blog.martincrockett.com

Very good list of tips, resources and reference material. Rated.

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Swaroop C H

[Via Paul Terry Walhus]
Paul Terry Walhus

1,000 songs in your pocket? How about 20,000?

My current iTunes library contains 10,152 songs: 52.08Gb which doesn’t include ~30Gb of music unprocessed on another external hard drive.
I’ll be following the steps in the link below to consolidate my music library. Fingers crossed.

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How To: keep your iTunes library on an external hard drive

This is article from 2004 is still essential reading, something many individuals and companies I’ve worked with recently could take advice from.

1. Don’t check your email all the time.
2. Don’t use “reply to all” when responding to email.
3. Write informative subject lines for your email messages.
4. Create a special email address for personal messages and newsletters.
5. Write short.
6. Avoid IM (instant messaging) unless real-time interaction will truly add value to the communication.
7. Answer common customer questions on your website using clear and concise language.
8. User test your intranet.
9. Don’t circulate internal email to all employees.
10. Establish a company culture in which it’s okay not to respond to email immediately.

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Jakob Nielsen’s useit.com

When it comes to running a business, our feet are firmly on the ground but our data and software are increasingly in the cloud.

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Entrepreneur.com

Death to the EMBED tag!

YouTube and Vimeo currently provide invalid embedding code to video with OBJECT tag. There are four steps to modify this:
Read more Valid YouTube and Vimeo code…

Connected Ventures Tour courtesy of Jakob Lodwick from Song Hia on Vimeo.

Supplement to the Digital Cafe interview located here.

More automotive adverts should be like this…!

I especially like the shift of scene at around 1′15″. Intense. Buy me!

Here is my list of the top 15 must-have WordPress plugins

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put < ?php akismet_counter(); ? > in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

All in One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.

Read more 15 must-have WordPress plugins…

How do you use the Sociable plugin for WordPress?

I tend to use this plugin sparingly, as there is an overwelming number of social bookmarking and social media websites which appear on the options page (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=Sociable).

I check the following sites:

1. Digg
2. del.icio.us
3. Facebook
4. Google
5. Pownce
6. Technorati
7. YahooMyWeb

These are websites I tend to associate with. There are a few others I would possibly consider such as StumbleUpon and Bumpzee but on the whole these seven are plenty.

I have recently noticed through the development of my own custom themes that the sociable.css file contains some code that fails to validate (CSS 2.1). My tip here is to compress the CSS code and comment out the two ‘.sociable-hovers’ declarations.

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Sociable plugin for WordPress