Paul Mackenzie Ross

tech

  • Bye Bye GoDaddy, You Can Go Now

    My GoDaddy registered name of some 17 years expired and they charged me over FIVE times its value to renew it! Read more

  • Welcome Aboard Cloudflare, My New Registrar of Choice

    When I first set up a presence on the world wide web it was via a Demon Internet. In 1998 my web address was mackenzieross.demon.net and my first ever homepage, complete with a digital hit counter, ended up being dedicated to my love of the Opel Manta, now a rare and classic car. By 2000… Read more

  • The Metaverse: What Next?

    As has been mentioned before on here, the metaverse has been around for over 30 years. It all started, at least in name, in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, go read it if you haven’t already and be ready for a televised version. The metaverse is also a great fixed focus name for the world… Read more

  • And Now the AMP Project

    As if there’s not enough to do, racing around and tweaking your websites’ code to pander to Google’s needs, there’s now the AMP Project from Big G. Announced yesterday on the official Google blog, AMP is the Accelerated Mobile Pages project. The aim of the AMP project is to improve delivery of content on mobile… Read more

  • BBC News Goes Responsive

    As an avid reader of the BBC News website, yes, mainly on my desktop, it caught my eye immediately when they had a button for a beta test version… Read more

  • A Serious Sign That Your Site Should be Mobile Friendly

    When Google says jump many people ask how high? So when the Mountain View search giant announced today that it would start flagging up mobile friendly websites in the SERPS this was a sign of just how serious it is to have a mobile first theme. Looking at the Analytics stats for one of my… Read more

  • Taking Advantage of Small Business Ignorance

    I recently received a phone call from a local small business, asking for my assistance. Owning a mass of domain names, websites and email accounts, they were having trouble understanding and managing their portfolio, so I agreed to step in to organise and consolidate their web assets. Read more

  • Will the New TLDs Take Off?

    Running a business where I purchase domain names (and set up web hosting) on behalf of my clients, I’ve had quite a few emails from domain name registrars trying to market the new tranch of Top Level Domains (TLDs). I must admit that I’ve been far too busy to really take much notice of these… Read more

  • Advertising is Really Starting to Cross the Line

    Many years ago I used to joke about how nothing is sacred to advertisers and that one day you wouldn’t even be able to go for a quiet visit to the “throne room” without being advertised to; unreeling the toilet roll, there would be an advert on your triple-quilted soft-ply toilet tissue and you’d finally… Read more

  • Securing Small Business Data by Encrypting it

    “Securing Small Business Data by Encrypting it” was originally written by Paul Mackenzie Ross for is4profit.com One big problem facing British small businesses these days is the data security risk, but how do SMEs go about encrypting their data? A recent report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) suggested that, cumulatively, cybercrime was costing… Read more