Gradient review Gradient is a cheap and cheerful program for creating CSS3 colour transitions. These can be used for page backgrounds, buttons and other block elements on your website. Web design has come a long way from the days when animated GIFs and blinking text were de rigueur. Developers have much more control over the…
The days of getting on the phone with tech support and the poor soul on the other end having to walk you step by painful step through the actions necessary to get to the root of the problem are gone. No more bringing an IT person all the way to the office for them to…
Whether you are running your own business or are about to start one, the 50 books for entrepreneurs reviewed in this article will help you reach your goals and prevent you from making the mistakes that are commonly made in the process of managing a startup or building an enterprise. The post 50+ Books Every…
October 14, 2015 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. WordPress is considered an excellent platform for budding entrepreneurs to create websites for their startup or small business. This content management service (CMS) is used by millions of business owners who live in every corner of the world. More than 400 million websites…
Technology companies have a privacy problem. They’re terribly good at invading ours and terribly negligent at protecting their own. And with the push by technologists to map, identify and index our physical as well as virtual presence with biometrics like face and fingerprint scanning, the increasing digital surveillance of our physical world is causing some…
In 2014, WIRED would profile a “boring” company called Slack beginning a media and venture-based obsession with bringing chat to every corner of our work lives. Somewhere along the way, the growth of chat-based enterprise communication was conflated with a preference for doing everything in a chat window, and thus we were given chatbots. Microsoft…
Security researchers from Check Point Threat Intelligence Team have discovered the comeback of an APT (advanced persistent threat) surveillance group targeting institutions across the Middle East, specifically the Palestinian Authority. The attack, dubbed “Big Bang,” begins with a phishing email sent to targeted victims that includes an attachment of a self-extracting archive containing two files—a…
Sandvox 2 review Do people still build static websites? If they do, we have a feeling they might use tools like Sandvox. This template-based, drag-and-drop driven tool’s no Coda or Dreamweaver. Think iWeb and you won’t be far wrong. Think “even more simple to use than iWeb” and you’ll be spot on. The workflow gently steers…
There are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations based in the U.S., such as the Nature Conservancy, Feeding America and Direct Relief, and they all rely on donor support. As such, nonprofits need to be prepared to process online donations safely and securely, which can be done through software geared specifically toward nonprofits and their…
November 11, 2015 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. While the fall foliage has only just peaked in Boston and we’re months away from the New Year, startups are already kicking into high-gear planning mode for 2016. By October, many entrepreneurs are laying out annual product road maps, setting sales targets and…
