More as more sites are moving away from Adobe Flash; for good reason. Announced today, Slideshare, an online tool for sharing presentations, have completely rewritten their site to use HTML instead of Adobe Flash. This has meant that their site is now functional not only without the Flash plugin, but also on iPhone, iPad, Android … Read more
DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority was recently the center of a significant hacking case. On the 19th July, the CA discovered that at least 531 rogue certificates has been issued. However, it was only in August that the attacked became public knowledge. Security firm, Fox-IT were hired to investigate the breach, and the compromise has … Read more
Without wanting to turn into a review site; we’ve taken a look at Microsoft’s new Operating System – Windows 8; and we’re genuinely impressed. The beta is available to all, and is valid until March 2012. You can download it directly from Microsoft. It’s not recommended that this is installed or upgraded on a live … Read more
The Register has today reported that the ASA are pursuing Microsoft on their claim of 99.9% reliability: The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is checking out a complaint about claims from Microsoft that it can guarantee 99.9 per cent uptime on its cloud services. The Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) has been prone to outages. And … Read more
We see a lot of SEO techniques; some great (the best are great for both search and customers), and some awful. With every site we work on, we have to do a full review of the suitability for Search Engines. It’s always best to start from basics; given what we’ve seen from some previous developers … Read more
As previously discussed, what effect does Google +1 have on your site? How does it affect your Search Engine Results Page position? Google most recently confirmed again to Wired that “Google will study the clicks on +1 buttons as a signal that influences the ranking and appearance of websites in search results. The purpose of any … Read more
With the introduction of Google+, it has brought along numerous conjectures that the use of +1’s may be a replacement for their Pagerank algorithm. i.e. clicking the +1 button on many sites, similar to the Facebook ‘like’ button, would increase a websites’ SERPs. While of course, it’s almost undoubtedly that Google will be using the … Read more
Microsoft have posted an insightful article regarding their decision to add a Microsoft Office-style ribbon to the File Manager toolbar. As usual, Microsoft go into some detail as to why this choice has been made. The article describes the most commonly used file buttons, in order, as paste, properties, copy, delete, rename, refresh and cut. … Read more
Since Google’s results affects so many businesses – and kept so secret; it is always useful to hear how their improvements come about. As many businesses know, a simple change can dramatically affect visitors and customers, and without almost no notice. Possibly surprisingly, around 500 changes a year were made to Google’s algorithms last year, … Read more
We’re avid readers of technology news, and like to keep up-to-date with interesting announcements and useful tools. We’ll be posting to our blog regularly with news and tips. First Post! After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, Rob Malda of the popular technology site, Slashdot, has said goodbye. As an avid read of Slashdot … Read more