10 Useful Chrome Extensions You May Not Have Tried I’m a huge fan of adding functionality to my browser, and we’ve featured some great extensions to supercharge Chrome in the past. Here are a few more that you might not have heard of, but are certainly worth a try. Jot If you’re constantly working in your browser, Jot is the best to-do list you could ask for: just open a new tab and add tasks or even quick notes to refer to later. ➤ Jot DF YouTube Sure there are other extensions for the job, but DF YouTube, spotted by our own Owen Williams, does a great job of simply hiding all the clutter around YouTube videos for a distraction-free experience. ➤ DF YouTube (free) VisualPing This clever extension will email you when your favorite site is updated. You get 250 credits (each good for one update alert) for free and VisualPing checks sites once every hour for minute changes. ➤ VisualPing UpTo ➤ UpTo Tab Snooze Too many tabs cluttering up your browser? ➤ Tab Snooze
Installing WordPress Languages: English • Español • Deutsch • বাংলা • Français • Italiano • Nederlands • のインストール 日本語 한국어 • Português • Português do Brasil • Русский • Slovenčina • Српски • ไทย • 中文(简体) • 中文(繁體) • (Add your language) WordPress is well-known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances, installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. Many web hosts now offer tools (e.g. Fantastico) to automatically install WordPress for you. However, if you wish to install WordPress yourself, the following guide will help. The following installation guide will help you, whether you go for the Famous 5 Minute Installation, or require the more detailed installation guide. Things to Know Before Installing WordPress Before you begin the install, there are a few things you need to have and do. These are: Things You Need to Do to Install WordPress Begin your installation by: Checking to ensure that you and your web host have the minimum requirements to run WordPress.
The Anatomy of a Perfect Facebook Post to Maximize Reach & Clicks You post to your Facebook page, hoping you’ve hit upon something that works. How great would it be know that the post you just published had the best chance of maximizing clicks, likes, and comments. Facebook posts especially—given the dramatic dip in reach—can feel like a mystery. I went looking for answers and came across a heap of best practices and examples of what goes into a perfect Facebook post. The Anatomy of a Perfect Facebook Post Right off the top, here’s what I found as the five ingredients that go into a perfect Facebook post. A perfect Facebook post: is a linkis brief—40 characters or fewer, if you can swing itgets published at non-peak timesfollows other posts on a regular scheduletimely and newsworthy Several Facebook pages have found great success with this particular style of post. Of course, as with all of the best practices mentioned below, you can take them as a jumping off point to your own experiments and tests. 1. The data here is pretty compelling: 2. 3. 4.
Why I'd Rather Email than Advertise Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, helping entrepreneurs and tech professionals (especially women) level up their careers. “Why is email the most effective channel for converting customers?” Exactly a year ago I had 10 people subscribe to my email list each month. I let out a big sigh and thought, “How am I going to go from 10 to 10K?” It seemed pretty daunting, and I thought, “Why bother? You’re probably thinking the same thing. Each one of us suffers from inbox clutter, including you. How on earth are you supposed to break through that inbox noise to sell someone a product or service? The truth is, people do read emails. FOMO (the fear of missing out) is why email is such a draw, and subsequently becomes an effective marketing channel! When a person gives you their email address by, for example, signing up for your newsletter, they have given you an invitation to your inbox. Think about it: when you call someone, you might catch them at a bad time. Starting sending emails!
Setting Up Google Analytics and Heatmap to Track Conversion The reason why knowing where our users want to click on our website is so important is because we can leverage this knowledge to our advantage. There's probably a dozen ways you could use this information, but it comes down to one important usage: Placing our most important call to actions where users are already clicking If you've ever wondered why you're not getting as many email sign ups as you'd like, then this is the answer to your struggles. Here's your next challenge: 1. 2. 3.
Find Yourself: Search Flipboard to Add Content to Your Magazines Digital publishing is about putting your content where your readers are. That sounds straightforward, but it’s not so simple, because lots of readers are now on lots of different channels — blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, and more. That’s why, for bloggers and content publishers, it’s handy that Flipboard magazines let you combine content from all your current social platforms, all in one place. But if you want to add your own content to your Flipboard magazines, you must first find yourself. Happily, that doesn’t require an awkward journey of personal exploration. Do a Vanity Search Say hello to Flipboard’s search box. Check Your Sources Here’s an important thing to remember: Flipboard search gathers results from across the social web and organizes them by source — Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Flickr, RSS, etc. — so scroll down to find your own content feeds from the sources you seek. For example, I publish a WordPress blog called Bernalwood.
