Recently, I was sent to a webpage that used Silverlight and it caused a weird type of crash on my computer. It seems to be any Silverlight page that causes the issue. For consistency, I performed my check with two sites that I knew were using Silverlight and initially caused the … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2009
Simple Tip: Support Your Favorite Sites
Money makes the world go round as well as the World Wide Web. The revenue generating aspects of the Internet is very apparent, they practically pop-up (or pop-under) at you, but it doesn't always click with people when they are browsing a website how ads and other means are related to being able to provide content. Unfortunately, there are some up-front costs with running a … [Read more...]
Auditorium – A musical, light show of a puzzle game
Auditorium is a fun, browser-based game that involves multiple senses and your brain! Part symphony, part visual art work, and part puzzle, Auditorium combines a lot of great elements to make a complete game. A final commercial version has recently been released with 70 different levels over 15 different acts, but a good sized demo of the game is available on their website that … [Read more...]
ConXit Connection Wizard – Easily Shop for Hard-to-Find Components
Remember Radio Shack in the good old days? Remember when they had every component you could ever imagine or need for a project? Now, snapping back to the present day, Radio Shack has a lot of components. They don't have everything you want any more and they're going to try to sell you a cell phone plan with every trip to the cash register. To replace the brick-and-mortar … [Read more...]
Website Uptime Monitoring Services
Being a webmaster, you want to keep tabs on your website at all time. If something goes down, you want to be able to fix the problem or alert those that can. You also want to keep tabs on your hosting. If they're promising 99.9% uptime, you want to make sure that's happening and you're getting what you pay for. A website monitor can help with that, but most of the ones I have … [Read more...]