Offering web-API’s is a standard, and offering a wide-variety is becoming the new standard. API (Application Programming Interfaces) offer a free service too any user (usually subscription-based) via web. Examples of web-API’s: Google Maps UPS shipping FedEx shipping Flickr Yahoo! Traffic – text service What are the advantages of these API’s? Your service can now… Continue reading Web-API’s, free-services that help promote your business
Is your site indexed on search-engines?
Google sometimes has problems indexing a site correctly. Or they may not be indexing your site at all. How do you know if your site is indexed? MarketLeap has a wicked tool to help show how many pages have been indexed by what search engines: MarketLeap.com index tool. If HotBot has 100 and Google has… Continue reading Is your site indexed on search-engines?
OSX – CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System), Web-interface
If you are on OSX… click here Welcome to CUPS web interface. Where you can monitor your print jobs, view your printers, administer print jobs, view past print jobs and so much more.
Save on Microsoft Office Licenses, use Open Office
OpenOffice, is a FREE office suite that has all the main features of Microsoft Office. Download: OpenOffice The OpenOffice suite consists of the following applications: Writer – MS Word Impress – Powerpoint Calc – Excel Base – Access Math – No Microsoft Office equivilent Draw – No Microsoft Office equivilent There is even a preference… Continue reading Save on Microsoft Office Licenses, use Open Office
Best FREE FTP applications for Win32
Filezilla – very well done. There is even a free FTP server version. LeechFTP – has been around for a long time. Very popular. SmartFTP – a lot like CuteFTP… but free.
Google Alerts, emails regarding any updates or changes to any topic
Google Alerts: View it here. Let Google do the leg-work for researching and staying on top of any topic. Google will notify you via email once a day, as-it-happens or once a week. Only get information you want!
Online statistics for what users are using
For Flash Player: Visit Adobe Site for stats For OS’s, browser, screen size, colour depth and Javascript: Visit W3C Site for stats It becomes obvious why publishing in Flash Player 7 is a good idea and testing sites to make sure they work on both IE and Mozilla-based(Firefox) browsers is another good idea. And why… Continue reading Online statistics for what users are using
Opening Nikon-RAW formats in Photoshop CS2
Photoshop by default handles a wide variety of file formats. But still there are some formats that require specific plug-ins. Case-in-point, Nikon-Raw formats. Download the Photoshop plugin to render RAW formats: Click Here Raw formats are the “digital” negatives for pictures. They retain all raw information that a digital-camera captures. Most off-the-shelf digital cameras convert… Continue reading Opening Nikon-RAW formats in Photoshop CS2
Vital Firewall application for OSX
Little Snitch – OS X firewall application With almost every type of application now making network connections without user approval it is vital to have a firewall application that is able to alert you when network access is being attempted from your machine out to the net. Most basic firewall settings for OSX allow outbound… Continue reading Vital Firewall application for OSX
Webcrawler’s resurgence as a useful search-engine
Webcrawler was a very popular search-engine before the days of Google. It was well-known for it’s ability to find non-webpage content on the net. It still stands true today with its strength being the ability to find a multitude of media types (video and audio). It’s now based on Microsoft’s 4.0 Development Kit, which limits… Continue reading Webcrawler’s resurgence as a useful search-engine