WordPress Audio Player Plugin HTML5 Hack

If you’re podcasting or posting mp3 links on your blog, this audio player plugin is super simple and customizable. Problem is, it’s a flash player that doesn’t play nice with Apple mobile devices such as the iphone, ipad, and ipod. Mobile traffic is huge these days and usage is surging. If you want to ensure [...]

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Tap Into Customer Fear to Drive More Sales

Yesterday I picked up a new Logitech ClearChat Pro USB headset from Best Buy. After doing some homework online and reading all of the reviews, the consensus was that although the sound quality was good, the overall durability was to be questioned. Many reviewers suggested that the headset was cheaply made and prone to breaking. [...]

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Backordering an Expired Domain Name using GoDaddy

As usual, I was tooling around on domize.com and stumbled across a niche domain name that had recently expired. I immediately checked the whois at GoDaddy and verified the domain expired 67 days ago and was currently in a redemption period. I setup an alert in my phone a few minutes later to remind me [...]

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iPhone Voice Memos to WordPress via Posterous

With the ability to capture voice memos using the new 3.0 iPhone software, I figured there should be an easy way to publish them direct to WordPress considering there is a built-in share feature on the app that allows you to email the memo. As it turns out, it was a little more complicated than [...]

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Podcast check 2

  Download now or listen on posterous Memo.m4a (106 KB) Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from seldomstatic’s posterous

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The Microeconomics of Google

Selling ads doesn’t generate only profits; it also generates torrents of data about users’ tastes and habits, data that Google then sifts and processes in order to predict future consumer behavior, find ways to improve its products, and sell more ads. This is the heart and soul of Googlenomics. It’s a system of constant self-analysis: [...]

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All About .me – The Great Domain Name Debacle

Yesterday, Shoemoney mentioned open registration for new .me domains starts today. After toying with the idea of registering domains like buy.me, sell.me, try.me, etc., I concluded it was highly unlikely I would score any of them and quickly dismissed the idea. It wasn’t until early this afternoon I heard rampant rumors of .me domain name [...]

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Choosing the Right WordPress Theme

With thousands of free WordPress themes available for download, how do you decide which one is right for you? Rather than base your decision solely on looks (ooh, that one’s purdy), take a look under the hood and examine the CSS, custom functions, and more. Having just switched themes, here are some tips on choosing [...]

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Spybot Canned My Commission Junction Links

Just when you think it can’t happen to you, it does. And what makes it even more funny is the fact that I knew about the problem before hand, but didn’t think to remember it when it happened. Anyways, long story short, I ran Spybot a few weeks ago because my computer was tweaking out. [...]

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Optimize your Google AdWords account without raising costs

The AdWords Help Center designed these optimization strategies to help you achieve success without raising costs. 1. Identify your advertising goals. Your optimization strategy depends on the objectives that you define for your campaigns. 2. Organize your account for maximum effectiveness. A well-structured account is easy to manage and allows you to effectively target your [...]

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