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Looking Sharp – tips & tricks for getting great photos with your dSLR

December 7, 2009

Making the transition from a point-and-shoot camera to a dSLR can be tricky. It’s kind of like switching from automatic transmission to a stick – sure, you can get better performance out of a manual transmission, but for a while, you drive worse than you did with the automatic*. I’ve been helping my friend Ari [...]

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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about

November 9, 2009

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to redesign/improvements to this fancy-pants blog here…and one area that I’ve always known to need improvement is my About page. It’s pretty basic right now, as you can see. Pretty sparse, right? And it certainly doesn’t tell you anything about me. Matt Cheuvront over at Life Without Pants [...]

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How to make your WordPress blog more SEO-Friendly

October 15, 2009

There are many different ways to attract visitors/readers to your blog. You could just hope that they stumble across your site randomly, but that’s not a very proactive method. One major source of traffic is going to be from people using search engines like Google to discover articles/posts on topics that are interesting to them [...]

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One Number to Rule Them All…Google Voice!

July 23, 2009

When I was a kid, it was easy to remember phone numbers. For one thing, we didn’t care about area codes. But also, everyone had one phone number – and it didn’t change. My parents’ home number is the same one that I grew up with – even when we moved across the street, our [...]

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Aggregation is the New Black

June 9, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about technology, and that’s really my strong suit. I’m going to make a marked effort to post more tech-related content, and not just “Tech Tips”, but also my reactions to technology and where I think things are going. It’s no great revelation that we are all awash in [...]

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