List of the best sites that help stay in touch with IT industry

List of the best sites that help stay in touch with IT industry

Are you passionate about gadgets or information technology in general? Then you'll find helpful the list of IT & C websites I follow everyday in my RSS reader. Reading at least half of those websites will make you know everything that moves in the IT & C business. You can even start a small

Windows 7 after 6 months of personal use

Windows 7 after 6 months of personal use

It's been almost six months now since I'm running Windows 7 on my main machine. I wouldn't go back to Vista, let alone XP even if you'd pay me for that? But let's see why, why did Windows 7 made such a good impression on me that I've installed it on my desktop and my laptop. Let's start with the

List of abbreviations for text messaging

List of abbreviations for text messaging

If you're using the Internet for a few years at least you are already familiarized with abbreviations like 'lol', 'wft', 'brb' and so on. These abbreviations are commonly used in text messaging and help speed up the writing process and greatly increases the information content of a short message (SM

Click fraud: a growing danger for making money online

Click fraud: a growing danger for making money online

How people make money online from advertisements: you put some banners on your website, the advertiser pays for the number of times users see those banners (CPM - Cost per mile) or pay for the number of clicks (CPC - Cost per click). Those are the main ways to get money from advertisements, but of c

What is hotlinking?

What is hotlinking?

These days the Internet hides a lot of threats, from those that can break your computer to those that can steal your banking infos and therefore your life savings. But there are also threats that can hurt your business, one of these being hotlinking in its more common form: image hotlinking. What i

Twitpic, an easy way to share pictures on Twitter from a cell phone

Definitely Twitter is growing bigger and bigger these days. People start discovering new ways to use it, sharing pictures being one such use for Twitter. The best service around for doing that is Twitpic, in my opinion, as it's very simple and intuitive: you login with your Twitter credentials and s

Yahoo's new homepage: more redesign than novelty

Yahoo’s new homepage: more redesign than novelty

If you follow the news about online big brands you already know that Yahoo changed its homepage once again. Everyone can try it, it's not beta anymore. As my first email account had an @yahoo.com ending I felt obliged to go there and take a look at the new homepage. From design point of view I like

Study on how people share links on Internet

Study on how people share links on Internet

There's a sort of study on Internet, done by AddToAny through their widget that tells us what users use to share links with others. As you might expect, it's not necessarily a very accurate study, but it gives us an idea of user habits. Lifehacker, the site where I've heard about his report, also pu

Making a Buzz before the launch, the new marketing trend

Making a Buzz before the launch, the new marketing trend

Web has changed, tools have changed, habits have changed and so did marketing and the way of making business online. I can hardly remember the times when companies used to announce a new product, put some money in some banners and then promote it via classic channels. That's old school marketing fol

Interfaces of the future: how will they look

Interfaces of the future: how will they look

Remember the first software interfaces 20 or 30 years ago? I do and the tag line is that I can hardly call them interfaces, compared to what we have today. Things evolved, not because of the knowledge people started to accumulate in fields like usability or design, but because things needed to chang