Archive for the 'websites' Category
Page Rank on the move - Currently Google has a Page Rank of 1
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 29th Apr, 2008
Looks like Google’s datacentres are in the middle of another Page Rank update. Google does this from time to time to update it’s published values for Page Rank used by third party services (for example the Google Toolbar). Anyway, while the Google Dance is ongoing you can see some interesting results. Here’s what Google.com showed [...]
More Sproutbuilder fun - IoM demo
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 29th Apr, 2008
I’ve been playing with Sproutbuilder so more and needed a theme to play with, so I’ve created a Sprout to advertise the Isle of Man:
Like it ?
Grab an expired domain
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 16th Apr, 2008
Here’s a great idea for getting a great domain name. If you keep an eye on domains that have just expired, you might manage to get your hands on one that the owner has forgotten to renew. You’d be surprised how many domain names like this end up back in the pool for other people [...]
Get some free promotion
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 14th Apr, 2008
Isn’t it great when you’re browsing around the Web and you come across some way to promote your website. You can find a number of free web directories online and today I came across Dirmania. It’s a free web directory sorted by category run on what seems to be phpLinkDirectory.
Anyway, I had a look [...]
What’s in a name?
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 2nd Apr, 2008
It always makes me smile when someone picks a great domain name for the website. And to me, there are two forms of “Great”. My mate Leo for example, registered a domain called http://whooah.biz/. It’s the sort of name that sticks in your mind and I’m sure will get him lots of traction. The other [...]
New Look on StrivePR
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 31st Mar, 2008
Spent some time over the weekend playing with Strive Notes, the blog a friend of mine uses for her PR firm. It was my first installation of the finished version WordPress 2.5 and I was pretty impressed at how smoothly it all went. The blog upgrade was flawless, took around 20 seconds and everything just [...]
Taking a little look at the Web
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 30th Mar, 2008
I had looked around the Web a couple of weeks ago to find a tool that can generate thumbnails on the fly. I needed something for SearchMann, a website that’s aimed at being a search directly for websites in the Isle of Man. Anyway, one of the features I wanted to build in was the [...]
Mobile Blogging
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 28th Mar, 2008
I came across a great feature on The BenSpark today. If you look at his posts, you’ll see that they have an what looks like a thin bar with a Play button underneath:
Well, when you click Play, you can hear an audio post that he’s attached to his post. It’s a great idea and a [...]
Publish your own books
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 28th Mar, 2008
Here’s a great site I came across today. It’s a website called WordClay that lets you put together your own book and sell it online. The best part of it is that they have completely eliminated any entry barrier for the budding author and provide a mechanism for them to get started just by investing [...]
Greetings, Photoshop Express
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 27th Mar, 2008
You might have heard that Adobe has launched an online photo editing and sharing suite called Photo Express. It’s still in beta, and when you sign up the only country in the drop-down list is US, but there’s nothing really stopping anyone else from trying it out. It’s a Flash based application with 2Gb storage [...]
Is your website up and running?
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Mar, 2008
Carlo sent me a link today which could be useful to some of you. It’s called BasicState and keeps an eye on your website, letting you know if there’s any problem with your uptime. It’s a free service that checks the following every 15 minutes:
is your dns responding properly?
is your network reachable?
is your server alive?
is [...]
World Mind Network
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 10th Mar, 2008
Here’s an interesting website what some of you might find fascinating. It’s a collection of live webcams showing a whole variety of different people, scientific events, even aspects of modern life. It’s quite interesting and worth some time investigating all the different resources they have. These are the ones I found most interesting:
Watching live Streptococcus [...]
Talk to me - thanks to Google Talkback
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 26th Feb, 2008
I’ve just added a Google Chatback button to this blog, which you can see on the top of the right-hand sidebar, which allows readers on my blog to page me and have a chat, if they are so inclined. It’s a new feature that has just been announced by Google and seems to be the [...]
Gadget Mecca
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 12th Feb, 2008
Have you noticed that I’m starting to blog more and more about gadgets? I was just scrolling down the page and it hit me seeing the number of devices on the page. It’s just that there are so many gadgets out there nowadays, I couldn’t resist. I almost ended up getting myself an iPod mini [...]
Make a sign .. any sign ..
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 18th Jan, 2008
Today is Arthur’s second birthday and we’re organising a kid’s party for him tomorrow. We were joking about talking how we should have a huge sign outside the venue advertising the party, and I came across a website that lets you do just that. It lets you design and customise a range of different yard [...]
