Bing Drops IE8; Google Drops IE9

There’s always been a push to get people to utilize the latest browser versions – and usually the biggest push comes when one of the big guys drops support for an older browser. Today older versions of Internet Explorer seem to be getting kicked to the curb by Bing & Google. In a post on G+ […]

Lets Reset The Net!

Today marks the one year anniversary of the start of the award-winning reporting that has revealed how the National Security Agency (NSA) was secretly invading the privacy of hundreds of millions of innocent people. Federal government senior officials lied and misled Congress, the courts, and the public, about the scope of NSA’s mass surveillance operations […]

The Ninja’s Are Coming!

This is a pretty awesome week to be a ninja. Whether your a traveling ninja, a cruising ninja, a ninja on vacation – there’s a whole slew of awesome new top-level domain names that are now available for general registration.  These new top-level domains become available for general registration. Earlier this week on May 26th we saw […]

More Downtime at HostGator & Bluehost

This year doesn’t seem to be going well for EIG brands Hostgator and Bluehost who are experiencing yet another outage following the April 16th outage, and their New Years Eve one. HostGator first began reporting the outage on their forum at 2:40 a.m. As of 1:22PM EST Bluehost tweeted that “traffic is back to normal & services restored. […]

New York City Launches First Phase of .NYC Domain Names

Being based in New York City I am pretty excited for the launch of the new .NYC domain name extension. New York City real estate has always come at quiet the premium  and the new .NYC domain names should give all New York City based business owners a sot at some distinct NYC real estate […]

Unlimited Storage Under $3/mo from SOS Online Backup

[frame align=”right”][/frame]Online backup solutions are a dime a dozen these days – and chances are you’re using more than one of them yourself. Truth be told – I have backups split amongst a wide array of services: Dropbox, Onedrive, iCloud, Google Drive and SOS Online Backup – however only one of these offers me unlimited […]

Yahoo Mail Forces Users to Upgrade Browsers

Yahoo Mail users who are not using the latest versions of their browsers will start to see a notification message upon login asking you to update your browser to experience the full new Yahoo Mail interface. Those who choose to not upgrade by June 5th will be forced to utilize the classic Yahoo Mail interface. […]

Time To Reset The Net!

There has been a new campaign making its rounds across the internet lately called “Reset the Net” – and I personally fully support it. The campaign arose as a response to the shocking revelations of government surveillance exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in June last year. The Reset the Net event looks to commemorate the first anniversary […]

StatCounter Browser Statistics for 2014 Released

StatCounter has been around for a while now, focused on offering in-depth traffic information about your website completely free of charge. Over the years StatCounter has developed quiet the network gathering data from over 2.5 million members with over 50 million page views each month. So naturally they have huge amounts of data about the different technologies used to access […]

GoDaddy Invades Europe

GoDaddy has announced yesterday its continued expansion into international markets. After beginning this international expansion fewer than two years ago and a recent successful release across Latin America, GoDaddy is now extending its offering more broadly across Europe. Not only will the company’s services become available in these European nations, but they’ll also come in 14 new […]

Audefy Disappears, Reminder How Important Backups Are

Yesterday I decided to recirculate a message across the Rapid Purple social networks reminding people to always maintain a personal backup of your files – whether that be your website, your NAS, your file server, or even just your home computer. This morning I found a perfect example to share with everyone of just how important […]

Some New TLD’s to Brighten Up Tax Day

In an effort to take your mind off the IRS, here’s some new fun TLD options, available for general registration as of 4/15: .gift, .pics, .photo, .guitars, .link. Two more batches of new TLDs arrive later this week, so be sure to stay tuned. Here’s a sneak peek: .marketing on 4/16 and .pink on 4/17. […]

SiteGround Launches V2.0 of their Staging Tool

[frame align=”right”][/frame]SiteGround has always done a great job at making themselves stand out from the crowd by offering a very unique set of tools built upon a very unique infrastructure. Starting from multiple data-centers spread across multiple geographical locations, down to their innovative shared hosting server security setup which isolates shared hosting accounts from each […]

World Backup Day 2014 Is Here

World Backup Day is amongst us once again, and today – it is our duty as webmasters, business owners, cellphone users, and well – data owners – to backup all our files. Granted you should already be maintaining backups on a regular basis – however if you’re not today is the perfect day to start […]

Happy Early Birthday SiteGround!

If you haven’t heard yet, SiteGround turns 10 years old this month! In 2 days (March 22, 2014)! As a SiteGround affiliate; and a webmaster; this is some pretty awesome news. See you have to realize just how small SiteGround is – and I don’t mean this in a negative way at all. They DO host over […]

Media Temple Launches New Managed Hosting Service

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Just a week or so after launching their brand new Premium WordPress Hosting, Media Temple has announced the launch of of a new Managed Hosting service which includes proactive monitoring and protection of servers around the clock; 24/7/365 CloudTech technical support; and access to a dedicated priority support hotline. There are technically seven hosting service levels to […]