The Internet not only reinvented social attitudes and trends, it brought into existence a whole new way of commerce. Most notably known as eCommerce, online shopping is perhaps one of the most dynamic areas of the Internet. Remember when Amazon first advertised during the Superbowl? Nowadays, online merchants like Buy.com, Overstock.com, and […]
Continue Reading August 7th, 2006
The best feature of WordPress 2.0 is definitely the addition of Akismet. This comment spam blocking plugin has single-handedly made blogging fun again. Not having to deal with hundreds or thousands of junk spam comments gives you more time to write and post worthwhile content. If you are upgrading, Akismet comes with […]
Continue Reading August 2nd, 2006
I’ve been neglecting WebKeyDesign for a while this summer, as I got into doing some computer upgrades and taking sort of a break from all things web related. You can easily tire yourself out if all you do is one thing, and I needed a break badly this summer. Regardless I have decided […]
Continue Reading July 29th, 2006
Everyone who knows me, knows I love everything Macintosh, and even in the dark days of Classic MacOS, I still did not give up and praise WindowsNT as the greatest of operating systems. The truth is that Apple makes great consumer products. The iMac was about packaging and catering to the consumer and […]
Continue Reading July 28th, 2006
This week, I planned on putting out another guide. Last time I tackled optimizing WindowsXP, this time around, I looked at how I configure my wireless router. Instead of focusing on speed, I thought it would be a good idea to cover security. This is a topic that most consumers don’t understand […]
Continue Reading July 19th, 2006
My first computer in college was a Macintosh LC III. The hard drive that came with it was 80MB only and I remember having a stack of floppies around for backup. Nowadays I carry most of my essentials on a SanDisk Cruzer Micro; this tiny flash drive is pretty incredible when compared to […]
Continue Reading July 12th, 2006
Now that PC viruses have been with us for 20 years, it only makes sense to remind ourselves to make sure we have some sort of Anti-Virus utility program running on our computers and that its virus definitions are uptodate. Anti-Virus programs are somewhat like insurance, you pay for something just in case something […]
Continue Reading July 6th, 2006
It’s still early, but by this fall, Firefox 2.0 should be out. Right now you can download the alpha release, known as Bon Echo. Not to be outdone though, Microsoft has their most anticipated IE 7 beta release available for download. I decided to download and setup both on my WindowsXP laptop […]
Continue Reading July 5th, 2006
This week, I set out to improve my wireless reception for my home network. The wireless local area network (WLAN) is powered by a Linksys WRT54GS router. This is a pretty standard wireless G router. The WRT54G router series are pretty affordable and if you have an older version of the WRT54G […]
Continue Reading June 28th, 2006
If you have not checked your Google PageRank yet, you might want to take a look and see if it has changed at all for you. You can use Web Site Metrics Tool to check your pagerank across multiple data centers.
Our current pagerank is between 4 and 5 depending on the data […]
Continue Reading February 21st, 2006