Random thought exchange
Technology
After a long debate with myself, I figured it was time to take the plunge and move my email to “the cloud”. So far I’ve been running it for a few days now, and I like it. I tried it a year or so ago, but I ended up reverting back.
My thoughts (in no particular order)
- I tried to copy the emails from my computer over to GMail, but it was setting all the dates to the day that I I have all my previous email stored on my computer, so I can reference it whenever I want.
- GMail supports my own personal domains – so I can send and receive without people noticing.
- I find it offensive when Internet professionals and businesses use @hotmail.com or @gmail.com email addresses when they have their own domain.
- I can still send and receive how I want from my iPhone.
- I have IMAP configured, so I can still do anything I want with my folders, or as GMail likes to call them… “labels”.
- I can access my email any time from anywhere, Internet connection permitting.
- The spam filters are MUCH better than what Microsoft has done in Entourage. So far it hasn’t filtered any legitimate email to my spam box, which is always nice.
- I have many server rules setup to wipe out a ton of spam before anything has a chance to make it to my inbox.
- Google Docs! It’s awesome, and now I can save attachments to that.
- Viewing online of documents. No more needing to open the document in the application. I can view it in a webpage and save time. Yes dad, that means that all of those “amazing photograph” emails with 20MB powerpoints won’t be AS annoying – but please try to refrain from sending them anyways!
- I will not tell anyone my GMail address. I do not want to get email to it. If you want to know why, read point 2.1.
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Technology
I’ve been working on the blog a bit in the background – some functional and technical things that I wanted to change, and have slowly been resolving.
One of the items on my list has been to figure out a way to get my automated Twitter “life stream” hidden from the blog homepage. I figure, if someone wants to see my Twitter posts, they’ll either look at my Twitter page, or look at the Twitter category in my blog. I think it’s more important to showcase and highlight my actual posts instead. Plus, on my homepage I have the most recent tweets displayed.
I was going to script something to do it, but instead I came across the plugin “Simply Exclude” by CodeHooligans.
I’m quite impressed. After installing the plugin, within 1-minute I had the Twitter category removed from my homepage. No coding or scripting needed!
The only glitch is that if you tag a post in multiple categories, and one of those categories is excluded, it too will come off the homepage. Maybe this is something that will be fixed in the next version.
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I’ve been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks, and I’m just getting around to it.
I did something interesting with my website. I took a look at my stats, and created a neat-looking word cloud, based on the keywords that people enter in search engines to get to my website.
It’s quite interesting to see.
dmpP website word cloud for 2009
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Technology
I’ve finally found a multiple IE installer.
It lets you run versions 1.0, 1.5, 2.01, 3.0, 4.01, 5.01, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0
Kudos to the developer.
More details can be found at: Final Builds Site – IE Collection
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Have you seen it yet? If not, head over to www.dmpp.net and enjoy!
What do you think of it?
I think this is a keeper… until I get bored of looking at it (again).
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Technology
It seems that despite Rogers new website design, there are some serious coding flaws and database problems going on. Maybe one of their web developers was cleaning up files on the server and removed key includes? LOL
Perhaps they should get a ‘dev’ environment to work on.
Rogers staff – if you need help resolving the problem, let me know. :-)
The errors are numerous!
broken website
Totally different section of the site - just as busted as the first!
Serious errors displayed to the public. Tsk tsk!
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So, I’ve embarked on a new design – again! Tell me something…
What do you think?
Is there any functionality that it’s missing?
Any suggestions on ways to improve?
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News
- Search engine optimization can increase your traffic to your domain reasonably who are looking for your product.
- Observing sensible optimization procedures can make your site more accessible to all users.
- A properly optimized site will be as near as possible validated to high standards. If your domain works in all browsers, meaning your site may be viewed by the greatest potential number of visitors.
- Properly validated and optimized sites will be smaller and leaner, meaning less server requests/overheads and quicker download times.
- Easy navigation by all search engines to crawl and index the web pages.
- If we follow the guidelines set up by the search engines then visitors have a more pleasant user experience.
- The visitors will be interested in what you are offering , services and Products.
- More markets can be reached .
- More potential customers will be visiting your website.
- Visibility
This can be viewed both from the end of the search engine and the internet user. Search engines will always lead readers or customers to highly relevant websites. SEO increases your visibility on the internet so you can reach out to your target readers or market.
SEO helps you to build your brand and make it among the top choices in the market. Visibility through SEO means fundability and accessibility from the end of the consumers.
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