Back in 2013 UK2 Group announced their latest website builder which back then allowed you to build web and mobile websites for your small business. Now that Google has announced their focus on mobile websites UK2 Group have upgraded their website builder to offer fully mobile responsive websites to all small and medium-sized businesses. The new builder […]
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April Fools Jokes From Our Favorite Tech Companies
If you’re anything like me you’ve probably missed the fact that today is April Fools Day and probably didn’t even realize it was April already. This is THE day for practical jokes – and today’s tech giants have quiet the sense of humor. Let’s take a look at today’s practical jokes from our favorite tech […]
ServInt Joins Coalition to Reform Section 215 of USA PATRIOT Act
ServInt, a provider of managed cloud hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced it has joined a coalition of more than 40 organizations demanding that the U.S. Congress reform Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act has been used as the legal basis for the National Security Agency’s bulk […]
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview With New Spartan Browser
Earlier on in the week Microsoft rolled out their latest Windows 10 preview to Windows Insiders which includes the new Project Spartan browser. Now considering this is a preview Project Spartan isn’t complete yet and as such doesn’t have all the features yet – however there’s still plenty of awesome things to play around with. First […]
Amazon Cloud Drive Goes Unlimited
Online storage is an ever-expanding place as everyone tries to offer more and more space. Amazon has decided to bypass the storage space wars by announcing two unlimited storage plans for it’s cloud based storage service – Amazon Cloud Drive. The plans focus on two specific scenarios. For those who have loads of photos, there […]
Volusion Launches New Mobile App
Volusion has launched a brand new mobile app available on iPhone and Android devices today! The new Volusion mobile app features a brand new interface design, along with some powerful new features such as the ability to add and edit your stores products! Furthermore iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 users will appreciate the integration with […]
SugarSync 3.5 Launches With Deleted Items Recovery Feature
SugarSync have released their latest version, SugarSync 3.5, which brings with it an awesome new redesign for the desktop application, along with a plethora of great new features – my favorite of which is the ability to restore deleted items. So now whenever you accidentally delete a file you can easily recover it right within […]
Google Pushes Local Results Below The Fold
In a rather surprising move Google seems to have pushed down the placement of local results in local intent search queries below the fold – causing you to have to scroll through a series of ads before you can view the local listings or local map. Normally you would have the map appear on the top right […]
Bing May Show Only 1 Page Of Results For Long Tail Searches
Bing has always aimed at showing the most relevant search results to their users, and in a rather bold move Bing has decided that if it’s confident enough in the first page of search results there’s really no need to show anymore pages. So if you go run a search right now for “specifications for black […]
Welcome FREAK – Yet Another OpenSSL Vulnerability
It seems like every few months a new SSL vulnerability is pointed out – which I suppose makes sense with the recent popularity that SSL has gotten. Thanks Google. Alas let’s welcome FREAK – a new man-in-the-middle vulnerability discovered by a group of cryptographers at INRIA, Microsoft Research and IMDEA. FREAK stands for “Factoring RSA-EXPORT Keys” […]
DreamHost Releases Their First Transparency Report for 2014
DreamHost is damn serious about your privacy; however being a US-based company they are unfortunately required to comply with various information requests from legitimate domestic law enforcement agencies, along with DMCA takedown requests from rights-holders, and requests to remove content from courts processing defamation or invasion of privacy lawsuits. These are however just requests, and DreamHost […]
Windows 10 Upgrade Will Be Free – Even For Your Questionable Windows Install
Microsoft has always been fighting a battle against piracy – in-fact almost every software maker has to deal with it – albeit not everyone has to deal with it on the scale that Microsoft has had to over the years. Ever since Windows XP introduced software activation pirates have been out there defeating these methods and […]
Use Facebook To Send Money To Your Friends
It seems Facebook is tapping into the electronic payments market by introducing the ability to send money to anyone on your Facebook friends list via the Facebook Messenger app. Once you have your debit card added to your Facebook account you literally just start a chat, click a button and send/receive money. There’s another awesome thing […]
Find A New Domain Name Directly From DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo, the privacy focused search engine, and Namecheap have been working together behind the scenes to allow DuckDuckGo users to search for domain name availability straight from their searchbox. Yesterday both teams finally announced the integration, and there’s a couple ways you can make use of this. Post by Namecheap.com. If you wish to stay […]
Farewell Internet Explorer – It’s Time For A New Brand
Back in January when Microsoft released their Windows 10 preview they also showcased Project Spartan – a new browser which will ship with Windows 10. If you haven’t played with the Windows 10 preview build – Spartan is much more than just an update to Internet Explorer. Spartan uses a brand new rendering engine, is […]
Google Cracking Down on Doorway Pages
Google has announced an update to their algorithm & quality guidelines – specifically cracking down on doorway pages. For those of you wondering – a doorway page is a page designed specifically to rank for certain search queries. The search user lands on one of these pages and then either clicks through or gets rather […]
Host1Plus Launches Open Source Sponsorship Program
Host1Plus has long been a supporter of open source software such as CentOS, a Linux community contributing to an enterprise level operating system; Chakra, a distribution focused on the latest KDE; and Fedora, a community-driven operating system with a take on leading edge technologies. As of last week however Host1Plus has opened up their sponsorship program to […]
JotForm Launches Fillable PDF Tool
JotForm has always been packed with awesome features and tools that make creating, sharing and utilizing forms an absolute dream. Their latest feature is no different as JotForm releases their Fillable PDF Creator allowing users to export their forms to a PDF, email it to their users, and get the responses within their JotForm account. […]
Webmasters: Google Wants To Help You Unblock Resources
Google has been mentioning over and over the importance of not blocking resources and various content from Google crawlers in order to get the best SEO ranking. See Googlebot now has the ability to render your webpage in much the same way a modern browser would – and as such it uses your CSS structure, reads […]
Google Adds 360 Degree Video Support to YouTube
360-degree videography has been picking up steam lately, especially with Google fully supporting and promoting virtual business tours on map listings and place pages. As of this week Google has added yet another tool to the 360-degree video arsenal – full support from Youtube. PC/Mac users utilizing the Google Chrome browser are able to use […]