Domain Names

As many of you know, I’m trying my hand at starting a design/hosting company with my good friend Jim. Pretty much everything is inline to get things moving except for one minute detail. We don’t have a domain name!!!!!!

We’ve been racking our collective brain to come up with something catchy for the last couple of weeks now. I have to be honest, if I have to check Register.com one more time to see if a domain name I like is available, I’m going to change my major to Social Work! Domain squatting is so annoying!

To remedy my recent frustration, I decided to dump my problem on friends, family and generally anyone who would listen long enough. Also, I decided to create a SitePoint contest to get some input from other web designers.

If you have any suggestions for a domain name, please DO NOT POST IT IN YOUR COMMENT. It will more than likely be snatched up before I have a chance to even look at it!!!!

Tags: domain name, Domain squatting, SitePoint

Open Source Business Model

Lately I’ve been playing with the idea of developing some sort of open source software. As I near graduation, I’m trying to find ways to add to my awkwardly thin resumé. I feel a well planned open source project might be just the addition to my resumé that could land me a job in the already flooded php developer market. Continue reading »

Gmail Now Has Antivirus

It appears Gmail has added a new feature. Your email attachments are now scanned for viruses automatically.

If a virus is found in an attachment you’ve received, our system will attempt to remove it, or clean the file, so you can still access the information it contains. If the virus can’t be removed from the file, you won’t be able to download it.

If you are sending an attachment that contains a virus, gmail blocks you from sending the attachment.

Hasn’t this been implemented in other large scale, free email accounts for quite some time now? I can’t speak for Hotmail (because I hate it and refuse to have an account), but Yahoo Mail has had Norton Antivirus scanning every attachment of mine for quite some time now. Maybe Google isn’t as “on the ball” as we had all thought.

Tags: google, gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, antivirus, norton, norton antivirus, email, attachment, email attachment