I don’t do a lot of driving, but when I do it is often long trips to visit family or to remote locations for hiking or other outdoor activities.  Rural radio being the wasteland that it is, I absolutely must have some audio entertainment in the car whether it is audiobooks, music or podcasts. A [...]

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Google Swirl is a beta search results interface that compliments Google Images.  Instead of the standard grid of single level navigation, Swirls returns results in an “intuitive” tree interface that allows you to explore images matches based on visual and semantic similarities. It works best with fairly ambiguous terms because the beta only has about [...]

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“Content is King” is one of those search engine optimization maxims that gets thrown around a lot but many folks still don’t realize that what they see on a web page with their own eyes isn’t exactly what search engines “see” in terms of content. Some of the richest, highest impact sites are all but [...]

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CS5 and Photoshop in particular has a lot of great new features. Most of the jaw droppers have already been covered in great detail elsewhere and, sure, you could wade through the bullet points and release notes, but here is a way to become familiar with them as you use Photoshop from day to [...]

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At heart what’s wrong with Search Engine Optimization?  Make your content as accurate and accessible as possible so that it gets indexed correctly to help visitors find your site on the SERP.  But in practice it is a classic class of “Too much of a good thing, is a bad thing.”.  While it’s easy to [...]

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I never thought I’d see the day Google was chasing Bing in the search engine arena, but there you go, huge background images started appearing on Google’s home page this morning.  I’m all about visual appeal but one of the best things about Google’s search page has always been its clean, uncluttered and professional appearance.  [...]

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#1 Reduce Necessity of Proprietary Presentation Technologies
Anyone who has run into outdated, incompatible or buggy plug-ins trying to play audio or video on the web can see the desirability of this functionality.  The web has been a multimedia experience for some time, and yet only now is there a realistic effort to create a universal [...]

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It has come to my attention that some people, occasionally have to reinstall Windows over and over again (sympathies, J).  Some people actually endorse reinstalling Operating Systems regularly, be they OS X, Windows or Linux as a housekeeping measure.  Personally, I keep a full disk image of my clean Operating System (fresh install), a full [...]

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Sometimes you see those freelance gigs that just set off all sorts of alarms in your head. I’m not sure how long this offer for Proxy Server and Script Setup will remain up so I’ve also taken a screen capture. Oh sure, sure there are plenty of legitimate and even beneficent uses for such a [...]

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As anyone knows, I’m a huge fan of Google’s products but this morning they sent me into a bit of a panic.  I noticed that the search results page in Firefox was VERY different from the one in Chrome and Internet Explorer.  Trusting and optimistic person that I am, I immediately thought “browser hijack” and [...]

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