Pressplay, the pay-for-music subscription service created jointly by Sony and Vivendi Universal, was released Wednesday. I downloaded the 14-day trial copy of the service from Yahoo! Music. It is a real disappointment.

_{read this article...
###}

Alms for the Poor Ol' Webmaster?
^{February 16, 2001 By Dave Kristula}

Amazon.com recently unveiled a new program called The Amazon Honor System. Webmasters who choose to sign up for this free program can ask visitors to their web site to give a voluntary contribution, directly through their Amazon.com account (if they are one of Amazon.com's 29 million customers). Is this the beginning of online begging?

_{read this article...
###}

Running Out of Rewards
^{January 26, 2001 by Dave Kristula}

I'll be the first to admit it. I've spent the past three months searching the Internet for the best rewards programs out there. For months I had promoted AllAdvantage, a company which...

_{read this article...
###}

Do you really need M.E.?
^{September 23, 2000 by Dave Kristula}

I started college at the end of August 2000. Into the dorms came kids, and with them: new PC's. 1-Gigahertz processor? What for? Why is anyone going to need a 1-Gigahertz computer to write a paper or do a little online research?

_{read this article...
###}

Technology Targets World Problems
^{January 23, 2000 by Dave Kristula}

It wasn't long ago that I was helping out in my local soup kitchen and writing my 9th grade report on the rainforests. That was back in 1996 - the Internet wasn't a household thing - and for some reason I never connected the power of the two - the future masses of the Internet and the desire to help out the world. Could the Internet really be used for good?

_{read this article...
###}

C is for Cookie, That's how they know it's me!
^{August 24, 1999 by Magic Kapoola}

Did you ever look through all settings available to you on Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer? One of the settings you came across is probably to disable or issue a warning before accepting a cookie. But the real question is: "What exactly is a cookie?"

_{read this article...
###}

Internet Conglomerations
^{June 3, 1999 By Dave Kristula}

I remember the early days of the web - very vaguely. With the newest release of Mosaic on my best bud's Drew's box, I was shown Yahoo.com - the to-be dominating catalog-engine portal to the Internet, and the AT&T web site. I wasn't especially captivated by the web as it was. There were no banner ads, and maybe a few dozen thousand web sites at most. That was back in late 1994.

_{read this article...
###}

Getting paid to surf?
^{April 17, 1999 By Dave Kristula}
_{read this article...
###}

The PDA War That Never Was...
^{April 3, 1998 by Dave Kristula}
_{read this article...
###}

Sync into the Net
^{October 17, 1997 by Dave Kristula}
_{read this article...
###}

Trust the Government with Encryption Keys?
^{September 17, 1997 by Dave Kristula}
_{read this article...
###}

Promoting the Semi-Slacker Society
^{July 31, 1997 by Dave Kristula}
_{read this article...
###}

Decaying Webmasters Unite?
^{July 1, 1997 by Dave Kristula}
_{read the rest of this article...
###}

Button Bars: Going Mainstream?
^{May 22, 1997 by Dave Kristula}
_{read this article...
###}

A splitting Web... or Not?
^{April 27, 1997 by Dave Kristula}
_{read this article...
###}

Welcome to SLASH!
^{April 27, 1997 by Dave Kristula}

Welcome to my pathetic excuse for an e-zine! I doubt you’ll enjoy it, or even return in the future... but hey, I was able to...

_{read the rest of this article...
###}

• davesite.com
  
  
• CSS: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
  
  
• HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
  
  
• Dave's Web Site Design Tutorial
  
  
• Dave's JavaScript Programming Tutorial
  
  
• The Top 10 Stupidest Lists Collection
  
  
• The Compression Site
  
  
• The Rainforest Report
  
  

OTHER SITES WORTH A VISIT