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Friday, July 07, 2006

Clearer Fonts on Laptops & LCD's

Most people these days are running Windows XP, but most of them are probably not using ClearType. While using it will not make a huge improvement in font quality on a normal CRT screen, the improvement is quite dramatic on higher quality LCD's and especially on laptop screens.

Of course, big surprise, you'll have to use Internet Explorer to use it. I tried with Firefox, but it kept telling me to "turn it on" even after I checked the box that was supposed to do just that. Then I tried MSIE and gee, it worked. Go figure. Then on the next screen it installed an Active-X component, so that explained why it wouldn't have worked anyway.

Go to ClearType Tuner

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

P.T. Barnum Lives

P.T. Barnum came to life a few days and passed the marketing baton to Joe Vitale, who is without a doubt one of the greatest marketing minds alive today. View the video below and then read more about the event and Joe's latest book, There's a Customer Born Every Minute at K9Concert.com



Thursday, April 06, 2006

Movie Site - Web 2.0 & Amazon Money Maker

I just stumbled up WatchThisNext.com from one of the many blogs I read every few days. At first it just seemed like a fun, and addictive web 2.0 web site. They show you 4 movies and you drag and drop them into one of 3 categories... and another movie appears.

It's addictive, hypnotic, whatever. I'm sure the movie site would make Joe Vitale proud. Speaking of Joe, have you read his latest bestselling book yet? It's another winner, don't miss it!

WatchThisNext.com, besides perhaps suggesting a movie you may want to see, is sort of pointless. But it's a great example of web 2.0 in use... and it may also be a money maker for the creator as every title links over to Amazon. Not that Amazon pays all that well, (though they did just increase commissions for sales of 20 or more items), but it will probably make them some decent money.

Too bad there isn't any way to save your selections... and they should probably also add a banner for NetFlix and perhaps Blockbuster to make even more money. I just wish I thought of this viral web site first.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

The Violet Flame Forum

Event Producers, LLC is proud to announce an alliance with The Violet Flame of 42 Bridge Street in East Windsor, CT. The Violet Flame Forum (site not yet active as of March 2nd) is a series of weekend events featuring outstanding presenters who specialize in Spiritual and Holistic topics.

The first weekend will feature my client Barbara Hardie of Angel Connections.

To find out about other weekend events, join their mailing list here

Friday, February 24, 2006

Upcoming Angel Connections Workshops

Barbara M. Hardie of Angel Connections has recently scheduled several special workshops to be held in MA and CT over the next 5 weeks.

The events include; March 4th - Angel Workshop, March 5th - Soul Purpose / Life Mission Workshop, March 11th - Angel Workshop, March 15th - Ascension Workshop, April 29th & 30th - "Huna" Intensive Workshop - Secrets Of The Ancient Hawaiians Revealed

View workshop schedule

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Google Maps On Your Web Site

I love Google Maps. It just keeps getting better and better. You see a very detailed street map, a satellite view and even a hybrid overlay view. Zoom in, zoom out, drag the map with your mouse, it does it all.

You know you can type in an address and view the map and directions on Google Maps, but did you also know that you can get a free Google Maps API Key and load a map to your web site or blog? Well you can, and now you can learn how to add a Google Map to any web page in just minutes.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Network Solutions Buys MonsterCommerce

I've been using MonsterCommerce to host the shopping cart for a few of my larger clients for several years now. There have been a few ups and downs, but this once very small company has grown and thrived throughout the years.

This year the "St. Louis Business Journal ranked MonsterCommerce as the fastest-growing business in the region -- expanding sales by 812 percent between 2002 and 2004." Considering they took in $12 million this year, those are some very impressive numbers indeed.

Earlier this year Network Solutions decided to go shopping for, well, for a shopping cart company. And after looking at several companies, they settled on MonsterCommerce.

Read more from MSNBC:
MonsterCommerce bought by giant Network Solutions

I wish all the best to MonsterCommerce as they look to double their staff and continue to expand and innovate in 2006 and beyond.



Tuesday, December 20, 2005

First Expos of 2006

Barbara Hardie's first 2 Alternative Connections Expos of 2006 are posted on her web site.

Sunday, January 29, 2006
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Cromwell, CT

Sunday, March 26, 2006
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel
Marlborough, MA

For more information, including expo agendas, visit AngelConnections.com

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Firefox 1.5 Is Awesome

Well it's out, and has been for a little while now... the final release of Firefox 1.5 from Mozilla.

I installed it towards the end of November and got to say that it's better then ever! If you're still using MSIE, you really need to switch. Even casual web surfers are missing out on so much. And if you're a power user such as myself, you'll never go back to MSIE once you make the switch. For security alone you'd want to switch, but there are just so many great features in the program.

If you need some help in the transition from the "dark side" of MSIE, you can check out "Firefox: How to..." The unofficial guide to Firefox. If you hurry you can buy it for just $17, but the price will be going up soon.

Besides the standard features, you can also add on extentions that increase the fuctionality of Firefox. Once you have tabbed browsing setup, you may want a quick way to navigate between tabs. I just got an extention called foXpose, which allows you to see a small screen shot of all of your tabs and jump quickly from one to another. I've seen this sort of thing for every window on a Mac, now at least you can use it for web surfing.

You can find and search all the available extentions on the Firefox Add-ons page.

Some other favorites are; BetterSearch (add screenshots to search engine results pages), Sage (RSS Feed Reader), Deskcut, Forecastfox, Tab Clicking Options, BlankLast (for tabs) and NoScript for that extra bit of security. And when you've got a good list of extentions installed, get InfoLister to keep a record of all the extentions, plugins and themes you have.


Thursday, November 10, 2005

Stop Internet Explorer

I just found a cool site and of course in light of my last post about how much I love Firefox, and their 1 year birthday, it just made sense to mention this site.

StopIE.com
Help stop Internet Explorer, the world's most popular and worst internet browser. This site tells you how and why to switch.