UPDATE. Final tally after the weekend of posting to Twitter via Flickr – 902 visits!!! That is a 900% increase from before starting the test. Can you say Oh My Marketing God! Come on, jump in. The water is just fine!

UPDATE. At the end of the day, 702 hits to my Flickr page, up from 96 the day before = 700% increase in traffic!

Here are the results of two things.

1. Now that Flickr can post right to your Twitter account, I have started posting a link to one of my iphone/ipod touch wallpapers with a hash mark of #iphone and the numbers to my Flickr pages, well, look above and see. Amazing results in a few days at the huge traffic growth as a result.

2. Using Flickr groups. I found a few iphone groups and joined and uploaded my wallpapers. Instant hit in traffic.

This is just another example of how Social Media ties people to people and can be leveraged to drive traffic to a website. Nuff said!

Way to go sis!

All the proof.

Also running iLife09; iMovie, GarageBand, iPhoto… as well as Photoshop CS4/Bridge, Nikon Capture 2.5, QuickTime Pro, and the coup is that my video cam works with PhotoBooth.

Come on Apple, beat that!!!!

msiwind_itunesstream, originally uploaded by Cory Shubert Photography.

iTunes 8.1.1 on a MSI Wind hackintosh and playing another iTunes library while streaming the audio over an air tunes base station in another room. All of this on OSX 10.5.4

Here the Viva scooter and I sit with good friend Gary and his Honda Silverwing. Many more days of riding in 2009 to come.

I loved how the commentator said that this might be out of protocol for even the white house… ha ha ha.

Come on everyone, show some love!

They are for real and are making quite a bit of noise as they try to gain entrance into Div. 1 hockey.

Congrats Beavers… Cornell is next

I have been following the “netbook” craze for a while now and think I am almost ready to jump in. My mobile needs fit very well what these computers were made to do; surf, facebook, twitter, watch movies or play music… oh, and work in Photoshop!

That’s right, with 2gigs of ram and a 160gb HD, these little machines have more than enough horsepower to handle high end applications. Now, I’ll admit I am not going to do the major color work or corrections on this type of machine, but for me, I need a laptop that will connect to my Nikon D3 and using Bridge, give me a larger preview to show clients for approval during a shoot than the small 3″ screen on the back of the camera.

In all my research, the build/keyboard/size/design of the HP Mini 2140 seems to be a winner. All that I need until I get back to the office and download to the main machine is there. And for around $450.00 is almost half of what a refurbished MacBook would be.

Now, as a Mac OSX guy, this sort of adds to the confusion since these netbooks all run either Linux, Windows XP or Vista. But, rest assured, others have also had this question and solved it… Hackintosh!

Yes, there is a whole community of users of these netbooks that have cracked them open and installed full, working copies, of OSX and love it. How about a dual boot netbook for under $500.00… sign me up.

I hope to pull the trigger on this unit in the next few months. I will post what I find as the best working solution for me and let you all know.