HTML 5 has brought a few cool things with its arrivals. With browsers starting to understand these features and people updating their browsers, we can start to implement some of these items and get them into every day use. The ability to embed audio and video without being required to wrap it in an external player and require that your users also have that plugin is a great … [Read more...]
Archives for 2009
Google Trends, The Charts and Graphs of Internet Traffic
I had a hard time turning off my inner geek last week in church when the pastor opened up his sermon with a factoid about John 3:16 being the most popular search query on January 8th, 2009 when Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow wore the verse on his eye black at the BCS National Championship Game. Upon returning home, I thought I'd do a little fact checking, not that I … [Read more...]
Product Review: Sprint’s Airave Femtocell
The inside of my apartment was a cell phone dead zone (cue creepy music left-over from Halloween) and I've written about the problem before. My first attempt at a solution, the zBoost zPersonal Cell Phone Signal Booster, fell flat and didn't do anything to boost my signal (in fact, it was hard to tell if it was doing anything at all). Fortunately, Amazon allowed me to return it … [Read more...]
How to Take Down a Copyright-Infringing, Scammy Site
I took down PCwilleasy.co.cc! There, I'll admit to it. I am the one who did it. I know this might disappoint the 1500 followers the pcwilleasy Twitter account still has, but it was for everybody's best. Here's the why: PCwilleasy was a copyright infringing site. It copied articles word for word from legitimate sites and often displayed the images, hotlinking them from the … [Read more...]
Smarter WordPress Through Plugins
Blog posts about WordPress plugins and list after list of plugins are dime-a-dozen and appear on the front page of social news sites at least weekly. Heck, I even wrote a post earlier this earlier titled The Best WordPress Plug-Ins. Instead of creating just another list, I wanted to share some of the plug-ins I use here on 404 Tech Support because they're functional and have … [Read more...]