Matias Vangsnes

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Demand Media’s White Paper On New gTLD’s

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

Demand Media, Inc. published a white paper (pdf) on the new gTLD’s today and I found it an interesting read. The paper is entitled: “The Opportunity for generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Some of the highlights: “After years of planning and debate, a big change is coming to the way organizations and individuals identify themselves [...]

Types Of Websites You Can Create With WordPress

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Many people who have heard of WordPress think that it’s just a publishing platform for blogs. In truth, WordPress is an extremely powerful and versatile publishing solution, and can be used to create many different types of websites. Magazine Style Websites WordPress can also be used to create magazine style websites. These websites don’t have [...]

WordPress Development: An Effective Tool To Create Intricate Website

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 01, 2012 – Website development needs hard work and skills. This is not as effortless as it seems; one need to have the ardor and the art of designing a website which is inclusive of proficient information, skills, techniques and the quality of information. Every website reveals the desired company [...]

What’s new with Ubuntu?

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

Jeremy Proome Jeremy joined MyBroadband in March 2012 as junior journalist. Jeremy holds an honors degree in Media Studies from the University of Witwatersrand, and is driven… Ubuntu 12.10, known as Quantal Questzal, will be releasing on 18 October 2012, but what can we expect from the forthcoming version? One of Linux’s most popular distros, [...]

Apple Attempts to Prevent Free In-App Purchase Hack

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Apple is taking steps to stop users gaining free in-app purchases through an online hack. Apple have reportedly taken steps to prevent the use of a free in-app purchase hack. The hack, published by Russian hacker Alexy V. Borodin, shows app users how to work around in-app purchases and get the extra content for free. [...]

OS WARS: Nexus 7 JB 4.1 – iOS 6 – Mountain Lion 10.8 – Windows 8 – Linux

Friday, July 27th, 2012

It is OS launching season, with Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion launching late last night Australian time, and the recent launch of the excellent Nexus 7 tablet running the very latest and “pure Google” Android OS Jelly Bean 4.1.1 and setting a range of new standards for modern operating systems. Mountain Lion has a [...]

Namebench helps you find the fastest DNS

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

How good is your Domain Name System provider? A newly-released utility, called Namebench, is designed to help users answer that specific question and optimize their DNS experience. Troubleshoot your DNS The DNS vulnerability: What you should know and do How to transfer your domain name between hosts More ways to protect yourself from phishing scams [...]

Comm100 Live Chat Plugin for WordPress & Joomla Hits the Market

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Comm100, the leader in customer service and communication software, has just announced the launch of live chat plugins for WordPress and Joomla, the two most widely used Content Management Systems (CMS) in the world. As Comm100′s flagship product, Comm100 Live Chat can now be quickly installed on [...]

The Top Policy Mistakes ICANN Made In The New gTLD Program

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Now that everyone has had time to fully digest the big reveal of the new gTLD applicants and the strings applied for, its time to look at the biggest issues ICANN has created for the domain name system. We are not going to look at mistakes ICANN made in the implementation of the program (such [...]

ConVirt Enterprise Streamlines Virtual Data Center Creation, Migration

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

ConVirt Enterprise Streamlines Virtual Data Center Creation, Migration ( Page 1 of 2 ) The latest version of ConVirt Enterprise Cloud adds cloud provisioning to its array of management options, thereby enabling IT managers with Linux-based servers to move workloads to private or public cloud platforms. ConVirt Enterprise Cloud is an amalgamation of open-source and [...]

Why Does the Net Still Work on Christmas? Paul Mockapetris

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Paul Mockapetris, the father of the internet’s Domain Naming System. Image: Paul Mockapetris In 1983, you could ask for your own internet address. But not after 6 p.m. California time. Or over the Christmas holiday. When the internet was still the ARPAnet — the government-funded network that connected various research outfits across the country — [...]

Three Steps to Prepare Your Company’s Brand for the New gTLD Expansion

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Brand managers: You’ve been hearing about the generic top-level domain (gTLD) registration expansion for a while now. What are top-level domains, and what do they have to do with your brand’s existing digital presence and strategy? A top-level domain (TLD) is the portion of a website address that is to the right of the dot, [...]

Forum builds bridges with Auckland’s African community

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Press Release – The Office Of Ethnic Affairs More than 100 people attended New Zealand’s first national African Forum which was held on Saturday in Auckland. Entitled UBUNTU, which broadly means ‘humanity to others’, the Forum was organised by the Office of Ethnic Affairs (OEA) to provide a common platform to address issues and thereby [...]

How to Setup Google Analytics For Your WordPress Site

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

Using a website analytics service or software package can be a great help in improving the quality and effectiveness of your website. Google’s Analytics is a leading analytics service, and it’s available at no cost. The data provided by Google Analytics will give you insight into how each visitor came to your WordPress website (whether [...]

Dell launching Sputnik, the Ubuntu developer laptop, this year

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

Dell launched an experiment earlier this year to see if it could build a compelling Linux laptop for software developers. The effort, which is codenamed Project Sputnik, pairs the XPS13 Ultrabook with Ubuntu 12.04. The software environment is tailored for developers, featuring a number of useful tools and a framework for automating the installation of [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 ‘WebApps’ frees popular websites from browser

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Canonical is talking up a new feature of the Ubuntu 12.10 (‘Quantal Quetzal’) release that will allow popular web services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail to partly emulate the behaviour of desktop applications. Called WebApps, the technology offers a way for web services and sites to let Ubuntu Unity users access them direct from [...]

Dell’s to sell Ubuntu ultrabooks this fall, Project Sputnik graduates from beta

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Tweet Email Dell plans to start selling a limited number of laptops running Ubuntu Linux this fall. The first will be a Dell XPS 13 ultrabook aimed at developers and running Ubuntu 12.04. For the past few months the company has been running an exploratory project based on the idea. It’s called Project Sputnik, and [...]

Shuttleworth: Next year 5 percent of the world’s PCs will ship with Ubuntu pre …

Friday, July 20th, 2012

From the ‘More Beautiful than Apple’ files: Back in 2008, I was at OSCON when Mark Shuttleworth set out the audacious goal to make the Linux desktop more beautiful than Apple. Today, four years later, Shuttleworth returned to the OSCON stage to claim victory. In his view Ubuntu’s desktop is now better than Apple. In [...]

Hello kitty: Internet Defense League assembles to fight copyright lobby

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

Mozilla, WordPress, Reddit and a number of other sites have joined forces to combat copyright crackdown legislation, through a distributed lobby group called the Internet Defense League. Launching on Thursday, the League offers code that webmasters can embed in their sites, so opposition to legislation such as ACTA or SOPA can be swiftly organised. “When [...]

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