Author Archives: J.D. H.

Google Page Speed Service (speed up your website with Google)

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I came across Google’s Page Speed Service today, here is the description of their service: Page Speed Service is an online service to automatically speed up loading of your web pages. Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices and serves them to end users via Google’s servers across the globe.  […] You can run tests to measure the speed up of your site in a few minutes. Page Speed Service is currently offered free

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Ender’s Game and Harry Potter

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I have really been enjoying the book Ender’s Game. While describing it to my wife the closest similar book I could think of was Harry Potter. Sure enough, other people thought there were similarities too 🙂 Here are some links about the Ender’s Game -> Harry Potter connection as well as some bits about the Ender’s Game video game, comic book and movie! Exciting and unsettling: Ender’s Game: Battle School | Tor.comhttp://www.tor.com/blogs/2009/07/enders-game-battle-schoolI am frequently asked “Why hasn’t science fiction produced its own

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Good ‘about’ pages on tech sites

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While working on adding rich snippet author info to jdhodges.com I needed to wanted to write an improved about page. So I checked out a variety of ‘about’ pages on tech sites to get some ideas on formatting/style etc. Here are a few that I thought were either particularly well done, or that had something unique about them: About Netbooklive.com – NetbookLive.comhttp://www.netbooklive.com/about/This is a website dedicated to mini laptops and portable computers you can easily carry around on your voyages.

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Camera sensor sizes

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I am once again working on some camera comparisons and sensor size always seems to be a hot topic. The following links were helpful in helping me determine the actual sensor size (dimensions) for some less-common camera sensors… Unravelling Sensor Sizes, digital cameras, digital photography, photography, digital slr, camera recommendation, price comparison, photographic companies, camera companies, digital camera best prices,http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/buying/unravelling-sensor-sizes.aspxOver the years we have compiled the following table of common sensor sizes for digital cameras, camcorders and cameraphones. We hope

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Rich snippets in Google and WordPress using GD Star Rating

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[this post needs to be reformatted and elaborated on, but for now here are the links that helped me get both AUTHOR and RATING rich snippets working on my blog :-)] VERY nice info on configuring GD Star Rating http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/add-rich-snippets-reviews-wordpress-blog/ Good general overview of the task at hand and all the related info http://yoast.com/rich-snippets-everywhere/ http://www.sakthiganesh.com/integrating-google-rich-snippets-wordpress http://wpprobusiness.com/4390/add-rich-snippets-wordpress/ How to test to see if your rich snippets are formatted correctly and visible to Google http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets Top Search Terms:google snippets wordpress (2)link:http://www.sakthiganesh.com/about-me-sakthi-ganesh -site:sakthiganesh.com

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Red Dog 2011 movie soundtrack info

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Red Dog is an Australian movie that is considerably more compelling than the majority of what Hollywood puts out :-). It also has a superb soundtrack. When I first tried to purchase the soundtrack I had a lot of trouble finding it. Thankfully, I eventually found the soundtrack and it is absolutely amazing :-). Evie – Let Your Hair Hang Down (Part 1) is my favorite track but there are a number of other gems. If you enjoyed the music during the

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Godaddy domain name promo code coupon

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GoDaddy and Bob Parsons make some questionably decisions (as illustrated by their SOPA saga and elephant hunting escapade). However, they do have one of the lowest prices I’ve seen in a long time for new .com domain registrations: $5.99 USD Here is the coupon code: cjc599V NOTE: Works as of Feb 8th 4:08PM Coupon found via Live Godaddy Promo Code List. Top Search Terms:rapidshare coupon code 2012 (10)rapidshare coupon (9)rapidshare coupon 2012 (9)godaddy coupon (3)rapidshare coupon code (3)rapidshare coupons 2012 (3)where can i find

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