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chette.com is undergoing a makeover!
After my rant about the sheer ugliness of my website (c’mon, it was hideous, right?), I decided to vent out my frustrations and upgrade Joomla, play with some new components, and redesign my site. I have until Wednesday to get things in order over here, since I’m reserving Holy Week to do some serious maintenance…
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Firefox search bar tips & tricks
Show of hands: Who here uses Firefox’s search bar almost exclusively? The search bar is that little search textbox on the upper right hand of the Firefox window. Just choose the search engine, type your search terms, hit enter, and the results will be displayed on your browser. Firefox comes preloaded with Google, Yahoo, Amazon,…
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Your ticket to the Gmail Theater
Those engineers at Google are more right-brained than we thought. Below is the geeky way of convincing you to sign up for your own Gmail account. Although this video may not be as homegrown as they would want us to believe (they are Google, after all), the effort is very much appreciated. Definitely worth a…
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My website is ugly
I wish I could just pull a fantastic layout & color scheme out of the hat. I wish that Joomla has a built-in support for tags. “Joomla is supposed to be a CMS not a blogging tool.” Blah blah, yada yada. You could practically see the smoke coming out of my ears whenever I come…
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Smart Decode – Not quite ready, but seems alright
Smart Communications launched Smart Decode yesterday. Although it’s probably going to be used for a bunch useless promotions (Ringbacks? Seriously?), I just realized that this is actually The Solution to all the senseless typing of VAS (“value added services”) commands. Let me give you an idea: “Type DUMMYKEYWORD space REGISTER space your FIRST NAME space…
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Customize the feed icon in Fireworks
Fireworks users don’t need to feel left out. Or at least when it comes to the feed icon. Previously only available for the Big Snobbish Graphic Editors (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.), the color of your feed icon can now be customized using Macromedia Fireworks. You can download the file here: feed-icon-chette In case you didn’t know…
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Bill Gates on the Daily Show
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4suTsIIBWo&w=425&h=350] This is a clip of Bill Gates appearance in the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last January 29, 2007. Gates’ appearances in this show and the Today Show got a lot of publicity. The Man was actually promoting Windows Vista on mainstream television, not the norm for a guy who has spent a…
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J.K. Rowling announces release date for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
Our favorite author, J.K. Rowling, has updated her website & announced the release date of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: July 21, 2007. Gracious. That’s this year. What the hell was she thinking in announcing the release date? Doesn’t she know what it did to me? Once again, this brought up another batch of…
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Removing nags from Yahoo Messenger
My yahoo messenger kept on nagging me to download an update, so I did. But I had the presence of mind not to install it. However, it now nags me all the time to install the update. It’s getting really annoying. How do I revert back to the old version AND not receive any update…
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Shying away from the SEO brouhaha
Yes, I do get your emails — questions about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), asking for advice, tips, etc. Some have heard of the work I did, while some simply analyzed my rankings in Google. However, because of the sudden brouhaha on SEO, I’m a little uncomfortable talking about it in detail. “SEO Consultants” have sprouted…