Advertising & Branding
- Ad Freak : A blog dedicated to following ad trends and campaigns.
- AdLand adrag.com : By the adgrunts for the adgrunts advertising blog commercial archive.
- Brandchannel.com : Analyzes various world wide brands and branding efforts. They cover website branding efforts and review them.
Applications
- Mozilla Firefox : If you are still using Internet Explorer you should do yourself a favor and switch to Firefox.
- Apache Software Foundation : An open source web server and everything relating to it.
- PHP : A scripting language used to create server pages. A must have for creating database driven dynamic websites.
- MySQL Database : An open source database that is a requirement for any commerce driven website.
- Paypal : Paypal is not only a service for paying bills. They offer an excellent shopping cart that can be easily integrated with any website. Create a shopping cart and start handling credit card payments within minutes.
Security
- WindowSecurity.com : A site dedicated to informing users of Windows related security issues and how to prevent or fix them.
- SecurityFocus : A website dedicated to all subjects security related. Covers Windows, Unix, viruses, firewalls, etc.
- Security Response by Symantec : The creators of Norton Anti-Virus post current and past virus threats and descriptions to this site. Great resource for finding out information about a specific virus and how to remove it.
Web Sites & Blogs
- CSS Beauty : Showcase of CSS designs.
- Killersites.com Directory : Check out our listing!
- Montana Directory : Covering the topics of arts, business, community, computers, culture, economy, entertainment, family, fitness, health, home, information, internet, real estate, recreation, reference, shopping, sports, technology, transportation, travel, vacations and more.
- We are listed in the : Polson, Montana Web Design Services section of Marketingtool.com.
- Meyerweb : Eric Meyer's web site. Catch up on the latest in web design.
- MontanaWeb! : Find businesses and organizations in our home state of Montana.
- World Wide Web Consortium : The web standards group. A great resource for information about web site technologies.
- W3Schools : A collection of free HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XHTML, WAP, ASP, SQL tutorials with lots of working examples and source code. Also includes web usage statistics for browsers, operating systems, and displays.
- WebDesigners-Directory : Web Designers Directory
- TopDesignFirms.com : Design Firm Directories
CNet Security News 8.20.2008
Malicious Flash ads attack, spread via clipboard
Flash ads on legitimate sites are pasting malicious links into peoples' clipboards and spreading as people unwittingly paste them into e-mails, blogs, and IMs.
Hacker exposes alleged Olympics age fraud
Security researcher digs into Google and Baidu to find evidence of Chinese gymnasts' ages and finds evidence disappearing as he works, like sand shifting under his feet.
Bigfoot site stuns the world: It was a hoax
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Bigfoot Web site stuns the world: It was a hoax--Outside observers discover that the alleged cadaver was merely a gorilla costume. The rubber foot was a dead giveaway.
Free-to-play, ad-supported games the winners?--Getting gamers addicted is the key to monetization, according to PC Gaming Alliance's chief technology officer. But the business model hasn't proven popular outside Asia.
Why can't Firefox print as well as IE?--Printing seems to be at the bottom of Mozilla's priority list. It's time to make Firefox the equal of Internet Explorer in terms of printing Web pages.
New Byrne/Eno album streams free--David Byrne and Brian Eno have made their entire album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, available as a free online stream and are encouraging fans to embed it.
Ireland investigating fake credit card reader scam
Irish officials say scammers replaced credit card readers and snagged data from 10,000 or so cards.
Android security team appeals to bug hunters
Security team for Google's nascent open-source mobile platform has attempted to raise its profile with the security community.
Judge lifts MIT students' card-hacking gag order
In an abrupt reversal, federal judge rejects the Massachusetts transit agency's attempts to bar three students from discussing subway card vulnerabilities--until sometime next year.
Sci-fi pros focus on e-books at Denvention 3
At the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, writers, agents, editors, publishers, and fans have a lot to say about electronic publishing.
Symantec to buy PC Tools
The purchase of the PC utilities software maker will allow Symantec to expand its reach in emerging regional markets, the company said.
More security holes plague MySpace, possibly Facebook
MySpace works to close hole that lets strangers read what friends write on members' private pages, while Facebook looks into security issues with new apps.
MIT student defends MBTA hacking research
In an interview with The Boston Globe, the student said there was never any intention to cause "havoc."
MIT students fight to keep card hacking material confidential
A hearing in Boston is likely to resolve the question of whether or not students who found farecard vulnerabilities must turn over unpublished material to the Massachusetts transit agency.
Apple .Mac customers targeted for fraud
Phishers apparently take advantage of the difficulties that occurred when Apple transitioned users from .Mac to Mobile Me service last month.
Massachusetts: MIT students deserve 'no First Amendment protection'
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ratchets up the rhetoric against three MIT students who are the subject of a court-imposed restraining order that a federal judge has declined to modify.
Judge leaves gag order intact on subway card-hacking students
In a setback to Electronic Frontier Foundation, judge postpones decision on whether three MIT students can reveal "information" about security problems in Boston subway cards.
