Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Reviews are very important when searching out web hosting for your websites. When I was new to web hosting and looking for a reliable host, I made a few mistakes. Most of my web hosts have been outstanding– even some of the smaller companies I contracted with– but the best so far is Hostgator, in [...]

This is interesting: Twitter stores all tweets. All of them. All the mindless drivel, the babble, the sponsored tweets, the quotations and witty sayings, the urls, the photos, the personal data. Forever, apparently. Or maybe just for two weeks. Who can know? The New York Times paints it as a good thing (“historical”), but I [...]

It’s very risky to click on links, any links, be it in emails, in social networking sites, etc. A recent study said that there has been a 233% increase of malicious sites on the Internet, almost all propagating through social networking and emails. Yikes. Twitter is especially susceptible to malicious clicking. Because urls are shortened [...]

Here’s an interesting website for your ecology and environment-minded individuals! It’s FreeYourFootprint. It has a cute (and free!) trivia game for eco-minded Internet surfers. For every question you answer correctly, FreeYourFootprint will offset one pound of C02 through planting trees! They purchase trees from the non-profit organization Trees for the Future. Check out the website [...]

Surprise, surprise! Imagine my delight when shopping Theme Forest to see themes moderately priced! The themes there are very high quality, too. I’ve been generally dissatisfied with the “free” themes out there recently. Many are junk, many require Page Rank-sucking footer links, and others have small annoying quirks that bug me (like the sidebar loading [...]

This has got to be the motherlode of all Charter contests! Charter High Speed Internet is having a Camaro Sweepstakes– yes, they are giving away a Camaro! I’ve mentioned the Charter company before. I think they are a rising star in the world of Internet service. At a time when other companies are acting like [...]