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Sunday, November 9. 2008

RumorControl.org Achieves Serendipity! Posted by Bill in Web Technology at 16:29

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RumorControl.org Achieves Serendipity!


Updated the site to Serendipity!

Serendipity is by far the best blogging platform there is.

If you are thinking about wordpress for a website, take a good hard look at Serendipity too

Don't just take my word for it - install them both and see for yourself

you should always do that...



Tuesday, January 1. 2008

A slick PHP Breadcrumb Library Posted by WordPress in Web Technology at 06:51

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A slick PHP Breadcrumb Library


http://www.baskettcase.com/classes/breadcrumb/This is a fantastic php lib for creating breadcrumb navigation with!

Wednesday, May 2. 2007

Coaches and Mentors.com Posted by admin in Rumor Control, Web Technology at 11:57

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Coaches and Mentors.com


CoachesAndMentors.com is a life coach directory we run over at CTA

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Thursday, April 12. 2007

FREE Screen Capture Program Posted by admin in Web Technology at 08:25

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FREE Screen Capture Program


Since a picture says a thousand words...

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

 a free screen capture program

I have been using it for years to share visual information with clients quickly and easily.

Grab your free copy today and check it out!

Friday, April 6. 2007

Favicon Generator Posted by admin in Web Technology at 09:36

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Favicon Generator


Favicon Generator



Use this free tool to convert a picture into a web browser icon!

Favicon maker- Create a favicon from any image

Tuesday, February 6. 2007

Skype Gets Even BETTER! Posted by admin in Web Technology at 17:24

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Skype Gets Even BETTER!


Skype

once again took a great program and made it even better!

I gotta say out of ANY software updates I have ever seen NOBODY UPGRADES their product like the folks over at Skype!

and believe you me, I have done more "upgrades" than I care to think about over the years!

Be sure to check it out.

Sunday, January 7. 2007

Direct TV DVR without a phone line! Posted by admin in Rumor Control at 12:55

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Direct TV DVR without a phone line!


They say it cannot be done, BUT the truth of the matter is they don't WANT you to have the dvr setup without a landline, but it does work!

If you call tech support and tell the the error code that a "regular" receiver has before it is activated they can enable the DVR box without a phone line!

(you'll see it as soon as you power up the new dvr)

Makes sense if you think about it as the new DVR is really just a receiver with an mpeg recorder in it and unlike TIVO service it DOES NOT NEED a constant telco connection to access programming, it does it all over the air via the satellite!

Sunday, January 7. 2007

This is kinda cool! Posted by admin in Rumor Control, Web Technology at 12:36

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This is kinda cool!


Snap Anywhere is a service that provides web screenshots thumbnailed for all your outbound links!

(did not add this back into Serendipity yet)

Tuesday, November 14. 2006

My Chingo Posted by admin in Web Technology at 16:13

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My Chingo


This thing is GREAT!! Use this free software for recording TO your website



A free account records up to 2 minutes of audio and the sound is crystal clear!



Check it out, record and playback your message RIGHT NOW



Am looking forward to enabling this service on some of the podcasts I manage!

Friday, November 10. 2006

Podcasting is hard work! Posted by admin in PodCasts, Rumor Control, Web Technology at 15:05

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Podcasting is hard work!


HA!

Grab yourself a copy of audacity and also install the mp3 encoder plugin

You can record mp3's on your pc right now...

and edit them too, it's easier than you might think!

Friday, November 10. 2006

Affiliate Software is Expensive Posted by admin in Rumor Control, Web Technology at 13:23

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Affiliate Software is Expensive


Sure, it can be. I have looked into many solutions and either they don't do enough (if they are free opensourced ones) or they are CRAZY ridiculous expensive!

As in $2500/month expensive!


Then there are some integrated into shopping cart vendors like 1shop (whom many of my clients use) that are easy to setup and work just fine, but they do have a HUGE drawback in my opinion.

Most need you to link to the program on their website!



Sure, it's easy to copy and paste the code, but it TOTALLY misses out on the biggest advantage I see in running an affiliate program, INBOUND LINKS!



That's right, according to me the very best thing about an affiliate program is inbound linking. Think about it, why send out hundreds of emails asking for links, or worse yet link exchanging when you can aggressively promote an affiliate program that has real benefits for your partners sites to use because it can make them money!

Post Affiliate Pro


Let me introduce you to Post Affiliate Pro! For $100 it is hands down the very best of the best affiliate programs that exists.

It is powerful, flexible enough to integrate into any shopping cart, customizable, they'll even code features into it it for you. We had a program built off of it for a few hundred bucks, it was delivered fast and bug free!

And get this...

They offer a stripped down freeware version you can try before you buy the real program, which lays right on top of the OpenSourced one, so setting it up need only be done once!

Monday, October 16. 2006

Why Rumor Control? Posted by admin in Rumor Control at 17:55

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Why Rumor Control?


I thought it was a great line from the movie!

Monday, October 16. 2006

You need to spend lots of money for ... Posted by admin in Web Technology at 10:04

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You need to spend lots of money for Content Management software!


The vast majority of of my clients had this misconception before they met me...

Yes, it is true that many commercial CMS's are quite expensive but there are so many OpenSourced ones that are free!

What I have always found to be quite funny during my 10 years as a web developer is how people think if something costs a LOT it has got to be good.

That is so far from the truth it isn't even funny.

Learn a VERY important word here:

OPENSOURCED



It generally means FREE.

Now that doesn't mean that the folks who develop these programs do not make money. Many of them develop commercial plugins for OpenSourced projects simply because they have a HUGE user base.

Many (like myself) make a good living training people how to use them and hosting them. Some developers charge for customization or detailed user manuals.

Point is there are so many ways to capitalize on OpenSource that even giants like IBM advertise they are opensource friendly!

It used to be said "OpenSource is only free if your time has no value" and sure, in many case that is indeed the case (you ever try to build a website with Typo3?)

This is not the case with everything.

There are LOTS of solid CMS' like Joomla, XOOPS, PHP-Nuke, Drupal, etc.

The list is really extensive, I know, I have tried pretty much all of them!

After using so many of them I decided to jump on the Mambo bandwagon (which has since forked off into Joomla) simply because Joomla Rocks!

It's easy to install, setup, simple to use and most importantly it is FUN!

So fun in fact we offer free 30 day trials of it at

http://www.spintheweb.com

Next time you have a need for a web based project, start your google search with the word "opensource ..."

You'll be pleasantly suprised.

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