Unbiased Web Hosting Company Review – Just The Facts

Readers of my professional freelance writing blog know that I have had some trouble with Dreamhost in the past few months. No, this isn’t one of those Dreamhost sucks rants, but rather a comprehensive, fact-based, review of the incidents and responses that occurred while I was hosting websites on Dreamhost web hosting services. My hope … Read more

MediaFire Takedown Notice Threatens Mozilla Over SkipScreen

MediaFire, a file sharing website loaded with copyrighted files, has sent a hypocritical takedown notice to Mozilla over Firefox plug-in SkipScreen. Since Mozilla has no control over SkipScreen, and since Mozilla itself is not violating MediaFire’s terms of service, there is only one reason they sent the takedown notice to Mozilla, legal extortion. MediaFire hopes that Mozilla will be too afraid of the cost of litigation and simply comply with the request even though it has no merit.

Bing Webmaster Tools Down

Microsoft’s vaunted Bing search engine can’t manage to provide the basic webmaster tools that website owners depend on. Maybe they should use Google Webmaster toools to find out that they have a broken link.

Java Default Cache Size 1 GB!

Are you kidding me? By default, your Java install, the one that you installed because you wanted to use an application that it’s developer touted as being cross-platform because it was written in Java sets its Temporary Files Disk Space size at 1,000 MB! That is a whole GIG of data if you are having … Read more