Couple good finds for the day

A few good finds my twitter friends found today. Want to go back and review them again.

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June 26th, 2009 by Shawn Brown 
Find Latitude and Longitude Using This Geocoding Utility

Find Latitude and Longitude Using This Geocoding Utility

Have you ever needed the latitude and longitude of a map? GPS Visualizer has a free geocoding utility. The utility will convert street addresses or other locations to latitude and longitude. The tool will let you do a single address or multiple addresses. After looking up the address you can create [...]

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February 2nd, 2009 by Shawn Brown 
Organizing Your Family with Cozi

Organizing Your Family with Cozi

Are you looking for a fun and easy way to keep your family organized?  Cozi may be just the website for which you are looking.  Cozi is geared for family use.  With Cozi you can keep track of appointments, keep track of lists and keep track of work schedules. You can share your favorite memories [...]

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January 21st, 2009 by Shawn Brown 
Turn Your Photos Into Tilt-shift Creations With Tilt-shift Maker

Turn Your Photos Into Tilt-shift Creations With Tilt-shift Maker

Tiltshiftmaker.com is a really cool photo tweaking site.  TiltShift Maker will turn your real life scenes into pictures that look like miniture model photographs.  The site is very easy to use and will allow you to download your miniture creation.  If you like what you make they’ve got a Tilt-shift flickr group you can add your [...]

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January 14th, 2009 by Shawn Brown 

Orb and your Wii

We recently joined the bands of Wii owners. When I first hooked it up I thought it was only something to play games on. Then after a bit of digging around on Google I realized I could hook the Wii up to my wireless Internet. One of the Wii channels is called the Internet Channel. [...]

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January 10th, 2009 by Shawn Brown 

Search Engine Optimization Alt and Title Attributes

This is a nice nugget of information to find. I have always known to use the “alt” attribute for images but never considered using the “title” attribute in an image. I’ve always used the “title” in anchor tags. I’ll need do a little research and start implementing this technique.
“Every now and then this little question [...]

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June 26th, 2008 by Shawn Brown 

My Official Unordered List of SEO Tools for Search Marketing

This list is my official UNordered (growing) list of useful web sites on search engine marketing. This list originally originated from research for a talk I gave on “Increase traffic through both Organic and Paid search marketing“. These links consist of informative articles, examples, and tools that should help you increase your site traffic through [...]

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June 23rd, 2008 by Shawn Brown 

MP3 Flash Player Plugin For WordPress

I came across a great plugin for WordPress for playing MP3 files. This player is very easy to install and makes putting your MP3 files on your posts a breeze. I installed and had my first MP3 post up in less than 10 minutes. This plugin can be located on 1pixelout and is called Audio [...]

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May 28th, 2008 by Shawn Brown 

Weird Characters After WordPress Upgrade

After upgrading my WordPress site I noticed a bunch of strange characters in all my articles. A came across a very easy solution to fix this issue on the WordPress forum. Here’s the solution as posted on the forum:
This problem appeared first in 2.2.x The problem (as you surmised) is a problem with the character [...]

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May 24th, 2008 by Shawn Brown 

Joomla SEO Tips

Do you use Joomla for your CMS?  If you do you may want to consider the Joomla SEO Checklist I came across.  There were some things I did not know such as clearing out the META descriptions out of the Global config.  Doing so will allow you to create individual descriptions in the META data. 
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May 23rd, 2008 by Shawn Brown