Spam in Google+ Stream Google recently began rolling out spam into your Google+ stream. They call it “Hot on Google+”. It’s almost always poor quality garbage content, not relevant to you, from someone you don’t know, and you didn’t ask for it. It’s spam. This isn’t entirely new, they’ve been adding spam into your Google+ [...]

Frustrated with Google for giving you “not provided” instead of the keyword a visitor used to find your site? Here is a work-around to recover it. By Todd Atkins In October 2011, Google added a new security/privacy “feature” for their SSL searches. Long story short, if you are logged into a Google account, Google scrubs [...]

Google, Wikipedia, Reddit and Other Popular Sites Protest SOPA & PIPA Internet giants are locking arms today and publically protesting Congress; urging them to not pass either of the two contraversial bills SOPA or PIPA. Many sites have simply put a message up on their homepage to contact your representatives. For example, Google is using [...]

Say what you will about Google Plus. It is here to stay. Yesterday, Google rolled out a new integrated search results that incorporates the Google+ network. If you search on something like “unicorn tears” and there are matching results that people in your Google+ circles have clicked +1, it will show you that there are [...]

This is part three of a three part series focusing on cloud computing. Read part I, “The Long Circular Path” if you want to learn about how we got to the cloud computing era. Read part II, “Taking the Plunge” to learn about getting your files and software off your hard drive and into the [...]

This is part two of a three part series focusing on cloud computing. Read part I, “The Long Circular Path” if you want to learn about how we got to the cloud computing era. Setting up the Basics Ready to take the plunge and jump into cloud computing with both feet and not look back? [...]

Centralized Computing Era: Mainframes & Terminals Personal computing has finally come full circle. Back in the late 1970′s personal computers didn’t really exist. Instead we had terminals which were really nothing more than a glorified keyboard and a monitor. Very little computing was done on the client side. Most of the computations and heavy lifting [...]

By Todd Atkins There are hundreds of things you can do on your site that will help boost your search engine rankings. If you are looking for them, you’ve come to the wrong place. Today, we are going to look at the least effective seo techniques. These are items that use them or not; it [...]

The bane of every web developer‘s existence. The hacker’s wet dream. The worst browser ever. Period. Few pieces of software (outside of viruses and tojans) have ever reached infamous legendary status like Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft has finally admitted that it unleashed an unspeakable evil on the world and launched The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown [...]

Ever since Google rolled out Google+, business owners have been eagerly anticipating the ability to use the new social media network to interact with their customers and establish their brand. Over the last few months a few rumors had spread like wild fire about when this feature would be available. Today, Google announced that Pages [...]