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Keeping Up With Google: Speed a Factor in Page Rank

April 13, 2010 By madbadcat 3 Comments

I was reading my morning news website yesterday when I ran across a link to an article entitled "It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor" posted at SearchEngineland.com . It seems that Google has responded to results of numerous studies over the years that concluded that even a half second delay in delivering content will result in shorter. For instance, as part of their own internal experiment, Google slowed down their own search results by 100 to 400 MILLISECONDS, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Resources, SEO, Wordpress, Workflow Tagged With: caching, cpanel, firefox, firefox plugin, google, gzip, page rank, plugin, search engine, SEO, Techpp.com, wibiya, Yslow

First Look At CS5

April 12, 2010 By Alicia Vogel 1 Comment

Creative Suite 5 is out, and it's got bells and whistles. I am hesitant to call it a game changer. Just better bells and whistles. Here are some highlights that immediately jumped out at me: Photoshop, Premiere, and Aftereffects are now 64 bit. Snow Leopard users should see an improvement in performance as a result, especially in video preview and playback. Photoshop junkies...the content awareness capability is actually "all that". I can't wait to try it. Of equal importance is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Photoshop, Software Tagged With: 64 bit, Adobe, CS5, iPhone, photoshop, Video

Slidepress- A Fully Customizable, Dynamic Media Player for WordPress

March 2, 2010 By madbadcat 5 Comments

Slidepress is just the latest offering from Dominey Design, a web development company in Atlanta. Their main focus- AKA obsession- is Slideshowpro- a quick and easy and versatile Flash-based slideshow application available as a Flash Component and a standalone xml-driven swf. Plus they offer an web application called Slideshow Director- a database-driven image and video management application for installation on your won web server. Dominey's vision is vast- when you purchase any of their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: Dominey, error 1054, Flash, mysql, navThumbLinkBackgroundColor, plugin, Slidepress, slideshow, slideshow plugin, slideshowpro, slideshowpro director, slideshowpro.net, swf

Lexmark and Evernote Join Forces

February 26, 2010 By Wendy Arnold 1 Comment

Can office life get any easier? I’m sure it could, but this gets us one step closer - for sure! This is definitely a “smart solution” for getting rid of those pesky meeting notes, sketches and pretty much all the paper clutter you are dying to store digitally, but have no time to do. Lexmark Launches Evernote App For Smartsolution Printers Easy One-Touch Scanning to Evernote Without Requiring a Computer Evernote announced this week, the availability of the Evernote SmartSolution … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Workflow Tagged With: evernote, Lexmark, printer, SmartSolution, Web-connected

Note from Evernote Fangirl

February 22, 2010 By Wendy Arnold 1 Comment

The Evernote Freak that I am, I had to share some of the new exciting things with the new update. Excuse me while I share straight from the horse's mouth... The all new Evernote 3.5 for Windows Evernote 3.5 for Windows is completely new. We rewrote it from the ground up to make it faster, more reliable, and just plain better than Evernote for Windows has ever been. Our goal was to use everything we've learned since our launch to make a great Evernote experience on Windows. If … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Workflow Tagged With: Apple iPad, Cliqset, evernote, Joshua Zerkel, Sony, TimeBridge, VAIO, windows

Bundles of MacFriendly Joy for a Great Cause

February 11, 2010 By Britt Stokes 2 Comments

If you hurry and check out www.macfriendly.org, you can get two truly great deals. First, you can treat yourself to twelve Mac applications that are worthy of your icon bar. Second, you will be pleased to know that the funds you paid support the care and feeding of homeless animals. First, the applications. For photo buffs, there are three applications that you’ll enjoy. Calico Panorama helps stitch rows, even multi-rows, of images together with ease. Bracketeer takes your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digital Lifestyles, Software Tagged With: app, beryoko, bracketeer, calico panorama, email backup, hdr, image editing, k kitchen, mac, macfriendly.org, mail encryption, moviesherlock, photostyler, veenix typebook, video diary

For Flash Users: crossdomain.xml maker, finally!

February 3, 2010 By madbadcat Leave a Comment

It's so simple, so brilliant, why didn't anyone think of this before? A while back and few version ago, new preacutions were added to Flash player 7: a flash movie playing inside a browser would not be allowed to access data outside the exact domain in which .swf resides. By default, .swf files can't even read from subdomains, or even parent domains if the swf is located in a subdomain. With this new security measure, Macromedia (now Adobe) added the use of the cross domain policy file, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Software, Workflow Tagged With: adobe flash, crossdomain xml, Flash, slideshowpro, swf

Review: Crossbrowsertesting.com

February 1, 2010 By madbadcat 1 Comment

Since I have already sang their praises, this is more of an introduction to Crossbrowsertesting.com than a review. Best described as a Browser Compatibility Lab, this online service offers a place to test a website on just about every browser- operating system combination. It offers two types of testing: interactive (to test ajax, javascript, and flash) and screenshots (which verifies layouts across all browsers). The site offers three (3) pricing plans which all include access to their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, Wordpress, Workflow Tagged With: apple, browser check, Screenshot, Web browser, Web design, Web Design and Development

Build A Better Photograph: A Disciplined Approach To Creativity by Michael E. Stern

January 25, 2010 By Dr. Michael N. Roach 5 Comments

Build A Better Photograph: A Disciplined Approach To Creativity - Rocky Nook

Rocky Nook Press recently sent me a review copy of Michael E. Stern's new book Build A Better Photograph: A Disciplined Approach To Creativity, and since I am always interested in the creative process (especially when it involves disciplined thought), I was happy to sit down with it for some quality time. I gravitate towards that word "disciplined" because I am an analytical and systematic individual. My trusty Mac computer dictionary provided the following: With that in mind, I have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Featured, Photography, Reviews Tagged With: composition, creativity, digital photography, michael stern, Photography, Rocky Nook

WordPress Plugins for the Media Library

January 19, 2010 By madbadcat 1 Comment

Getting The Most of Wordpress' Media Library After a couple of years of faithfully using Dean's FCK Editor, we changed over to Tiny MCE Advanced Plugin- mostly because we wanted to take advantage of the new timthumb auto-thumbnailer coding of our new Arthemis Premium theme. (Though if I had read this post by Justin Tadlock, Boy Genius, I would have probably stuck with my Studiopress theme...) Tiny MCE Advanced Plugin This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, WordPress’ wysiwyg … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Wordpress Tagged With: media library, plugins, pullquotes, tinymce, upload folder

Jan. 18, 2010: Ping Services

January 18, 2010 By madbadcat 1 Comment

I was looking at a 112mg error log last week and i discovered that almost all of the errors were related to long gone ping services. I was googling to find the lastest working ping list. It can be most frustrating trying to hunt down a list of current ping services. As of today, these are working. http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://ping.feedburner.com http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: ping, wordpress

Four Companies with Great Customer Service You Should Know About.

January 14, 2010 By madbadcat 5 Comments

The new year introduced me to new vendors and reinforced my belief in 2 old ones: crossbrowsertesting.com, browsershots.org, polurnet.com, and arthemis premium wordpress theme. This is a story of great customer service. Arthemis Premium Wordpress Theme Some time last fall, i decided that i wanted to change the DigitalAppleJuice theme to Arthemis Premium wp theme by Colorlabs Project. I am still a huge fan of the Revolution- Studiopress themes- all my client themes are based on them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digital Lifestyles, Reviews, Wordpress Tagged With: browser check, web hosting suggestions, wordpress magazine theme