Technology News

Read an informative collection of daily Tech News from around the globe.

Holiday Greetings

Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year from The Techie Blog!

Free Geek E-Cards

Send free Internet greeting cards to friends, family, fellow workers, and acquaintances from Greetings @ The Graphics Shop.

Geek Designs featured on apparel and items in The Techie Shop are available to send as free online greetings. You can even add a special touch by including music with your e-card. Customize and send a free virtual greeting to someone today.

Webmaster Tips

Read the latest Webmaster Tips, hints, advice, information, and news headlines each day.

SE News

Read the daily SE News headlines with the latest news and information about online search engines.

Tech News

Stay updated on the latest technology news by reading The New York Times Tech News each day.

Training and Education

Get trained as an IT professional and stay competitive! View a helpful collection of Training & Education resources.

Geek Holiday Coupon

Get into the festive spirit by shopping online at The Techie Shop and saving $10.00 when you spend $50.00 or more on geek gifts.

Enter coupon code CPFESTIVE during the checkout process. This holiday coupon expires December 20, 2004.

Telemetry Systems

Telemetry provides the capability of transmitting or retrieving data over communication links. Telemetry Systems is a new approach to telemetry for remote asset monitoring and data acquisition, combining advanced communication methods.

Currency Converter

Use a free Currency Converter to quickly and easily find exchange rates. An Exchange Rates Table and Exchange Rates Graph are also available.

TrueBlueWeb.com.au

Located in Australia, TrueBlueWeb.com.au provides Windows ASP.NET and Linux web hosting. If you are looking for genuine Australian web hosting at affordable prices from a company with over 5 years of experience, you need look no further than TrueBlueWeb.com.au! You will also find e-commerce solutions and domain name management.

Bravenet Web Services

Are you looking for free resources, tools, and services for webmasters? Bravenet Web Services provides free interactive web site tools for webmasters as well as free web hosting services.

Best of the Web

Need help in finding the best webmaster resources for building, promoting, and maintaining your web site? View our current top 10 Best of the Web listing.

Webmaster Resources

Discover a wide variety of helpful hints, tips, tools, services, and resources especially for Webmasters.

Banner and Logo Design

Are you seeking high quality banner and logo design at an affordable price? Learn about Banner & Logo Design resources to help you create a unique, professional image.

Web Design

Do you need help in designing a web site? Find a wide variety of helpful hints, tips, tools, services, and resources for Web Design.

Webmonkey

Webmonkey is the web developer's resource. It has been teaching people how to build web sites since 1996. Let Webmonkey be your resource for learning how to build a web site.

Techie Sale

The Techie Shop is featuring a holiday sale on all geek merchandise. You will save $12.00 off all orders of $50.00 or more. Just enter coupon code HOLBUY5 during the checkout process.

Shop now and save for the holidays! Sale ends December 1, 2004.

Reciprocal Links

Use Reciprocal Links to improve your link popularity and search engine ranking. Find a collection of helpful resources on reciprocal linking.

AlertSite

Are you sure your web site is always accessible? AlertSite ensures that your web site and other Internet devices are available and performing optimally. Real-time monitoring and notification services provide you with the ability to quickly respond to potential problems. Data collection enables you to measure and improve the quality of your web site.

Techie Holiday Coupon

The Techie Shop is offering a holiday coupon for $10.00 off when you spend $50.00 or more. Enter coupon code HOLBUY3 during the checkout process. Hurry, this holiday coupon expires November 26, 2004.

Techie Gifts

Are you looking for holiday gift ideas? T-Shirts are always a popular choice. Visit The Techie Shop for a wide assortment of geek designs for your favorite techie.

Company Domains

Company Domains is a United Kingdom (UK) registrar of domain names. Register a UK domain name with a company that provides reliable domain name registration, a simple setup, and no hidden extras.

Weblogs

Have you considered setting up a blog to promote a business? Find many Internet resources to help you set up and promote Weblogs or blogs.

Internet Access

Is your Internet connection slow? Learn about Internet Access resources for surfing the web with a fast, reliable connection. You will also find information on Internet access providers from around the world, including the type of Internet access services offered and prices.

Internet Traffic

Are you interested in statistics on Internet traffic flow? Keep updated on the current levels of traffic on the Internet with Internet Traffic resources.

Check the Internet traffic online reports to determine if an Internet connectivity issue is global or local.

TechDictionary.com

Use the online computer dictionary at TechDictonary.com as your online reference for technology terms.

Search for thousands of technology terms, including computer terms, Internet terms, technology terms, acronyms, emoticons, file extensions, chat terms or abbreviations, HTML tags, and domain suffixes.

Geek Sale Reminder

Just a reminder that the current sale on geek merchandise at The Techie Shop ends on November 16, 2004. You still have time to $2.00 - $3.00 on all Greeting Cards, Hooded Sweatshirts, Jerseys, Large Mugs, and Mousepads. (You will save $3.00 off the Hooded Sweatshirts and $2.00 off the other products.) Just look for the sales items listed with a Red Tag.

Geeks and Nerds

Are you a geek or a nerd? Can't decide? Read about Geeks and Nerds at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Systran Translator

Need to translate web pages or text? Use the handy Systran Translator.

To translate a Web page, enter or paste the URL. To translate text, type it or paste it. You can enter up to 150 words of text for translation.

Systran provides a full range of translation products and services for all your translating requirements.

FreeTranslation

FreeTranslation provides free, instant translation services for both text and web pages. Use FreeTranslation for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages.

Technical Resumes

Do you need help in writing a technical resume? Get expert advice on writing Technical Resumes from Harvard-educated professionals.

