Microsoft has long held a popular spot with email users. Its Hotmail and Windows Live brands have done very well and now compete against Google's Gmail. The previous mail look has gotten an update to match the Metro style coming with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Along with the facelift, it introduces a new domain name so the gold rush is on for getting your preferred … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2012
The Missing Link: Microsoft releases hardware designed for Windows 8
I gave the Windows 8 beta a pretty thorough try but I did not find myself a big fan of the changes to the desktop experience. One of the problems was that the Metro style Start Menu was horizontally oriented. If I were on a tablet or touch screen, I could grab the screen anywhere and slide it around. On a standard keyboard and mouse, you have to aim for a small scroll bar at … [Read more...]
Configure Flash as click-to-play in Chrome while whitelisting your favorite, trusted sites
I consider Google Chrome's background auto-update feature one of its best capabilities. The fact that the updates include Adobe Flash is just icing on the cake. Even with Flash up-to-date, you might not always want Flash object to run by default. Either for security reasons, page load performance, or you just find them annoying most of the time. Using Chrome's built-in … [Read more...]
Ways to monetize your website [infographic]
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Skimlinks, a company that offers technology to automatically insert affiliate links, sponsored an ebook about monetizing forums that I mentioned previously and have now turned the highlights into an infographic. You can check out the infographic embedded below. … [Read more...]
The Growth of Big Data [infographic]
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"Big data" is becoming a big thing. Concerns of how and where to store all the information and coming up with new ways to manage and process the data is equally important for use in analytics. This infographic shows our rapid growth and projects where we will be in 2020. It also covers data structures for "big data" and analysis of big data. … [Read more...]