August 25th, 2009
Okay, this has tripped me up a few times because I can never remember exactly where to turn on word wrap in Aptana, and for some strange reason the developers decided to leave this commonly needed (to say the least) function off by default. This is partly due to the fact that Aptana has more than one section for “editors” in the preferences menu. One of them is “Window” -> “Preferences” -> “General” -> “Editors”. The other is in “Window” -> “Preferences” -> “General” -> “Aptana”. The second location is the one we’re looking for. Aptana also happens to be one of the few standalone IDE environments for the Apple iPhone… unfortunately, they may only bring this feature back if savvy readers like you vote.
Tags: aptana turn on word wrap, aptana word wrap, iphone development on windows, iphone independent ide
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August 25th, 2009
It’s relatively simple to add Google Talk to your Pidgin instant messenger client. The great thing about a multi-platform instant message client is the ability to aggregate Facebook messenger, AOL, MSN, Google Talk, Twitter, etc. all into one client. I personally don’t like using the Facebook chat because I usually have about 50 bazillion tabs open in each Firefox window, and a few windows… but I rabbit trailed a bit because here I’m talking about Google Talk on Pidgin. I’m fairly certain you can do the same kind of thing on Adium, or any other chat client out there that supports XMPP protocol. Add a new account and enter similar settings to the following…
Tags: Google Talk, google talk on pidgin, pidgin, pidgin.im
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April 6th, 2009
Google updated not too long ago and this blog has found it’s way into a PageRank 1 in only a month. I set the blog up at this domain on March 3rd and really haven’t put a significant amount of work into it besides writing a few posts and registering it with a few places. Alexa is still giving it a 1.5M ranking, which is simply no good. We’re doing about 700k on Compete and nothing on MozRank. All in all though, for a month, really not too bad. It’s like fishing. You get better bait or a wider net. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: compete rank and mozrank, increasing your pagerank, norfolk va seo, search engine results page
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April 1st, 2009
Design is attention. I’m not a purist in any sense of the word. Design to me is anything that catches the eye of your intended audience. Bad design is a good thing if it attracts the right people in the intended way. This can be a humor appeal, shock value, or a misrepresentation of the competition… you know, limelight by disassociation? Heck, if you write a nineteen page paper on the scientific intricacies of why the Pepsi logo should look like Fat Albert took a sit on it for a while… and you get publicity for it… well, whatever. It’s what it is–my favorite argument killer, so let’s move on. “YO!” I saw that on a billboard.
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Tags: getting results from the web, norfolk va web designer, north park web design, pepsi logo, san diego visual design, target audience, web design
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