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Through better usability (and other practices) we can turn more of your visitors into customers. This article is back from when I thought it was smart to cover several disparate topics in an single post. 🤔 A client asked me to clarify a few suggestions I'd queued for their project. While I don't offer much … Continue reading SEO, Typography, Usability – Advice to a client
My mostly spiffy new Acer 1810t laptop uses the Intel 4500 video chipset. It's fine for video as long as you're not a modern gamer. If you like playing older games, it works fine. However, unlike older integrated video processors, there's no easy way to directly change the amount of shared memory allocated to video. … Continue reading Intel 4500mhd Shared Video Change Allocated Memory
(Updated 3/25/2010 below) If your Verizon Wireless connection does not load bing correctly. Please leave a comment here. If you're not having a hard time viewing bing.com in both firefox and internet explorer over a Verizon Wireless air card EVDO connection, then you're going to be really bored here. Go visit uncool instead. Verizon Wireless … Continue reading Bing.com won’t load on Verizon Wireless
I use Webposition to query search engines and generate reports for SEO. Webposition used to be owned by Webtrends. Nobody can tell who owns them now. I blogged in October about an extended Webposition outage. They never answered their phone and never got back to anybody about what happened. They used to have a standout … Continue reading Webposition Going Downhill Fast
Using Verizon or Alltel to connect via EVDO/3G and having problems with Facebook? You're not alone. Call Verizon Now (1-800-922-0204) Some have suggested "fixes" to this problem ranging from deactivating and reactivating your Facebook account to editing about:config in FireFox. (No internet explorer specific "fixes") but alas these efforts are either temporary at best or … Continue reading Verizon / Alltel Facebook Errors
Webposition is down. Amongst other tools, I use Webtrends' Webposition to help with SEO. It's not the cheapest software in the world nor is it without its problems. I've been a satisfied customer for a few years nonetheless. Up until today at least. I was belatedly finishing my end of month SEO reporting today when … Continue reading Webposition Outage
I'm mostly a fan of the new firefox 3.5, but some of my favorite extensions haven't been updated. Or at least they hadn't until I updated them. SEOpen for Firefox 3.5 - (right-click, save as, then drag into ff 3.5) Duplicate Tab for Firefox 3.5 - (right-click, save as, then drag into ff 3.5) Google … Continue reading Addon Extension Updates for Firefox 3.5
(This post is more than a decade old, but here's what word was, then.) Don't count on it... At least not directly. One of the oldest tricks in the search engine optimization bag of tricks is to creatively link to your site from other sites. Will posting links on social media outlets like digg.com, facebook.com, … Continue reading Does Social Media Help SEO?
Need some good tunes? Bored with plain Jane kid music? This track is too precious. Maxwell "the silver hammer" Schoen, barely out of diapers, covers the Quiet Riot classic "Cum On Feel the Noise". How many takes did this kid require to knock this one out of the park? One. I particularly enjoy the guttural … Continue reading Cum on feel the noise
The October 2008 issue of Esquire Magazine was the crown jewel in my magazine technology museum. Not a difficult feat, considering there are only two specimens on display in the collection. The operative word in that first sentence is "was" because today, May 20, 2009, approximately eight months after I purchased said gem of a … Continue reading How Long Does Esquire E-ink Battery Last?
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