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Google Redirection Virus

December 14, 2010

Just when I thought that I was one of the most “web savvy” and “tech savvy” people on earth, who could never be tricked into downloading anything that would infect my computer… BAM! My laptop gets infected by what’s come to be known as the “Google Redirection Virus”. The symptoms are very obvious… You do [...]

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Presentation Matters

September 24, 2010

… and so does “music” – especially when it comes to just about any kind of video online. When your mother admonished you when you were young for dressing like a bum to your first job interview, you probably didn’t realize how important “presentation” is. But you’ll be even more surprised how much it matters, [...]

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Why WordPress Is The Absolute Best Platform For Your Membership Site

January 28, 2010

NOTE: WordPress is right for you, only if you want to actually launch your membership site some day, make money from your site, and do not wish to spend an insane amount of time creating and maintaining it, and only if you do not wish to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars outsourcing the creation [...]

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Welcome to Techiiies.TV

April 19, 2009

I started Techiiies.tv as a fun project, and I’m pretty confident that YouTube would run out of storage space before I run out of ideas for creating techiiie videos. Oh, and by the way, if you’re wondering about the weird spelling of Techiiies, it was of course because the name “Techies” (with the single “i”) [...]

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Insane Web Hosting Deal From DreamHost

January 5, 2009

My favorite web host DreamHost is offering an *insane* deal… 2-year web hosting (normally $214) can now be purchased for just $21.48 – that’s almost a 90% discount. And I just got a new account (already have 3 accounts with them!) This is not an affiliate offer. This is just a coupon I found online, [...]

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Typing Test: Wow, am I good or what?

December 14, 2008

Ok, I promise not to brag too much… Here is a really cool typing test. I’m averaging a speed of about 104 words per minute (in 3 tries  – proof below UPDATE: My latest score as of September 2, 2010 WooHoo! 119.12 words per minute! Take the test yourself by clicking on the link below, [...]

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Chat With Your Visitors: Google Chat For Your Web Site

November 21, 2008

Until last night, I thought I was quite tech-savvy and very up-to-date with the latest and greatest in the web world. But I guess I was wrong I started on a (brief) quest last month to add live-chat to some of my sites. After looking around, I couldn’t find a decent free solution. Of course, [...]

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Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen

September 28, 2008

Uncanny! I got “Presentation Zen” delivered in the mail last night from Amazon. And someone tweeted this Garr Reynolds video of “Authors at Google”…

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Ubiquity: Mozilla’s Mother Of All Mashups

August 27, 2008

If you don’t know what a “Mashup” is, fret not. You’re now going to witness one of the greatest “mashup” tools ever developed… Full story: Introducing Ubiquity

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How To Check If Your Web Site Can Run PHP Scripts (or WordPress)

April 10, 2008

Create a file called phpinfo.php Enter these few lines of code in it: (you can copy-paste from below): <?php phpinfo(); ?> Upload this to your root folder (where your home page (index.htm or index.html etc) lives. Access this script via the browser like this: http://www.YourSite.com/phpinfo.php You should see a nice page come up, with the [...]

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Low Cost Online e-Faxing: MaxEmail.com

April 1, 2008

I was recently in the market for an “e” fax solution. I looked at quite a few services. My basic requirements were these: Reliable Low cost (not necessarily free – because I wanted the service to be reliable and accountable) Didn’t need a local area code – anywhere was fine, as I don’t receive too [...]

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Can I get my morning breakfast without the “Bacn”?

November 27, 2007

“Bacn” – pronounced as “Bacon” – is spam (kind of), but not really the lewd, disgusting, “killing my inbox” type. From Jargon Watch at Wired.com: It’s not really spam. You want to read it (and probably would), you just don’t have the time. Thanks to the folks at PodCamp Pittsburgh, there’s a new web-term you [...]

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Download of the day: Snag-It – Free, Full-featured License

November 26, 2007

Camtasia is giving away a slightly older version of their famous screen-capture software, Snag-it, that lets you go beyond the “Prnt Scrn” button. Here’s where you can download it. A Print-Screen Tip If you press the “Alt” + “Prt Scrn” buttons together, you will capture only the front-most (active) window – which means you no [...]

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GOOG-411 comes out of Beta

October 16, 2007

This has been around for a while now, but its coming out of beta (a.k.a Google Labs) means that Google is serious enough to support this going forward. Here’s how it works: Dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (800-4664-411) Say where you’re calling from – City, State or Zip Say what you’re looking for (Pizza delivery, from the video [...]

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Google Supplemental Index

September 24, 2007

In my book “No Business Like E-Business“, I write about the Google Supplemental Index (GSI – Ravi’s acronym). Basically, this is like the “alternate” Google database, where sites that are “on the way in” or “on the way out” show up. If yours is a new site, it may show up in the GSI before [...]

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Podcasting With WordPress

August 26, 2007

The whole idea of podcasting is not to be just able to publish your audio files online, but to make your audio posts “subscribable” – i.e., your listeners should be able to set up their podcasting software (like iTunes) to subscribe to your feed, in which case the software (in this example, iTunes) will automatically [...]

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How To Use Blog-And-Bookmark To Send Your Traffic Through The Roof

July 11, 2007

You know what is Blog-And-Ping. Blog-And-Bookmark is quite similar. You first blog about something (hopefully) interesting, then once your blog’s ping service has done its work on the back-end pinging all of the various web sites and your post is live, then you go to work as follows. Use a one-to-many social bookmarking tool like [...]

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How To Get Back 43 Days Of Your Life (Hint: Grocery List)

June 13, 2007

I save about 1/2 hour every week on grocery shopping thanks to this list. That’s 26 hours a year. Assuming I would have done this for at least 40 years of my life by the time I’m dead, that means 1040 hours saved (26 * 40). 1040 Hours = 43.33 Days Yes, I get (at [...]

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Manage Those Annoying Startup Programs

March 14, 2007

If you’ve used a computer long enough, you probably have tens of little icons in your system tray (next to your system clock), that are an indication of all the apps that are currently running. Many of them may be programs that automatically add themselves to the startup process, or may simply be applications that [...]

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Cool FireFox Plug-in Installation Trick

February 4, 2007

Everytime I come across a cool Firefox plug-in, I want to install it and use it right away. This is even more true when I want to perform a task (like, say, grab the color code of a cool looking color from a web site), then search if a Firefox plugin exists to do that, [...]

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