Is it some truth to the following…

…I’d love to hear your take on this!

Serious companies from around the globe sometimes makes (disastrous) mistakes when it comes to their on-line presence. Especially when choosing a domain name. The golden rule here is to make sure it’s suitable in the most common languages, and leaves little or no room for “confusion”…

1. Powergenitalia.com
Owned by the Italian battery company Powergen. Apparently they forgot about how this might be read by the English speaking. They later changed their name to batterychargerpowergen.it.

2. Whorepresents.com
The website tells you who represents various artists. But if you read fast it comes out a little differently.

3. Molestationnursery.com
Former website of a medical clinic. Apparently the web approach didn’t attract as many clients as they hoped for (or maybe the wrong ones).

4. Expertsexchange.com
Instead of the intended association to IT and software (Experts exchange) most people thought this had something to do with sex change. They later changed their name to experts-exchange.com.

5. Cummingfirst.com
I’m not going into details here, but most of you probably didn’t guess that this is the homepage of First Cumming Methodist Church.

6. Speedofart.com
Childish butt-humour… Should of course be pronounced; Speed of Art!

7. Viagrafix.com
Via Grafix are specialists in computer graphics. At first glance it looks more like one of the addresses you get in your daily SPAM box. They later changed their name to tutorials.com.

The European Union (EU) will try to make a change to IPv6 as soon as possible, but what happened to IPv5?

The World is running out of IP addresses! Today’s Internet protocol system, IPv4, has been in use since the early eighties. The communication protocol has a limit of 4,3 billion addresses. And as you can see from the widget below, there’s now just about 650 million IP addresses left (15%).

The limited number of unique IP’s has forced the ISP’s to use new technologies like NAT (Network Address Translation) which allows multiple servers/computers to share the same IP. However, this breaks with the original ideology that all computers should have their own unique public address.

With IPv6 this will once again be possible as the protocol allows for almost an indefinitely number of IP’s. In other words, every computer or gadget (mobiles etc.) could have their own IP.

For more information on current status of IPv4 see: www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/

But what happened with IPv5?

Odd number releases of the Internet protocol is normally considered experimentally versions. IPv5 is/was among these, also known as ST2 or Internet Stream Protocol 2. It was never introduced as a standard.

Adobe recently announced the release of Dreamweaver CS4 Beta on Adobe labs. To avoid repeating the news you can read all about the new features in Dreamweaver CS4 there. If you already have a licensed copy (CS3) all you need to do is locate your serial number and download the CS4 beta release.

Installation didn’t go completely without hiccups (freeze), but on my third attempt it all seemed to go smoothly. Start up and closing time is indeed speedier than CS3, and the GUI is simply outstanding:

As you can clearly see from the snapshot you now have a lot more working space. Also the enhanced integration with all new Adobe products makes it easy to work with, and also makes you want to explore new publishing areas.

Conclusion: If you liked CS3, you are going to love CS4!

Anyone else tried the new beta? I’d love to hear what your impressions are…

Later this year Microsoft will release a public version of their next browser. Compared to previous versions Internet Explorer 8 will by default be set to follow web standards rather than “MS standards”. This will create the need for yet another IE fix concerning styling and layout.

The following support article from Microsoft explains how you can add a little code to the file header to keep the old behavior (emulate IE7). You can off course also assume that IE8 will behave like Opera, Safari and Firefox and just keep the rules for older IE versions (I think I prefer the latter if it turns out okay).

You can download and test IE8 Beta here.

Fingers crossed