http://mindgrind.com/wp All things digital ... and whatever else comes to mind. Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:49:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Sydney Morning Herald Nick Galvin January 1, 2008 Think back to the days before the network we call the internet existed. Think back to a world before "google" became a verb, before a user-generated encyclopedia called Wikipedia replaced Britannica and before eBay turned the planet into one big garage sale. It's easy to ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2008/02/12/ten-things-that-will-change-your-future/ By Michael Miller Article is provided courtesy of Que. YouTube is one of the hottest sites on the Web. YouTube 4 You author Michael Miller shares ten tips and tricks to help you better view and share YouTube videos. YouTube is a video-sharing site that lets users upload and view all sorts ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2008/01/26/top-ten-youtube-tips-and-tricks/ From Joomla.org Download Joomla 1.5 It is with great pride that the Joomla! community announces to the world the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5 Stable [Khepri]. As a community of contributors, we have been through celebrations and tribulations. We have had fun, and we have worked hard. We have learned from ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2008/01/22/joomla-15-stable-released/ A friend pointed out to me that I had not made a new post to my blog since ... well, a long time ago ... I think the Whigs still held a majority in congress. The incongruous "current" post about San Diego wildfires caused him to have a TIVO moment -- ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2008/01/15/i-forgot-i-hit-the-pause-button/ It has been one heck of a week for all of us in San Diego -- and a good time to learn lessons and be better prepared if/when we are faced with another wild-fire crisis or similar situation. I'm refining the "must take" items I took during evacuation and, ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2007/10/29/register-your-cell-phone-with-citycounty-reverse-911-systems/ A client of mine was having trouble with choppy web audio/video (streaming Flash) when viewing from their office computers. Long story short, the culprit turned out to be their Internet connectivity --an expensive, legacy fractional T1 plan that was overpriced and underperforming. We identified the problem using this great, free tool: SpeedTest.net ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2007/10/26/are-you-up-to-speed/ I know some people will think this should be filed under "California fruits and nuts" but I urge you to look at this with an open mind. Based on impressive new discoveries regarding the body's subtle energies, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) has proven successful in thousands of clinical cases. It ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2007/10/19/eft-emotional-freedom-technique/ Good Overview of Web 3.0 There is no easy consensus about how to define what is meant by Web 3.0, but it is generally seen as a reference to the semantic Web. While it is not that much more precise a phrase, the semantic Web refers to technology to make using ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2007/10/19/web-30-semantic-web/ A productivity tip. If you're not already using a desktop search utility (like google desktop), you may want to try one out. Based on recommendation of an associate I've been using the one Yahoo uses (smaller footprint) I've been using it for about two months and find myself using it more and more ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2007/07/31/desktop-search/ From Webconfs.com, a 15-minute SEO overview titled "List of Best and Worst practices for designing a high traffic website." It's a great summary of SEO issues. The 15 minutes refers to the amount of time it will take to READ the article; implementation of all the suggestion will require somewhere ... http://mindgrind.com/wp/2007/07/27/seo-hitlist-keywords-links-metatags-content-domains-urls/