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Windows 7 resources

With Windows 7 now available worldwide, I wanted to share some resources available to help IT Pros become more proficient with Windows 7 and consumers more savvy about new support resources for Windows 7.

Google PageRank™ Explained

What is PageRank?
PageRank™ is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the [...]

Tricks that will get you banned

Do you think the rules don’t apply to you? Are you willing to do whatever you want in order to get high rankings in the search engines…temporarily? Willing to lose all your future Search engine indexing or traffic for the smallest chance that the search engines don’t figure out your tricks? If so, I have [...]

Making your website work for you.

Many people are taking part in the Work-From-Home craze where the internet is an integral part of sucess. Whether you are making a solo-effort, or part of a larger organization that hasn’t yet made the leap to the internet, we have a few simple tips that will help you with the task.

Microsoft to show new search tech this month

Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search product at a company-sponsored advertising conference later this month.
“We will start to show you the next version of the search,” Chairman Bill Gates said in comments to reporters in Japan on [...]

Vista and Leopard: Both victims of bad parenting.

When Vista was released the chorus of complaints and criticisms quickly grew from a low hum to a near deafening roar. A little more than 4 months since Apple released Leopard and that low hum of discontent has already been amplified to the sound of fingernails being dragged on a chalkboard. So far I have only [...]

Mozilla delivers third beta for Firefox 3 browser.

Mozilla Corp. released the third beta of Firefox 3 Wednesday, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, touted additions and enhancements to Beta 3 in a post to the company’s Web site Tuesday, touting [...]