Aptana acquired by Appcelerator

Aptana, the company behind the popular programming Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Aptana Studio, announced today that they have been acquired by Appcelerator. Aptana has been the choice for many web development professionals for quite some time. ...

January 19, 2011 · 2 min · 364 words · icarnaghan

New Joomla 1.6 Pushes Enterprise Level Features

The new version of the popular Joomla Content Management System (CMS) was released early last week and has already reached over 115k in downloads. 1.6 has been in the making for some time and earlier beta versions have been tested over the last few month. The first release candidate (RC1) was made available for download on December 14th, 2010. ...

January 18, 2011 · 2 min · 349 words · icarnaghan

MailBrowser - Simple Gmail Plugin for Managing your Contacts

For a long, long time have I been looking for a great Plugin for Gmail to help manage my contacts. I send a lot of e-mails to a lot of different people, and it’s difficult to sort through all of my mail and attachments without getting lost in the thousands upon thousands of messages. However with the new browser plug-in MailBrowser, it’s actually pretty simple. ...

April 24, 2010 · 1 min · 208 words · Jake

Microsoft Office 2010 Outlook has some New Digs

With Microsoft’s official release of Office 2010 being pushed out of Beta, I’m excited to see where they plan on going next. I’ve been running 2010 beta since they released them for download months ago, and I’ve been more than pleased with all of it! The biggest noticeable change is with Outlook, my favorite e-mail client. ...

April 18, 2010 · 2 min · 336 words · Jake

Jay Adelson Steps Down as CEO of Digg.com

In a recent blog post entitled simply “Update from Jay”, it has been officially announced that Jay Adelson will be stepping down as Digg’s CEO after 5 prosperous and amazing years. Jay has done an amazing job as CEO, and I firmly believe Digg wouldn’t hold it’s current success status today if it wasn’t for his ideas and inspiration. ...

April 6, 2010 · 2 min · 349 words · Jake

Template Monster's Design Blog Kicks Off!

Out of all the website and Wordpress template sellers out there, Template Monster is clearly the king. Reigning in the business for the past couple of years, the company has grown substantially to offer tens of thousands of templates to it’s many customer’s. ...

April 2, 2010 · 2 min · 230 words · Jake

Darren Rowse's ProBlogger.net Bought and Acquired by Google

As much of a shock as this comes, Darren Rowse has actually sold ProBlogger. In an official press release held on the blog, Darren announces Google had offered to buy the blog and add it to their Blogger line of applications, to which Darren had rightfully accepted. ...

April 1, 2010 · 2 min · 351 words · Jake

Interview with Professional XHTML/CSS Slicing Company Slicejack

PSD Conversion is a very high-paying business. Many amazing designers know how to work through Photoshop but just don’t have the time or haven’t learned how to code their designs into XHTML and CSS code. This is where many popular companies come in to help, the most popular being psd2html. ...

February 26, 2010 · 4 min · 840 words · Jake

Why Digg.com is heading for a Major Pitfall

I remember a time when Digg used to roam wild in the Social News kingdom. It was the force to be reckoned with when it came to internet marketing - everybody needed to hit the front page to gain some traffic to their site. I’m sure tons of blogs have built their popularity off of Digg’s massive traffic influx, but there are many signs pointing towards this site closing the lid. ...

February 8, 2010 · 3 min · 580 words · Jake

Interview with ThisWebHost - An Impressive new Web Hosting Company

Finding a decent web hosting company today is difficult. So many companies overprice, can’t keep uptime promises, have horrible support, or offer you barely any space to store your site’s files and content. The few that have shown promise in the past are some of my favorites: Hostgator, Dreamhost, Bluehost, etc. However as I was browsing the web one night (like always) I ran into a great looking hosting company, This*. ...

October 24, 2009 · 4 min · 848 words · Jake