Author: Larry Cotton

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    Best SEO tips I’ve read for some time

    15 Tips to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Those who know me know I consider most SEO (Search Engine Optimization) a waste of time. There is no substitute for real content on your website or blog to get you up in the rankings of the search engines. Period. But once you have some information or…

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    Google Streetview oddities

    Street View Gallery > Top If you haven’t looked at Google Streetview yet you likely at least have heard of it. Google is now using web cameras to display 360 degree views of streets and has them displayed for a number of major cities already. Yes it is likely coming to your home too soon.…

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    Google Free 411

    Google Launches Free 411 Service When I was young directory assistance was free, a human, and very good. I used it a lot and maybe folks like me are why Ma Bell dumped it. But there is a good reason to keep information flow free and apparently Google agrees with me. What they have done…

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    Get out of Cell Phone contracts?

    CellSwapper Solves A Very Annoying Problem What an idea! I *HATE* cell phone companies. The whole Reagan revolution meant the downfall of customer service and cell phones debut in the same period led the way in customer NO-service. A major part of the NO-service was the inclusion of terrible contracts for long time periods with…

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    Vyew.com Revisited

    Vyew.com – FREE Anytime Collaboration and Live Conferencingâ„¢ From my PC Users Group to the church meetings I attend I am always looking for good “cheap” meeting software so that folks can attend online as well as in person. The best I have found is GoToMeeting.com but it’s not cheap and for non-profit groups it’s…

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    Captioned Fractals

    Blue Oyster Spiral Fractal Zoom – Google Video This is an interesting demo of two nice items. First this is from Google’s new “Captioned” videos they have available. I am listing this one because it is a relatively short show, but you can also see full programs and movies more than an hour long now…

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    Google Reader Upgrade

    Google Reader (100+) Today Google updated their page format of Google Reader. It now can look much more like Bloglines or Pluck in addition to its old style of display. Personnaly I think this is a great improvement once again making Google the big bully on the web, M$ is falling backward again. Consider this…

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    Google Captioning!

    Closed Captioning Hits Google Video This is great news for the hearing impaired. Now Google is captioning the videos on it’s site. I wonder if it uses software or skilled people to do it…

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    Great humor video from Japan

    You need to see this… It’s a five minute video I only recommend for high speed connected folks, but it’s good. 🙂

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    Desktop Storm Wallpaper

    Here is a great link to some incredible storm photos sized for desktop wallpaper. As a former pilot and weather affecionado I recommend this link below … Wallpaper

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    How is your hearing?

    Mosquito Ringtone and other ultrasonic ringtones only kids can hear! I’d never thought of this! The link above offers some high pitched sounds for you to listen and judge how high a pitch you can hear. The story is that if you are under 20 you may still be able to hear tones over 17kHz…

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    Dynamic Drive

    Dynamic Drive, the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site! Very useful stuff for website building.