I come across some great scripts from time to time. I do buy some of them but most of the time I don’t bother because I’m busy with other things or because I don’t think I’d be able to build a successful site with the script. Therefore, from now on …
I’ve read a few articles today about the launch of Amazon’s new payment system. Their payment system allows developers to use Amazons back end. I for one welcome. According to the New York Times there are 81 million customers in the USA with their credit card details in the amazon …
UPDATE: 6th April 2018 It is 10 years since this article was published. I recently spoke to Joel Comm about this issue. Joel explained that the president of his company (at the time) suggested what people were calling a “forced continuity” payment model and Joel agreed to it. He noted …
If you make money through the internet or just run a few hobby websites then no doubt you will have used quite a few hosting companies over the years. I’ve used about 10 different companies in the last 7 or 8 years and my usual thinking when staying with a …
The other night I decided to move my blog ElectricBandits from a .co.uk domain extension to a .com. Although the blog is written from a UK point of view I think that long term the .com domain is better for branding and promotion. I have changed the domain of one …
I came across an interesting concept on Digital Lifestyles today. A london based company called En-Twyn has been able to integrate two ethernet ports into a standard power socket. It’s an interesting idea and one which I think would prove popular with many companies (offices/hotels etc). Clearly this kind of …
Yesterday, JKOnTheRun (great site!) reported that MobiTV is trying to shut down HowardForums because of links to copyrighted material being posted on the forum. Basically MobiTv does not protect their content and instead relies on it’s members not posting the url elsewhere…..which is clearly a very flawed assumption. Someone posted …
We were listing some of our shop items for sale today on eBay when I noticed what I would personally call a very unfair policy from eBay towards Google and it’s checkout users. I listed the item for sale and put PayPal as the only payment option but since we …
A few days ago I wrote about my first experience with Secure Sockets Layer certificates. After a brief search on the net I chose Instant SSL. As I explained the other day, since we don’t have our PO box set up yet and since we are still operating from home …
After a few weeks of limbo due to our bank taking so long with delivering our visa cards, we have finally been able to move forward with our online shop (which I will post the details of in a week or so when it is completely ready). Yesterday was a …