Lost is a Travesty

10 March 2010 by brant, Comments

I was doing my daily rounds of sites that I visit and noticed that The Big Lead had a post about Lost.  My hope was that they were going to make fun of the nonsense and explain how many times they laughed out loud.  Like when Hurley was doing yet another slow-motion scene.  But of course not.
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SEO, To Hyphen or Underscore URLs Revisited

5 March 2010 by brant, Comments

I’ve seen a lot of SEO Experts and many SEO tools recommend that you should be using hyphens in URLs rather than underscores, one example was Ann Smarty over at SearchEngineJournal.  For the disadvantages of the underscore in URLs she says:
Traditionally it isn’t seen by search engines as a word separator (this is slowly changing now)
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Speed Up Gmail’s POP Fetching

2 March 2010 by brant, Comments
Speed Up Gmail’s POP Fetching

My previous post talked about how to switch from outlook to gmail because of speed and ease of use.  From my experience, I noticed that Gmail’s POP fetching for email accounts that I added were not as fast as I would have liked.
The solution is called GSpeed, which speeds up gmail pop fetching.  I have created [...]

Tips + Guide to Switch from Outlook to Gmail

19 February 2010 by brant, Comments
Tips + Guide to Switch from Outlook to Gmail

We want our email, and we want it fast. The goal of this guide is to replace outlook as your primary mail collector with Gmail. I just took the plunge and it’s been such a huge improvement that I want you to benefit as well. We want Gmail to open as if it’s an application, save it’s position on your screen, and notify you of new emails just as Outlook does.

Gmail Notifier Not Working? It’s because of HTTPS

18 February 2010 by brant, Comments
Gmail Notifier Not Working? It’s because of HTTPS

I’ve encountered a simple, yet annoying problem when it comes to Google’s Gmail Notifier.  It turns out that if you select the option to always use HTTPS, then the notifier will not work.  The fix can be seen on the Notifier page, which is a registry edit.
Surely Google can do a better job of notifying us of [...]

amazonaws.com AKA Amazon EC2 is Being Abused

15 February 2010 by brant, Comments
amazonaws.com AKA Amazon EC2 is Being Abused

Have you recently discovered a long list of amazonaws.com IPs listed in your websites stats and wondered what’s it for?  I was under the assumption that if I saw those IPs it’d probably be good news because I thought Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud had reputable clients.  It turns out that Amazon’s EC2 is a breeding [...]

The Death of iTunes Apps

27 January 2010 by brant, Comments

By now everyone has heard of the iTunes commercials and the phrase “There’s an app for that”, but how much staying power does it really have?  Just yesterday Google released Google Voice as a standalone web application that can be used in the browser.  For some of us, it’s hard to imagine why this might [...]

Chrome Ad Blockers: AdThwart Vs. AdBlock , Round 1

24 January 2010 by brant, Comments

One of the most important aspects of a web browser today is how good it is at blocking ads. Users thinking about switching to Chrome from Firefox NEED to have a reliable ad blocker. The two best ad blockers are AdThwart and AdBlock. They both support EasyList, but that doesn’t mean they are both equally effective and user friendly.

Chrome: New “Press Tab to Search” Feature

24 January 2010 by brant, Comments

Google Chrome, Developer version 4.0.302.2 includes a new way to easily search a website.  When typing a URL into the address bar, an option comes up to “Press Tab to search”.  Have a look below:
The feature looks great to me.  My only question is how Chrome decides which sites are available to search and which [...]

Google’s Rich Snippets Event Possibilities

22 January 2010 by brant, Comments

Today Google announced another new feature of Rich Snippets called Events. Of course it is a great idea to provide more markup to better track events of concerts, sporting events, movies, etc. However, what if Rich Snippets could be used for a slightly different reason? News updates on events or people.