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Text Through Your Pants With Microsoft’s PocketTouch Through-Fabric Input Technology

This project from Microsoft, called PocketTouch, enables a person to use an input device through their pants or a jacket. Microsoft calls its research project “through-fabric capactive touch input.” The input device can hook onto a smartphone. A downside to the PocketTouch is that you will have to get used to the alphanumeric texting language [...]

Ways to Win Customers and Influence Rankings – Whiteboard Friday

published on 19.05.2012 in SEO Tips Tagged , , , , ,

Posted by randfish Starting up your own consulting agency can be quite a difficult process and often times the most challenging step to your endeavour will be finding new customers or clients. In this week's Whiteboard Friday we will be covering some tips and tactics that you can use to get referrals and win customers. [...]

In-depth Guide To Content Creation [With Infographic]

published on 18.05.2012 in SEO Tips Tagged , , , ,

Posted by Designbysoap Ltd This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an on-site SEO consultant, a [...]

History of the iPhone Animation

published on 16.05.2012 in Computer Tips Tagged , ,

Here is an entertaining and informative history of the iPhone from CNET UK. The animation also shares some facts about ARPANET, DynaTAC, the Internet, chip development and Apple designer Jony Ive. Take a look: Permalink | Facebook | Twitter | Recent Headlines | News Feeds HowToWeb.com

Search Again or Click On the Second Page of Search Results?

published on 15.05.2012 in SEO Tips Tagged , , , , ,

If you use a search engine but don’t find what you are looking for, which are you more likely to do? People are more likely to search again with a new keyword than they are to click onto the second page of search results. Vote All (1189)  search again with a different word 55.7% (+3.2 / -3.3) [...]

Ha! Bullets Can’t Hurt ME

published on 14.05.2012 in SEO Tips Tagged , ,

Negative SEO vs Sabotage Just about any independent SEO worth their weight who publishes a number of websites has at least once hit a snag & been filtered or penalized. A person can say “not me” but how do they operate optimally in both the short term and long term if they never operate near [...]

PBS to Air Steve Jobs Special: One Last Thing

published on 12.05.2012 in Computer Tips Tagged , , , ,

PBS will air a special look at Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, called Steve Jobs – One Last Thing, on November 2. The look at Steve Jobs includes interviews with Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak, Ross Perot, Walt Mossberg, Will.i.am, Robert Cringely, Robert Palladino, Bill Fernandez and many others. It also includes footage from a never-before-broadcast interview [...]

The Penguin Update – Whiteboard Friday

published on 11.05.2012 in SEO Tips Tagged , , ,

Posted by robkerry SEOmoz and I don't always see eye to eye on industry issues, but I still have a lot of respect for the company. In fact SEOmoz is still the website that I send people to, when they want to learn about SEO or get into our industry. Rand kindly invited me to [...]

GWT notice of detected unnatural links to http://www.seobook.com/

published on 10.05.2012 in SEO Tips Tagged , , , ,

I am already getting fake webmaster tool notification messages using the above subject line & the following message: Hello dear managers of http://www.seobook.com/! My name is Olivia, and the issue I’m gonna to discuss is for sure not new, but really actual and complicated, otherwise your website and therefore business wouldn’t have lost their favourable [...]

Lego Minifigures Series 7 Features Computer Programmer

published on 09.05.2012 in Printer Tips Tagged , , , , ,

Lego has a Computer Programmer minifigure in its Lego Minifigures Series 7. This programmer has some mad skills from debugging a server in ten seconds to recovering data from completely melted drives. Here is the complete description of the Lego Computer Programmer: “Hello, World.” Other computer whizzes can argue all they like about what kind [...]