Archive for the 'Software' Category

KeepIt PC Backups – Favorite Web Development Freebies (Part 4 of 5)

Posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Keeping a backup of your files is always important.  You never know when a disaster might strike, and it is always better to be ready for the worst that might happen.  Lunarpages realizes this, and this is why they provide 3 months free of KeepIt to their hosting customers.  With this awesome backup service – [...]

Bring Fancy Bullets to Windows Live Writer

Posted on Monday, June 1st, 2009

Are you tired of the old boring HTML bullets that may have come with your blog theme, or you want to make them a little more fancy, with a little less work?  If you use Windows Live Writer to update your blog, there is a plugin to give you Fancy Bullets.

After you install this [...]

Choosing the Best Ecommerce Shopping Cart

Posted on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

by Tiara Rea
A lot of customers at Lunarpages use ecommerce features to enhance their sites. Since we offer four different shopping cart software alternatives, many people wonder which one works best and what the major differences are between each. So, I’m here to help you choose the perfect shopping cart! :)

The Agora Shopping Cart features [...]

Page Mason: the next great step in flawless web design

Posted on Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

by Tiara Rea
Let’s face it – designing your website can be super tough if you don’t have the right tools. Hiring a web designer is great….if you’ve got wads of cash hanging around that you’re willing to toss their way. And you’ll definitely think twice the next time you let your best friend’s cousin’s sister [...]

3D Virtual Email, SHARKS & Miami Babes?

Posted on Monday, June 11th, 2007

by Amy Armitage
I’m a huge fan of Visitorville and I use it every day to check out our traffic on the blog. My excitement peaked this week when Robert Savage from World Market Watch emailed me a heads up that their new product 3D Mailbox is live and ready for me to check out.
They even [...]

Kuler Colors – Adobe gets its scheme on

Posted on Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Author: Todd Austin
What is Kuler? Will it keep my beer cold? No, it won’t.
Kuler is Adobe Labs’ latest web application geared toward the design crowd. It is a online color scheme creator, for lack of a better term.
Here’s the main page of the application:

With kuler, you can creat your own scheme, search other users [...]

RocketDock Rocks!

Posted on Friday, February 9th, 2007

Author: Todd Austin
I am always looking for cool little apps, especially ones that mimic Mac OS X apps. I love my Mac, but I tend to do most of my design and development work on my PC. Yeah, I know, I know. I should be using my Mac for design. That’s a whole other [...]

Launchy – Quicker Application Launching

Posted on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Author:  Mitch Keeler
Now doing a lot of work at one time means that I have to have quick and easy access to a number of programs, links and documents at all times. Now this might sound like it would be a little easier to manage than it actually is, but don’t let it fool you. [...]

Great Text Editor and FTP Client

Posted on Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Author: Mitch Keeler
When it comes to recommending free software for people inside of the Web hosting industry, your going to run a little slim in your pickings. One freeware program that has always been a winner since the day I first started talking about it is PSPad. PSPad is a free unicode developer editor for [...]

Tracking your hits can be SHEXY!!!

Posted on Saturday, October 21st, 2006

We host a website for a lovely guy named Robert Savage and he is “The Mayor” of Visitorville!  I checked out the software, in fact we installed it on the forums and OMG it is JUST TOO COOL!!
Imagine seeing your website visitors as 3D avatars moving around a 3D city. Imagine clicking on any of [...]