I see many complaints about how Apple and their new OS X Lion update is pushing the “natural” two-finger scrolling which mimics how you would use a touchscreen device such as an iPhone or iPad. The new scrolling is completely backward from what we are accustomed to and many people are asking how to change
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I’ve written in the past about why it’s time to dump Flash content from your website. I’ve done this on my own sites and am not recommending Flash for any newly created websites that I manage for my customers. So does that mean that my websites have to be completely static in nature without any
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OtterBox is by far my favorite smartphone case company. Their products are of high quality and are really designed with the user in mind. That’s why I had really high expectations when I finally got my hands on the OtterBox Commuter Series case for the Nook Color. Needless to say, my expectations were met after
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SEO is all about optimizing a website to achieve the top search results. To do this, not only do we have to understand how search engines operate from a technical level, but we also have to understand customers and how they may use different search phrases on a search engine. And just as major search
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Apple has made several major announcements this past week at their World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). Besides the big news of iOS 5 and OS X Lion, Apple presented iCloud, which is a cloud-based service that can be used to store music, photos, applications and just about any other data files imaginable. Since your data
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I’ve never been a huge fan of antivirus software and that is one of the several reasons I use a Mac as my primary computer. I realize that simply owning a Mac doesn’t prevent me from all malware attacks, but it does reduce my chances. Additionally, since I consider myself to be more in-tune to
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If you’re a CM7 Nook Color junkie like me than you probably wonder which of the many stable/nightly or modified versions of CyanogenMod 7 you should be running. We’ll, I’ve tried plenty of them and my favorite right now is called “Phiremod”. Phiremod is a modified version of the most stable CM7 7.0.3 OS. This
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Sometimes in life, we simply don’t have the answers to difficult problems. In the software engineering field, that is typically the point where you call up your favorite consulting company and bring in some “hired guns” to take a shot at what you are struggling with.
Now that I am offering social network marketing services for my clients, I’ve been doing a great deal of research on the topic to help refine my marketing strategies. One of the articles that was most interesting to me was research conducted by Buddy Media. Buddy Media is a big player in the social network
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Just an FYI for all of you iPad 2 owners out there that haven’t yet found that perfect case to wrap around your new tablet, you should absolutely check out Otterbox. I have heard from a very reliable source that Otterbox is launching their Defender Series case for the iPad 2 this Friday, May 13
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The signs of a dot-com bubble burst were all over the place beginning back in 2000. Unfortunately, most of us had tunnel vision and failed to see those signs. Looking back, there were some really bad Internet-based businesses with no real way to make money. Yet, investors still gave them money just to try. The
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I grew up in the Midwest and therefore far away from any earthquake fault lines. Now that I’m spending some time in Thailand, I experienced my first earthquake a few weeks ago. Fortunately it wasn’t nearly as devastating as the quakes that have rocked Japan over the past few months but it was jarring enough
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So after rooting my Nook Color that came pre-installed with Android 2.1, and playing with SD bootable versions of Android 2.2 and honeycomb 3.0, I finally decided to check out Android 2.3 in the form of CyanogenMod 7. According to their “About” page, CyanogenMod is a “customized, aftermarket firmware distribution for several Android devices”. CM
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We all know that Google is the king of website search engines. But Google’s weak spot as of late has been in the social network arena. From Buzz to Orkut, Google just can’t seem to understand the social network market.
The WoPhone OS is a Chinese-government backed operating system for smartphones and tablet devices that is said to be ready to go head-to-head with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS.
On February 24, Google stated on their official blog that they made a dramatic modification to their search result relevancy algorithm. As many search engine optimizers (SEOs) and website owners are aware, Google is constantly changing their search result algorithm. But these modifications are typically very small in scope and tend to go unnoticed. This
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I’ve been spending a great deal of time playing around with my Nook Color lately. As you may have read in an earlier post, I tried out running my NC with Android 2.2 Froyo but the experience wasn’t all that great. Since then, I simply have rooted the stock Android 2.1 and have been very
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I’ve been to plenty of lunches and dinners with various friends, family and business associates where the conversation hits one of those common yet uncomfortable lulls in the conversation.
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