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Google Updates PageRank - Google Dance Begins
PageRank UpdateWell it has begun. The long awaited Google PageRank Update has begun for April 2005. After nearly four months of waiting (the last update was done on January 1st, 2005) we have begun seeing the PageRank update on the Google toolbar. We commented on a new tool that could inform you of the current...
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Need Help Picking Website Colors?
Color PickerTrying to find that perfect color combination can be a difficult process at times. I've finally found a little color tool that will give you monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic, and split complementary colors for any given web color. I originally found this colorwheel by Antone Roundy....
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Web Design vs. Graphic Design
Web Design vs. Graphic DesignThere are numerous graphic designers out there who really know their stuff when it comes to print design, brochure layout, and Pantone Matching System (pms). However, not all graphic designers are good web designers. Web design is a totally different medium where the "paper size" (the screen...
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Adobe Acquires Macromedia for $3.4 Billion
Adobe Aquires MacromediaAny and all graphic designers, web designers, or anyone who has Adobe or Macromedia software installed on their computer will be interested to know that Adobe Systems, Inc. has set the wheels in motion to acquire Macromedia Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $3.4 billion. Adobe's...
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PageRank Update - PageRank (PR) 2005 is alive and thriving
PageRank UpdateNOTICE: PageRank Update has begun as of April 23, 2005. Please visit our blog on this update. For many of the diligent PageRank (PR) followers out there who have been pulling their hair out trying to figure out when Google is going to update their toolbar, you need not worry because you can know...
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How to add a live RSS feed to Firefox
RSS FeedIf you are a dedicated Firefox user, you will have noticed the built-in "Latest Headlines". My wife thought that it was interesting that I was looking at the BBC live feed instead of CNN or the such. So I figured I would change it over to a CNN feed instead. While doing so, I figured I would let...
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Geocaching - GPS Fun For All
GeocachingWhether you have heard of geocaching yet or not, I'm sure that you already know someone that participates in geocaching, an "entertaining adventure game for global positioning system (gps) users". So what is geocaching? Geocaching is like a very large (world wide) treasure hunt. People have...
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Have Gas Prices Hit Their Peak?
Gas PricesBoy do I have to eat my words. After watching the news and seeing that the price of crude oil had fallen, I told my wife that gas prices would be falling. Well, boy was I wrong. I couldn't believe that prices were moving up again. The Energy Information Administration reported that the nationwide...
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Frecker's Saddlery
Frecker's SaddleryAH Digital FX Studios has one more satisfied client, Frecker's Saddlery. Frecker's Saddlery specializes in Wade style, custom built western saddles. Frecker's has made saddles for Tom Selleck, Buck Brannaman, Curt Pate, and many others. He has sold saddles around the globe. Kent Frecker has been...
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Mozilla Thunderbird - Reclaim your Inbox
Mozilla ThunderbirdMozilla says this about their email program, Thunderbird. "Mozilla Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support and much more." Whether...
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Mozilla Sunbird Project
Mozilla SunbirdAlthough not the official name yet, Mozilla's Sunbird project is beginning to take shape. At it's current release, Mozilla Sunbird 0.2, this nice, clean calendaring program is quite user friendly. Sunbird comes with basic task and event options. It also has the ability to add and display...
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Firefox - The Browser of Kings and King of Browsers
Firefox is King of BrowsersThe newest contender in the browser war has taken another fatality. Me! I have been using Firefox off and on for the past few months since version 1.0 was released. Besides being standards compliant and having a 100% fully customizable look and feel, it is the extensions that really sold me. Before...
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