We acquired another Fur domain that could work. As the leader in community evolved hosting your opinion on which one we should choose is in your hands. The 2 options are…
This poll will be closed tomorrow at midnight.
Posted in News Worthy
You’ve probably noticed that a lot of consumer electronics don’t come with a standard wall charger anymore, getting you to top up the battery on your favorite MP3 player through a USB port instead. What do you do when you find yourself away from a computer? How are you supposed to charge that cell phone or other portable gadget?
This handy thing plugs in the 12V cigarette lighter jack in your car, providing you with four ports of USB power. It’s not exactly revolutionary in what it does, but by offering four ports, you’ll have enough space to top up all the devices in the car. Everyone’s iPod can get a piece of the action, if you don’t mind having the USB cables dangling in every which direction.
You can even be a little more creative and use the USB ports for powering USB fans and USB air ionizers. The 4-port USB car charger sells for 12 bucks.
Posted in Great Gadgets
We at Manticore Media Group Inc. would like to announce the change of the name of our hosting business from BlueFur.com to YellowFur.com due to allegations of trademark infringement again. We felt that, rather than spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees defending our use of the name and possibly affecting our ability to continue to deliver affordable hosting and the excellence in customer service our customers are accustomed to, it was the best option to settle this matter out of court. Manticore Media Group Inc. and YellowFur.com will continue to strive to meet and exceed our customers’ needs and expectations. We look forward to marketing under the YellowFur brand and growing with the industry in years to come. As I am sure there will be many questions we have posted some of the obvious ones here:
Will there be any disruption in my service due to this change?
There should be no disruption to your service due to the change. Once we are 100% sure that the YellowFur.com domain is running at full capacity we will start to point the BlueFur.com domain to the YellowFur.com domain. This should happen in the next 24 to 48 hours.
Why did you pick YellowFur.com?
Finding a domain which allowed us to continue using our lovable mascot was a tricky venture. We feel that YellowFur.com is a great brandable name that is unique and easy to remember.
Who brought these allegations of trademark infringement against you?
Part of our agreement states that we can not disclose the details of the agreement. Let’s just say that they are a very large US based company with deep pockets.
Does this mean you are going out of business?
By no means does this mean we are going out of business. We look forward to the challenge of getting our new name out and making YellowFur.com a household name.
Is there any way we can help?
If you provide links on your site to BlueFur.com we advise you to update and redirect them to YellowFur.com.
Posted in News Worthy
Congratulations to this weeks geek Rinko. Has Matt met his match? This weeks questions are…
1. Who invented the QWERTZ keyboard?
2. What year did Fisher Price introduce their first keyboard?
3. What type of keyboard did the Commodore Amiga have?
4. What continent predominately uses an AZERTY keyboard?
5. What are 2 home keys on a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard?
Posted in Geek of the Week
Around 4 million or more iPhone’s have been sold and are being used to surf the Internet. As time goes on more people will be surfing the Internet using a web phone of one type or another. This week we will focus on making our site or blog more iPhone friendly so that those who are surfing our site using an iPhone will not be lost.
Apple Touch Icon
Like a favorite icon for your web browser the iPhone has the ability to save a page to a touch icon so users can quickly access that site again. The touch icon is a 57 x 57 png image that you can set in your header. To get started you will need to create the png icon. For those that are graphically inclined just open your logo and shrink it down to 57 x 57 (you can do any box shape and the iphone will shrink it down to 57 x 57) and be sure to save it as a png. For those not so graphically inclined do the following…
iPhone Theme for your Blog
If you have a blog then odds are people with an iPhone will try and surf it. Installing an iPhone theme for your blog will make it easier for them to surf your blog. I have installed the iWPhone theme and plugin on to this blog. If you install it your blog will look like below.
Redirect iPhone users to a Separate Site
If you do not have a blog and want to push iPhone users to another folder where you can then develop a more iPhone friendly design add the following to your .htaccess…
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla.*iPhone.*
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ iPhone/index.html
If you get stuck let me know in the comments.
Posted in Weekend Projects
Attention bloggers if you have manually installed WordPress then you should immediately upgrade to 2.5. There are lots of bug fixes to 2.5 but the major difference you will notice is the new navigation and colour scheme of the admin area.
Do not think about it or put it off. Your site is at risk so upgrade now.
For those who installed WordPress with Fantastico, Netenberg usually has the upgrade released a week or two later. We do post Fantastico updates on the blog so keep an eye open for that.
Posted in Security