Three strategies to stop Facebook video pirates in their tracks: no YouTube embeds, Facebook Rights Manager and Partial Videos.
The State of Comments 2020: WordPress, Disqus, Medium, Typepad vs Custom Comment Systems
Due to all this dross, good and informative comments are lost and have almost no long term value. Thoughts and some solutions.
How to Grade Canon C-Log: Three Step Workflow
A quick primer on how to efficiently grade Canon C-log, including step by step workflow.
High ISO Noise Reduction: CaptureOne vs DXO PhotoLab
How much of a difference can software make with high ISO images? A lot of difference it turns out.
Piping UptimeRobot alerts into Teamwork Chat
I hope this short essay helps anyone trying to monitor site uptime or pipe any kind of alerts into Teamwork Chat.
Worst Services We Actually Use: Fruux Review
Insisting on changing web standards instead of supporting customers is the best example of Millennial Moronity I’ve seen in my career in IT.
Project Gutenberg – Subverting WordPress.org for .com marketing
WordPress is fast becoming the F35 of CMS. Over-budget, overfeatured and unreliable.
The Definitive Guide to Deploying Apple OS X 10.13.5 High Sierra on Mac Pro 4,1 or 5,1 Silver Towers
Start by testing your hardware and then carefully prepare your install disk and firmware updates for a smooth installation.
Why You Should Buy Vimeo Pro on Sale on Mother’s Day
I worry that Vimeo Pro Pricing is so good that eventually Vimeo will remove the basic Pro account for new users. Get Vimeo Pro now at 30% off.
Shooting for Likes: Instagram’s Influence on Photography
Looking to be liked is of course the first problem. Before any promotion happens, a body of work should be ready with the ability to create more.
Netflix Valuation: A European Perspective
With price to earnings north of 275 and price to sales at 12, Netflix is madly overvalued. The growth potential is not real. Here’s why.
Apple OS X shortcomings got you down? Read some Windows 10 blog posts to cheer up
The price of a working computer on the “free” Windows 10? Two hours out of your life and storing all of your files on Microsoft’s servers.
A billion reasons never to buy IBM services
IBM just stole $1 billion from Canada. If this is how IBM treats staff and governments, how would IBM treat your small business?
Bad UX: How Medium’s comment system kills engagement
Medium should think less about page views and more about making it easy for its community to interact with each other’s stories.
SoundCloud’s Path to profitability
Better quality streaming and with no ads, I’d sign up even faster. I’m waiting for that listener offer to show up in my SoundCloud account.
How to write an ideal service notification
Editor’s note: Service interruption notifications are the unloved sibling of newsletters and welcome emails. They just don’t get enough love — and for the most part are fairly terrible, anonymous, vague and menacing messages, often from a no-reply address. There is a better way.
While software is our main business now, we have some hosting clients for special services. Every once in a while of course there is either expected or unexpected downtime. We strive to let our clients know about these issues in advanced (planned) and in real time (unplanned). We don’t try the tricky move that many hosts do of just trying to hide downtime. Do not try to be anonymous. Do not use no-reply addresses. Keep your communication personable and open, informative and precise.
Why WP Rocket fails on high traffic sites and how to fix it
We are big users of WP Rocket (licensed through 2020). WP Rocket works great on our clients’ normal busy sites (up to 5 million visitors/month). We run one very high traffic network with up to 40 million visitors in one week or even a million visitors/hour. On this site, WP Rocket fails miserably. When new […]
WordPress Plugin Pricing
Is $75 too much money for a video plugin or too low or just right? There’s a free FV Player Pro license for the best answer to that question.
Intranet.red of Patagonia paying with a fake credit card
Are Intranet.red using stolen cards or just making false claims?
How to set up a Mac securely on OS X 10.11 Sierra (El Capitan)
While post-Prism (2012), it’s impossible to truly secure OS X, one can make a good effort by turning off iCloud & Sharing, adding Little Snitch.
