Posted November 25th, 2009 in Google, SEO

Not only will we be welcoming a new decade in about 35 days, but to commemorate the New Year Google will be switching over to a brand new search engine infrastructure.

Dubbed “caffeine”, Google’s new search rankings will provide quicker, sleeker and most importantly more meaningful results, that according to the search giant.

Google beta tested the new datacenter allowing webmasters and …


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Posted November 12th, 2009 in Restaurant

Nothing like an off-tech post to announce that the construction of the Chick-Fil-A here in Ponte Vedra/Jacksonville Beach is nearing completion.

The fast food chain which is replacing Ruby Tuesday in the Marsh Landing Shopping Center and by the looks of it, the eatery could be open shortly after the New Year, hopefully sooner!

With prior attempts to lure a Nando’s …


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Posted October 28th, 2009 in Windows XP

Let’s say you have ten .csv files you want to merge into one. Instead of opening Microsoft Excel and cutting/pasting the data there’s a much easier route to take.

First, for simplicity copy the files you want merged into a new folder. Call it “merge” if you will.

Then, click “start”->”run” and enter “cmd”. At the command prompt navigate to your just …


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Posted October 23rd, 2009 in Google, Social Sites

Always the masters of misdirection and misinformation, search king Google is now telling webmasters to stop focusing on PageRank! In a recent post on their webmasters forum, here’s what “Google Employee” Susan Moskwa said on the controversial subject:
“We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think …


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Posted October 12th, 2009 in Social Sites

Users of twitter and of twitter’s API are noticing issues with the social networking sites.

Requests made to twitter today are taking upward to 10-15 second if not longer for processing, and that includes those made via the API.

If your application or website is having problems you are not alone! Twitter has noticed.

On the bright side, twitter has also been …


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Posted July 27th, 2009 in Blogging

If you’ve recently encountered issues like strange page redirections and vanishing data with Wordpress when entering or editing posts, then you may be a  victim to a bug in Firebug. That’s what’s hit me.

I just upgraded to Firebug 1.4 and now when I use Firefox and go into my Wordpress to create a new post, the screen redirects to a …


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Posted July 19th, 2009 in Social Sites

I’ve been meddling around Facebook’s business or fan pages. One think I’ve learned is that Facebook really doesn’t like to make it easy.

If you don’t have a personal Facebook account already, you’ll need one in order to set up a page for your business even though they say it’s not required. But good luck trying to create a …


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Posted May 2nd, 2009 in Domain Names

So where are the best places to register a domain. Well, for me it’s real simple. It’s namecheap.com. I prefer namecheap and i’ve been using them for years because of their services, prices and console.

Godaddy.com is probably the most recognized of the registrars thanks to their commercials, but their user console is absolutely bloated. To register a domain …


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Posted April 21st, 2009 in SEO

If your webpage ranked in Google, and now it no longer ranks, then yes, maybe you have been penalized by Google.

First, though, a common misconception is that many webmasters often mistake a penalty for a simple algorithmic change. It’s widely known that Google updates its search algorithm routinely if not daily so it’s more than conceivable that what once worked …


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Posted March 1st, 2009 in Windows XP

I am a big fan of using the hitting that scroll wheel on my mouse. But one of the things I find is that it doesn’t scroll as fast as I’d like, and when I change the scroll speed to a higher number, say from 1 to 5, it resets back to 1 the very next time I boot up. …


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