I’m sure all of you using the service just got the same e-mail we just did from Afrigator MD, Justin Hartman. I’ve just read through it and have a suggestion for the guys over there. The clause I am specifically referring to is Adgator may, at its sole discretion, display non-paid advertising on all unsold [...]

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As promised, here’s a guide to getting started with your own .za.net/.za.org domain. This guide assumes you already have hosting setup and are going to be using the domain to point to your hosting server. Step 1 The first step in any kind of domain registration is of course the domain name itself. You need [...]

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Windows users listen in! You’re automatically given out the latest updates and security fixes for your XP or Vista, but outdated applications can be a problem – missing features cause hassles, bugs/memory issues can cause speed problems and most importantly outdated software often has exploitable vulnerabilities! Filehippo has a fantastic 153kb app which will automatically [...]

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Fresh into the scene of URL shortening is a local service sURLs. Created by South African Arné Klopper, he is offering a free service whereby you can turn ugly URLs into short and easy to remember equivalents. Okay, bacically, when you are on the internet and you find a cool site, for example Google Maps(maps.google.com) [...]

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No doubt if you have a free blog, or even host your own with some long and tedious URL you’d prefer to have a proper domain name; and ZA NiC gives these out free to South Africans! Domain names like raven.za.net are available from the free public domain NIC, ZA NiC will allow any South [...]

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With this guide, a smaller reasonably established blog can easily earn several hundred dollars a month – end of story. Firstly we need a quick explanation of PageRank, if you understand it well enough you can skip on to the next section of the post. Page Rank Page Rank is a page ranking (of course) [...]

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About a year ago fx and I took the plunge and got ourselves some decent desk chairs. There really was no other choice but the Aeron from Herman Miller. The chairs were quite pricey but I can officially say today that it was money well spent. Why only today? Well, since then I have been [...]

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A big part of building a successful blog is user engagement – having loyal readers who comment and return to your site. These readers will help to keep your site active, create discussions and the more you appeal to them so too will your user base grow. There are several tips to increasing the feedback [...]

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We had a very specific and hard to solve problem on Drupal 6.8 lately where cron wouldn’t run; after some searching we tracked down this error: “Cron run exceeded the time limit and was aborted”. However, it was only running for about 2 seconds before this happened – and it was allowed to run for [...]

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A logo can single handedly make or break your brand. The right colors, fonts, shapes, positioning and size are all key factors to remember when designing a logo, but there are also somethings you shouldn’t do: The worst deal you could probably go for is a logo design contest. Logo design contests are where you [...]

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