Summer Vacation Is Over
The last blog entry before this one was on May 5, 2008. That was the day we hired Matt Mikulla and the blog entries stopped! Did Matt poison the creative collective and thus stop all blogging...
Mikulla Joins Sitening as SEO Specialist
Matt Mikulla has joined Sitening's SEO team. An accomplished artist and self-described creative geek, Matt changed career directions to pursue his long-time interest in computers and technology. Prior...
WordPress Security Vulnerabilities
A few weeks ago, we noticed that someone had managed to insert a bunch of spam links into our WordPress header and footer. We quickly updated to the latest version (2.3.3 at the time), thinking it...
Product Review for Griffin ClearBoost for iPhone
My iPhone now sports Griffin Technology's ClearBoost, a protective polycarbonate case with a built-in antenna booster. I was the lucky recipient of a pre-launch product, and I've had a couple of...
Google Street View Cars Forced to Paint Road Lines While Driving the Streets of Nashville
By now, most people are familiar with Google Maps Street View feature. Street View shows you a 360 degree view of any address you enter. Google accomplishes this amazing task by using an army of...
Google Maps adds Nashville Street View
So today I went to provide someone with a Google Map link to our house. When I pulled the address up on my browser I noticed a small picture of my house! Wow. So I clicked it and there it was ... a...
How to Grab a Screenshot of an Entire Web Page
Web designers and marketers often need full-size screenshots for before-and-after shots and also for portfolio pieces. Fortunately, there's many ways to create website screenshots. However, among...
New Firefox Extension Does Quick Domain Lookups
Richard Kershaw of Quality Nonsense just launched a Firefox extension that makes it super easy to lookup domain names. The extension lets you perform one click domain searches at your registrar of...
Snipplr's Popularity Continues to Grow With Over 7,000 Registered Users
Snipplr, a social networking code repository created by Sitening, reached over 7,000 registered users today. Thanks to a highly acclaimed redesign, the past year has shown incredible growth for the...
How to Build Fast, High-Capacity Podcast Sites on the Cheap!
Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don't know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set...
Hammock T-shirt+Photo=Laptop Equals Very Cool
Nashville's Hammock Publishing has a 16-year-old annual tradition: giving T-shirts to the people they work with throughout the year. This year they added a new twist to that tradition...
Regardless of Outage, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Still Rocks
Although we were directly affected by the two hour outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it still wasn't the end of the world. I read several blog entries and comments about "not putting all of your...
Lights Out for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Outage Shutters Twitter and Thousands of Other Websites
Update 1: It's being reported that all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is down. Update 2: AWS appears to be back online as of 9:00AM CST. The outage lasted about 1-2 hours this morning. Friday morning...
Sitening Launches Raven SEO Tools and Companion Firefox Toolbar
After several months of testing and tweaking, we're excited to announce the release of Raven — The Essential Toolset for Search Engine Optimization. The success of Sitening's free SEO Tools prompted...
TechCrunch Releases New Version of CrunchBase
If there's anything important or interesting going on in technology, then you'll probably find it on TechCrunch. TechCrunch has become the source for technology industry news and they spend much of...
