August 2011

WebOS For Sale Again?

by Mike Mansell August 31, 2011

Boy, the mobile industry sure has been interesting lately. In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen HP essentially give up and walk away from their entire mobile operation, discontinuing the development of WebOS and slashing what may very well have been a promising future in the mobile industry.

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Microsoft Implements Ribbon UI in Windows 8 Explorer

by Mike Mansell August 30, 2011

There’s no denying the fact that Microsoft has been walking on egg shells a bit in the last couple of years after having publicly humiliated itself with the failure of Windows Vista (something that many people still refer to even to this day) and the less than admirable reputation that many of the company’s other offerings [...]

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Why I Avoid the Mac App Store

by Mike Mansell August 29, 2011

When I first heard that Apple was working to put out an “App Store” for Mac OS X following the incredible success that the company had with a venture of the same name and stature on the iOS platform I was initially very excited. Such an organized system for buying, downloading, and updating software seemed [...]

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5 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Install

by Jeff Weisbein August 26, 2011

WordPress has become an extremely popular website and blogging platform over the years, it is literally hosting hundreds of millions of websites. So how can you go about protecting your WordPress site? Here are 5 easy tips on how to make your WordPress more secure.

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7 Reasons I (Finally) Updated to Lion

by Mike Mansell August 26, 2011

I didn’t want to do it. Really, I didn’t. After having bought my first Mac and fallen in love with the clean and crisp user interface of Mac OS X (10.6, Snow Leopard) I was less than eager to update to the latest version (Lion) when it came out last month. Don’t get me wrong, [...]

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I’m Confident Apple Will Continue to Grow, Even Now That Jobs Left the Throne

by Mike Mansell August 25, 2011

Having had been away from my computer for a good chunk of the afternoon yesterday I was pretty surprised to see a pile of unread messages in my Twitter feed that far surpassed the “regular” number of messages I’d see after such an amount of time. “Wow,” I thought to myself, “did the east-coast have [...]

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Open Source: Constructive or Harmful to Competition?

by Mike Mansell August 24, 2011

When we look at the success of businesses and projects – both from the standpoint of those with interest in a business and the consumers that buy and use their products – competition is one of the most important components in any market. Working in retail, competition is what forces me to offer my prospective [...]

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Even at $99 the TouchPad is a Bad Buy

by Mike Mansell August 23, 2011

But as I’m sure you’ve heard, HP recently made a pretty stunning announcement that they were intent on removing themselves from the mobile industry, and as reports have also speculated, the larger hardware industry altogether. And now that the company is looking to root itself into the software industry HP has taken a number of steps to tie up their loose ends in the hardware sector.

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Should (or Will) Google Start Playing Offense With Its Patent Arsenal?

by Mike Mansell August 22, 2011

When Google first launched their patent search in December of 2006 I don’t think many people believed or even thought it possible that Google’s own patents would come to flood the search results only a few years later. But now in 2011 we’ve witnessed Google, a company that has grown to massive proportions over the [...]

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How To: Block Ads On Your Website

by Jeff Weisbein August 22, 2011

If you use Google’s Competitive Ad filter (found in the AdSense control panel), you can easily block specific URL’s of websites whose ads you don’t want to appear on your site. While this is great if you advertise a particular product and don’t want a competitors ad to show up, this is also great for people who care about the types of ads shown on their site. Let me explain.

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