Geek Shout

Most of us take the Internets for granted, some are acquiring collectibles for the day when the Internet will cease to exist and others claim to have invented it. While we feel this timeline failed to give Al Gore the credit he deserves and it also shows a pair of UTP cables and referring to [...]

Google, Verizon and AT&T have shown interest in offering faster access speeds to websites that pay for the privilege, conflicting with the wishes of the FCC to maintain net neutrality – the equality of data on the Internet.
“Any outcome, any deal that doesn’t preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs [...]

What’s Ytimg.com and why is it giving me a cookie is an increasingly common question as YouTube’s popularity keeps increasing over the years. To put it simple, ytimg.com is the domain where YouTube stores most of the thumbnails for its videos. If you have a cookie from ytimg.com, you need not worry.
If Adobe Flash is [...]

Social Networks are the focus of many businesses this year for various reasons: communicating to customers, pushing a brand, driving in traffic and of course, search engine optimization. However not all social networks deliver well on all these benefits. This PDF entitled The CMO’s Guide To: The Social Landscape clearly outlines what the social media [...]

If you know your way around computers and the Internets chances are you’re constantly being asked technical questions, sometimes out of need other times out of curiosity. Most of them are about the Internet and how it works, and ironically the answer to them is always on the Internet.
How Google Works is a short SWF [...]

Based on a spider, the service at xml-sitemaps.com will generate the increasingly popular XML sitemaps for free, up to 500 pages. Chances are, if your website has more than 500 pages, it is not a static website and you should have your sitemap generated based off your database or a plugin, if you’re using a [...]

If you find yourself in a constant pursuit for a software or service that’s better, or free but accomplishes most of what your current one does, they have a website for that, now! Bluntly named alternativeTo.net, this is a community driven website  with alternatives to popular software and services. This includes software for Windows, Mac, [...]

Recently Google researched the effect that an increase in a page’s loading time has over its visitors. They concluded that even an increase as little as 300ms has a significant impact on the user’s browsing behavior. In the 6-week experiment, 0.2 to 0.6% less searches were performed as a result of the .3 second increase [...]

XML is playing a big part of the Web 2.0 nature of websites, but few people other than developers understand what XML is and does. This video is here to make it all a little more confusing.