Archive for March, 2009

Matt Cutts From Google On Keywords In The Url

One of the oldest tips for improving SEO is to add keywords to the url. This goes way back to the early search engines such as Inktomi (remember them?).
This still holds true and has been recently confirmed by Matt Cutts from Google. In the following video Matt says:
“If you’ve got an existing solution that works [...]

Add WordPress WP CSS Plugin For Speed

Here’s a very quick tip for all WordPress users. Adding the WP CSS Plugin can speedup your page loading times by compressing and removing the whitespace from your CSS files. May sound too simple, but this plugin definitely works!

The latest version includes:

Ability to add CSS files to specific page/post
Concatenate CSS files into a single file [...]

Make Your Own Free Personal Organizer With PDFPlannerPro

I’m a digital guy and my whole life is organised by my smartphone and email. However, there are still lots of people who prefer to use paper and still keep a paper diary or organizer. My girlfriend is one of those, and she still carries a paper diary and organizer everywhere she goes. She even [...]

11 Quick Fixes For Gadget Disasters

One of my favorite tips that I’ve written was How To fix Devices That Have Been Dropped In Water. Using rice as a desiccant is brilliant, and it works!
Switched have pulled together a great list of 11 Quick Fixes For Gadget Disasters. They include my rice trick as well as the following:

How to clean a [...]

Friday Break: Alternative Motivational Posters

We all need a bit of extra encouragement at times.? Hopefully these posters will inspire you, as well as making you chuckle!
Thanks to Dono who sent these a few weeks ago. Keep them coming buddy!

Webmastery 101: How To Cut Fat And Build Muscle

No, this is not a late New Year’s resolution post. I’ve just read a brilliant post over at Connected Internet that gives some great tips on how to optimise your site, cut out the blot, and drive lots and lots of traffic.
The tips given include how to use a robots.txt file, how to validate HMTL [...]

How To Add A ‘Tweet This’ Link To Your Blog

Digital Inspiration have written a very good guide on hwo to add a Tweet This link to your WordPress or Blogger blog. Adding a link can help drive traffic tou your site – you never know who’s reading your twitter feed!
It’s very easy to follow – I added the links to my blog in under [...]

See What’s In A Torrent Before Downloading

How many times have you downloaded a crap torrent? Would you like to know what you’re about to download before you start?
Vertor might be the answer. The service checks torretns from various trackers like Demonoid and Piratebay and allows you to view clips and screencaps before downloading. Torrents are even scanned by an AV engine. [...]

Try Out new Gmail Labs Features

Google just added some great new features to gmail that are available from their labs for users to use.? Some of these are experimental and may break at any time (you were warned!), but they do offer some very interesting new email features.
My favourite is ‘Undo Send’.? How many times have you sent an email [...]

Best Guide To Building A PC

I decided to build my first PC in 2005, and since then I’ve built four and tweaked my main one a few times. I decided to build my first PC as a challenge, and also because it was a lot cheaper. It was a lot easier to do than I thought, but it still was [...]