Freshening up your Google juice with robots.txt
Using the robots.txt sledgehammer properly can help you clean up loose ends in your search results. Use it wrong, and you could, effectively, nuke yourself off the Internet.
DIY-IT
Part mad scientist, part celebrity author, and part shadowy government advisor, CBS Interactive's Distinguished Lecturer David Gewirtz warps space/time with neat hacks, cool do-it-yourself projects, business survival tips, and commentary that peels paint.
David Gewirtz
David Gewirtz, Distinguished Lecturer at CBS Interactive, is an author, U.S. policy advisor, and computer scientist. He is featured in The History Channel special The President's Book of Secrets.
Latest Posts
Windows 8: An exceptional OS undone by dreadful marketing
Given that Microsoft has left so much other traditional functionality in Windows 8, the removal of the Start menu is a marketing decision only. It's not like it's hard to code.
How Camtasia saved the webcast...literally
David needed to combine audio from a telephone conversation and video from a screen meeting into one recording. It took some hoop jumping, but with the help of some nifty software, he got his recording.
More details on Amazon's Fire HD $49 4G-for-a-year program
We learn about what happens when the year runs out, plus we recognize our first Official DIY-IT Helpie McHelpypants Acknowledgement recipient.
Five reasons NOT to get an iPhone 5
Let's consider this an intervention and let's try to save you from iPhone 5 phone-ageddon.
Five reasons I'm sticking with GoDaddy
You may find that you want to move off GoDaddy as a knee-jerk reaction, but in the long term, you probably won't be buying yourself a whole lot more than extra hassle.
How to decide: should you buy a big Kindle Fire HD or an iPad?
This is totally NOT the simple choice you might think it would be. There are a lot of reasons why you might choose either device. If you really want to make an informed decision, read this guide.
Licensing lessons PC software vendors can learn from Apple's App Store
If you're a developer, do us all a favor, willya? Follow David's advice and try to make the process easier. It'll save us all a lot of time.
How to optimize your site like WordPress.com
WordPress.com is one of the largest sites on the Internet. It handles 115 million page views a day and responds to 2.6 billion requests a day. Here's how they do it.
How CrashPlan cloud backup saved my bacon
An entire folder of document scans -- over 600 individual documents -- was now empty. It hadn't been empty last week, but now, for reasons still to be definitively discovered, it was empty. Here's how we recovered it.