A Couple Thoughts on RAIDs and SSDs Hey gang, I've seen a couple things come up periodically in posts here, as well as support emails, regarding RAIDs, SSDs, and Fusion Drives. While I had a little downtime this morning, I wanted to call attention to a few things that may help clear up some misconceptions about these things on Macs, and how they affect performance. First, I'll presume we're talking about a RAID 0 stripe, and not a RAID 1 mirror, since the latter wouldn't give you performance benefits in any case. That being said, almost everybody talking about a RAID on a Mac is talking about a software RAID, configured in Disk Utility. In a hardware RAID, with a controller card, the controller card does all the management, so it's transparent to the OS. (That's not to say it isn't a boost, and isn't worth it, but it's a tradeoff in other areas of performance that a hardware RAID wouldn't be.) Second, I've found that most people who set up a software RAID on a Mac just leave the default block size at 32k. Now...SSDs. -Andy
Fb pages: Sizes & Dimensions Flubit’s Chrome Extension Makes It Easy to Find a Better a Price for Online Shopping Flubit is an offers platform that lets you request better prices for specific products by allowing it to manually create better offers for you. For example, perhaps you need those special bin bags from Amazon, or that headphone splitter cable you keep forgetting to buy. While you could just log on and grab those in one click, going via Flubit’s platform gives you the potential opportunity to get them at a lower price. Despite having been up and running since 2012, it was only this month that the company decided to streamline the process with the release of its Chrome extension. Getting started Using Flubit is super-simple. Once that is sorted, all you need to do is find a product you’re interested in buying. Once you click the Flubit extension icon in the taskbar, a box appears asking you to select how many of the item you want. Clicking on the create demand button then takes you to another page listing your request. ➤ Flubit [Chrome extension]
Lowpoly Bot To have your own image polygonized follow this link and use the "Tweet to" button to conveniently upload an image. Or use your favorite twitter client and mention @Lowpolybot in the tweet that contains your image. Only images that are embedded in the tweet will work, links to external images will fail. You can add some hashtags to control the outcome:Style: #triangle, #voronoi, #subdivision, #iso, #rect, #square,#kite, #angles, #broken or #minimal Fill: #flat, #gradient, #soft, #strong, #burst, #dial, #flow, #uni or #perp Texture: #grain, #nograin or #raster Strokes: #fat or #thin and #black or #white Color: #colorize, #randomcolor, #spectra, #gram and #overdrive Surprise: #flip, #shuffle and #eleven If you do not pick a tag in a category a random one will be chosen for you. Special tag: #face - this will apply face detection (provided by Face++) and then try to add some more detail to found faces. If you really have to send porn or repulsive images you MUST mark those with #NSFW.
The Marketer’s Guide to the Benefits of Vimeo Over YouTube Online video has very quickly become one of the most engaging and ubiquitous forms of content marketing. ComScore reports that in 2013 more than half of all Americans watched a combined 52 billion online videos. According to that same report one platform netted more hours of viewing than all others combined. It’s fairly obvious to anyone who has spent even a little bit of time online that the name of that platform is YouTube. It’s very hard to argue against YouTube’s dominance in terms of volume, audience, and reach. Yet, when it comes to creating online video for your business, there might be a better choice. Vimeo was started around roughly the same time as YouTube, but in the decade since its launch it has gone in a much different direction than its much larger cousin. Better Quality Content As previously mentioned, YouTube is absolutely massive. In the case of Vimeo, less happens to be more. Think about whether you’d rather your video catch fire on Facebook or on LinkedIn.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of SEO Matthew Capala is the author of “Away with the Average,” an NYU Professor, and Founder of SearchDecoder.com. This adapted excerpt comes from Matthew’s latest book, “SEO Like I’m 5. “80 percent of success is showing up,” Woody Allen famously said about life. Why? 80 percent of consumers search for a product/service before purchasing it70 percent read online reviews before making purchase decisions68 percent of consumers begin their decision-making while searching for a keywordWebsites that blog regularly receive 55 percent more traffic and over 80 percent more leads compared to websites that don’tOver 70 percent of search clicks are organic You don’t need a litany of statistics to know that showing up on the Internet reaps big profits. We all turn to Google, social media, review blogs, and other places on the Web when we make most decisions in life in 2014, including purchase decisions. Do you show up? Do a quick test, right now and right here on your mobile phone. Here is what Stephen C.
The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Building a Hackintosh (OS X 10.10) Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7 review | Tablets Reviews | TechRadar The tablet as we know it has existed for only three years and we already have plenty of tired old cliches about them. The first is that they're media consumption machines, built only for taking in movies and leafing through magazines. Tell that to the legions of suit and tie types running their empires via iPad and keyboard dock. The finest tablets, devices like the Apple's iPads, Google's Nexus tablets and Sony's Xperia Tablet Z, are versatile machines with lush ecosystems and sleek hardware that's a pleasure to hold. Buy Kindle Fire HDX 7", HDX Display, Wi-Fi, 16 GB - Includes Special Offers (Previous Generation - 3rd) at Amazon US for $179.00 It's a rock-bottom option as well in terms of price: £199 for the 16GB model, £229 for 32GB and £259 for the 64GB if you're willing to have the special offers on the lock screen to reduce the cost by a tenner. Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX comes close to standing among those champion slates. Design The HDX has fine speakers as well.