One of the greatest strength point of the internet is also its biggest weak spot: an incredibly huge amount of information ready to drown the unaware user at the click of his mouse.
This is the main reason for the large success of search engines, the actual keystone in present internet. Best search engines archive almost everything, thus giving users the possibility to reach contents of interest with efficiency and speed. Continue reading
One of the best known issues in web design is the difficulty to translate a page as seen on the screen, rendered by your preferred browser, into an actual printed page, as generated by a common paper printer. I can’t remember how many times I saw a graphics designer plan a web page using centimeters, page formats (A4 is the most diffused, of course) and layout cages based on his experience on paper projects; it seems that very few peoples understand that this particular media needs its own tools to deal with…
There is no doubt that identity theft is a growing problem and we should all try to educate ourselves to avoid being a victim of this often devastating crime.
It seems that criminals are using increasingly ingenious methods to gain access to our private and valuable personal information and computer users must be aware of criminal information gathering techniques known as phishing. You may have heard about phishing scams in the news recently because so many have fallen prey to this clever methodology employed by tech savvy criminals. We are all busy in todays fast paced world and it’s hard to keep up with every new threat and development so the purpose of this article is to describe what phishing is, and how you can avoid being a victim. Continue reading
A new masterpiece hits the net, with an impressive set of features, a top-quality graphical interface and a tremendous amount of buzz in the blogosphere: Woopra!
Woopra was opened up to the world at the Dallas WordCamp. Since then Woopra has generated a tremendous amount of buzz in blogging circles. In short, Woopra is a stats tool for websites that lives as an application on your desktop (among other places) and can provide live webstats on your visitors. Continue reading
Cotec Foundation was founded on the 24th of April 2001 in order to enhance the Italian technological competitiveness. Under the Honorary Chairmanship of the President of the Italian Republic, Cotec is a private foundation where the different capabilities, backgrounds and interests of Institutions, Firms and Academies can find a shared hub in technological innovation.
Cotec Foundation, by an institutional commitment that includes research, dialogue, project development and communication activities, acts as both a propeller of actions to improve the Italian technological competitiveness and a centre of matching and coordination of the main Italian players of the Innovation System. Continue reading
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Do you need a quick ultra-basic logo creator with a clean web 2.0 style? Here it is! Just jump to Web 2.0 V2 Logo Creatr (yes, “creatr”, don’t ask me why) and start playing with the two parameters available to customize the look of your new logo!
Straight from the words of the programmer himself, here are some details, useful in you plan to write something yourself to be embedded in a custom program, and to catch some procedural ideas… Continue reading
Let’s make it quick: b2evolution (“b2evo” for short) is a powerful blog tool you can install on your own website. It includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with evolved features such as file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions… Not to mention third party plug-ins! Plus, it’s free, open-source (GPL), it runs on virtually any webserver featuring PHP+MySQL and it’s available in many languages. Continue reading
PixoPoint is offering a two-levels support for CSS dropdown menus automatic generation, suitable for inclusion in custom web design projects and WordPress-based weblogs (through a plugin module). The lower level is a free, public available generator engine, which can be accessed through the PixoPoint’s web pages (just click here) and let users choose many customizations in order to produce a nice, CSS-compliant horizontal or vertical menu; the higher level is available for a $50.00 fee to “premium users”, and adds many interesting features to be customized during the menu’s generation process. Continue reading
“You’re in good company when you partner with Sphere”, says the Company’s official claim. What’s Sphere, you ask? It’s Content Genome™, what else?
Well, let’s start from the beginning… In the blog universe, interconnection is everything. Like synapses in a brain, links running among websites allow information to flow, and generate actual streams. As nature teaches us, streams allow individuals to meet each other: oceanic streams allowed Columbus to somewhat “buscar el ponente jendo por el levante”, rivers streams allowed entire cities and thus empires to raise, putting peoples in connection and thus making evolution an even more exciting experience. Continue reading
Google strikes back. The latest release of the never resting minds in Mountain View is a project to put the entire data center of the Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic in digital format, in order to access every single bit of information about patients’ clinic life. Listening to the Google’s voice, it’s a true bonus:
“In terms of new products, we made Google Health publicly available. It offers users a safe and secure way to collect, store, and manage their medical records and health information online. How many of us have touched, or even seen, our medical records? In this day and age of information, isn’t it crazy that you don’t have a copy of your medical records under your control? You could use those records to develop a better understanding of your health and ultimately get better care. It’s your data about your own health; why shouldn’t you own and control it?” Continue reading
