How to remove related videos from the end of an embedded YouTube video: update
Updated December 16, 2020 One of the most popular posts on this blog for the last five years (!) was about how to remove related videos from the end of an embedded YouTube video. It consistently brought in tens of thousands of visits a year. That is, until recently, when traffic to that post started […]
Make sure your online passwords are better than Mark Zuckerberg’s [VIDEO]
Earlier this month Mark Zuckerberg’s LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter accounts were briefly hacked. It seems that he made the same mistake that many people do online: he used the same password across his social media accounts. Once a hacker got hold of his password for one account, they were able to log in to […]
Skitch, the awesome screenshot and annotation app, available for Windows!
For years I’ve been pining over Skitch. Like so many things created by and for Apple, Skitch is beautiful, elegant and simple. It does what it should do, easily and without unnecessary frills. Every so often I’d click through to the Skitch website to see if maybe, just maybe, we lowly Windows users could become […]
Five free and legal image sources
To have a website without images is like having toast without butter (God forbid). But finding nice images that you can use without any legal issues is like finding a spec of dust in space (if that’s difficult). Well, fret no longer! Here are five free image sources that you could consider using. Just be […]
PayPal in Israel: Recurring Billing Options and Customer Support (only from a cellphone)
[If you’re looking for PayPal customer support, the number is 073-713-7777 and is open 9am to 6pm Sunday through Thursday.] When you search for “PayPal Israel,” our posts on the topic show so high in search results that we get a few calls a year asking us PayPal questions. We are not PayPal experts, but […]
How to automatically backup your digital life with Dropbox, Backupify, Google and more
Our lives are increasingly digital. Just think about it: our personal and business communication, photos, documents – they’re all being stored in digital format. And that information isn’t just stored on your hard drive anymore: you might have your email running on Google’s servers thanks to their Gmail service, your photos saved on your smartphone, […]
Make sure your computer is not using rogue DNS servers…before July 9
On July 9, 2012, there is a chance that many computers will cease to be able to surf the web because of malware that proliferated among millions of computers starting in 2007. You can find out if your computer is among them. Why will computers stop being able to surf the web? Starting in 2007, […]
Jotform vs. Wufoo: battle of the free web form builders
Although we are totally in love with Gravity Forms as our #1 choice for creating forms, you can only use it with WordPress. Therefore, when a client came to us with a landing page in html, we had to start looking for other options and here’s what I found: Wufoo I wanted to love Wufoo […]
Google Drive finally launches and other useful info from illuminea’s April 2012 webinar
Recently, we launched a new monthly lecture series to present the most important web trends for marketing professionals. Please join us at our next free WEBINAR: ”Latest Web Trends in 1 Hour” on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 10am. Signup and details here. At the April 2012 Web Trends Webinar, Miriam Schwab, the Friendly CEO of illuminea, spoke […]
How to Set Up a Branded Feedburner URL
RSS feeds allow people to subscribe to get updated about your site or blog’s newest posts, usually via tools called feed readers (Google Reader is a well-known, free option). This is a nice feature, but like all things web we want to be able to measure this metric too and know how many people are […]