Category: Web

  • Hybrid Value Chain: Opening New Markets to For-Profits and Social Enterprises

    The following is an excerpt from an article at SocialEarth.org, a social entrepreneurship and innovation blog. When local citizen groups in Mexico convinced Amanco, a large producer of water-conveyance products, to team up and support under-served small farmers, they created a new irrigation technology market worth about $56 million a year and the farmers were…

  • US Election 2010: Use Google to Show You the Closest Voting Location

    If you’re in the United States, today is election day.  Whether you’re excited to cast your vote, or relieved the political television ads will be over, you can use Google to show you the closest voting location. To find voting locations, search Google for where to vote and enter your location in the Find your…

  • How To: Make a CSS background slideshow with jQuery

    If jQuery has one strength, it’s the library’s fantastic ability to manipulate HTML objects. Built into the library are easy to use methods for moving objects, adjusting CSS and tag attributes, changing visibility of anything on the page, and many more. To sweeten the deal, jQuery includes animation effects that allow you to transition any…

  • Friday Fun! Relive Fond Memories With Organ Trail

    The Organ Trail is a re-imagining of the classic Oregon Trail, except set in the present day and with zombies. It features throwback graphics and classic controls.

  • Subscribe to Techerator with the Techerator Extension for Google Chrome

    Here at Techerator, we know that our site wouldn’t be the success it is without all of our readers (Thank you!).  Since our launch in May 2009, we’ve made many improvements to the site for our readers.  Our most recent change was an entire redesign of Techerator. A big focus on the redesign was making…

  • A Developer’s Guide to Troubleshooting Microsoft SharePoint Errors

    Anybody that has worked with Microsoft SharePoint as a developer knows that it can be an exercise in frustration for the strangest of reasons. One only has to see a handful of helpful error messages such as “An unexpected error has occurred” to understand exactly what I mean. Yes, one may look through the logs…

  • How to View Google Analytics from Your WordPress Dashboard

    Keeping track of visitors to your blog is important.  While there are many services and tools available for tracking visitors to your site, Google Analytics is often the service of choice. In this article I am going to provide you with a couple of plugins to view Google Analytics within your WordPress blog. Google Analytics…

  • Psych Out the Email Spammers By Using 10 Minute Mail

    If you are like me, you have a few email accounts doing very specific things.  One account is most likely for work, another for personal, and then there is the illustrious spam account. This account is like a neglected shelf in the refrigerator.  Stuff comes in, sits a while, piles up, and before you know…

  • Ask Techerator: How Can I Search Gmail for Specific Attachments?

    Techerator team, I love Gmail, but I’m tired of digging through my inbox to find important attachments from a long time ago.  Is there an easier way to find them? Absolutely.  Gmail has some fantastic search features (just like the search engine that powers it), and you can use those to make quick work of…

  • Netflix on PS3 and Wii is Finally Disc-Free!

    More than likely you have heard of a little – I mean HUGE – company called Netflix. Yes, the company that runs on ingenuity and has made thousands of movies, TV shows and documentaries available via mail and instant streaming. While they are still mailing out movies and TV shows, it’s nothing compared to the…