Month: October 2009

Whether you're the dumper or the dumpee, heart-broken or relieved that it's over, angry or just "meh," here are some songs that know just what you're going through.

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You don’t have to be a geek to install WordPress on your own computer because the process is as simple as installing any other native Windows Application (e.g. Microsoft Office). install wordpress on windowsBefore we get into the actual installation process, let’s look at some reasons why you may want to install a copy of WordPress on your local computer: Reason #1. You have to buy a web domain and space on a web server to host your WordPress software online. These are however not required if you decide to run WordPress in a local environment. Reason #2. Even if you have a website and web hosting space, you may still want to run a copy of WordPress on the local computer as it will help you test out new WordPress themes, plug-ins and other tweaks much faster. Reason #3. Most WordPress hosts offer Linux based servers but with WordPress installed locally, you can try out the features of this powerful blogging software in a more familiar Windows environment.

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy. The Web PI also makes it easy to install and run the most popular free web applications for blogging, content management and more with the built-in Windows Web Application Gallery.

Chainmail Bikini was created by Shamus Young and Shawn Gaston. Shamus wrote the words, Shawn drew the pictures and sometimes wrote more words. Chainmail Bikini originally appeared on Fear the Boot, beginning in September of 2007. Chainmail Bikini began immediately following Shamus’s hugely popular comic DM of the Rings, and features (sort of) many of the same characters. It lasted for 51 strips before ending in the spring of 2008 due to artist burnout. During a redesign on FeartheBoot.com, the comic was lost forever. Or so the world thought! We are proud to announce that Chainmail Bikini is now returning to Shawntionary.com, where it will stay forever. For eeee veeeeerrrr.

Taking on the responsibility of designing a logo, is an important aspect of an entities ability to stand out. This skill shouldn’t be taken lightly, especially if the logo will define a company’s representation. Conceiving a logo design calls for great amounts of practice and hard earned experience. Once you find out how to bring your concept to life, everything will fall into place. Along with much needed practice, there are a few crucial rules to take into account when aiming towards a design that will effectively portray your clients identity while structuring their brand(s). Below you’ll find yourself glaring at a few crucial rules to follow when designing an effective logo that will set your client’s business apart from the rest.

SendBlaster is a free bulk email software, a mass email marketing program and a bulk emailing sender. In today’s Internet marketing strategies, being on search engines is not enough: sales are a matter of trust. Web visitors become customers when you give them the content they’re searching for. Emailing and sending personalized content is legal when you gather new mailing list users, using free opt-in subscription modules in your websites. When you catch interested subscribers the key for a winning and cheap email marketing is to mass email the prospects using a bulk email blast software as an email marketing program: the free mass email newsletter sender will automatically deliver mass emails and personalized emails to subscribed users in your emailing list.

From the bowels of Silicon Valley to the peaks of, um, Asian chip manufacturing plants, Amazon.com's Electronics editors scour the earth for the latest and greatest gear news to bring to our customers. We editors get to spend a lot of time around cool toys, but when it comes to the Amazon.com site, we like to let the customers do the talking. End User is our space to talk about and share with you the stuff that makes us excited about electronics. While our focus is mainly on gadgets–that is, portable electronics you can hold in your hand such as iPods, GPS, cell phones, etc.–we're also branching out to cover new things like home audio, computers and software, and more. Basically anything with a current in it is fair game. We'll talk about the latest news, provide reviews and how-tos (from "Easiest Hacks Ever" to more in-depth tutorials), and try to introduce you to some of the faces behind the screens of your favorite gadgets.

Welcome to Free CSS Templates Website! Find here a never before seen collection of free CSS Templates, one of the biggest in the entire web! All these CSS templates are: * 1. Table free in its design (no tables have been used for layout purposes). * 2. The templates are light weight, so that it won’t take too long to load. * 3. W3C Standard compliant. * 4. Comes with public domain photos, provided by Wikimedia Commons and PDPhoto.org. * 5. And comes FREE under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. Users are free to use any of these CSS templates for commercial or personal use without having to make any payments, provided they follow the license terms and agree to link back to this website in some feasible way. The Free CSS Templates site is updated quite frequently, and hence all are requested to check back to find some new CSS templates all the time. Cheers

This week we will investigate what tools wearing khakis and button-downs call “the business world” (as if a world free of enterprise exists) by analyzing some basic entry-level jobs and their descriptions. This is Part 1 in a series. PART 1: Why intelligent people can’t get work Humanity has lost its faith in humanity. The signs are everywhere: Posters in bathrooms telling us how to properly wash our hands. Frozen meat packaging instructing us on how to thaw it. Our mother’s constant (and not-so-subtle) reminders that sex can lead to pregnancy – even when she knows you lost your virginity 10 years ago. It’s obvious that mankind has lost faith in the mental capacity of its peers.

Technology has fueled a revolution in the way we communicate and stay in touch with those we care about. In work and play, technology is there to capture the moments and bridge the gaps of time and space. But in the midst of emergencies or even simple daily problems like a change in schedule, somehow technology doesn’t quite seem to be the thing that usually brings all the pieces together. That is about to all change, thanks to Microsoft’s future-facing project – Vine.

The Goal: Your current blog at abc.blogspot.com is hosted on the Blogger platform but you now want to move this blog from Blogger to WordPress (self-hosted) with a personal domain name (say abc.com). The Problem: WordPress.org provides an easy option to automatically import all your old blog posts and reader comments from Blogger into your new WordPress blog but there are still some bigger problems that are hard to ignore: 1. Some of your previous articles on the blogspot blog could be ranking very high in search engines for certain keywords but once you shift these articles to a new address, you might lose all that organic search traffic. 2. You cannot use a 301 redirect with Blogger to inform search engines that your site has permanently moved a new web address thus losing PageRank and other Google Juice.

Do you know that the Facebook Apps Directory now contains more than 350,000^ Facebook applications for their 300 million users. Whether you are looking to embed presentations in your Facebook profile or want to share your favorite books and movies with friends or just want to spend time playing a word game with strangers, chances are that there already exists a Facebook app to solve your problem. However if you are feeling a little more adventurous and want to develop your own Facebook App that works the way you want* and doesn’t carry any third-party branding or advertising, here’s a an easy tutorial to help you get started.