Tag: DREAMHOST

Invisible Note is a social experiment/fun site by the guys over at DreamHost. It's like a game of bouncing e-mail: You send out an e-mail to any address @invisiblenote.com; if anyone else sends that address an e-mail too, they get your note, and you get theirs – along with the e-mail addresses you both sent your notes from! I tried an obvious one, and it indeed worked. Now a certain Mr. ...

If you were a large company that subsists on customers paying monthly or yearly subscription fees, what's the worst possible thing you could do? While a number of things come to mind, automatically billing customers for a year in advance by mistake has to come in at the top. Now, how about when you're a hosting company that has a reputation for being a little too casual, a little bit ...

Whenever you go to purchase something online, do you pause when you come across a field for a coupon code or promo code, and think "I need to find one!". Us too. Well, it turns out that if you're going to sign up for a hosting account with Dreamhost, it's really, really easy to find a promo code just by doing a quick search. There actually seems to be millions of them! It turns out that any ...

I've been a user of Gmail since late 2005 and have loved just about every minute of it. The revolutionary webmail interface, the vast popularity among power users and plethora of scripts, add-ons and doodads - but the one thing that always bothered me was the loss of integration with the rest of my computing. Sure, there are some great tricks and bookmarklets we found for our Top 10 Gmail tips and ...

Host to many, many a website, DreamHost decided it was time to bring some new hotness to their web admin control panel. Gone are the dark blue roll-out headers in favor of a much lighter AJAX + full CSS design, with subtle gradients and even a pseudo-tag area under the Home > Overview section (we only rank it as 'pseudo' due to its tag-like appearance, but rightful lack of actual tagging ...