Are you tired of .com, .net, .org and only having 22 generic Top-Level Domains? But are you ready for .lol, .wtf, or .cashbackbonus? The web you know may all change soon. ICANN held a "Reveal Day" today to unveil the strings that were applied for - paying a $185,000 application fee. … [Read more...]
Add Office 97 Clippy to your website with Clippy.js
Remember the annoying Microsoft Agents? Things like Clippy in Office 97 and Rover on Windows XP Search? The developers at Smore decided to resurrect these characters and give them new life on the web. … [Read more...]
CloudFlare targeted through Google Apps account recovery flaw
CloudFlare, the security-filtering, DNS pass-through CDN, has reported via its blog that its servers have been breached. The hacking team UGNazi has surfaced and is claiming credit for the breach. … [Read more...]
Improve YouTube embedding with EmbedPlus in WordPress and phpBB
EmbedPlus is a great enhancement to embedding YouTube videos. It adds features like chaptering, Digg, Twitter, YouTube and Reddit reactions, time-synced annotations, looping, zoom, and slow-motion playback. With a simple wizard, you can customize a YouTube video to begin and end where you want it to and incorporate the added features that EmbedPlus provides. You can head over … [Read more...]
Blog scraping heads to newspapers but one blogger won’t just stand idly by
I know many bloggers have to deal with the issue of scraping. Another site will copy your content, hotlink your photos, and try to sell it as their own. Often times there is no link back to the original site and sometimes it may rank higher in search engine results than the original article. Scraping can be done in a very automated fashion between RSS feeds and bots. I know I … [Read more...]