12/28/12

Wordpress Plug-in Must-Haves

(Sorry Blogger..)

Aside from Angelfire and Geocities, I started creating websites with Wordpress. Sure, fancy scripts and FTP is fun, but my agenda was different this time around.

Optimization is key,

Plug ins optimize your site correct?

Let's see what ones have stood up to my test.

Essential Wordpress Plug-ins

Insightsallows you to quickly search and insert information (links, images, videos, maps, news..) into your blog posts.

Akismet - Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. 

Zemanta

nRelate Related Content Easily display related content on your website.
Jetpack - site stats, customized comment forms, related content, & a ton more cool, must-have goodies

SEO

Top picks for streaming internet radio

The choices are endless. The playlist options are unfathomable. Millions of songs... for free. To listen to that is - no downloading here. As many of my fellow "Napster-generation" and Lime Wire lovers make the switch from download to digital on-demand, one question remains... what service should I use?

Top picks for streaming radio (online)

1. Slacker Radio
- great alternative to Pandora
- create your own station
- pick an artist, song, album, or genre... and base a radio station off your favorite selections
- syncs seemlessly with Facebook
- FREE version has ads, once every five or so songs

2. Pandora

- I first signed up for Pandora three years ago. The concept of internet radio was just emerging, but now years later Pandora has proven it can withstand the test of time.
- Limited number of skip tracks (three per hour?) makes choosing a station somewhat difficult
- Share track & station info easily on Facebook & Twitter
- Lists artist/track/album info along with portion of lyrics (paid version can view full lyrics!)
- FREE version has ads, every few songs
- Can slow down memory, making computer sluggish

3. Rdio
- Very impressive off the bat - the fail to make clear you have a limited amount of free music. If I had known I wouldn't of left on when I went to sleep.
- Listen to individual songs - create playlists - like your favorites and share with this social media friendly app.
- Clean layout on a very cool website.. worth trying.



4. MOD
- Similar to Rdio but seems to allow users unlimited unlimited free music to listen to.

5. Spotify
- Most options for radio preferences/playlists but you must download the program onto your computer - can overload older computers without sufficient memory capabilities
- Ads are played every couple songs, quite repetitive
- Cool apps such as Tune Wiki
- Lots of songs, options, and features. Try pro version for 30 days free.

Free radio. Free music. 
But what does it really cost?

In the news...

The Internet Radio Royalty System Is Broken


Pandora’s income potential could soon be set loose. New U.S. legislation proposes to change how music royalty payments are made for online radio companies. Such costs lock up about half of Pandora’s revenue. Read more as we explains just how much value could be released by reducing them.
The Internet Radio Fairness Act, a rare bipartisan proposal in Congress, seeks to revise digital laws enacted almost 15 years ago when the medium was less developed and understood. Judges instead would be directed to impose royalty rates for online services using the same standard historically applied to other forms of radio. U.S. satellite radio monopoly Sirius XM, for example, pays a proportion of revenue that’s more than 80 percent lower than Pandora’s.

12/13/12

Missing websites = missing dollars... spent elsewhere

Register your domain name
 - if you can find the website to do your business with....

One of the most popular and widely used ways to register your domain name is through Go Daddy. But, with their website down for only a day you wouldn't think it would be too big of a deal. Check out this article. Go Daddy back online

12/7/12

Applying internet know-how to new smartphone technology

We are undoubtedly in an digital revolution where the internet reigns supreme. 

We are connected in some form or fashion for most of the day and into the wee hours of the night. So it was no surprise the mobile phone version of the internet aka the smartphone became our new best friend.



The smartphone platforms are very similar to that of our computer's operating system, I'm sure many will agree with me there. Did you take to your new internet phone like your newborn child? Don't deny it.

But with this new growing fad comes problems as well. Broken phones, lost passwords (aka stolen phones), microSD memory card malfunctions, the list goes on and on and on.

New, uncharted territory


Yes, the world of the smartphone is as vast and unknown as the internet once was ten years ago. Try searching for something related to your high tech gadget. The process can become downright exhausting. But one day it won't be so bad. Until technology advances yet again... and who knows what's next in store for us in technological terms.

Consider this an introduction of sorts - as I would like to share some of my smartphone tips and tricks with people who need help - and simply can't find it.

Stay tuned for new stuff in this category - soon to come.

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