Archive for Website News

  • Google celebrates Pac-Man's 30th anniversary with playable logo Google celebrates Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary with playable logo

    A playable ... logo? That's exactly what web giant has today, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man's Japanese release. The doodle (Google's term for its event and holiday-specific logos) is accessible on its main page and is a full 255-level game complete with a 256th level "kill sc...

  • Google gets a facelift Google gets a facelift

    Google rolled out several improvements to its search on Thursday.  So i thought i would just share with those who haven't yet checked it out. The use of more slick and web 2 effects really gives Google search a top class look and feel. Not so flat as it use to be! Simple things like this ...

  • Wordpress Site ever get Hacked? WordPress Site ever get Hacked?

    Often people ask me how important is it to upgrade your Wordpress blog or CMS if its 3 or 4 versions out of date? Well its very important! Not only are you missing on great new added features to the system but also expose yourself to less security threats. In the last few days a number of big Wordpr...

  • Page Rank Extension for Chrome Page Rank Extension for Chrome

    Extensions like this really deserve credit. It makes life so much easier when using Chrome than those bookmark extensions. All Chrome needs now to compliment this extension is a alexa rank.  Page Rank for Chrome shows the Google Page Rank for a current website you are viewing. To run this sample: ...

  • PR update April 2, 2009 – it’s go time

    No one was expecting such an early PageRank update in 2009. I noticed that some big sites lost PR's and others gainned PR's. Please feel free to add comments on some of the big boys out there that have gainned and lost PR's. Keep in mind there is nothing confirmed, but several people started to noti...

  • Woo Themes 4 in 1 template special Woo Themes 4 in 1 template special

    [caption id="attachment_454" align="alignnone" width="293" caption="Woo themes"][/caption] The guys at Woo Themes are having a April fool's offer, so best to check it out. If you buy 1 template you might get 3 others. Prank or not, it could be worth it. There templates for Wordpress are made from...

  • SynthaSite rolls in $20m investment SynthaSite rolls in $20m investment

    Once again, South Africa born bread  Vinny Lingham continues to inspire. SynthaSite brings in a whooping $20m further investment to expand the infrastructure, systems, process & support for his business. SynthaSite’s main goal is to make it easy enough that anyone with a computer to create a ...

  • South Africa launches SA Elections website South Africa launches SA Elections website

    WOW, being following allot of the launches and start-up's in the South African market and here is a prime example of what they are capable of doing. Along with Avusa labs, South Africa has launched it's very own SA Elections website. Users and the world will now be able to view happenings of the SA ...

  • Get your own website on Google Sites Get your own website on Google Sites

    Google brings Google Sites. Very similar to blogs, but yet very different, Google sites allows you to give control to who can and cannot edit the contents of your site, much like MS Share-point. Its the quickest way to have a website, it needs no installation and is perfect for small business to hav...

  • Facebook Battles My Space for Social network domination Facebook Battles My Space for Social network domination

    Facebook has really shown some strong domination since it's first launched into the social networking world. But believe it or not, it only plays second place to the all mighty My Space. In 2008, Facebook had 54.5 million monthly unique visitors compared to nearly 76 million for MySpace. The Social ...

  • Model sues Google over “Skanky” blogger remarks

    OK, some classic web 20 laughter. Now this one is a funny one. Canadian model Liskula Cohen has sued Google for a number of snarky remarks that were made by a blogger using the company’s blogger system. There’s no reason for us to discuss the way she looks or the way she models, but the fact ...

  • Google Friend Connect has integrated with Twitter Google Friend Connect has integrated with Twitter

    Google Friend Connect has integrated with Twitter.  Yip that's what the big noise is about. This means that when you join a friend connected site, you can choose to use your Twitter profile, discover people you follow on Twitter who are also members of the site, and quickly tweet that you have foun...

  • Google's digg like system - SearchWiki Google’s digg like system – SearchWiki

    Google starts its own digg like system called Searchwiki. A new feature lets Google users change the results they see for specific Google searches and revisit their changes and comments later. This new feature not only allows users to customize searches but also allows all Google users to add notes ...

  • Google’s Browser Project Chrome has landed Google’s Browser Project Chrome has landed

    Ok, so this is what the big noise is all about. Everybody is talking about Google's new invention called Chrome. Built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it’s such a...