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Five website tips relating to Google
You may want to give your website a bit of extra juice. Here are five tips to help you get the most out of your online presence. Is there a way to quickly boost my rankings? Yes, maybe! Installing Google Plus may indirectly increase search engine rankings. How fast or how high is unclear, but [...]
Make your Mac roar with Lion OS upgrade
If you have not yet already done so an Lion OS upgrade from Snow Leopard offers a smoother, cloud-ready experience on your MacBook Pro or Mac Air. And, the use of gesture technology in tandem with trackpad hardware, help bring your laptop or desktop experience closer to that of an iPad. They have also added [...]
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Dropbox amends privacy policy to conform to international Safe Harbor Laws
Data privacy protection is becoming one of the key issues in the first part of the 21st Century, affecting developments in web hosting companies and cloud computing that ultimately impact you as a user, designer or web developer. One area to watch out for is something called Safe Harbor, which is a piece of legalese [...]
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BrailleTouch and Tongue Drive usher in new ways to communicate via iOS
It seems voice-activated applications are becoming the hot new items of 2012, influencing everything from Apple iPhone’s Siri to Google’s new voice activated search. Just recently, Engadget reported that your mouth might soon get equipped with new Tongue Drives that allow you to communicate with machinery — and not just your iPhone or Android device! [...]
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6 Ways To Optimize WordPress Performance
Here are a few great tips to help you optimize your WordPress installation delivered by Ben Metcalfe at WordCamp 2012 in Miami, which will help you push your site into the high-speed Autobahn! Keep your plug-in updated Duh! Okay, this is obvious considering the recent malware intrusions on web hosting servers around the world. But, [...]
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Will the coming Smartphone revolution kill the Zynga & Facebook Tango?
It seems both consumers and businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on Facebook these days to stay social and boost sales respectively. WestHost has joined this growing trend using Facebook to provide updates and special offers. Just about any new site development may entail building custom tabs and iframes for a Facebook business page that sucks [...]
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Google Apps Gaining Critical Mass. Is The Enterprise Market Next?
New data is emerging that Google Apps may be on the verge of breaking the $1 billion mark in annual revenue. The evidence is circumstantial collected by Backupify a Google ISV, who surveyed 8000 Google App domains representing nearly a million users. Interestingly, at least half the user base appears to be small business orientated [...]
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Final Cut Pro X: Is video editing becoming “flat” or simply more interesting?
A wise man called Thomas Friedman remarked in a recent book that the world is flat, signaling the rise of the common man in challenging industry professionals in areas such as web design, writing, and video editing. It’s the last area mentioned above which seems to be getting an extra push from Apple, as it [...]
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Instagram Engineering Team Slipstreams Web 2.0 Technologies
One of the world’s most popular Smartphone photo sharing apps on the iPhone is Instagram. With over 15 million downloads , this free app is highly addictive and is features even faster start-up times under Version 2.0.6. Since we offer highly affordable web hosting on Linux servers we are always interested in the behind-the-scenes engineering [...]
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SoundCloud and its mission to be ‘The YouTube of Audio’
As the headline suggests, SoundCloud has some lofty goals and by all accounts it may be succeeding. The Los Angeles Times reported recently that SoundCloud had reached 10 million users and 5 million downloads of its SoundCloud application. This is fantastic achievement considering it only started life in 2008 as a music-sharing site but found [...]
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