When you build your website, you, of course, want to get high rankings in the search engines. There are lots of ways to do this and lots of ways to NOT do this. Below are 10 things I’ve seen listed onine to avoid if you want to be in good standing with the search engines. I feel like sharing it with all of you, and hope it will help you all. [ read more ]

Like kids tracking Santa’s route from the North Pole, anxious consumers are following shipments of iPads from the factory in Shenzhen, China to their front doors and store shelves this weekend.

Email notices went out yesterday informing customers who had pre-ordered a wifi-only iPad that their product was shipping.  Also on Monday, a report from Morgan Stanley suggested Apple’s  suppliers forecast  2.5 million units will be sold in the first three months.  iPads will go on sale at Apple retail stores on Saturday, with some additional inventory made available to select Best Buy Stores. [ read more ]

StarWind Software is the leading manufacturer of IP SAN solutions. Its iSCSI software is well-known around the world for its cost-effectiveness and wide range of features. In this article we will discuss features of StarWind that would provide your business with the highest level of data reliability and high availability. It is a well-known fact that your users sometimes mistake and your hardware fails. Actually it happens quite often and we all know that. In order to protect you from losing critical data, the StarWind lets you create virtual devices with CDP and Snapshot support. This means that you will have an unlimited number of snapshots which in its turn means an unlimited number of rollbacks! You can simply return to the previous state of your data in few simple steps. Moreover, a special Growing Image or Thin Provisioning option can be added to the basic functionality of CDP and Snapshot device. That option means that your CDP and Snapshot image file will not allocate the needed space at once, but will allocate it while it grows. The latter allows you to increase storage utilization level.Data recovery is also vitally important for modern business. StarWind offers its clients Synchronous Mirroring and Asynchronous Replication optionwhich, combined with the iSCSI technology, means that your data can be replicated fast and cheaply to any location, even to another continent! RAID-1 (Mirroring) ensures that your data is available to users 24/7/365 in situations like site failure. When your primary site is up and running again you can failback to that original site. These two powerful features of StarWind iSCSI Target will guarantee your data reliability and high availability even in most difficult situations and ensure nothing will affect your critical data.

You’ve probably seen many sites on which webmasters try to increase their incomes by adding PayPal Donation buttons to their sidebar.

This is particularly true of programmers who give their software away for free – and ask only that you donate so that they may continue to improve their programs or create new ones.

There’s no problem with asking for money. [ read more ]