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Let’s face it — it’s difficult to keep up with the pace (and price) of new technologies. Business owners face […]

Congratulations on registering your new business! Or if you’re still contemplating forming your business, and just trying to better understand […]

Are you looking for some easy and effective growth hacks to boost your budding business? This is a fast-paced environment […]

Every year, predictions about how consumers will spend their money crop up. Covering the most popular toys and the most […]

Running your own Web server is the ultimate mark of online independence—and it only need cost you $35.

Trust no one and build a server that encrypts your Web data from prying eyes.

Marketing tactics change constantly. Each year new tactics become more impactful, and old ones fade into obscurity. Sticking to the same […]

APIs make the modern Web what it is today. Here’s a simple guide to what they are, how they work and why we care.

Photo thieves, beware! Here are the best app options to protect your creative work.

It’s a computer so simple, anyone can tinker with it. Here’s proof.

You build the app, it does the rest.

You’ve probably heard of Markdown. Maybe you’ve heard the name for years. Perhaps you just encountered it, since it’s enjoyed a renaissance lately.

But do you know what it is? Are you using it? You should be. Here are three good reasons to use Markdown. There are no good reasons not to.

Roman Cortes wowed a lot of people with his entry into the “1k Javascript demo contest”: an animated 3D Christmas tree. In just one KB of code.

Cortes has visual guide on how he created it starting with simple pixels to be used as sprites and then animated with 3D vectors.

Meet the projects that prove GitHub is a collaboration tool for all stripes.

Never underestimate the power of human ingenuity paired with a machine that can print almost anything.

Ask any two software developers what the best approach to development is, and you’ll probably get two different answers. Development […]

Make fun of your tweet-obsessed friends—or yourself.

These tech skills are no longer in demand. Show recruiters that you can adapt and learn.

How many times have you seen an online quiz and thought that it was silly, but took the quiz anyway? […]

We’ve all been there. You want to isolate an issue with a server running on a port but want something quick and easy to verify if it is a host firewall problem or something else. Perhaps you are dealing with someone on the other end of the network that says it is a firewall problem. How you prove otherwise?

One of the most common suggestions to bloggers who use shared hosting is that they will be much better off with a VPS or a dedicated server. I agree in principle; however, this doesn’t mean the server will run smoothly without a bit of tweaking.
I’m currently in the process of moving several WordPress blogs from a dedicated server to a VPS. After…

Today is a slight departure from the usual Hack of the Day, as we recommend a site that’s bursting with Linux goodness. Bumper Link of the Day, if you will.

If you’re an avid user of the Linux command line, this one’s for you. A growing collection of handy hints, commandlinefu, makes light work of tricky commands. You can quickly find the top…

If you haven’t played with YQL before, put down that Hot Pocket and head over the Yahoo Developer Network. At the YQL console you’ll find a collection of resources to quickly attack problems with cut- and-paste simplicity instead of having to digest several pages of API documentation. You’ll also find examples with source code for putting your…

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used for styling your site. It gives a wide variety of options, allowing you to change the size and style of fonts, colors, images and the positioning of elements on the page.

Identifying an element in CSS can be done in a number of ways. You can affect all instances of a tag, such as paragraphs, headers or links…

Twig is a must-have tool for any PHP developer. It’s a powerful templating engine that allows you to leave the HTML out of your back-end code, and put it where it belongs – in the template files. It’s particularly handy if you’re working alongside a front-end developer, as you can work in parallel. Caching helps to keep everything running…

Move it to the left. Move it to the right. Move it higher. No, move it lower. Make it Webbish – but not too Webbish.

Have you ever wanted to provide your clients with a visualization of audience browser window sizes that is based in something outside of opinion?

It’s one thing to have an opinion on where something should appear in a user…

JanRain Engage provides a convenient way to enable social logins on a site via a single API. This includes support for Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and over a dozen additional services.
Implementing JanRain Engage on your site is a lot less work than implementing each login provider one by one. Also, as any changes to each login will be…

In these economic times it can be hard to justify spending thousands on airfare, hotels, and party-life travel destinations. So save your money and let geolocation services do the work for you.

If you want to visit an exotic location, then Facebook Places and a few browser tweaks are all you’ll need.