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Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a web developer, information architect, site producer, and usability consultant. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.

Archive for July, 2008

Why Get Your Own Domain Name?

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Why have your own domain name? For a multitude of reasons.
1. It looks more professional
For whatever you do, it looks like you’re more of an authority. Now, this may or may not be true. But appearances are what matter in any market. If you’re running an online business, certainly your own domain provides a more [...]

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Yes! It is possible!
1. Pay all your bills online
You’ll save time and fuel paying online than standing in a queue for hours and later eating a fuel-guzzling meat patty on processed bread and trans fat-filled fries, then taking a fuel-guzzling cab or adding your weight to that piece of public transport home (costs less if [...]

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Flock Rocks

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I’ve been using Flock for a while now and I have to say it rocks better than any other, even Firefox 3.0, which I find a vast improvement over Firefox 2 but its drop-down address bar just annoys me too much and I can’t be bothered to change it now that I have Flock.
Its green [...]

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