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Drummin? Up Some Link Love #20
2007-10-13 08:21:00 Finally! I hit the 20 mark! I’ll savor the moment later, so without further delay, let’s get on with this week’s link love. Garry Conn Dot Com: Were You Born To Blog?. A humorous look at the life of a blogger. Do you blog while camping? Sitting on the toilet? Then you may be a blogger ... More About: Love , Link , Drum Corps , Some
America?s In A Downward Spiral
2007-10-12 05:51:00 A lot of the time I wish my government, the America n government, would just wake up out of its funk and start doing the right thing for its citizens. Everyday I hear about some scandal involving a government official, mud-slinging among presidential candidates, illegal immigrants standing up for their “rights” (excuse me?) and their supporters ... More About: In the News
Save Money On Your Cell Phone Plans
2007-10-08 03:57:00 Cell phones are getting cheaper and coming out with new features all the time. Cellular providers are coming out with different plans just as frequently. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could make sure you’re getting the best plan? With Wirefly you can. Wirefly enables you to compare cell phone plans among cellular carriers, thus enabling ... More About: Phone , Money , Cell Phone , Save Money , Cell
Pass The Time With Hotcorn
2007-10-07 22:45:00 Ever had online popcorn? I hadn’t until today and it was quite satisfying. Hotcorn is a game where you pop as much of the popcorn kernels you can in the time allotted. You play the role of the hot sun. You move your cursor over the screen to make those babies pop. Sounds ... More About: Time , Pass , The Time
WordPress Themes You Must See By Solostream
2007-10-06 07:31:00 When I was searching for a new WordPress theme, I searched long and far. You know how it is when you’re looking for just…the right…one. For me it was something organized, clean, and unique. When I found Michael Pollock’s site, solostream webstudio, and his collection of themes, I knew I could stop looking. Read on ... More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Themes , Themes , Featured , Solos
Compare Suite Makes It Easy To Compare Files
2007-10-05 08:16:00 Comparing the content of multiple files can be a tedious endeavor. Writers and editors may wish to keep track of changes before committing to a finished piece. Webmasters may strive to find the differences or similarities between two web pages to get the general meaning between the two. Compare Suit e is a file compare utility that ... More About: Files , Easy
Drummin? Up Some Link Love #19
2007-10-04 14:40:00 Here are some interesting finds I’ve added to my Drum Corps : The Squidoo effect on SEO — I’ve been meaning take a closer look at Squidoo as I’ve heard about it on several blogs. Cristian has this to say about it, “Now, what I would like to tackle in this article is the effect Squidoo can ... More About: Love , Link , Some
I Can?t Imagine Life Without The Web
2007-10-03 05:29:00 I’m sitting here creating some banners for some blogs of mine. And as I often do when I’m thinking graphically, I’m listening to music — Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, to be exact. Before that it was The Final Countdown by Europe. Just playing them over and over and over. Bang the drums! More About: Life , Blogging , Imagine
Download Videos To Your Desktop With ConvertTUBE
2007-10-02 07:55:00 Earlier this year I posted about a service enabling you to download online videos you find online and saving them on your computer. Recently I found an alternative allowing you to not only download online videos, but to convert them at the same time. It’s called ConvertTUBE. Simply enter the URL of the video you want, ... More About: Videos , Desktop , Download , Vert
We?re Off To A Spooky Start
2007-10-01 07:27:00 Ah, yes — the time for ghoulish fun is fast-approaching. Now is the time that we start counting down the days until Christmas, at least that’s what the retailers would like you to do. But not me. I’m going to savor each holiday between now and then. And to get things started that way, I wanted ... More About: Start , Featured , Spooky
Buh-Bye BlogRush
2007-10-01 00:01:00 Alas, our relationship ended before we could really get to know each other. I kept longing for more. It just wasn’t enough. You made me feel young again by showing me the potential traffic you’d bring me. I waited and waited for your gift, but it never arrived. And even though your plans for our future ... More About: Blogging
The MAMD Desktop
2007-09-28 06:26:00 Buddy-extraordinaire, Brown Baron, has tagged me with the “What’s on your desktop?” meme. Ordinarily, I change the wallpaper to suit the season. I’ve been meaning to change it for Halloween to get into the spirit of things (no pun intended), but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I can’t stand a cluttered desktop, so ... More About: Desktop , Blogging
Random Links Rolled Into One
2007-09-26 07:33:00 During my Web travels I found a nifty little thing called urlsplit. No, it’s not one of those sites that cuts long URLs into a short one. This service packs multiple URLs into one link. So I thought this might be an economic way of treating your readers to a random site of interest while saving ... More About: Random , Links , Featured
An Easy Way To Present A Collection Of Sites
2007-09-25 06:44:00 I’ve mentioned the bookmarking service known as Diigo here before. I use it all the time to save my bookmarks as well as make backup copies to two additional bookmarking sites at the same time. The folks at Diigo have gone one step further by introducing something called WebSlides. There are a variety of reasons why ... More About: Sites , Present , Featured , Easy , Easy Way
A Little Touch-Up On The Front Door
2007-09-24 06:36:00 Well, there you have it. My new banner, complete with new logo! Geesh, that was like having a baby. After weeks of hunting for images and inspiration, tweaking here and there, staring at the screen, I finally ended up with something that I thought was decent enough to use. I’m my own worst critic. I welcome any feedback. Give it to me straight: love it or hate it? I’m thinking about writing a post about how I created it including what tools I used. So much to write, so little time. Bang the drums! More About: Front , Touch , Door , Litt
