Tag Archives: Google

Google Chrome Browser Displaying Italic Fonts Only – The Fix

Looking for a fix for the problem of italic fonts displaying as standard in Google Chrome browser?

You will have been Googling, tweaking your settings, and adjusting stuff that wasnt broke before. And you have still drawn a blank, right?

Whatever you do, Google Chrome still resolutely displays all fonts on most websites in a dreadful italic font.

Read on……..

If like me, you eschewed the buggy Internet Explorer ages ago, you will have become a Chrome devotee. Not much goes wrong with Chrome, but this is a bug, and one I found how to fix.… Click here to continue reading this article

What Happened to Anonymity Online?

What exactly did happen to anonymity online? And do we really need it?

I think that people were generally more likely to use pseudonyms or post anonymously back in the 1990’s; yet nowadays it seems everyone’s almost too open about themselves.

Just look at older interactive site or forum, and about 90% of them are run by staff going under usernames related to the topic in a generally anonymous way. And many of the members are a bit more secretive than people online now.

But then when you look on any more ‘modern’ website, it seems like hardly anyone is writing things pseudonymously (is that a word?)… Click here to continue reading this article

How to ping Google, Yahoo and Ask

Pinging is a way to inform Google, Yahoo and Ask of site updates. Many webmaster forums are informing people that it is not possible to “ping” Google and other engines. They are wrong – it is.

Pinging search engines is something often done after you have updated your XML sitemap. Before you can send XML sitemap ping update notifications to search engines such as Google, you will usually have to submit the XML sitemap to them first through your webmaster Google account.

Having done that, all you need to do is go ping them.… Click here to continue reading this article