New Year Wishes for 2009

I would like to take this time to thank all my readers and wish you all a Happy New Year!

When the clock strikes twelve tonight, people all over the world will cheer and wish each other a very Happy New Year. For some of these people, this event is nothing more than a change of a calendar. For the lucky others, this New Year will symbolize the beginning of a better tomorrow.

Google, Spyware, and Burn Notice

Spyware

As a follow up on my post “Snubbed by Google for being Spyware“ I am glad to announce that today Google considers me an actual person and not an automated request from a computer virus or spyware application.

The Big Debate Rages on: Google, Search Engine Ranking, and Bounce Rates

More on Bounce Rates or should we call it SCASI and Google

I have been discussing the existence of a bounce rate in the seo/seo-search-engine-ranking-bounce-rate-and-google”>Google ranking algorithm for a while and I found an interesting post by David Leonhardt.

The Story of Google, Firefox, Safari, Spyware, and Captcha

Snubbed by Google for being Spyware

I was asked how to find a particular typeface:

Find this typeface?? How?
We drew our creative inspiration from the depression era. For typography, we wanted to evoke a no frills, tough times feeling, and after reviewing a few options we decided on a typeface called Memphis as the primary font for the identity. Memphis is a classic Slabserif designed in 1930 by Rudolf Wolf.

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Microsoft Management Console

How do you install Microsoft Management Console 3.0 for Windows XP SP2?

The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) application provides you with an interface shell that you can insert various tools called snap-ins to create custom consoles. While custom consoles can come in handy for performing any number of tasks, Windows XP’s MMC 2.0 convoluted console-creation process can often seem to be counter intuitive.
Windows Management Console
Microsoft has made their new MMC interface developed for Windows Vista available for Windows XP. Version 3.0 of the MMC application provides more functionality for snap-ins than prior versions and sports a much better looking user interface that makes it much easier to create and use the consoles.

SEO Black Hat, Google, and Search Engine Rankings

SCASI the New SEO Term for Search Engine Rankings

A while back a had a post SEO, Search Engine Ranking, Bounce Rate and Google, this was a very interesting theory presented by SEO Black Hat that stated that Google has been using bounce rates as a determining factor in their SERPs (search engine results pages).

Google, The Drifters, and Music Downloads

Is Google selling the top spot on a search?

Google Music is this a service to Google users or is it just a new way to produce more revenue for the search giant? They have no actual Google music search like the do for Google images and Google maps. Is Google music just another avenue to send visitors to Google shopping? I must admit I have more questions than answers.

Merry Christmas to ALL 2008

Merry Christmas Everyone

White Christmas

Sung by The Drifters.
Cartoon by Joshua Held.

Merry Christmas,
Gary Pool

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Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Multiple XP Disk Drives

How do you retrieve information for multiple Windows XP disk drives?

You can obtain detailed information about the amount of available and used space on your Windows XP disk by right-clicking any drive icon in My Computer and selecting Properties. You get a fancy pie chart display that represents the disk information graphically, which makes it easy to quickly analyze your hard disk usage.

Story of Yahoo, Christmas, and Scams

Yahoo is going to Give Me Eight Hundred, Twenty Thousand Great Britain Pounds

That’s one million two hundred eighteen thousand and twenty eight US dollars according to x-rates.com’s currency calculator.

$1,218,028.00

Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – Windows Explorer Image Thumbnails

How do you add image thumbnails to a folder in Windows Explorer?

When dealing with a folder in Microsoft Windows containing many images, it is often helpful to see a thumbnail representation of each of those images in the Windows Explorer display. One warning, turning on the thumbnail feature will increase the amount of resources being used by the operating system. Those darn little thumbnails take up space on the hard drive and in memory when they are being displayed. Depending on your system, the available resources, and the number of images involved, you can quickly slow down your PC to a crawl if you just do it willy-nilly.

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