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Category Archives: Tips
Industry-specific guides to Twitter, by profession.
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The link below provides a compilation of links to industry-specific guides to using Twitter. Definitely worth a look, especially if you are considering incorporating Twitter into your marketing plan.
http://pistachioconsulting.com/featured-articles/industry-guides/
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Turn DM’s into PM’s
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t.imo.im is an interesting application that provides Twitter users a way to turn their Direct Messages (DM’s) into Instant Messages (IM’s).
In essence t.imo.im it is taking the usual direct message conversation that you may have with someone and turning it into an instant messaging experience we have yet to see elsewhere. From initial tests we found it to have awesome potential. After playing around with t.imo.im for a little bit, there are actually some things that you NEED to know if you wish to use it.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/04/16/instant-messaging-twitter-reality/?awesm=tnw.to_15yJm
Enjoy!
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How to Report Inappropriate Content In Google Maps
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This has never been an issue for me, but for those of you that have concerns about Internet privacy, this link might be of interest. There are step-by-step instructions for how to report things you might notice in the Google Street view of your house or neighborhood, like your car license plate, a picture that includes you, showing your face, etc.
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/04/17/how-to-remove-a-face-house-or-car-from-google-street-view/
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16 Indispensable Tools to Optimize Photos for the Web
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There’s nothing more irritating, when surfing the web, than a website which takes ages to load. Slow load times are an instant turnoff to visitors and can impact negatively on your site’s traffic and even affect your Google ranking (although not as heavily as some people might have you believe). Optimizing your website’s images will make your site load more quickly, reduce your bandwidth consumption and save you money in the long-run.
If you want to compress the size of your image files without affecting image quality, you’re going to need a decent image optimizing tool. Photoshop lets you choose the quality of your images and offers a “Save for Web” function, but that’s not enough. The great tools explored below let you squeeze vital extra kB out of your images, keeping you and your website visitors happy.
Read the entire article here: 16 Indispensable Tools to Optimize Photos for the Web | Web Developer Juice.
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George Carlin on aging!
Enjoy the ride. There is no return ticket. 
George Carlin on aging!
George Carlin’s Views on Aging
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
‘How old are you?’ ‘ I’m four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five! That’s the key.
You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
‘How old are you?’ ‘I’m gonna be 16!’ You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life! You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony. YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!
But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before y ou know it, you REACH 50, and your dreams are gone…
But! wait!! ! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50, and make it to 60.
You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that, it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You get into your 80′s, and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; ‘I Was JUST 92.’
5 Ways To Drive More Traffic To Your Website
“If you build it, they will come.”
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If I’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that this old axiom doesn’t always apply, especially in this day and age. Simply putting together a website with the latest technology platforms on top of a semi-clever URL won’t do the trick. There are, however, five simple things that you can implement to move the traffic needle up and improve your metrics.
Search Engine Optimization: Search engine optimization, otherwise known as SEO for short, is one of the hottest topics in website development today. Not in the know? Here’s a quick rundown. According to Wikipedia, it’s “the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or un-paid search results as opposed to Search Engine Marketing (SEM).” It’s like tidying up your website and filling out all of the appropriate forms so that search engine crawlers will get the most context from your site and reward you with a higher page rank.
Choosing and Protecting Passwords
Passwords are a common form of authentication and are often the only barrier between a user and your personal information. There are several programs attackers can use to help guess or “crack” passwords, but by choosing good passwords and keeping them confidential, you can make it more difficult for an unauthorized person to access your information.
Why do you need a password?
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Think about the number of personal identification numbers (PINs), passwords, or passphrases you use every day: getting money from the ATM or using your debit card in a store, logging on to your computer or email, signing in to an online bank account or shopping cart…the list seems to just keep getting longer. Keeping track of all of the number, letter, and word combinations may be frustrating at times, and maybe you’ve wondered if all of the fuss is worth it. After all, what attacker cares about your personal email account, right? Or why would someone bother with your practically empty bank account when there are others with much more money? Often, an attack is not specifically about your account but about using the access to your information to launch a larger attack. And while having someone gain access to your personal email might not seem like much more than an inconvenience and threat to your privacy, think of the implications of an attacker gaining access to your social security number or your medical records.
Pitaschio: Tweaking Tool For Windows 7 Power Users
Pitaschio is a free utility for Windows that lets you tweak and customize Windows in several ways. This utility works great on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.
With Pitaschio, one can disable Windows, Insert, Alt, Caps Lock and Menu keys instantly. This utility lets you customize Windows desktop by changing icon text color, icon size (small icons), and a few other useful options. Along with this, it lets you place window only in screen, adjust transparency by wheel, minimize window to system tray, disable/enable minimize button, enable/disable maximize button, enable/disable close button.
Internet Explorer 8: Select text with the keyboard
In older versions of IE it was often difficult or impossible to select exactly the text you wanted to copy into an e-mail or a document. When you dragged the mouse to select text, you often selected adjacent paragraphs or columns also, even though you didn’t want them. IE8 finally solves this problem by imitating Firefox’s “caret browsing” feature, in which you select text by moving the arrow keys. Just press F7, or Page | Caret Browsing, and use the arrow keys or other navigation to find the place in the text where you want to start copying; hold down the Shift key and use the arrows or other navigation keys to extend the selection. Ctrl-C then copies the selected text to the clipboard. It would have been nice if Web browsers used F8 (the “extend selection” key in Microsoft Office) instead of F7 for this feature, but you can’t have everything.
Internet Explorer 8: Nine Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do – Solutions by PC Magazine
Internet Explorer 8: Block Ads with InPrivate Filtering
Block Ads with InPrivate Filtering and Third-Party Filters
A helpful new feature found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is the ability to block ads that appear on web pages–especially the ones that seem to ‘follow’ you from site to site by tracking your browsing with cookies.
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First, turn on InPrivate Filtering by using Safety | InPrivate Filtering Settings and select Automatically Block. Click OK.
Next, add a Registry setting that turns on InPrivate Filtering by default so that you don’t have to turn it on every time you start up IE8. In Notepad, create a text file with these three lines:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Safety\PrivacIE]
"StartMode"=dword:00000001
Save this file to your desktop with a name like “FilterOn.reg”; right-click on it; choose Merge.
Next, search the Web for files named Adblock for IE8.zip or EasyListIE8.zip, or search for “ie8 adblock xml list” or similar strings. You are looking for links to downloadable XML files converted from recent filtering lists created for Firefox‘s AdBlock Plus. Download one or more of these XML files to your desktop—you can use more than one without problems—and look at the files in Notepad to make sure that they’re standard text files and not a dangerous executable program (scan them with your antivirus app first, just in case). In IE8, go to Tools | Manage Add-Ons, and click on InPrivate Filtering. Click the Import button, navigate to your downloaded XML file and click Open. IE8 will take a few seconds to process the list. Click Close. Now visit any normally ad-heavy site and enjoy the view of the site with few or no ads.
Internet Explorer 8: Nine Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do
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