One topic that bloggers and webmasters always seem to debate about is Alexa ranking. In case you do not know what Alexa ranking is, it is a ranking system that is based on traffic to your site. I relate it to the Nielsen ratings for TV. Alexa makes their determinates by looking at traffic from those users that have the Alexa toolbar installed. Many folks in the web world will make a judegement that the lower your Alexa scorte, the better your site. For example, Google has an Alexa ranking of 1. It seems that bloggers are split right down the middle with s
Forget the iPad, the Microsoft Courier is perfect for the creative thinkers of the world! For anyone in the fashion, design or blogging indstries this is a must-have item for on-the-go access to all of your files and the ability to create perfect presenations and jot down all of your thoughts and ideas.
Let's face it, it is sometimes draining to come up with unique content and promote your blog day in and day out. In this post, you will discover some tips and inspiration and learn how to handle the problem of being tapped out of blogging inspiration.
We have all been there, go ahead and write about your experiences.
Hey you kids! Get the hell off my lawn! With your gameboys and iPods and knife crime. You don’t know you’re born. Back in my day we’d walk seven miles to pick up a CD from our local record store. Uphill. Both ways.
How do you feel about the new e-readers? Are they the bane of the reading existence? Or are they the only way to read?
Now there are so many more distractions, mainly of the digital kind. A love of reading seems to be limited to the old--or those like myself who are becoming middle aged--and some of the studious young.
Perhaps I'm just old. Too old to appreciate the new-fangled electronic reading devices. Will I adapt? Most certainly. But I'm hoping that print books stick around just a little longer.
An e-mail from Microsoft tonight tells us that Windows Phone 7 will be launching with a whole roster of Xbox Live games to push the envelope of mobile gaming.
A passenger on my flight from Chicago O'Hare to Springfield blatantly disregarded safety protocol with regards to use of her mobile phone while in the aircraft: this is my open letter to her.
Have you witnessed similar behaviour? What did you do about it?
Or are you perhaps one of those who mirrors this lady's behaviour? Perhaps you could explain why?
Hi guys iam wondering what this is about, i have not watched the video yet but by what i have read it seems to be cool. Can someone explain it a little better? What does seededbuzz do?
Barefoot Books are giving away one Apple iPad 16GB. Entry is by signing up (for free) as an Ambassador with them, although no purchase or spend is necessary. This post applies to UK and Europe only.
I'm also giving away a prize to one person who reposts/publishes the blog post - entry for this is by posting on the blog with details of where the you have posted.
As an artist and a crafter, color is very important to me. Even in my everyday life. I recently started thinking about the colors of my neighborhood, and of my favorite vacation spot, and how they made me feel.
Determine the colors of your home, and play along!
I was recently asked if I can write an article for point-and-shoot (or more specifically, fixed lens camera) users. I think it’s a great idea to do so. With the prices of entry-level digital SLRs dropping to insane levels, it is easy for a beginner to think that a professional-looking DSLR will create better pictures outright, which is totally untrue.
The article provides basic tips and basic theories on how ANYONE can take better pictures regardless of camera type.
I am offering a nice giveaway to one of the lucky winners out of 100 comments. Please come to my blog, leave a comment and become a follower (so I can contact you!) and I will pick a winner for this scrumbous giveaway. It doesn't cost anything, and it only takes few seconds. My goal is to get 100 comments. This giveaway will be good for any craft projects, scrapbooker, etc. It includes various papers, stamps, and little things to spark your imagination! My blog also has stuff about Cricut, Sure Cuts A Lot, SVGs, scrapbooking, cards, and even sweet stuff like cake decorating.
One of our favorite (and most cleverly named) nail polish lines, OPI, recently teamed with Dell to come out with computers that matched their nail polishes – in 27 colors. And now, they've taken clever to a whole new level - they developed a very special (FREE!) app for our iPhones that lets you try on all of OPI’s nail colors virtually! Check out the post for all the fun details - and if you don't have an iPhone, don't fret - they have it online, as well!
So it appears that a school in Pennsylvania claims it has the right to take pictures through the webcam of their students! The Lower Merion School District in Ardale, PA remotely controls the webcams on the laptops they provide to their students to spy on them in their homes. What are your thoughts on this?
The latest gadget from Apple has been launched and I'm failing to see the point.
It really does just look like an oversized iPhone and I don't have one of those either.
There seem to be much more appropriate ways of completing the tasks the iPad is capable of so I can't understand why it's being heralded as the saviour of the news industry or a contender for the ereader throne.
Gaming on a phone is cool to pass the time on a train journey but a bit inconsiderate if you're wavng about something as big as the iPad.
Literary Legs is teaming up with BeeSavy and Rafflecopter to bring you a great giveaway! Enter for your chance to win a Kindle Fire ($199 value!) from Amazon!
Rafflecopter is celebrating the New Year and its brand new FREE version with a launch party! And they're giving away stuff that YOU need. Yes, need. Rafflecopter is giving away an 16GB Apple iPad2 and several Kindle Fires. Entries start...TODAY! And the contest will end in a month. Now, get busy and enter!
One of the most important decisions when is choosing what blog platform to use. The two most common ones are Blogger and Wordpress right now. Having used both WordPress and Blogger I wanted to make a post comparing the different features of both to at least give you an idea.
A revolutionary low flow shower head giveaway. Low entries for a giveaway valued at $89 USD. Our Daily Green first reviewed this product a year ago and have used it since. We highly endorse this showerhead as a way to save water and money.
We are currently part of a gaming industry that has come to terms with piracy. It has realised that piracy does occur and just crying and moaning is just not going to stop it. In the first of the series, Adam looks at the Online Pass, a relatively new method of curbing the increasing rate of pirated games.
As part of my new 'meet the developers' column, I caught up with Kim Maes, creator of the Cook It Alergy Free App for the iPhone. Kim talks about how she discovered her son had Celiac disease, how she began creating tasty, allergy-free recipes and how all of this eventually led to her creating the iPhone app itself.
It's a great post, both for those interested in health and those who are currently (or planning to) developing their own iPhone app.
We have been in our certified green home for a few months now and have learned our good decisions and our bad decisions. This post focuses on our favorite aspects of our new home!
Predictions have the newspaper slowly dying off one by one. There will be those that fall yet community newspapers still have a chance to be successful. There are many different ideas on how newspapers should do business. Community newspapers must first engage the community and become relevant again. Local stories come first. Then social media must be used to its capacity. What are your thoughts? Gabel
This article discusses a best practice for utilizing social bookmark platforms. It speaks of commenting and/or replying when you find a blog or article that you like and how that extra time and attention can be used as a friendly, not pushy, marketing technique.
