Here’s a bit of a look at internet web hosting – then and now. Web servers All of the content on the Internet is stored on servers. A server is a machine much like a personal computer. When you save a file on your computer, that file is written to your hard drive. You can…
How Cell-phone viruses work. The first known cell-phone virus appeared in 2004 and didn’t get very far. Cabir.A infected only a small number of Bluetooth-enabled phones and carried out no malicious action — a group of malware developers created Cabir to prove it could be done. Their next step was to send it to anti-virus…
The spawning of the Adblocker — We can lead a browser around by the nose all day long – We can script and code and script again until the cows come home – We can also drive as much traffic away from client sites as we would would hope to drive traffic into client sites,…
Lubuntu is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, designed to run efficiently on systems with low hardware specifications or those looking for a less resource-intensive desktop environment. Overview Desktop Environment: Lubuntu uses LXQt as its default desktop environment, which is known for being lightweight while offering modern features and looks. Resource Efficiency: Lubuntu…
Cloud Computing and it’s lack of Security: For years, I’ve managed to keep all of my registered software on local machines, and in those years, I’ve been able to keep, or distribute freely, everything I’ve created, from web apps to customized databases, to web pages and api’s .. I’ve managed my own security and more…
Everybody had a plan, an idea, a goal … and everybody had the next best thing. Competition on the internet was fast and furious. You had to move or get left in the dust. It’s not 1996 any more unfortunately. The internet used to be so vibrant, so full of life .. so dangerous ..…
Adapt your content from 4-Inch to 40-Inch — When adapting content from a 4-inch to a 40-inch display, several considerations must be made to ensure the content is optimized for the larger format: Resolution and Pixel Density: 4-inch displays: Often have resolutions between 800×480 to 1920×1080 pixels, depending on the device. At this size, pixel…
Responsive Web Design with Laura Kalbag: A talk by Laura Kalbag (@laurakalbag). It’s all too easy to get caught up in fancy new web development techniques and forget that the responsive approach also requires a different mindset during the design process. Focusing on design principles for multiple devices, and discussing how we can fit responsive…
