Whenever I’m building or designing a web site/web app, the most time-consuming part of the project will be the creation of graphical elements like buttons etc.
Well now I won’t be spending as much time doing that since I discovered iconzworld, a free icon resource web site. They put up new icon sets every couple of […]

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Email marketing, although a proven and required part of a marketing strategy, can be costly with most online suppliers charging a hefty monthly sum to use their systems.
Those that operate for free have limitations, usually something like ‘100 recipients only’ which is ok for low level activity but unsuitable for a growing business.
Setting up your […]

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I went on a bit of a Cheat Sheet binge this month. Working on a couple of projects using various technologies means I keep bouncing around looking for stuff so I thought I’d better get some cheat sheets up on my wall to save me time.
Most of these are from one site, the brilliantly named […]

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Last month’s Inc. magazine featured clothing company Threadless on the front cover, a company founded by 2 college drop-outs (an interesting trend in itself - so many successful start-ups have college drop-outs at the helm) Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff.
Founded in 2000, Threadless is set to hit $5million is sales this year selling, wait for […]

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When starting out in Joomla, either as a developer or site administrator, it’s likely one of the first questions to pop up will be what the difference between a Component and a Module is. Although it’s possible to ‘figure’ out what does what, it’s always a good idea to get the low-down from someone who’s […]

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Danny Dover has written an amazing article over at SEOmoz about the information Google tracks and collects about every user to  its many service web sites e.g. from GMail, Google Desktop, Google Docs, Postini, YouTube, FeedBurner etc.
Most Internet users are aware of the usual information collected but here Danny Dover has put together an exhaustive […]

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TechRadar.com reports today that ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names, is relaxing its rules for Top Level Domains next year.
With billions of web sites populating the Internet it’s really no wonder ICANN are doing this - I can’t remember the last time I registered the exact domain that I or a client wanted. Practically […]

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Childnet International is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to keep children safe when using the Internet.
The open-ness and accessibility of the Internet by anyone from anywhere unfortunately means the Internet has become the hunting ground for those who prey on children.
One way in which children can be protected when using the Internet is […]

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As I mentioned in an earlier post Firefox 3 has been released with many an improvement.
With more than 15,000 (yes, you read that right!) improvements over the venerable Firefox v2, the good people at the Mozilla foundation have put together a field guide to bring us fans even more joy from using Firefox 3.
Check out […]

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I know this has nothing, well almost nothing, to do with Internet-related business but I’m so impressed with this site and its founders that I just had to write about it.
For those of you who may not know of it, Rails is a web development framework built using the programming language Ruby. The framework is […]

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It goes without saying that at the present time the most influential search engine on the web is Google and keeping that in mind there is some very important documentation the boffins at Google have created that every web-site owner should read and be aware of when having their web sites designed and built.
Written so […]

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Are you a serious facebooker? Spend hours at a time catching up with friends? Wouldn’t it be great it you got paid for doing it?
Well, now you can!
urTurn.com offers a reward scheme where you earn points for posting pictures to Facebook (and MySpace soon too) and writing on friends’ walls. The points can be redeemed […]

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When shopping online, you’ll have noticed most if not all shopping carts have a “enter coupon code here” section before you checkout.
Many online retailers give out, for promotional reasons or otherwise, discount coupon codes to be used in just that spot.
currentcodes.com is a service that researches and maintains a database of discount coupon codes […]

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Research has found that many Britons don’t know where their loved ones are traveling to and have no way to get in touch with them in case of a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
The UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office has launched a new service called Locate where Britons traveling abroad can register details of […]

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I was recently directed to the BBC article ‘From Oxford to Silicon Valley’ by a friend who had by chance met with the CEO of Auctomatic, and as a budding Internet entrepreneur it’s a very inspiring story.
The story of Auctomatic, by founder Kulveer Taggar, has been serialized on the BBC web site since February 2007 […]

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