ghacks Technology News

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 26th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Load Websites On Schedule

Loading websites on schedule might come in handy in a few situations. The Firefox add-on Tab Timer offers this feature by allowing users to configure websites that should be opened at a specific time in the future. Possible scenarios where this feature might come in handy are opening websites while on break, shopping for gifts [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Domain Name Registration Lookup

There are literally thousands of online services that allow webmasters to lookup domain name registration information. These services will tell the webmaster if a domain name is available for registration or already registered. Many domain registrars allow users to place so called backorders which will basically make the domain registrar register the domain name in [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

  • Author: Melanie
  • Published: Jun 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

SitePoint Raises Rates; Tells Customers to Stop Whining

On June 22, 2009 the domain sales service known as SitePoint split and changed their name to Flippa. Flippa’s design is simplified compared to SitePoint although it still offers options to browse popular categories like established or premium websites. According to SitePoint, Flippa will offer a new search function that allows users to search for [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 6th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Display Cached RSS Feed In Your Website

You might remember the announcement of our new web project Appnews which basically displays software updates in a friendly easily accessible way. What I wanted to do now is to display the five newest items of the RSS feed in the sidebar of this blog to both promote the appnews service but also provide a [...]

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Categories: Web Development

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Discover New Feeds With FeedMil

How are most Internet users discovering new interesting blogs? The most popular methods are probably by following links on blogs they already read and by recommendations posted in their feed reader. Yes, there are blog directories like Technorati but most of them concentrate on the top blogs and not on the small but as good [...]

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Categories: Search Engines, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 13

How To Select A Dedicated Server Provider

I’m currently evaluating the possibility to switch providers. The dedicated server that ghacks is currently running on is totally self managed which can be a real burden if it happens to go down at 4 in the morning. There are basically two types of dedicated servers for customers with lots of subtypes in between. Managed [...]

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Categories: Networks, Server, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Webmaster Contact Software

Have you ever come across a website with no means of contacting the webmaster? This poses a problem if you need to contact the webmaster. Can be because of copyright violations, want to ask a question or make a business proposal. Experienced users will look up domain information and retrieve information about the owner of [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

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