Black Friday Sales: SugarSync

Soon after the turkey is eaten and the pumpkin pie is devoured, the biggest shopping day of the year arrives; and this year SugarSync is offering the DEEPEST DISCOUNT that they have offered ALL YEAR on SugarSync personal annual products. 50% off! For the SugarSync Black Friday sale a usual 60 GB  account priced at $74.99 will only cost $37.49 for […]

GoDaddy Finally Offers cPanel Linux Hosting

[frame align=”left”][/frame]For as long as I could remember one of my biggest gripes with GoDaddy has been their proprietary hosting control panel which seemed to turn everything that used to take a few clicks, into a mission. I touched base on it in my GoDaddy Hosting Review. It seems someone at GoDaddy may have read […]

SiteGround Partners with CrazyEgg

Through a recent partnership with CrazyEgg, SiteGround has decided to assist clients in determining what’s working with their websites’ visitors and what’s not. They’re accomplishing this by offering a 90-day FREE Trial of CrazyEgg’s Original Heat-Mapping Technology, the best-selling website user behavior tool. A heatmap is an easy way to understand what users want, care about […]

1&1 Launches New Hosting Services

1&1 Internet, Inc., www.1and1.com, a global leader among Web hosting providers, has released an entirely new range of Web hosting services. 1&1 hosting now provides an outstanding end-to-end customer experience for those who are big fans of using website applications. Available in both Linux and Windows formats, the new range brings together professional design tools such […]

Volusion Introduces Amazon Integration

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Volusion has rolled out their latest product update, and this one was VERY highly requested. Seamless Amazon Integration, available to Gold plans and above. This latest addition to the Volusion software makes it easier than ever for anyone looking to open an online store to get their products in front of millions of shoppers. Because the […]

Softaculous 4.2.7 Introduces Automated Backups

Softaculous has released another update to their famous automated script installer, bringing with it a great new feature allowing users to setup automated backups of their scripts entire directory right from the install/edit installation page.   Now there are plenty of other great features too, however the new automated backups is by far my favorite […]

SugarSync’s Top 10 Uses During Your Well Deserved Vacation

SugarSync has posted an interesting article on their blog a few days ago, and while these things generally don’t spark my interest – this one did. See as someone who always has to sync several different devices together to make my business life flow a bit more easily with my business life, SugarSync is an […]

Usage Rights Now Available in Bing Image Search

Looking for a cool image to add to your blog? Need that perfect picture for your new business presentation? It sounds simple enough, but in many cases you could be breaking the law, as many images on the internet are simply not free to use and their usage rights must be checked. Bing now wants […]

Yahoo Doing Some Clean-Up, Shutting Down Old Services

Much like Google did last year, Yahoo is going through their collection of online services and tools and cleaning that collection up. Throughout July and through to September there will be a variety of services which will be shut down. The list below lists the services that have been, and will be shut down – […]

SugarSync Releases Remote Wipe for Personal Accounts

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Previously, SugarSync launched Remote Wipe to IT admins of SugarSync’s business account customers; but recently Remote Wipe has been released to consumers and business professionals using individual accounts. So what exactly is Remote Wipe? Remote Wipe is a security feature that makes it simple to remove all sychronized files from a PC or Mac in […]

Getting More Return Visits to Your Mobile Website

Right now having a mobile friendly version of your business website is key in many markets. The thing is that a mobile app can get extremely costly, and as such many smaller businesses simply cannot justify the cost of one. However there is an alternative that I recently came across. While working on the mobile […]

New Webmaster Tools & Webmaster Resources Directory Launched

I’ve been hard at work re-organizing all of the free resources available here on Rapid Purple, and things are finally ready to be announced to you all – the public. First off I have gotten rid of all of the Flash generators that used to be available. To be honest, as the web moves further […]

New BigCommerce Apps Added

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Remember way back when BigCommerce first introduced their enhanced API? This paved the way for tons of widgets and applications to be developed and integrated within ones BigCommerce store. Currently the BigCommerce App Store features tons of apps ranging from email marketing, live chat, accounting, and much more. Earlier last week BigCommerce announced 4 […]

Bravenet Updates Their Site Builder, Bravesites

[frame align=”left”][/frame]There seems to be a pattern emerging lately as more and more site builders are getting updated, and for good reason. The Internet has evolved quiet a bit since many of these site builders were first released – and they were due for an overhaul. Following in the footsteps of GoDaddy, and UK2.Net, Bravenet […]

UK2.Net Announces New Website Builder

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Web host UK2 announced on Thursday the addition of a new website builder to their list of hosting offers. The new platform allows UK2.Net clients to pick a template, add content and publish their respective websites. “Our new Website Builder is all you and your business needs to succeed online. It’s perfect for small business […]

Keep Track of Your Marketing Campaigns with the Google URL Builder

Keeping track of your marketing campaigns, and what kind of traffic they are generating for you is essential in order to properly maintain your campaigns and manage your marketing budget. The Google URL Builder is a great tool for such purposes – even more so for those of us who make use of Google Analytics. […]

Bing Launches the Bing Site Move Tool

Bing has recently announced the launch of the Bing Site Move Tool which can be found under the Diagnostics & Tools section within Bing Webmaster Tools can be used to tell Bing that you have moved and permanently redirected your site, or a section of your site, to a new location. Now, before you mention it, yes 301 redirects accomplish the […]

Adobe BrowserLab is Shut Down

Some sad news was brought to me attention early this morning as I checked my emails and noticed some mentions regarding the shutting down of Adobe’s BrowserLab. So I headed over to the Adobe blog, and lo-and-behold the top post read BrowserLab is Shutting Down. To be honest – it’s probably a smart move for Adobe. […]