A cheaper cloud backup solution?
Late August 2012 Amazon announced their new storage offering called Glacier (link). With Amazon Glacier you can get storage for as low as $0.01 per gig. Depending on the data center you choose it might a tad higher, Tokyo is $0.012 per gig. Their are tons of backup solutions out there. Mozy and Carbonite are…
Showing off a little
I rarely toot my own horn. My clients and friends do that for me. (see top of home page) Last month these 2 website gems were completed. Both of these websites are based on Genesis Framework using the Agency Child theme. Both of these sites have been added to the StudioPress Showcase . http://www.studiopress.com/theme/agency 1st…
Opinions are like ……
Some would say Opinions are like Bungholes. Everyone has one and they all stink. At times this is true. When you search the web for “review” or “opinion” sites you have to be careful of these reviews because they could be paid reviews or the reviewer is using affiliate links. (affiliate links means when you…
Google Apps Shared Contacts
I’ve been ask a few times about simple Contact Sharing in Google Apps that is similar to Public Folders in Microsoft Exchange. Only recently have I researched a solution and actually found something I liked. Requirements for this client The needs are not a CRM (customer relationship manager) type of solution. What they need is just a…
Reason 42 not to use GoDaddy email
I was working a good client yesterday for a different problem when we tried also to figure out why they couldn’t send email over POP or IMAP from outlook through GoDaddy hosted email for their domain. They could receive email just fine but 99 times out of 100 they couldn’t send email and would get…
Does anyone use FeedBurner anymore?
I still use it here and all my other sites that have been around in a while. Do I set it up anymore on new sites? Sometimes I do. The only reason I used FeedBurner was to enable RSS to email w/o having to signup at MailChimp / Aweber / Constant Contact / Etc. Technically…
The new hotmail Outlook.com will it make me switch?
Outlook.com is the new hotmail (not the new hotness). Here is a mini review: The interface is very clean, this is nice. When I first logged in my inbox had approx 350 messages and all seemed to be spam. So I selected all and marked as junk. It took about 1.5 minutes to move it…
What do your customers prefer?
Do they want to use your Facebook page or come to your website? AllFacebook.com reports here from a study by Get Satisfaction and IncyteGroup that people don’t want to interact with you on your Facebook Page overall and would rather come to your website. This is a must read: http://allfacebook.com/get-satisfaction-incyte-group_b95617 Should you be using WordPress?…
How I created the ToolTip Testimonial Popup
A client asked me about the testimonial popup featured over at Studio Press. When you hover over a picture at the top of our site your will see a tool tip appear. I looked at the site and figured it was a custom js script to activate tooltip function from jQuery TOOLS. I then dropped…