Tech Matters

iContact Simplifies Communication

One of the best ways to present a service to potential customers is through email marketing. You can put up a website, but unless people know how to get there no one would go. Targeted email marketing puts your services in front of the right audience, tapping a captured market of potential customers.
Until recently most [...]


The Taxman Cometh

It’s the lovely month of April when all above-minimum income wage earners are required to fill out the long blue forms and the short white forms and make the necessary (no to mention confusing, at least to me) computations of the amount of money the government takes from us to spend for the betterment of [...]


A new browser to press buttons with

Have just discovered the web browser called Flock, and my initial opinions about this really useful browser (really fast too, faster than Opera on this machine) are on the revitalized Kusangpalo website.
On Press this Button I learned that Intel will soon be following Levis’ footsteps as it downgrades, or “ramps down” its operations in the [...]


The Technorati Experiment

Good day to Sam, Daddynator, Raymond, Maiagirl, and Bugsybee, I would like to recruit you into an experiment that may provide an insight into how blog ranking works and how to work it. Thank you Panaderos, for the tag and the idea for a new post.
What is blog authority / blog rank?
Technorati Authority is [...]


Best Web Hosting Company

Sometime in 2007 I used a template for my WordPress.com blog from Kaushal Sheth. To me his name is one of the more familiar ones when it came to WordPress themes and blogging. Now when I visited his blog I saw his entry on web hosting, and how he had been in the market for [...]


Captcha for a Cause

You (yes very) precious few visitors to this blog may notice that I have implemented a captcha form on my comments area. CAPTCHA means (and I discovered this only today) “Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart.”
I did this not because I think there are robots among my very precious few [...]


PC vs Mac, South Park Style

(Youtube video link deleted because my 4 year old daughter keeps clicking through to other videos that aren’t fit for a 4 year old to watch and I’m not here all the time)

One of the best things about an extended weekend when you’re not expecting it is having the time to walk lazily around the [...]


It’s all coming back to me now

All these blogs I started because I was trying out the various options available to bloggers back in 2004/05. Sam and I ran blogs in blogspot in 2004 before getting our own domain and host early in 2005. I tried Wordpress.com late in 2005 as well as other free wordpress hosts just to find [...]


Something for newbie bloggers

How many times have you tried to set up a blog at a free blogging service, but have found the process either too complicated or restrictive that you’ve given it up? If you intend to blog for an immediate audience but have not yet decided which blogging platform to use, or want something that is [...]


DIY Branding can be Fun!

One of the most difficult aspects of marketing your business is branding. Some startup companies do it the simple (read: cheap) way with a word processor and built in graphics. But logo design is not just jazzing up a wingding on a photo editing program. Designing companies know this, and will charge you an arm [...]