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10 Digital Photo Fixes You Should Know

Thanks to digital cameras, taking photos like a pro has become easy, even for true beginners like me. Besides the simplicity of taking a photo, we can also edit and polish them with ease, using various image programs. For example, with software like Adobe Photoshop, you can transform your digital photos into extraordinary pieces. However, if you’re just [...]

Why Tablet PCs so cool

How useful would a tablet PC be to me? The PDA seems to be evolving into a different kind of appliance, perhaps a smart phone. Could the same be true of the tablet PC? A tablet PC is a special notebook computer outfitted with a digitizer tablet and a stylus that allows a user to handwritten text [...]

WikiReader – Power to Your Pocket

Now, thanks to WikiReader, you’ll never have to lose another heated discussion at work, school or a party, just because you couldn’t back up your points. WikiReader is an amazing gadget that adds the power of 3 million articles, from Wikipedia, to your pocket. Even though WikiReader is jam packed with information, it fits neatly into your [...]

Speed Test Your Blog

With the latest word from Google, that they MIGHT consider to include loading speed into their algorithm, I decided to have a look what I could do to improve the performance of my WordPress blog. It turned out that there is a lot you can do, without involving your host’s tech department, to speed up your [...]

An alternative to Firefox

I recently gave up on Windows and switched to Linux. I decided to go with the flavor that I have the most experience with, Ubuntu. In this post, I will not get into the details to why I decided to leave Windows. That will be a post of its own, in the near future. Nevertheless, Ubuntu 9.10 [...]

Improve Your Adsense Income

The easiest and maybe the fastest way to squeeze money out of your blog is to use Adsense. Using Adsense is simple, straightforward and within minutes, you will have ads that fit your reader’s interest. However, if you want to get some real income from Adsense, then a few cents per day (which is the cold [...]

Site Speed – The Next Ranking Factor

Matt Cutts said something interesting, in an interview the other day. He said that there is some lobbying going on, to introduce an additional factor into Google’s algorithm; site speed. Why? Well it’s simple really. Think about it, if a web-page loads too slow, the surfers will most likely hit their back button and no page is [...]

SEO Myth: Google PageRank

In a previous post, I said that I would address Google’s PageRank and sort it out for you; what it really is and not is. It’s PageRank, not SiteRank. Google calculates your PageRank by looking at the quality and amount of back links, to a particular page. Since many people only link to the main page of [...]

Twitter Rocket the review

Now, my test of Twitter Rocket has ended and I’m stunned over the results. If you read my initial post about Twitter Rocket, you’ll know that I started with 65 followers. Now, as I write this review, I have 671 followers, not bad for someone that barley grasped the essence of Twitter, before! This also gives [...]

Be a Lean, Mean Comment Machine

Blog commenting is a free, easy and powerful way of driving targeted readers to your blog. It can also lead to both productive and profitable relationships with other blogger as well. However, for it to be a success, you must do it right and systematically. The most important key, to succeed with blog commenting, is relevance. I’m sure [...]