A new study released by the curiously-named Happiness Institute reveals that staying away from Facebook will make you happier. According to the study which examined 1,095 Facebook users in Copenhagen, 81% of those who continued to use Facebook were happy while 88% of those who were...
Let's say you forgot your wireless password, which often can be a slew of random numbers and letter. A simple way on Windows 7 to retrieve that password to give to someone else ("What the wireless password here?") or to enter into a new device...
So I got the new AppleTV last Friday. On a lark, I went to the Apple Store in my town and they had 2 left. I got one and the last one flew off the shelf mere minutes after I grabbed mine. Here are my...
Google announced today that their Maps service will now include a layer for weather. The weather data, provided by Weather Channel’s weather.com, includes current temperatures and future forecasts. Users can hover over pins for more data and forecasts, and the the maps will display sun and moon...
Further validating Bing’s intrusion into their search space, Google has announced that search results will begin displaying box image previews on websites listings on the rankings. Writes Google, “Instant Previews provides a graphic overview of a search result and highlights the most relevant sections, making finding...
The first step in making a presence on the internet is often the most important, and that is choosing the right domain name to suit your needs. For the most part, you will want a “.com” TLD (Top-Level Domain) unless you are redirecting flow from a...
By the looks of it, twitter is having some serious issues today. The popular microblogging site, which I occasionally make use of, has been down by my watch for about 90 minutes now, or since 9am ET. Twitter doesn’t have a huge staff – i’m told...
Since I just posted on the meta description tag, it’s only fair to give the meta keywords tag equal space. Common format: <meta name=”keywords” content=”<keyword1>,<keyword2>,…<keywordXX>” />; In general, I never meta tag I didn't like until this one, get it? Okay, bad joke. Point is, this tag is...
In my mind the only real meta tag of SEO significance is “meta description”. But like its sister meta keywords, the meta description tag is not as important as it one was. The description tag is just that, a short description of your webpage, and really...
Another simple, easy to apply webmastering tip is adding a favicon.ico to your site. If you are a webmaster you’ve no doubt seen the server request made a thousand times in your log files and if you don’t have one – which many people do...