July 6, 2011
There are a lot of blogs and websites on the Internet that have a subscription list, where you can sign up to receive a newsletter. Maybe you’ve even considered offering such a subscriber system on your own website, but it seems far too expensive and much too complicated to install on your own server. Enter PHPList, a free solution.
June 23, 2011
These days, there are a lot of businesses, both online and offline, that make use of wiki platforms to help generate teamwork and collaboration, while remaining at remote locations. With Tiki Wiki, you can host it on your own web server so that you can decide exactly how it looks and functions, and at the same time you can access your Wiki from anywhere in the world.
June 22, 2011
For people that are a little bit wary about cloud storage solutions, I have an alternative for you. Instead of syncing your files with the online storage space that you’ve purchased and have to pay for, what if you could simply turn your local storage – like a USB stick, a directory on your computer, or a portable hard drive – into a storage unit in the “cloud”?
February 6, 2011
Every website on the Internet needs to be stored somewhere, and that’s what we refer to as “hosting“ – but what exactly does that mean? With so many different ways of hosting your site, it’s easy to get lost in the internet tubes. Let me guide you through some of the many ways you can [...]
December 27, 2010
The mixtape has had a rocky relationship with the internet. Crowd favorites such as Muxtape and Mixwit have both been covered here but are also no longer in existence due to copyright concerns and lawsuits from the recording industries. There is currently a slew of hosted sites available for creating your own playlist or mixtape. [...]
August 9, 2010
Finding a qualified candidate to fill a job posting can be a trying experience. Some firms elect to outsource this task to a recruitment service or hiring firm. Others will post the job opening to Monster.com, or to a syndicated Job posting placement site such as JobCoin, covered here previously. Finally, companies can list jobs [...]
July 5, 2010
A while ago while I was looking for a self-hosted alternative to create an online survey, I came across a great open-source and free script called Lime Survey. I tried a few online survey alternatives and I found LimeSurvey the best way to create self hosted surveys and questionnaires. While I have been using LimeSurvey [...]
June 8, 2010
Finding the perfect webhost is more or less similar to a general love story. While there are cases of love at first sight, most people have to go through disappointments and broken hearts before finding the one that we want to spend the rest of our life with. There are also stories about finding your [...]
October 25, 2009
Oh readers, if only you could see me now. You’d be looking at a guy with three day stubble on his face, a pile of junk food in his stomach and a half-finished WordPress website sitting on his hard drive starting a daunting article for MakeUseOf that he has avoided for several hours. You’d be [...]
September 22, 2009
A blog is a layman-friendly variation of a website, and having a blog is one of the many ways to state your presence in the virtual world. While there are many hassle-free blog services out there that will take care of everything except automatically blog for you – like Blogger and WordPress, nothing can beat [...]
