News

What is RSS?

darmedia — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:30:20 -0500

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and you can find more information about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Have you ever wished that you could get an idea of what's going on around the world without actually having to visit twenty or thirty different web sites? For example, you could visit all of the major news providers' web sites to find out what's going on, or you could use an RSS aggregator to access their RSS feeds. This would allow you to browse headlines and/or snippets of the latest news articles from all of those providers without visiting their web sites.

What is IrfanView?

darmedia — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:44:46 -0500

IrfanView is available at: http://irfanview.com

IrfanView is a free, flexible and powerful viewing program created by Irfan Skiljan. You can use it to quickly browse through a directory of images, convert images from one format to another, crop, rotate and optimize an image, create a slide show and even view movies or play sound files. One of it's most powerful features is the ability to do batch processing on images. You can select a number of files and then apply the same process(es) to each of them, directing the output to any directory on your computer.

What is Google Analytics?

darmedia — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:13:08 -0500

Google Analytics is a free statistics tracking and analysis service that allows web site administrators to analyze traffic flow on a web site. Although most hosting solutions come with similar software, it may not be as easily understood or as easily navigated as Google Analytics. One of the more impressive features of Google Analytics is the ability to flag certain pages as “goals.” This is specifically beneficial to e-commerce web sites. However, regardless of the purpose of a web site, Google Analytics can help make that web site better.

Dealing with SPAM

darmedia — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:37:36 -0500

DARMEDIA employs software on the server to analyze email messages as they are received to discern SPAM from normal email messages called SpamAssassin. This software uses a subset of twenty rules to determine whether or not a particular message is SPAM. We can adjust this setting from one to twenty depending on how much SPAM you are receiving. If the setting is at twenty, SpamAssassin will not flag messages as SPAM unless it finds twenty matches in the email message.