2005

Well, the Macromedia site has been switched over to an Adobe look. This marks the official beginning of a significant change in creative software. The two most major creative software camps have consolidated. PDF and Flash now come from the same company, and the significance of that can’t be over-stated. Studio 8 and Creative Studio [...]

{ 0 comments }

Are your Word Blogger buttons disappearing? In the Blogger Word Help FAQ, they mention a known issue where an Outlook security fix prevents Word plug-ins from working if you have Word set as your email editor. I un-set Word as my email editor early on, and still had strange problems with disappearing blogger buttons. Sometimes [...]

{ 3 comments }

OK, I actually bought my 1GB USB keychain drive. I chose the SanDisk Cruzer Micro mostly because it’s tiny, and it’s what BestBuy had in stock when I stopped in the store. I shelled out just over $100 for this, but it’s very tiny. But unfortunately, it’s just a little too tiny for the Browser [...]

{ 1 comment }

I’m investigating my PC on a keychain options again. I’m a scripting-oriented Microsoft developer who tried to move to .NET on an ambitious project a few years ago. I tried building what I have come to know via Ruby on Rails hype as a joyful and agile framework. But doing this on ASP.NET was not [...]

{ 1 comment }

Well, it looks like GoogleBase is live. I published my first classified (for Connors’ SEO services). It says it’s publishing, and the listing should be live in 15 minutes to an hour. To have GoogleBase go live right on the tail of Google Analytics is impressive, even for Google. It just published (under 15 minutes). [...]

{ 0 comments }

If anyone has been trying to get updates with SpyBot Search & Destroy and gets the bad checksum error, just switch to Advanced mode, then “Search for Updates”, then change which server you are trying to download the updates from (the button right between “Search for Updates” and “Download Updates”). Generally, the last selection (BN [...]

{ 1 comment }

Have you seen the TV commercials where two people grab for the last pack of candy, neither is willing to let go, and they’re stuck together for the rest of the day? Well, now you can read their blog. And Juicy Fruit is catching a lot of heat in the blogosphere for it. I was [...]

{ 2 comments }

Recently, a long-time friend asked me how to get into Google, and I emailed him my reply. Everyone in SEO gives out their particular advice in order to bolster their reputation and generate leads. If you like the advice I give here, link to me. I mention factors that other SEO pro’s use, but would [...]

{ 0 comments }

One of the side effects of being awash in the data-stream of search hits is spotting vanity searches. Blogging is very ego-driven, and recently, very profit-driven. I’ll never forget how David Sifry of Technorati telling me how the desire to ferret out these non-linked citations is how Technorati was born. But if you’re controlling a [...]

{ 1 comment }