The Techie Shop Sale

Save $2.00 - $3.00 off selected Geek merchandise at The Techie Shop. (You will save $3.00 off the Hooded Sweatshirts and $2.00 off the other items.) Look for the Red Tag sale price on all Hooded Sweatshirts, Jerseys, Greeting Cards, Large Mugs, and Mousepads. Hurry, the sale ends on November 16, 2004.

WebPosition Gold

Use WebPosition Gold search engine and web promotion software to launch your web site to the top of search engine results.

AlertSite Net Tools

Use AlertSite Net Tools for web performance monitoring. These free network tools (Web Test, Whois, Hostname, Traceroute, and Ping) provide you with a variety of options to measure performance.

Webmaster Test Tools

Free online test tools (WebSite, HostName, PING, and Traceroute, and WHOIS) are available at the WebSitePulse.com web site.

IT Certification

Find Internet resources to help you achieve success and advancement in your chosen career with IT Certification.

Blogger

Do you want to set up your own blog? Sign up with Blogger to quickly and easily set up a free weblog. Templates are available or you can create your own template.

StatCounter

StatCounter provides accurate, reliable, real-time web site statistics with detailed visitor tracking and analysis. The free, invisible counter can be used to track up to 250,000 page views per month. Enhanced features are available for a small, monthly fee.

HitsLink

Sign up for a free 30-day trial (up to 20,000 hits) with HitsLink and view advanced web tracking, statistics, and analysis for your web site. Pricing is affordable for even small web sites. Each month's billing is based upon the actual page views of the previous month.

The Techie Shop Blog

The Techie Shop Blog provides news and information about The Techie Shop, our online shop featuring geek apparel and merchandise.

Web Site Tracking

A variety of Web Site Tracking tools are available for tracking and analyzing your web site traffic.

Web Site Monitoring

Is your web site up? Are you sure? Are you losing visitors because your site is down?

Make sure your web site is always available to your customers by monitoring it. View a collection of Web Site Monitoring services available to monitor your site, provide alert notification, and other monitoring features.

JavaScript Optimization

Are you using JavaScript code on your web site? Learn how to improve your web design with JavaScript Optimization techniques.

Link Exchange

Learn how to improve your search engine rankings by setting up Link Exchange partners for your web site.

Google AdWords

Master the art of advertising in Google! Learn how to write effective Google AdWords advertisements to improve your search engine marketing campaign.

Search Engine Ranking

Go to the top of search engine results! View a collection of products, services, tools, and resources to help you improve your web site's Search Engine Ranking.

SEO Resources

Promote your web site with Search Engine Optimization resources, products, services, techniques, and tools.

HTML Color Codes

ColorPicker II is an online tool to help you fine tune the HTML Color Codes for your web page. The hex value will be displayed when you click on a color in the chart for the background, text, link, visited link, or active link.

Technology Resources

View a helpful collection of Technology Resources, hints, tips, tools, and services for computer users.

Link Defender

Link Defender will scan your web site for broken links. The Professional Edition allows you to check an unlimited number of web sites, pages, and links. The Standard Edition allows you to check up to 5 domains with up to 500 pages per web site. The free trial version can be downloaded to scan up to 100 pages for 30 days.

W3C Link Checker

Use the free W3C Link Checker to quickly check a web page. It can even warn you about HTTP redirects, including directory redirects. The online version of the link checker also provides the option of checking up to 150 links recursively.

W3C HTML Validator

The W3C HTML Validator is a free, online service that checks HTML and XHTML documents for conformance to W3C recommendations and other standards. You can validate your code by URL or file upload.

HTML Tidy Online

HTML Tidy Online is a free, web-based tool for checking your HTML source code. You can enter the URL of a web page, paste in the HTML code, or upload the HTML file.

Bandwidth Speed Test

Do you know the speed of your Internet connection? Use a variety of tools and resources to measure your bandwidth.

Wordtracker

Wordtracker compiles a database of search terms from the largest metacrawlers on the web. Subscribe to the keyword report and receive a weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly report of the top 500 frequently searched words on the Internet. This free report can be used to enhance your meta tags, title, and page content to increase your visibility and position yourself in the marketplace.

Webmaster Link Exchange

Webmaster Link Exchange is a link exchange directory of webmasters who want to trade links with other webmasters. A link exchange forum is also provided to help develop link exchanges among webmasters.

Google Index

Learn about three ways to get listed in the Google Index from Michael Wong, a respected Internet marketing expert. His article includes one method that is virtually guaranteed to work.

Link Popularity Tools

Do you want to know the link popularity of your web site on the internet? Link popularity refers to the number and quality of links pointing a web site. The higher your web site's link popularity, the better your ranking because most major search engines consider link popularity to be an important factor in determining a web page's relevance. Measure your web site's popularity with a variety of Link Popularity Tools.

Google Ranking

Learn about the top Google Ranking factors from Internet marketing expert Michael Wong. The article reveals what he believes are the two most important ranking factors used by Google. His conclusions are based on his ongoing optimization experiments of his network of web sites on Google.

Content Syndication

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The Techie Shop

The Techie Shop provides a selection of geek apparel and items for even the most discerning techie. Make a purchase for yourself or your favorite techie!

Google Blog

Read the official Google Blog to gain insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google. Get the latest word direct from Googleplex on the world of search engine technology!

Search Engine Optimization News

Search Engine Optimization News provides the latest news from the world of search engine optimization (SEO) and Internet Marketing. You will also find SEO tools and resources, other SEO blogs, archives, and helpful links.

Welcome to The Techie Blog

Welcome to The Techie Blog of the Network Services & Consulting Corporation. We will be posting information, resources, news, and articles of importance to Information Technology professionals.