August 6th/7th, and Barry Schwartz over at SearchEngine Roundtable reported on […]

Infographic: Getting More From Your Google Searches

Way back in 2011 HackCollege put together a phenomenal infographic with Google tips & tricks that everyone should know to get the most out of every single search. The original post about this was targeted towards students – however these days everyone does some sort of online research. Business owners, content creators, etc. I haven’t seen […]

YouTube Videos Will No Longer Get Stuck At 301 Views

YouTube has always had an issue when it came down to video view counts – how did they determine whether or not the views that a video was getting actually came from real people? In the past YouTube would essentially freeze view counts once they hit 301 and then verify the incoming traffic. Once they […]

YouTube Transparent Player Officially Launched

A few months ago YouTube began testing out a new transparent video player and personally I was always such a huge fan of it that I’ve been using it on a daily basis since April 2015 while it was in it’s beta stages. Today I am happy to say that YouTube has officially launched the new transparent […]

jQuery Powers Almost 30% Of All Websites

Recently I have been working on a custom dashboard for a local car rental company, writing it in PHP & MySQL with a jQuery-powered interface – and I started to wonder just how many websites out there were using jQuery these days. See I remember the Internet when jQuery wasn’t even around, and since 2006 […]

What Are The Most Popular eCommerce Platforms of 2015?

eCommerce has always been a huge industry, and the larger it has become over the years the more tools and resources have been released to try to simplify the entire eCommerce process. eCommerce platforms have come a LONG way, and to date there is dozens of different platforms out there which you can choose from […]