Archive for the 'Business' Category
Welcome back!After over a year of playing around with video editing and special effects, I’ve decided that it’s time to *DO* something constructive with it.
If you’ve a picture that you’d like to take a person or object from the foreground of that picture and place on a different background, or want a light saber effect [...]
June 21st, 2009 | Posted in Business, Fun Stuph, Movies, Video Editing & Authoring, Video Effects, video | Comments Off
Placement targeting is a way to make the most out of an Adsense campaign by driving lots of traffic for the best possible price. The placement targeting system also allows you to run a CPM campaign to get you click-throughs at a much lower rate than you’d be paying for a CPC campaign.
February 27th, 2009 | Posted in Business, Freeware, Internet, Misc, Opinion, software | 2 Comments
I just ran across an article on PC Pro news that shows Microsoft taking a giant step backwards on the issue of music downloads and DRM .
January 26th, 2009 | Posted in Business, DRM, Electronics, Hardware, Internet, Music, Opinion | 3 Comments
Whether you’re just putting up a “this is my world” personal page, hosting a blog, or anything from a simple single product sales page to a full out online store with the shopping cart, product information and reviews, newsletters and everything else, the one thing you’re going to need is a web hosting service to provide space for it to all live on.
January 14th, 2009 | Posted in Blogging, Business, File Sharing, Freeware, Internet, Opinion, Websites, games | 1 Comment
This seems to me like it *should* be a fairly simple thing but I’ve been fighting with it all freaking day and still haven’t found anything that works. I’ve got a page that sells a product with Paypal as the payment processor. Making the “Buy Now” button at Paypal merchant services is easy enough, I even remembered to input the success url that the customer needs to go to after payment is taken care of.
January 12th, 2009 | Posted in Business, Programming | 1 Comment
Curious about the new version of Windows 7? Want to get an advance look at Microsoft’s newest version of Windows? Or perahps you’re just a little bit masochistic? In either case, it turns out that there is a way to get a copy of it.
December 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Opinion, Programming, Tech, software | 2 Comments
they couldn’t stop an email from an MS exec:
“I believe we are going to be misleading customers with the Capable program. OEMs will say a machine is Capable and customers will believe that it will run all the core Vista features. We must avoid confusion. It is wrong for customers.”
November 16th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Hardware, Opinion, Tech, software | Comments Off
Then there’s the other side of the coin, support bots and phone droids that are good for little more than wasting your time and raising your temper to the boiling point. I’ve spent a serious amount of time over recent days dealing with a collection of them gathered at the Centurytel Internet support desk.
November 16th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Electronics, Hardware, Internet, Misc, Networking, Opinion, Tech | 1 Comment
Perhaps a copy of this display should hang in every legislative house in the nation with a reminder given to everybody in charge of solving the debt problem that if it hits $11 Trillion we’re going to send zxckdls to “educate” them on the error of their ways.
October 21st, 2008 | Posted in Business, Misc, Opinion | Comments Off
In a recent entry, “Where Is IPV6?“, I wondered about the fact that with all the noise about IPV4 address space running out it struck me as a little disturbing that the continent of Africa was making the transition to IPV6 a heck of a lot faster than the rest of the world.
October 5th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Internet, Opinion, Tech | Comments Off