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Hot Chocolate

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

It was definitely a blessed Thanksgiving holiday here at Dogbark. We all had a chance to go and see our families and eat tons and tons of food. As Samuel and I got back into the swing of things in the office this morning he was complaining that something smelled terrible. Naturally everyone walked over [...]

Testing Out Crossover

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

A few days ago I got the horrible news that our token office PC was going to be taken home by a certain Samuel Rainey, M.A in order for him to watch football games, or something ridiculous like that, in his office at home. Don’t get me wrong, I am a 100% Apple Computer guy, [...]

Captcha Image Verification

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Dogbark is now offering CAPTCHA image verification additions to websites. That means if you have a contact form, or any other form, on your site that is being spammed by a bot or script we can help stop it for you.
In short CAPTCHA forces your users to verify that they are a human being by [...]

The Fight Against Spam

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

In the current times a simple the mention of the word spam brings up really bad connotations in the mind of most internet users. Before it would make us sick because we thought of that horrifically salty wannabe pork that came in a can, but now it has a whole new, equally terrifying meaning.
What is [...]

False Enom & Network Solutions Emails

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Short Story:
This morning and yesterday we have seen an outbreak of false phishing emails under the false disguise of an Enom.com email, and now they have expanded this to Network Solutions emails as well. Please note that the actual companies have nothing to do with this, but it is someone using the appearance of [...]

Getting Rid of Foreign Language Spam

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Do you get a bunch of junk mail in your email application that’s coming to you in a language that you don’t even understand? Are you an Apple Mail User? If those are both true please read the rest of this article. I will describe in detail how to get rid of this problem as [...]

Hooked on a Feeling.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

There are days when you just need to chill out and listen to some good music. When I’m on the road, my iPhone always has the best hits of David Hasselhoff ready to be played. It’s the best music when I’m down, or when I am having a great day. Below is my favorite video, [...]

iPhone Camera

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

This was a photo that I took in Humboldt, KS this past weekend of one of the many water towers in the area. I shot this on my iPhone 3G and only adjusted the size and contrast a touch in Photoshop. I thought I’d share it with you guys. Hope you enjoy.

Stop Hotlinking

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Hotlinking is when someone “borrows” your images by linking directly to your website. So instead of stealing the old fashioned way by downloading them and uploading them to their own space, they simply call your images in html like <img src=”http://yoursite.com/images/stealing_not_cool.jpg” />. So not only are they taking and using your images for public display [...]

Domain Name Registration

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Yesterday was a scary day for me. For those of you who know me you know that I not only work at Dogbark, but also as a performing drummer here in Nashville. I went to check my personal email and I couldn’t connect to the server. Then I went to adamdrums.com only to find that [...]