Tag Archives: internet

The past lives of websites

You decided to build a website, you bought a domain name and a hosting package, you started your online activity and now you try hard to bring some good traffic in.
But did you ever think if the domain you bought was ever used before? How did your site look in a past life?
Well, there is [...]

What does a urinal have in common with the internet biggest google whores?

What is this? One of those jokes we used to tell when we were kids? Not at all. The world’s most high-tech urinal and Internet’s biggest Google whores are two of the posts that made a blog famous. Any of you could have written those posts, but out of all bloggers, their author was John [...]

My Favourite 10 Cheat Sheets

For those of you who may not know, a cheat sheet is a page containing the most useful info about something (usually, cheat sheets are put together for most common software). Cheat sheets can save you a lot of time, so I decided to list here the ones that I’m using most and which could [...]

How To Advertise Your Internet Business and Drive Traffic and Sales for Pennies

We have all seen advertisements promising targeted traffic and massive sales, but most of these are scams and rarely do they produce the traffic and sales that are promised. Even Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising on search engines like Google and Yahoo have gotten so expensive for good keywords that the costs now greatly [...]

Pop up blocker best 7 tools

What’s the need for a pop up blocker?
Everybody knows the annoying pop up ads, displaying products we don’t need and slowing us down, eating our time. A pop up blocker prevents those ads from being displayed, yet letting us know when a pop up window has been blocked. Most of them offer the possibility to [...]

Auditioning the Internet

The Internet doesn’t have to be a minefield of broken links, shabby customer service and poor product quality any more. YourTOS serves as a directory of the Internet’s top web sites in each field, thus serving relevant information to the user.
“After an exhaustive process of sorting through thousands of web sites, we found that many [...]

I, the Web Robot, help you search the internet

Probably all of you already heard about web robots. If you imagined them as in SF movies, then forget about that. A robot is a program that automatically traverses the Web’s hypertext structure by retrieving a document, and recursively retrieving all documents that are referenced. Normal Web browsers are not robots, because they are operated [...]

The Invisible Web Revealed

Is there an invisible web?
Did you ever think how much time and effort was required for a web page to be the first when you perform a certain search? When you need information and you seek for it with search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN or whatever other, the results are brought to you [...]

Browsers shortcuts common to IE and Firefox

The top two browsers in terms of popularity are Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Market share figures that circulate on the net are different from various sources, but there’s no doubt that they own together more than 80% of the internet browsers market. Although they fight for supremacy, IE and Firefox have some common shortcuts [...]

Do professionals have hard time going online?

How many of the web entrepreneurs are professionals in other areas who decided it’s time for a career shift? I don’t know. What I know is that being one of them, I made some mistakes, I learned from them and moved ahead, but I had to change my perspective and start learning from the scratch, [...]