A Photoshop installation CD, back at the dawn of the century when it was possible to own a copy, and the main distribution means was the hi...

Zero Guy. He’s the one who pops up in your Unfollowers tab on Crowdfire. He followed you, then you followed him back, and then he unfollow...

Back in early 2013, I wrote a post about Flickr’s attitude to its own ‘licence’ categorisations . Flickr had confirmed to me that the offi...

Churn. It's the practice of calculatedly following and then unfollowing on Twitter - purely to build an audience. Churn is something in ...

If you dabble in web design, you’ll know it’s now a prerequisite that your work accommodates visitors using small devices. But what if you...

You don't want speculation, rumours and tales. You want answers. Which is good, because that's exactly what you're going to ge...

The new location of your list of blocked users - at the bottom of your blog's Settings page. I've edited out the middle of the pag...

If you’ve used Tumblr recently, you may have noticed that when you upload an image to a Text Post, the picture ‘stretches’ to the full wi...

A Rolls Royce vehicle on a showroom forecourt at Rednal, Birmingham. [ Update: August 2022... This area has since been redeveloped and is ...

Since the update of the Opera browser to a Chrome-based architecture, and the continued insistence by major browser providers on cramming...

Help forums . Despite the fact that their function is almost completely redundant to anyone with the ability to use Google properly, they co...

Twiends. It’s a popular and generally well regarded site for people who want to gain Twitter followers fast. It’s free, and it’s easy to use...

I’ve poked fun in the past at ‘ convenience blogging ’, and I’ve never before felt much impetus to try out Storify , with its staggeringly s...

UPDATE: Tumblr has restored the Truncate RSS control, but it's now located in the Advanced Theme Options. To access it, click Customize...

Photo by Francisco Moreno on Unsplash . People tend to associate the most shocking behaviour on Twitter and other social networking si...

If you've missed the first instalment of this two-parter, you can find it via the link below... Ten Ways to Spot Fake and Catfish Twit...

Fake Twitter accounts, also commonly known as ‘catfish’, can be dangerous entities. Before you even examine the motives, the desire to fake...

How do you feel about posting on the Internet?... If you walk away for a month, will you still be in the limelight when you come back? If n...

When I wrote Is the Forum Dying? back at the beginning of 2012, I didn’t really know how long it would be before I was adding a follow-up w...

There's now a 2015 update to this article. You can find it via the link below... Tumblr Now Accepting Large Images In Text Posts A q...