archive for: 2010

CSS3 Finally Approaching Mainstream

Posted on July 27, 2010 at 2:32 pm under Website Design

CSS3 has been around for quite some time. The fact that it doesn’t validate is probably one of the main reasons we haven’t seen it all that much. Truth is that it does validate however, W3C doesn’t have a CSS3 validator and your styles are validated to CSS2 by default. To date almost all browsers [...]

Cell Phones and Brain Cancer – Do Phones Need Warnings Like Cigarettes?

Posted on April 1, 2010 at 2:53 pm under Internet News

We’ve heard it before, cell phones cause brain cancer. I’m no doctor but I would think we would have heard more about this if they did. There is no general consensus among doctors about cell phones and brain cancer, and the leaders in the industry (obviously) claim there is no substantial evidence to prove that [...]

School Laptop Web Camera Used to Spy on Student at Home

Posted on March 15, 2010 at 2:45 pm under Internet News

Here is a local news item involving a school laptop web camera that is becoming a nation wide story. In the Lower Merion School District of Pennsylvania, about 4 hours West of Pittsburgh, a student was punished by his school for “inappropriate behavior”… IN HIS HOME. How did school officials know what he was doing [...]

Website Security, 5 Tips to Secure Your Blog From Hackers

Posted on March 1, 2010 at 2:45 pm under Blogging, WordPress

Last month several of my sites got hacked. I found a JavaScript on every file named index.html on WordPress installations as well as regular html sites. On WordPress it on index.php in the root, wp-content, and wp-admin. On HTML sites it was on every index.html going one sub-directory deep. All sites looked and worked fine [...]

IE6 Helps Communists Hack Gmail Accounts

Posted on January 25, 2010 at 4:23 pm under Business, Internet News

Google has threatened to shut down its business in China. To date the big G has been censoring its data served to the global giant complying with Chinese law. However this decision has been under scrutiny due to an attack on its infrastructure that originated there in the later months of 2009.