Two Tribes

by | Oct 13, 2019 | 0 comments

Heard of Taboola? What about Outbrain? These two companies are responsible for the layers of ads that appear at the bottom of lots and lots of webpages, sometimes even decent ones (those “Recommended articles” and the like). They’re very profitable,...

Long Time Coming

by | Oct 12, 2019 | 0 comments

I’ve long been a fan of QR codes. I had one printed on the back of a T-shirt when I was working on my novel, Naughty By Nature (that didn’t actually make it to Amazon). I had them printed on a couple of business cards (the same one to promote Naughty By...

Free

by | Oct 11, 2019 | 0 comments

Let’s say you have an idea for a business and you want to register a domain name or two for a website. How do you check to see if the names you’re thinking of are actually available? One way is to go to your browser and type the name in and see what comes...

A Place In The Sun

by | Oct 10, 2019 | 0 comments

The other day I wrote about giving your eyes a rest when you’re looking at screens all day. Then I heard about f.lux, which takes eye care to another level. It’s software that automatically adapts the brightness of your computer’s display to the time...

Title 5

by | Oct 9, 2019 | 0 comments

It’s about time I offered a definition of the humble meta title, given its importance in the world of SEO and the search engines. Title tags: HTML elements that denote the subject of a web page They’re the clickable blue links that show on search engine...