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Google places a real live email link to pat@example.com on the Google account login screen. Though I'm sure it's intended to improve usability it has the opposite effect. They placed the pat@example.com link smack dab in between the email (login/username) field and the password field. Keyboard savvy users normally use the tab key to move … Continue reading pat@example.com Google Usability Tweak
Hello fall. I used to rank #1 in Google for uncool. Not so much anymore. My uncool site is wallowing WAY down the ranks. If you have a blog or a page, please toss uncoolcentral a link with "uncool" as the anchor text. I'll hook you up with a link too. Or maybe … Continue reading The Fall of Uncool
One of my clients recently opened a second Google Adwords account to advertise one of his many businesses. "Why does it cost so much more to go after the same PPC keywords on my new website with this new Adwords account?! Is it because it's new?" I'd previously mentioned to him that good SEO reduces … Continue reading SEO Reduces PPC Cost
A tale of trying to switch back to Verizon for local phone service I use First Communications for local and long distance phone service i.e. my "land line". First Communications is a CLEC, which means they resell an ILEC's (or RBOC's) telephone lines. Verizon is the ILEC/RBOC in my area. Because Verizon sucks, using a … Continue reading Verizon SNAFU
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
(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?
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?
I got my mortgage through Bank of America in 2004. It's a 30-year fixed rate 5.25% dream... of sorts. The dream ended when I tried to pay BOA more. Bank of America automatically withdraws my monthly payment from my bank account. I was paying a little extra on my principal every month. Business is good, … Continue reading Why Bank of America is Failing
A month ago I found myself in a sterile doctor's office in West Virginia, having traveled an hour to get there because it was the closest treatment option for what ails me. Through the equally sterile blinds I noticed a huge dilapidated and obviously old building across the street on a hill. "What's that huge … Continue reading Parkersburg WV Historic Walking Tour
Is Cabo safe from all of the recent Mexican drug cartel action? Short answer: I think so. Cabo should not be considered a front in the current war between the federales and the drug kingpins. I run a fun Cabo web site and I receive a few emails each week asking me questions about Los … Continue reading Cabo Drug War?
Dan Dreifort 