Dreamhost Annual Birthday Sale: $9.24 for a YEAR of Web Hosting!

Raging Tech has been hosted by a few different web hosting companies through its various incarnations and different names it’s gone by over the years. I did a lot of monthly web hosting plans at different companies and gotten various levels of customer service at each one that were almost always below par. The last … Read more

Plastic Auto Parts: Auto Tech of the Future?

Students at engineering universities are currently designing concept cars that are plastic-part intensive instead of heavily steel-made cars. Cars that are made largely of plastic parts have many pros and cons. The current evolution of plastic automobile parts are more efficient, cost-effective, safe, and environmentally friendly. When the car is done, the plastics can be … Read more

Attention Verizon DSL Customer Relations

Dear Verizon DSL Customer Service Relations, You have FAILED miserably to offer adequate customer support for your home DSL customers. Your business customers have nice, friendly, and intelligent American tech support for whom English is a first language. They actually seem to know a thing or two about computers, networking topologies and the interworkings of … Read more

British Airways is Giving Business Grants for Troubled Economic Times

As a small business owner, I can see the importance every day of not just building a contact list, but making and developing relationships. Some business people don’t like that word, because it means they’re getting attached to people. They care about the rising success of their customer. They are happy for Bob’s son finally … Read more

Snow Leopard: Source image needs to be scanned for restore

I was in the middle of taking my official copy of OS X Snow Leopard and restoring a disk image of it to a USB Flash drive (you know, to make installation faster… yeah – that’s the ticket), and I came across this problem I wasn’t used to – Snow Leopard threw an error like … Read more

An Interview with Murray Newlands – Affiliate Marketing Blogger

Recently I was able to have an email exchange with affiliate marketing expert Murray Newlands, who recognizes the value of trust and the influence the social media can have over marketing and how influential blogging can be. Murray has his own blog over at http://www.murraynewlands.com/ – check it out and read our interview below (I’m … Read more

Google Acquires reCAPTCHA

Search / web app giant Google announced yesterday on the Google Blog that they have just acquired human-verification system reCAPTCHA, which aside from preventing bots from registering for web sites, also helps digitize books by confirming words that a computerized optical character recognition (OCR) system was not able to recognize. This is being used to … Read more