Not everyone can afford to purchase the latest and greatest Palm Treo or Blackberry type mobile phone, or maybe they just don’t feel like carrying around something that has such a big footprint in your pocket. That doesn’t mean that you have to be stuck to the limited capabilities of a normal cellphone though. There are many different services and applications out there that can help you to get the most out of your cell phone, Some of them require java enabled phones, and most need some sort of data access in order to be fully effective, but if you have both of those things these services may be just what you are looking for. (more…)

If you are always trying to find new ways of getting more hits to your blog, you might consider making it search engine friendly. Thats where this list comes in handy with some of the best plugins for wordpress that will make you rank higher in googles search engine, or any other search engine. You might also want to check out some other great wordpress plugins, a list that I posted a while back about the top wordpress plugins, very useful plugins, many of which some of you might have never even heard of. (more…)

Here is a great list that I whipped together of some of the most useful and most popular Wordpress plugins, if you don’t yet have wordpress, or don’t know what it is head over to wordpress.org, its a blogging software, which is awesome!
Enjoy the list.

Akismet - Is a spam filter that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not, also checks the trackbacks for spam.

Ultimate Tag Warrior - Best Tag system for WordPress. You can use categories and tag system on one website which is very cool. (more…)

I recently changed my header/title graphic. The image actually doesn’t look like that, below is what it actually looks like alone:

It looks really horrible alone, but with a background color of #333333, it looks really smooth, like it does in the header. To achieve the same look follow these steps:

1. Create a new document, the size doesn’t really matter, however, if it’s a graphic or title you don’t want it to be big, mine is 252 X 65, and make sure to make the background transparent, not white. (more…)

A while back I wrote a post with a list of the top 10 open source programs, however I got a lot of negative comments and emails regarding the list and its accuracy, although some were positive. I know many people’s Top 10 list will look totally different than this, however, I’ve talked to many people and this is as accurate I can get it to be. And even with this list many people stilll will not agree, but please no more negativity, just say the way you would have listed it. (more…)

1. AVOID USING MANY GRAPHICS

One of the main reasons for a website’s slow download speed is the excessive use of graphics. Therefore, you must try to reduce the number of images and pictures used on each page. Consider repeating the same graphic, wherever possible. This is because once a graphic has been downloaded, it is stored in a computer’s cache and doesn’t have to be downloaded again. (more…)