Are you looking for SX in all the wrong places? Can’t afford Sex-Dot-Com…or Sex-Dot-Anything for that matter? Well there is new hope for those of us who wish to retire early on our earnings as Internet porn purveyors. No need now to pay ten million plus for a Dot Com that signals salaciousness like Porn-Dot-Com.…
For many of us the public library lost its soul long before the coming of the Kindle. Libraries became multi-media, three-ring circuses: audio-visual tapes in one ring, computer centers in another, and books in the gradually-shrinking third. They had little choice, of course, as the disbursers of the public purse demanded entertainment for the masses.…
It isn’t my job here at the Secret Lab to tout products. But all the online nonsense about the Fragile Ipad got to me and I had to tell my story… This afternoon my five-year-old grandson ran past me with my first Ipad in hand. The Targus case was open and flopping in the breeze.…
Ready to run for public office? If you haven’t registered your campaign domain name yet you might want to get that done first. Even more important, have you registered your full-name domain yet? That’s “yourfullname.com!” ”JohnJones.com” or “AlbertSmith.Com,” for example. A politician’s name is his brand name and if you don’t have that brand name…
If you ask a techie type the question posed by the title, you might get an more of an answer than you really need. You see, the question is a bit of a riddle, like the old “How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?” Of course wood…
Friday, March 30, 2012 Cheap Mike Tours London, England! Pay-per-click hasn’t been working that well lately for Cheap Mike. Since Mike always tries to do his best by the economy and spend money, he turned to look for a new advertising source. His good friend AN-G, the Vietnamese entrepreneur, suggested using Fiverr.com For those of…
Writing A Book? Don’t Forget Your Website! Writing a book or thinking about writing one? Already have one published or online? Then think seriously about getting yourself a domain name and a website. There is no better way of bringing your name and your book some great cheap publicity. The big guys are doing it.…
As you can probably guess by the title, this article isn’t for those of you that already know what you’re going to do with your new web address. Maybe you intend to put a web site on it; maybe you were only looking for a personalized email address; in any case, you bought it with…
The Kindle Improves On War and Peace! Makes it easier and more fun to read. I bought the book shown in the image above forty years ago. It weights almost three pounds. That’s a light-weight as paper copies of War and Peace go; five or six pounds would be more like it. I was a…
Centuries before Wellington and Churchill, Great Britain was saved from the barbarians by King Arthur. Legend has it that when England is once again in desperate trouble, King Arthur will return. His tombstone is said to read, “Here lies Arthur, formerly king, and king to be.” Twentieth Century author T.H. White modernized the quote in…
The Uncanny Valley: Tales From A Lost Town by Gregory Miller Illustrated by Randall York StoneGarden.Net Publishers 2011 Reviewed by Mike Nardine (“Gregory Miller is a fresh new talent with a great future.” –Ray Bradbury) As all of us know, a valley is a low point on the topography usually bisected by a river and…
SEO, for those of you who might care but don’t know, is the acronym for “Search Engine Optimization.” SEO matters because it can mean the difference between a website appearing on page one of a search engine results page (like Google, Yahoo, etc.), or page 500. Since most searchers quit looking for sites after page three,…
Authors, rejoice! You have nothing to lose but your unpublished manuscripts! Ebooks, Ereaders and Epublishing are the great levelers. You got the same 100% chance of getting published as Stephen King. You no longer have to send your book to half-a-hundred publishers hoping for an acceptance before you finally bite the bullet and spend a…
Hey Guys, Want To Meet New Chicks? Forget The Macho Stuff! Carry an Ereader! An attractive young woman actually initiated a conversation with me today at our local Dunn Bros. coffee shop! She was a college student, I think, studying for a test. If this happens to you all the time, then you’re probably young.…
Fear not, gentle reader, you are not about to enter into the dark, criminal world of the “hacker!” Using the knowledge you accrue here will not bring Interpol or the FBI to your door. “Domain hacks” are neither illegal nor immoral; they are, in fact, creative, clever, and well-received by most netizens–excluding, of course, those…
“…The more they stay the same.” Or so says the French Proverb (“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”). Don’t laugh; it’s all true: “history would be more interesting if it were not so repetitious.” (I have no idea where that last quotation comes from, but I love it!) Watching the interaction—or lack thereof—between…
