Sticky notes are frowned upon .... excel spreadsheets can be compromised ... and my memory is about as good as a leaky sieve!  Mozilla appears to have come to the rescue with a suggestion of a future alternative to the hundreds of username/password combinations we have to remember if we're keen users of websites.

It's a bit concerning when a search engine decides to drop ALL domains from its records because they end in a suffix which is commonly used by spammers .. but that's exactly what Google has just done.

Google recently unveiled their next batch of new services, including a technique called pre-rendering. The idea being that when a Chrome user runs a websearch on Google, the first few links will be automatically loaded in the background for instant display should the user choose to view it.

For those operating websites, this has a number of huge disadvantages. Firstly, those who monitor how many times their pages have been viewed (“hits”) are going to find their statistics are heavily skewed. A basic hit counter will not know the difference between an actual page-view and a pre-rendered page.

This could, of course, be very misleading when trying to identify which pages on your site regularly attract visitors.

Recently Twitter moved over to its Web Intents Platform which may well have passed you by - it certainly did me, until I had a few calls from clients saying that their 'Tweet This' links - particularly in K2 and AdsFactory in Joomla! but I assume this is the case in a huge range of web-based applications - had stopped working.