Red Tape: eBay users say holiday giveaway hacked
eBay users are complaining that a holiday contest offered by the auction Web site has been overrun by Scrooge-like computer hackers, and that eBay?s poor design for the contest is to blame.

Learn the ins and outs of buying a domain name
Your domain name is the most important part of your business Web site outside your welcome page, says consultant Mary Krause.

Reading Eagle Company Internet Services, Reading, PA ~ Website design and hosting
Reading Eagle Company Internet Services offer website design & development services, online advertising, and full-service graphic design services for large and small businesses.

Spreading the word on fine woodworking
The elegant wood works of H. Richard "Dick" Faulkner's company are more likely to be found in center spreads of interior design magazines than on a Web site. "We don't have a Web page," said his wife Dorothy. "I guess he's waiting to see if the Internet's going to last."

Web Page To Keep Children Updated On Their Views For Children's Centre, Salisbury District Hospital, England
Artcare staff have set up a new web page that will keep people updated on the children's projects and workshops that are taking place around the development of the new Children's Centre at Salisbury District Hospital. Children's views are being used in the design of the building and the web page includes information on the recent children's survey.

Crews tackle industrial unit fire
Firefighters spend four hours tackling a blaze at a print design unit on an industrial estate near Warwick.

PHP5 CMS Framework Development
Michael J. Ross writes "Most Web developers are familiar with one or more content management systems (CMSs), and how they can be used to create Web sites more efficiently than by hand. These developers may have deep knowledge of how to install, configure, customize, and extend a CMS. But far more rare is knowledge of how to develop a CMS of one's own, and the programming considerations required ...

white papers
AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, its infrastructure produced unacceptable power and cooling requirements.

Rotary Club sponsors website design contest
The Rotary Club of Simi Sunrise is sponsoring a website design contest for the annual Cajun Festival held Memorial Day weekend each year. High school students are invited to create a new web page to commemorate the 20 years of the festival.

SearchDay | Social Community: Free Pancakes Anyone?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Social Community: Free Pancakes Anyone?; A Look Back, and a New Beginning; Yahoo and Ask.com Reveal Top Searches for 2008; and more.

Cnet's tech gift guide
BEST CELL PHONES: Whether you're new to the mobile medium or a smart-phone whiz, we've selected an array of gift-worthy handsets Sony Ericsson W760a (AT&T) Cnet rating: 4 stars out of 5 (excellent) The good: Attractive, easy-to-use design; well-stocked, music-...

Country park wins further funding
A council?s plans to transform an Essex beauty spot into a showcase eco-park get a major cash boost.

Flock OpenID support a small step for slow-moving standard
Through a partnership that includes MySpace and Vidoop, an alpha extension brings OpenID management to the Flock social browser. It's an interesting approach to boosting awareness, but OpenID is going to need a lot more help than this to gain traction amidst heavy competition. Read More...

Getting Started with the ASP.NET 3.5 Chart Control
The new Chart control can generate charts without a lot of work on your part

Programming .NET 3.5
lamaditx writes "The world of the .NET framework is taken to the next level by the release of .NET 3.5. The intended audience of this book are experienced .NET programmers. There are no sections that tell you details about C#, SQL servers or anything like that. I don't recommend this book if you never worked on a .NET project and don't know how to set up a SQL database. You should be aware that ...

SWOT: NEW MEDIA
For many post studios, "new media" means "new business." But facilities are still trying to figure out how they can make money in this emerging genre. The Web, games, mobile content and even special venues have all been identified as potential avenues in which to deliver content. But budgets can still be conservative, which is a challenge in creating content that's often more complex than a ...

China Launches Remote Sensing Satellite
China launched a new remote sensing satellite "Yaogan IV" on Monday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province.

A ghost of Christmas past
BREWER, Maine ? Scrooge is back. After a two-year absence from the shores of the Penobscot River, actor Ken Stack is returning to the stage tonight to portray the man who must learn the hard way to ?keep Christmas well.?

Papervision Parlor Trick Puts 3D Flash Character Into Web Video
A digital design shop in Australia, Boffswana , shows off a neat parlor trick in the video above. It places a 3D Flash character made with Papervision into a regular Webcam video using nothing more than a paper printout. ( Update : Oh, and you can print it out yourself and add the character to your own video). Eat your heart out, George Lucas. (Hat tip to Cory O'Brien ).

RagTime 6.5 adds over 150 new functions
RagTime has announced an update to its business publishing software, RagTime 6.5. More than 150 new functions have been added, mainly for use with spreadsheets and text paragraphs. The layout functionality has also been enhanced, and offers the ability to run text along any kind of curve. The software is now claimed to operate up to six times faster on Intel-based Macs, with the most significant ...