http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com Hawaii Web Design, Development, and Da Kine! Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:43:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unconferenz has rescheduled to Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 8:00 AM - 4:00 AM at Kapiolani Community College. (This was postponed due to the Tsunami Warnings the day of the original event.) A wide variety of topics and a great chance to network. Sign up on ... http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2010/03/08/upcoming-geek-events-unconferenz-and-hmaus-springfest/ RT @TheOnion: Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology http://onion.com/axvW0F # I just bought the Mac Heist bundle. 7 awesome Mac apps worth $260+ for only $20 and got 3 cool bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it # http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2010/03/07/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-07/ Hiding from Google First, you may be wondering, WHY hide from Google. The answer is that perhaps you don't want one entity to know all about you, your friends, and your internet activities. But, there are many people that WANT to be found by their name ... http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2010/03/05/how-to-hide-from-google/ instantmobilizer at dotMobi failing: try http://bit.ly/1nZzrn and notice mobile version fail. Related to: http://bit.ly/9pnase ? # With instantmobilizer failing, your domain.mobi is currently just an error page: example, http://instantmobilizer.mobi # http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2010/02/14/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-14-2/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="164" caption="iPad's iBook"][/caption] Like a lot of people I was excited to learn about yesterday's Apple iPad release. Steve Jobs had said it would be "one of the most important things I've ever done" [techcrunch]. Apple calls it "magical and revolutionary". And, also like a lot ... http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2010/01/28/ipad-ebook-reader-yes-netbook-no/ One of the requests I hear from people is they want to backup up their files (MP3's, videos, photos, and documents) but be able to also view them on different computers, wherever they might be: across town or across the world. Are you looking for a way to backup and sync ... http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2009/09/26/syncplicity-backup-and-syncing-with-3gb-free/ Amazon has Snow Leopard Mac OS X version 10.6 (the upgrade to Leopard) available for pre-order on its site for $29. Their Free-Shipping option works even to Hawaii! Amazon also has Windows 7 available for pre-order.  Prices start at $119.99 for the Home Premium Upgrade, or $199.99 for ... http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2009/08/04/n-has-snow-leopard-and-windows-7-for-pre-order/ I've used BlueHost for several sites and client sites. They are a reliable, quality hosting company. Features include CPanel (for easy graphical access to your site), unlimited domain hosting, free domain, PHP/MySQL, easy site-script installation (used to be Fantastico), and many others. For $3.95/month ... http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2009/06/30/bluehost-running-special-3-95month-hosting/ Back when I went to j-school, the Internet wasn't considered a form of "mass media" yet. It was still pretty well limited to email and clunky browsers with limited information. Well, obviously that's all changed. Journalism schools are teaching about how social media (things ... http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2009/06/19/journalism-schools-using-and-teaching-social-media/ In support of the new Star Trek movie that is coming out, a very cool site is online that allows you to hold the Enterprise in your hands: www.Experience-the-Enterprise.com. You visit the site, install an Active-X browser plugin, print out an image (that's used to control the movements), and ... http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2009/05/08/star-treks-enterprise-in-your-hands/