I recently switched one of my WordPress sites over to the Thesis theme. Immediately, that site experienced a small but significant drop-off in visitors per day, according to Analytics, as soon as I switched. But I dismissed it as a coincidence because I’d had a surge of extra traffic about a month earlier, and that [...]
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I recently shared a great alternative to Gmail and my reasons for switching away from all products Google. My issue with Google Reader was not just Google’s privacy policy: I also just didn’t like it. It was too much like processing email, so after maybe thirty minutes I’d feel overwhelmed and have to stop reading. [...]
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I recently decided it was time to get rid of Gmail and Google Reader once and for all. My reason was Google’s privacy policy, which says that they will indefinitely store all the information they get about you from all their services you use. I guess that’s fair enough since they’re providing awesomely reliable services [...]
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I found Zoho back in 2007 when I was looking for an online notebook app, and I think it’s time to update the review I wrote then. Zoho’s come a long way in the past three years. It’s now my go-to app for working in the cloud. I should mention a few personal rules I [...]
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How fast your websites load has always been crucial. I don’t think many people realize just how quickly a lot of potential readers will back away from a site because it’s not loading fast enough. Every second you can shave off means a few more people sticking around. But Google has said it will be [...]
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Getting a Wordpress 406 “Not Acceptable” error when you try to publish, edit, add an image, change an option, etc.? (It can be almost anything.) You need a new host, but in the meantime, we’ve got some code that’ll help you for the moment.
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