TechAirlines: Technology Tips

Remember when all messages had to be sent through snail mail? It’s so 20th century. Welcome to the 21st century. The digital world. The world of email. In today’s web, its rare to have an internet user not have an email address, especially when there are many services that offer email accounts completely free of charge. First Class Flyer is a weekly series published every Friday comparing... 

Mac OS X has a useful feature known as widgets, which add useful gadgets to your dashboard. Gadgets can range anywhere from a simple search bar, to an email notifier, to a full system process monitor. But how can Windows users experience widgets? First Class Flyer is a weekly series published every Friday comparing two or more free software products of the same category. This week, we’re taking... 

Google offers Google Webmaster Tools for webmasters to submit their site to Google as well as get detailed indexing and keyword information. A similar service is also offered by Yahoo! and Bing. These services allow providing a sitemap(s). Why are Sitemaps Important? Sitemaps help tell search engines, such as Google, what pages exist in your site and is especially useful for those they might not find... 

Remember that old site owned by Yahoo that allowed for amateur users to create their own pages? Many of us may have played around with it when we were younger, creating our first little web pages.  Yahoo bought Geocities in 1999 for approximately 3 billion dollars, and has now shut its Geocities site down on October 26th.  Today, Geocities is not worth that much for new web interests, being overtaken...