How to install a new font in Windows Vista

It’s not everyday I install a new font, in fact, today was the first time in two years I have installed a new font. And it was the first time I have ever done so on Windows Vista. In XP all you had to do was drag the font file to the fonts folder and [...]

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Google rolling out new real-time search feature

Google is in the process of rolling out it’s new real-time search feature; an enhancement it has been trying to incorporate for some time.
The “latest results” window appears on the search results page and includes results from Twitter and other pages the Googlebot has indexed within the past few minutes. This feature is not [...]

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Google rolling out toolbar PageRank update

The whole PageRank issue is confusing for many people. A few weeks ago Google removed PageRank information from its Webmaster Tools service, and this went largely unnoticed by many webmaster and bloggers.
This is a quote from a Google employee in answer to a question about why the feature has been removed.

We’ve been telling people [...]

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Membership Site Mastermind – are membership sites the future?

One topic I have been reading and hearing more and more about over the past few months is membership sites. A lot of people have been talking about how important membership sites are likely to be in the future. They will provide value to their members, and will also provide a continuous income stream for [...]

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Evernote Review – my thoughts after using it for a while

A little while ago I wrote a short post about Evernote citing 10 reasons why you should use it. Since the post was published I have been using Evernote on a daily basis and believe I have become much more productive because of it. As a result of this (and because my first post was [...]

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WordPress 2.8.5 – Hardening Release

WordPress 2.8.5 has been released today and it is aimed at making WordPress installs much more secure than they have previously been. During the past few months a lot of WordPress powered sites have been the target of hackers, with quite a large degree of success. This update is meant to put a stop to [...]

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Sedo and their trademark infringement email

A little while ago I bought a domain name which features the name of a famous web application that allows you to tell people what you are doing in 140 characters or less. My intention was to blog about applications, developments and other activities based around the service. As with some of my other well [...]

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Google Wave – will it be the dog’s bollocks?

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For the past few days the internet has been all a flutter over Google’s newest app, Google Wave. The hype has been intense and expectations are high, but few people have actually been able to take it for a test drive, yet.

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What is the best thing about running a blog with little traffic?

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This blog doesn’t get a great deal of traffic at this time, and giving away the exact numbers will cause me a great deal of embarrassment. But if I spent more time blogging rather than tinkering with the design, looking for appropriate affiliate ads and experimenting with WordPress [...]

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Finally, confirmation from Google that the meta keywords tag is mickey mouse

People who have just a smidgen of knowledge of SEO (search engine optimisation) have long debunked the assumption that the META KEYWORDS tag offers any value to search engine rankings. In the olden days this wasn’t the case, but now Google has officially announced that it no longer uses the content of the keywords tag [...]

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Google allows more ad agencies to publish through AdSense

Google has announced a change to the way adverts are delivered to AdSense publishers.
In the past the sole provider has been Google itself, through the AdWords network. The change allows other companies and ad networks, which have been approved by Google, to compete with AdWords advertisers for the spaces available in the AdSense units.
All [...]

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Blog Comment Demon software review – first thoughts

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I have just bought the Blog Comment Demon software. It cost $47. Setting it up was simple.
I did some research before I bought it; I read about 20 blog posts and watched a couple of videos on YouTube. Most of the posts had good things to say and the posts that did not have good [...]

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Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress

Broken Link Checker by Janis Elsts is one of the most useful WordPress plugins any blogger could use.
If your blog is just a few weeks old and you have been posting on a regular basis, the chances are there are already one or two broken links within your pages. If your blog is a few [...]

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Does long term domain registration equal higher rankings?

For quite some time I held the viewpoint that the length of time for which a domain name is registered does help a website or blog achieve higher search rankings, particulalry on Google. In my mind I have often tried to trace the origins of this thought and, after performing a few searches, I [...]

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Who is trying to hack my blog today?

During the past few days there has been quite a few hacker attacks on WordPress powered blogs.
One of my blogs was targeted and successfully hacked.
Prior to the hack occurring I noticed a few new accounts had been created by people with strange names using gmail addresses. This made me a little suspicious as [...]

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Stunning and inspirational stop motion videos

I have just spent a very entertaining half hour watching several of the videos in this post on the spyrestudios site. The post is entitled 50 Stunning & Inspirational Stop Motion Videos and it must have taken an absolute age to compile. I would love to have the time to sit and watch them all [...]

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Evernote Review – 10 reasons why you should download and try Evernote

A more indepth review of Evernote
Recently I have been struggling to keep abreast of all the things I need to enable me to blog more effectively. It always seemed that the various elements I need to write an article were stored either online, in a browser or in different folders on my computer. An important link [...]

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Windows Live Writer – a clever little app for bloggers

Inspired by a blog post by WPDude about publishing to a blog using a remote device I decided to download and try out Windows Live Writer. WLW is one of the methods suggested in the article, along with email updates and a couple of browser plugins.
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that connects with [...]

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Free social icons by ChethStudios

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ChethStudios has recently released a nice set of social icons which features 19 services including Blogger/Blogspot, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, flickr, Design Float, LinkedIn, Mixx, MySpace, Netvibes, Reddit, RSS, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, Visualizeus, WordPress and Yahoo!
The icons are all round in shape and come in two sizes; 64×64 and 128×128. The icons are free to use [...]

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Guardian newspaper to be published solely on Twitter

The Guardian is one of the most popular newspapers in the UK, but it looks like the print version will cease to exist in the very near future as it has announced that all future editions will be published solely on Twitter.
The newspaper is 188 years old and this brave move will take the media [...]

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