Category: Ryan’s Internet Technology, and Web Design Blog

Snow Leopard Upgrade Causing ‘Spinning Wheel Of Death’

Posted on by rchapin

Information Week has posted an article that indicates many people are having problems upgrading their Macs to Snow Leopard. It looks like Apple is trying to pull a Vista on it’s user base: release an update that isn’t ready and is going to make more headaches for users than solve problems. At the bottom of this article is a link to “100 Incompatible Mac Apps” for Snow Leopard (here is a link to the Wiki with → Continue reading “Snow Leopard Upgrade Causing ‘Spinning Wheel Of Death’”

The Canonical URL Tag and How it Helps Your SEO

Posted on by rchapin

Here is a great article on SEOmozBlog about the relatively new canonical URL tag that helps search engines know which pages should be treated as copies of other URLs on your site.

Not to be confused with duplicate content on different URLs of your site, this tag is to be used to indicate to the search engines which URLs generate multiple versions of the same page and to which URL the engines should apply all of the link and content → Continue reading “The Canonical URL Tag and How it Helps Your SEO”

DNS Propagation Watcher/Notifier: DNSPinger

Posted on by rchapin

When we bring on a new client we typically point their domain to our nameservers and then wait until the DNS propagates to launch a new site.

Here is a look to a pretty cool tool that will keep an eye on a domain and send you an e-mail when the IP is updated. → Continue reading “DNS Propagation Watcher/Notifier: DNSPinger”

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