Today I’d like to share another comic from The Oatmeal with you: The State of the Web (Spring 2012). Matthew Inman – the creator of The Oatmeal – has been very prolific as he covers no less than 7 topics, which are: Instagram (of course), Google+, Valve, Draw Something, Kickstarter, Yahoo! and Google Glasses. Click [...]

If you search for information on how to do business on Facebook, chances are you will find plenty of articles on how to create a Facebook Page for your business, and how to market your business through this platform. Well, Facebook Pages can indeed be very effective, and can help you establish a strong online [...]

If like me you work online and are sometimes required to perform boring, tedious tasks, then make sure you do a quick Google search before you get started. Chances are other people had to perform these tasks before you, and maybe they even created a script to make those a few minutes jobs… For example [...]

Some of the most recurring questions among Internet newbies are: “What’s Google AdWords?”, and “How does it work?” There’s the easy answer in the lines of “AdWords is Google’s online advertising paltform, which offers pay-per-click advertising, among several other forms of advertising. You bid on keywords and…” That’s not a bad answer but it’s far [...]

Last month I showed you how to change nameservers, using GoDaddy as an example. Well I’m going to talk about GoDaddy again but for a different reason. In October 2011 Congressman Lamar Smith introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which is a bill that would make it quite easy to get court orders to [...]

When you register a domain name with a domain registrar like GoDaddy or NameCheap, the domain is set up on parked nameservers, which means it shows a temporary page to people who visit to the site. Once you have chosen your hosting provider, you need to point your domain name to your hosting, so your [...]

Most Internet users see Firefox as a Web browser but many people use it as a work tool. If you work online, you probably spend a lot of time reading your emails, doing some research, using all sorts of Web tools… Here is a list of Firefox add-ons that can help you increase your work [...]

If you own a site and want your pages to rank well in the search engines, chances are you are looking for ways to build backlinks to increase your search engine rankings. Backlinks are known to be a great way to improve rankings, but the number of places where you can easily build one-way, dofollow [...]

If you run an online business, you can work pretty much by yourself, and have an online staff that helps you with a variety of tasks ranging from research to customer support. Most online business owners started by themselves, and then hired freelancers and virtual assistants as their business developed. Having an online staff  has [...]

WordPress 3.2 was released earlier this month, and if like me your WordPress database was on MySQL 4.1, the following message popped up on your screen: ERROR: WordPress 3.2.1 requires MySQL 5.0 or higher. That’s right. The latest versions of WordPress require MySQL 5.0 or higher. This means that support for earlier versions of MySQL [...]