Daily Debrief: Online attack, retaliation in Russia-Georgia conflict
In Wednesday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Robert Vamosi discuss the latest exchange of cyberattacks between warring countries Russia and Georgia.
Don't click that headline, security researchers warn
E-mails pretending to contain video from MSNBC have links to malicious software, security companies are reporting.
VMware: Don't shut down that virtual machine
Customers who turned off virtual machines running VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 were unable to turn them back on due to a licensing flaw. But the company has posted a patch.
Kids, not Russian government, attacking Georgia's Net, says researcher
Attacks on Georgia's Internet may be the work of "overexcited" youths and not Russian officials, according to the Zero Day Emergency Response Team's founder.
Transit agency wants MIT students to stay gagged
Federal judge will hear arguments Thursday from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and lawyers for three MIT students, who are the subject of a gag order over subway card security.
MIT students: Mass. agency 'misrepresents' what led to lawsuit
Both parties in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority lawsuit tell different stories about the week of negotiations that led to a restraining order against a Defcon talk.
Russia and Georgia continue attacks--online
Details are surfacing on the Internet side of the Russian and Georgian hostilities. Researchers studying botnets report an increase in attacks.
CNet Tech News 8.20.2008
Microsoft launches 3-D wonder Photosynth for consumers
Microsoft finally takes Photosynth from being a neat-looking technology demo to a playground for amateur photographers to build incredible 3D works.
Photos: The ultramobiles of IDF
Here's a peek at a dozen or so ultramobile computers powered by Intel's new Atom CPU and on display this week at the company's developer forum.
Apple finally ready for iTunes subscriptions?
Three separate reports came out this afternoon--with very similar details--that Apple is preparing to introduce a music subscription service on iTunes.
50 young journalists featured on UWIRE blog
News aggregator UWIRE has launched a new blog, Youth Vote '08, in conjunction with CBS News and Washingtonpost.com that features a youth perspective on the presidential election.
Malicious Flash ads attack, spread via clipboard
Flash ads on legitimate sites are pasting malicious links into peoples' clipboards and spreading as people unwittingly paste them into e-mails, blogs, and IMs.
The OpenSocial roadmap
Google's Joe Kraus provides an update on OpenSocial, the set of APIs rolled out late last year for creating applications that can access friends and feeds from social networks.
Comcast to throttle some customers' Web speeds
Broadband provider plans to reduce Internet speeds to its heaviest users for up to 20 minutes during periods of congestion, according to interview with Bloomberg.
Retail moves suggest new iPods are coming
Yet another sign that new iPods are around the corner has arrived in the form of inventory moves at Apple's retail partners.
Build your own Cloud with the Eucalyptus open source project
Eucalyptus is a relatively new open source project that aims to let you build your own Cloud
At IDF, Intel rallies its developers
The Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco gives the chipmaker the chance to tout its direction for the months ahead.
Intel lists new processors for ultra-portables
Chipmaker lists new low-power processors for upcoming ultra-portables from Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo as well as the new quad-core mobile processor.
Nokia takes 'Lonely Planet' mobile
Company is adding Lonely Planet travel guides to its Nokia Maps 2.0 service.
Talking cool: Intel doubles notebook fan speed
Chipmaker hopes the prototype being displayed at the company's developer forum ultimately will find its way into notebook PC designs.
FTC would have OK'd EA-Take Two merger
Federal government gives the merger its nod of approval, but Electronic Arts let its bid for Take Two expire earlier this week.
Hacker exposes alleged Olympics age fraud
Security researcher digs into Google and Baidu to find evidence of Chinese gymnasts' ages and finds evidence disappearing as he works, like sand shifting under his feet.
Solazyme targets algae fuel in three years
Next-generation biofuels using algae or plant wastes are getting closer to commercialization, but large-scale production with sustainably grown plants remains the challenge.
Daily Debrief: Possible fall pizzazz from Palm
CNET's Kara Tsuboi and senior editor Bonnie Cha discuss what to expect from the Treo Pro and whether this iteration will help the company refresh its image.
Federal adoption of open source: It's just a question of how much
Why is the U.S. government adopting open source so broadly? Cost and flexibility.
CNET News Daily Podcast: Apple finally speaks up on iPhone 3G glitches
Apple breaks its silence on iPhone 3G glitches, and mark your calendars, Sims fans.
Hillcrest Labs sues Nintendo over Wii controller patents
Hillcrest claims the console's "Wiimote" violates four of its patents.
Bigfoot site stuns the world: It was a hoax
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network
Bigfoot Web site stuns the world: It was a hoax--Outside observers discover that the alleged cadaver was merely a gorilla costume. The rubber foot was a dead giveaway.
Free-to-play, ad-supported games the winners?--Getting gamers addicted is the key to monetization, according to PC Gaming Alliance's chief technology officer. But the business model hasn't proven popular outside Asia.
Why can't Firefox print as well as IE?--Printing seems to be at the bottom of Mozilla's priority list. It's time to make Firefox the equal of Internet Explorer in terms of printing Web pages.
New Byrne/Eno album streams free--David Byrne and Brian Eno have made their entire album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, available as a free online stream and are encouraging fans to embed it.