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Why Can I get Clicks Outside My Geo-Targeted Area With Google AdWords?
Friday July 10, 2009
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A very important feature of Google AdWords is the ability to target all areas you have defined as your target audience, but just as importantly is not having those outside your coverage area not able to find you. Pay Per Click is a pay to play game, and throwing away money on a searcher who…
How to stop iPhone EMI frequency interference near speakers
Thursday July 9, 2009
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Everyone has heard the frequency noise on their speakers when a phone call comes in. The same noise you hear when you receive a text message or when any other connection being made to a cell tower from your GSM phone. The iPhone apparently makes this frequency noise continuously for some people. I happen to…
What is Raw Milk?
Tuesday July 7, 2009
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I am a dairy enthusiast. I will admit it. I adore milk. Full fatted vitamin D enriched milk is what I usually buy. No skim, no 2% I want the real deal. I want rich creamy yumminess. Recently I have been trying to find new places to buy fresh produce and in my search for…
We The People In Order To Form A More Perfect Union
Monday July 6, 2009
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10 of the best reasons you just had a 3 day weekend. These 10 amendments were added to the Constitution on December 15, 1791. A new world is at hand… 1) Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition 2) Right to keep and bear arms 3) Conditions for quarters of soldiers 4) Right of search…
What Happened on July 5th?
Sunday July 5, 2009
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What happened on July 5th? Everyone knows what happened on the 4th of July, sometimes it is easy to forget what historical events took place on the 5th. 5th July 1921 : Players from The Chicago White Sox Baseball team are accused of throwing the World Series. 5th July 1946 : The Bikini swimsuit (…
Happy 4th of July Lady Liberty
Saturday July 4, 2009
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Today is July 4th, our federal holiday celebrating 233 years of Independence. While I wish all of you a Happy Fourth of July, I would like to highlight Lady Liberty. Happy 4th of July Lady Liberty! This July 4th is special for Lady Liberty. For the first time since shortly after September 11, 2001, a limited…
Manny Ramirez is back to the Dodgers Tonight After a 50 Game Suspension
Friday July 3, 2009
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Manny Ramirez, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ slugger and left fielder will be back in the lineup tonight against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. This is news because Manny has been forced to miss the last 50 games due to a violation of the MLB’s drug policy. Ramirez was caught taking a banned substance,…
Download pictures from Picasa using DownloadThemAll
Thursday July 2, 2009
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Downloading the original pictures uploaded to Picasa all at once is easy if you’re using Firefox. DownloadThemAll is a plug-in for Firefox which can be used for many things but I have found it most useful for me when needing access to original pictures from Picasa. 1) Download the plug-in DownloadThemAll and install it to…
Clean Installs Don’t Have to Hurt
Tuesday June 30, 2009
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Yesterday a clean install was performed on my computer. The process refered to as a “clean install” means all your data is going to be wiped off your computer and your computer is going to be as clean as it was the day you purchased it, maybe cleaner. In my case my clean install was…
What is Social Media Anyway?
Monday June 29, 2009
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Social Media in the news. Creating and Communicating with the people that matter. Week two and again the tv is flooded with stories found using Social Media. CNN is replying to tweets from the viewers, and social media sites have become the hub of what is hot, right now. What is social media anyway? In…
iPhone 3GS Web Speed Test
Sunday June 28, 2009
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The iPhone web browser speed test knocks the competition out of the water. The statistics of the tests were rather astonishing. Medialets ran the SunSpider test suite with Safari 4.0.1 on a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo White MacBook (the baseline for comparisons), Mobile Safari on the iPhone 3G with iPhone OS v2.2.1, Mobile…
This Week We Are The World
Saturday June 27, 2009
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My photo of 1985 “We Are The World” Album This week we are the world. The world was all a twitter with tweets about the death of three American icons. These were three people from three generations. On Tuesday our blogger honored Ed McMahon, who passed at age 86. McMahon was a gentleman that we…