Increase Workplace Productivity With ProWorkflow
2007-09-23 06:57:00 I’m a project manager by trade. I know what a struggle it can be to monitor the progress of a project let alone doing the actual work the project is meant to do. From what I’ve seen, ProWorkflow can make my level of effort manageable so I can spend less time fiddling with the mechanics ... More About: Workplace , Productivity , Featured
Contest Prize Worth $2,000
2007-09-22 10:11:00 Full-time blogger extraordinaire, Garry Conn, makes some serious money from his blogs. I’m not exaggerating. He makes more with Google AdSense than John Chow! And he wants to help you do the same. “Plays suh, kin yoo tell me moh.” Sorry, British accents are hard to type. The prize he’s giving away is something you don’t ... More About: Contest , Blogging , Worth , Wort
Sizing Things Up With Sizeasy
2007-09-19 18:00:00 When size matters, you need something to compare to. Am I right? Well, it can be a little frustrating to visualize the actual size of a product you’re considering when you’re shopping online when you have nothing to compare it to. Sizeasy can ease that frustration by giving you a way to enter the dimensions of ... More About: Things
I?m Breaking Out All Over
2007-09-19 05:50:00 It’s not as bad as it sounds. Christy was doing what she does best – showing appreciation for other blogs by bestowing upon them a Brea k Out Blogger Award. If you?d like to select a blogger for this award, see the instructions below. Instructions: 1) Display the Break Out Blogger button in a post about the award ? using ... More About: Blogging , Breaking , Breakin
I?m A New Author For Family Support Forum
2007-09-17 07:32:00 I’m making my debut this week as author for Family Support Forum . It’s part of the Blog Author s Organization (BAO) which is the brainchild of blogging guru Garry Conn and the lovely Christine Senter. Knowing these two were behind it, I thought it sounded like a great opportunity to team up with a couple of experts ... More About: Blogging
Boost Your Traffic With BlogRush
2007-09-16 05:46:00 I was reading ProBlogger this evening about something called BlogRush. I figured if it was good enough for Darren to check out, it must be good enough for me, so I thought I’d give it a shot. What is BlogRush? It’s similar to what I used to use on MAMD: The Good Blogs. It’s a network of ... More About: Traffic , Blogging , Boost
Drummin? Up Some Link Love #18
2007-09-15 05:42:00 It has been WAY too long since I drummed up some link love. So let me bang the drums now: Open Education echoes a post I made not too long ago about schools banning the game of tag, but where mine was the state of Colorado, he highlights a school in Massachusetts. What is the world ... More About: Love , Link , Drum Corps , Some
Recycle Your Cell Phone At CellForCash
2007-09-12 08:30:00 Cell phone usage in the U.S. has sky rocketed to 235 million subscribers in 2007. That’s a lot of cell phones. And when you factor in new models and cheaper pricing plans with new incentives, that translates into a portion of the subscribers switching out their phones more frequently than their contracts expire. CellForCash addresses a ... More About: Phone , Cell Phone , Cell , Recycle , Orca
FotoFlexer: Flex Creative Muscles You Didn?t Know You Have
2007-09-11 06:37:00 Just when I think I’ve seen every last online image editing tool, another one comes along to push the envelope. Enter FotoFlex er. You can use FotoFlexer to remove blemishes, change backgrounds, and other common tasks. But the biggest kick you’ll get out of this is its ability to morph and distort your images. The image to the ... More About: Creative
Free Cell Phone Games - Play Anywhere!
2007-09-10 00:58:00 I thought I’d divert from my usual online game findings and show you some games you can take with you on your cell phone. Not only are there a lot to choose from, they’re also free. That’s a bargain at twice the price! Gamejump has something for just about everyone who wants to spend ... More About: Phone , Games , Cell Phone , Play , Cell
Two Free Font Viewers
2007-09-09 06:43:00 While reading Brown Baron’s post last night about DaFont , the site that offers you thousands of free fonts, I noticed that it offered a way to preview sample text in the fonts it provides. That feature is pretty handy in that it helps you decide which font is the best one for your needs before ... More About: Free
WebAsyst: A Collaborative Tool With Punch
2007-09-04 06:45:00 There are a lot of online offerings out there that help you stay organized and allow you to collaborate with others. WebAsyst is a little different. What’s under the hood? First off, I found the interface to be very clean and intuitive. Otherwise, it would be defeating the purpose of staying organized, right? Well, at the bottom ... More About: Reviews , Tool , Punch , Coll
A Smile And A Star
2007-09-03 07:58:00 I’ve recently been awarded a couple of honors. First there’s the You Make Me Smile Award. Then there’s the Blogging Star (which for some reason, makes me want to put on a black and white polyester suit and dance a little jig ). Mucho thanks to buds Brown Baron and Mike! Now to these fine bloggers ...
Fresh Paint
2007-09-02 08:36:00 I switched hosts today and spent a good portion of it tweaking things here and there. I’m still not satisfied 100 percent, even so, I didn’t want to keep the “maintenance mode” sign up any longer. For some reason I can’t get my categories to work and I’m still working on my header image. Feel free to ... More About: Blogging , Featured , Fresh , Paint
iReply: Still Going Strong
More articles from this author:2007-08-31 21:30:00 It was June 30 that the iReply Revolution was born by myself, Mike (a.k.a. “Mr. FiveK”), and Brown Baron (a.k.a. “Shy-guy”). I gotta tell ya, it’s pretty cool to see blogger’s continue to join in. Whenever I see a subscribed comment come my way telling me, “Hey, what a cool idea! I’ll be putting ... More About: Strong , Going , Goin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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