Open Office 3 was officially released on Oct. 13th; so far the reviews are looking promising. As a freelancer, I’ve been happily using OpenOffice (totally free BTW) for years - mostly just for the occasional instance when somebody sends me a document saved on Microsoft Office software (someone requests those document formats).

So, if you are [...]

After a very long, unproductive and completely fun summer; I have started to catch back on internet and webmaster news. Here is a small collection of some good reads I’ve come across lately:
Google webmaster tools now shows where 404 errors originate from. Nifty+useful. Discussion on WebmasterWorld.com
Steps in Selling a Large Website - Discussion on Sitepoint [...]

I mentioned in a previous post that the most stressful job I ever quit had was that of a support tech for a hosting company.
People don’t like their websites being down, in much the same way they don’t like a stubbed toe — it sucks: hard.
Last week I sent in a support ticket for one [...]

Looks like Yahoo! is launching a “web analytics” service on a limited basis starting this week. The new service is currently in beta and only available to a select group of advertisers and third party app developers.

Soon, the service will be made available to Yahoo’s 13,000 e-commerce customers hosting under the Yahoo Small Business [...]

Dallas Kashuba, Co-Founder of DreamHost has a few upcoming appearances you may be interested in:
The first is at WorldBlu Live,in New York City, Thursday and Friday October 16-17, 2008. He’ll be speaking about how democracy is used within DreamHost and how it makes business stronger. The other talk is in Atlanta on November 12-14, 2008 [...]

I was reading a recent post on QualityNonsense.com titled “Which is the Best Domain Registrar?” - they author had a lot of praise for Moniker.com and invited others to comment on their favorite domain registrar.
Personally, I’ve been a fan of Namecheap.com for many years now. I’ve had experience many other registrars including enom, godaddy, Dotser, [...]

DreamHost recently announced some upgrades to their email service:
New! Quarantined Mail via IMAP
I bet you are drooling already. You can finally access your junkmail quarantine folder
via your IMAP client!!!
To enable this, just log into webmail at:
http://webmail.dreamhost.com/ or http://webmail.yourdomain.com/ - and click “junkmail” there on the left, then “settings”, then enter a folder name for your [...]

Google is celebrating it’s 10th birthday with Project 10100 — pronounced “Project 10 to the 100th”. The project is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
Go here to submit your best idea to help humanity. The top 5 ideas will be selected, with $10 million divided amoung [...]

We already know that DreamHost has gone green — now they want to “Save the Environment Harder!”
In a recent blog post, DreamHost announced a plan to reduce their data center power usage by 50%:

Basically, we’ve come to realize that if we were to upgrade all our old web and file servers onto new hardware (the [...]

IBM just launched Bluehouse, a service that combines the features of social networking (ala Facebook) with business-collaboration tools.
My first impression is that the demos look great. A nice clean interface, useful tools, and I can see this being a replacement for current online project management services.
Currently Bluehouse is free during its public beta release. After [...]