WebsiteForensics: we remember when the web was in black and white

So You Want To Build A Website?

Published on 2011-10-24 22:48:22

Seriously, forget about it. No really, don’t even bother. As today’s web evolves, you’re better off creating your own one or two page site with a blogging platform with links to relevant social media where you’ll do most of your work anyway. Most important of all, provide useful and basic information that can be easily [...]

You Can Put Newsstand in a Folder!

Published on 2011-10-13 17:50:52

Did you manage to finally get past that nasty error that kept us all away from iOS 5 all day? By 8 PM, the infamous “The iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored. An internal error has occurred.” was history and we managed to install iOS 5 on our iPhones and iPads. Then we discovered a new [...]

How to use alternate SMTP services

Published on 2011-10-12 00:03:01

We can finally send emails as our original domain identities! Our ISP, like many out there, has disabled SMTP on port 25 and forces you to use your ISP identity for all your email accounts. It hardly looks professional when someone writes to your domain email and gets a really personal looking ISP sender in [...]

From Google Reader to Twitter?

Published on 2011-09-22 01:19:21

Want to publish more up to date tweets automatically from your Google News Reader? We’ve set up some great Google News Reader accounts for clients, but one of them wanted to know how she could have selected articles appear automatically in her twitter feed? Well, here’s the perfect article on the subject: How to Share [...]

iPhone Battery Losing Charge Rapidly?

Published on 2011-09-22 01:09:30

One of us at the office – Blake of course – thought his iPhone’s battery had just lost its ability to charge. A full overnight charge would be gone in 5 to 6 hours. He had to keep the phone plugged in all the time, would often end up with a fully lost charge by [...]

A few useful tools

Published on 2011-09-14 00:06:43

You’ve all been to our Site Admin Stuff page already right? Well, we decided we’d share the following tools we sometimes / always / can’t live without when creating various projects. Enjoy ! Please read through to enjoy our resources! File conversions Zamzar – File conversion – From anything to anything Youtube-mp3 – Convert and download youtube video/audio My name [...]

Comparison shopping with Canada Post?

Published on 2011-09-13 00:02:02

It’s no secret WebSiteForensics has its northern office in Canada, so we’re quite familiar with the services of Canada Post. We didn’t know until recently that this great Canadian corporation has developed some new online tools for shopping. No we don’t mean shopping services for buying stamps in bulk or bubble-wrap, we mean comparison-shopping for all [...]

Twuffer – it’s a twitter buffer!

Published on 2011-08-26 02:19:20

We recently discovered an amazing service that finally delivers what it promises: to be able to manage and post future tweets. If you run a blog, you probably would like to promote your postings evenly over time instead of the classic burst of links most users are accustomed to. As well, if you have a major [...]

Anatomy of a TypeFace

Published on 2011-07-01 00:00:53

We don’t just do Website Forensics for our clients, we often have to work with print. It’s therefore quite important for us to know the basic lingo: apertures, arms, ascenders, ligatures, loops, tails … TypePedia is a shared encyclopedia of typefaces that will provide all the necessary knowledge. The site also has a collaborative effort [...]

eBay Is No Longer eBay

Published on 2011-06-01 23:14:51

For years, we’ve listed and sold stuff on eBay (not an affiliate links for sure …). Ever since the mid to late 90s in fact. We stopped selling for a while, and almost forgot about the service until we realized we had quite a bit of good quality equipment we wanted to offload. We went [...]