Web Observatory

ommon problem that is often last checked when troubleshooting a website is the browser cache. What ever your browser is, it uses a cache to store temporary data of sites you frequently visit or had just visited and uses it to display those pages in your browser much quickly.

The problem however is that sometimes, the browser isn’t quick enough to reflect changes on your site. And one of the more common problems when you are a webmaster and you update your site frequently via ftp is that the url doesn’t reflect the current state of the site quickly. For example you uploaded a new stylesheet and you go to the page with that style at www.pagewithstyle.com, sometimes the style change isn’t applied immediately, but when you check pagewithstyle.com without the “www”, it reflects the changes you made.

So one more tip for your book, always clear your browser cache every time you make changes on your online pages and do it first before troubleshooting anything, it will save you a lot of headaches in the future. Instructions on how to clear your cache the quick way after the jump.
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was expecting to be back much sooner, but after I was back, a pile load of responsibility was given to me, I’m not complaining though, since I fully-recovered anyway, I was just a little afraid of relapse.

What I was wondering about is that, people who wondered what the heck happened to me, don’t even manage to use my blog to read about me, leave a comment or something, or simply using my mail form at the main page to contact me. In some instances, they want me to go to there site and contact them instead and say “Hey I’m Back! Wondered where I was?”. This is turning out like a rant. But anyways, glad to be back, I’m sorting out my responsibilities, and I hope everyone is up for a contest on this site soon.

Now help me out and Digg, Stumble or link to my blog to let them know, Demonhale is Officially back. (Oh and if I check my stats, and I get top referrals from you, your in for a surprise)…

Ciao!

f you wonder why this blog, and other network sites of demonhale hasn’t been updated for a while, then the answer is that Chris the lead designer and developer is busy getting his health back up, he needs his eye checked due to recurring headaches, and have his wisdom tooth removed, one on the left and probably the one at right as well.

To all clients of demonhale.com, please bear with us for a while for these reasons, we are also in the process of making back-ups to the client files and records, and transferring everything to a new computer system as the old system is expiring (burnt VC and flashed BIOS).

We are also celebrating our 2nd year anniversary for this month of August. August 7 is the exact date demonhale has been conceived. So when we go back again online, we will be offering some promos for all of you.

t has been several years that scientists have been looking for renewable sources of energy. The two front-runners are wind and solar energy. Although current crop of cars are hybrids of fuel, electric, pneumatic or any combination of both, add to that the environmental means of using ethanol as fuel, ethanol which is produced by sugarcanes and other vegetations, none of them was as controversial and most talked about as compared to Solar Energy.

What made solar source of energy unsuccessful up to the present is the steep cost it has to have it installed and implemented for the mass consumers. The factor is efficiency over cost.

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So what does OLED have to do about this? Current displays for little electronic devices such as your mp3 players now have colorful displays. Gone are the days of the old black LCD with the back light of amber, green or most currently blue and white. These new colorful displays are chosen because they attract buyers, and they are cheaper to produce. OLEDs are Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. The basic principle is that (more…)

wo concerns for privacy is present, one is the Big Brother effect (Government Intrusions) and one against online marketers, the webs version of the loathed telemarketers, using our personal information for commercial purposes.

September 11 was used by the Government to Lobby for ways for them to get their hands on our personal information and data to allegedly protect us from the terrorists. However, I feel the next law to pass congress is for consumer protection & rights against online marketers. Several Corporations are already targeted for the misuse of their gathered information.

It’s been hard for consumers to claim damages from the loss of private information because of the need to show losses on monetary aspects. The CFAA (Computer Fraud & Abuse Act) already have successes in protecting plaintiffs, but on most privacy cases, this is difficult to show.

A solution that comes to mind is through initiatives done by the web industry. Privacy Rules & Standards should be formulated by Trade Associations. However bleak the prospects for privacy protection online, some already exploits this privacy. It goes both ways, but thats a whole different story.