Archive for December, 2007
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
SEOmoz gets in on the fun with an interesting list of layout and functionality "must-haves." The article was good, and some of the comments had even more useful ideas. Funny how some SEOers are so focused on search that they forget about conversions - not these ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
The productivity parade continues!
43Folders guest blogger wood.tang has this great time-saving tip for RSS junkies:
... when you come back and open your newsreader again, hit that “Mark All as Read” button and start from scratch.
Who knew that such simple solutions existed? :)
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
... and speaking of productivity apps ...
I saw that perky little brunette on BoingBoing, and she definitely caught my eye. Then I saw her again at Merlin's site! I wondered at first if she was stalking me ... then I realized she just wanted a job. So ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
I can't live without GMail. And I'm getting to love Remember the Milk. Are they better together? We'll see - I've installed the FireFox Extension which integrates RTM and GMail, and I must say, it's pretty sweet.
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
I was amused by some recent posts from ecomsolutions.net saying that open source is crap and that you need a custom-build cart. Most of the assertions they make are so risible as to not warrant a response (which works out well, because they don't allow comments) - but ...
Posted in Cart Vendors | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 24th, 2007
The shopping cart (real world variety) was invented in Oklahoma 70 years ago.
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
OSCommerce guru Joannes Vermorel argues that there is a glut of software on the market and that there is a coming shakeout for shopping cart providers. We'll see if he's right!
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Part of my PC to Mac migration is figuring out a backup strategy. On my PC I have a thumb drive that I periodically drag files to; on my Mac I'll use Time Machine and an external USB drive. I'm mostly satisfied with this, but I've always wanted to augment ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
I took the jump this month and bought a MacBook so I'd have a small computer to travel with that came with Linux tools. I wanted to migrate my Outlook Notes to a similar application on the Mac. I installed trial versions of
Chronos SOHO Notes
Devon Think
OmniOutliner
Circus Ponies Notebook
I ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Fortune Small Business reviews the new film The Call of the Entrepreneur. I was not surprised to find they thought the treatment was ham-handed; media that is generated by religious groups often feels tendentious and agenda-driven.
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