It's August and it's hot outside, so what better to do than spend a little time inside, relaxing and reading the latest edition of The Line! For all of our new customers, welcome to your first edition and for everyone else, welcome back! This summer has brought with it several projects for our team at Jumpline.com. continue reading...
In each edition of The Line we will be spotlighting specific features and resources that are available to our customers. Today, we are highlighting our Customer Forum.

Through the Customer Forum, our customers now have a resource for finding information on how our customers are taking advantage of the products and services offered by Jumpline.com. In January 2007 we opened up the forum for all of our customers, and since that time we have seen the traffic to this website grow and we are starting to see more and more of our customers taking advantage of this great support/resource alternative.

In addition to finding out how other customers are using our products and services, the forum is a great place to showcase your websites to get feedback from other like minded Jumpline customers. continue reading...
In this edition of TheLine, we wanted to focus on the latest trend in web design and programming - AJAX. We have compiled our favorite resources that will help simplify adding interactivity and new features to your websites.

Ajax, or AJAX, is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is intended to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, functionality, and usability.

The name is an acronym standing for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Ajax is asynchronous in that loading does not interfere with normal page loading. JavaScript is the programming language in which Ajax function calls are made. Data retrieved using the technique is commonly formatted using XML, as reflected in the naming of the XMLHttpRequest object from which Ajax is derived. continue reading...
Final Touch Interiors
In this edition of TheLine, we spoke to Anton Neureiter, owner of Final Touch Interiors, LLC. Anton’s New York-based interior design business has an impressive online presence, including a blog and other interactive elements, all powered by a Jumpline.com J2-VDS web hosting package.
read entire interview...

If you are interested in keeping up to date on new projects and changes at Jumpline.com, you can check out The Buzz to get information about those updates as they happen.

In the last edition of The Line, we introduced our upcoming Pay Per Click (PPC) management system. To date, we are still in the development stage on this project, and look forward to its addition to our growing list of available services and features. Once available, the PPC will be a must have resource for managing your online advertising needs.

Along with our continued work on the PPC system, we will continue to implement changes to the Customer Manager to make managing your plans and customer account a little easier. As these updates are implemented we will pass the information along to you.

Also, as of today, we want to make you aware of a few Value Applications that have recently been updated. As additional updates are available, we will make additional updates and list those here.

Recently Updated:

PHP 4.4.7 & 5.2.2
Zend Optimizer 3.2.8
Webmail 1.1.3
SugarCRM 4.5.1b
phpMyAdmin 2.10.0.2
Wikipedia remains go-to site for online news
Posted by Reuters

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. continue reading...


Microsoft starts priming the pump for Vista SP1 Preview
Posted by Mary Jo Foley | ZDNet

Microsoft is still on track to make a beta available later this week of what it’s referring to as “Vista Service Pack 1 Preview,” according to sources close to the company. continue reading...


The 25th Anniversary of the Virus
Posted by Dan Farber & Larry Dignan | ZDnNet

Don Reisinger notes that depending on what you count as a virus, it may actually be the 30th anniversary of the virus. I think it’s fair to say that it’s the 25th anniversary of viruses on PCs and leave it at that. For some virus history, be sure to check out VirusList’s history of malicious programs. Click through to the years (like the early 80s) to see the details. Also, Wikipedia has a timeline of notable viruses and worms. continue reading...


Computers for 3-Year-Olds
Posted by Olga Kharif | Business Week

When Chiara Jannotta Rothenberg was just 18 months old, her parents started sitting her on their laps to watch photo slide shows on the home computer. By the time she was 2, Chiara was slowly punching keyboard buttons with her little fingers in Microsoft Word. "She wanted to learn what mommy was doing," explains her mother, Jacqueline. continue reading...


Symantec patches critical Norton flaw
Posted by Robert McMillan | Network World

A bug in the way Norton Antivirus software uses the ActiveX programming language could cause serious problems for users of Symantec's products. On Thursday, Symantec patched the flaw warning that a bug in two ActiveX controls used by Symantec's client software could allow an attacker to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer. Security vendor Secunia rates the problem as "highly critical." continue reading...