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11 Unix Commands Every Mac Geek Should Know

Amplify’d from www.maclife.com 11 Unix Commands Every Mac Geek Should Know Just imagine, a little over 20 years ago we were barely able to drag a mouse across the screen, let alone get around a desktop interface without typing in a few command lines. Forunately, things have drastically changed, but the command line still provides a powerful way of interacting with your Mac. 1. ls 2. cd 3. pwd 4. mkdir 5. rm Read more at www.maclife.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ao55u

Killer hacks to enhance WordPress editor

Amplify’d from www.catswhocode.com Killer hacks to enhance WordPress editor Allow more HTML tags in the editor The code below will force the editor to accept more tags. Just paste it into your theme functions.php file, save it, and you’re done. Set HTML editor as the default Set default content in WordPress editor Add your language to spell check Add buttons to WordPress editor Set different editor stylesheets for different post types Display hidden buttons in TinyMCE Read more at www.catswhocode.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ao55b

Social Media Optimization, A Basic Marketing Strategy Guide

SMO is the abbreviation for Social Media Optimization and refers to the method(s) of increasing web traffic of new visitors from Social Media sites and making content more sharable. With SEO falling by the wayside new media will ultimately become one of the emerging hot topics when it comes to blogging. Amplify’d from www.thelinkmedic.com Social Media Optimization, A Basic Marketing Strategy Guide What is SMO? SMO is the abbreviation for Social Media Optimization and refers to the method(s) of increasing web traffic of new visitors from Social Media sites and making content more sharable. With SEO falling by the wayside new media will ultimately become one of the emerging hot topics when it comes to blogging. It's about going to the people Some Basic SMO Ideas You Can Start Using Create posts that people will want to bookmark, link to, favorite, retweet, stumble etc. Make it easy to do so; social media buttons should be on hand but not overly abused. Have new exciting interesting

Useful WordPress Plugins for Viral Social Bookmarking

Great ideas for your WordPress blog Amplify’d from www.designzzz.com Useful WordPress Plugins for Viral Social Bookmarking SocialGrid Tell A Friend CevherShare Hallo Destra 1-click Retweet/Share/Like Follow Me Social Profiles in Sidebar Bookmarkify GetSocial Read more at www.designzzz.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ansr6

Top 15 Rules for Better Web Copy

Great set of fundamentals Amplify’d from www.onextrapixel.com Writing Web Content: The Top 15 Rules for Better Copy Top 15 Rules for Better Web Copy 1. Keep Paragraphs Short 2. Left Justify Paragraphs 3. Avoid Writing Empty Content 4. Welcome Responses 5. Use Punctuation Sparingly 6. Use Relevant Images 7. Include Hyperlinks 8. Understand Your Audience 9. Correctly Use “Its” and “It’s” 10. Do Not Mistake “Then” for “Than” 11. Spell Check and Proofread 12. Mind Your “There,” “They’re,” and “Their” 13. Write at a 3rd Grade Level 14. Format Headlines Properly 15. Use the Same “Voice” Read more at www.onextrapixel.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/anrmr

Five Things to Do with Your Old Laptop

Cool tricks Amplify’d from gizmodo.com Five Things to Do with Your Old Laptop Well, you'll need an old laptop. And uh, that's pretty much it. Don't worry, your junky 8-pound PC notebook should be okay, most of these tasks aren't taxing on the hardware at all. Turn it into a Home Server Transform it into a Digital Photo Frame Make it a Wireless Bridge O Hai, New External Hard Drive! The Second Monitor You've Always Wanted Read more at gizmodo.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/anpqs

19 Social Media Best Practices [VIDEO]

Amplify’d from www.socialmediaexplorer.com 19 Social Media Best Practices [VIDEO] Here’s my infographic inspired list of 19 social media best practices. I know I’m missing more than a few so I encourage you to add to the list and fuel some discussion in the comments. Read more at www.socialmediaexplorer.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/anok7

BlueGriffon: a cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML5 and CSS3 editor based on Firefox 4

If you want to get in on the HTML5 and CSS3 revolution, and would prefer some training wheels while you learn all of the new HTML tags and CSS transitions and transforms, look no further than BlueGriffon. It's free, open-source, and runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Amplify’d from downloadsquad.switched.com BlueGriffon: a cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML5 and CSS3 editor based on Firefox 4 If you want to get in on the HTML5 and CSS3 revolution, and would prefer some training wheels while you learn all of the new HTML tags and CSS transitions and transforms, look no further than BlueGriffon . It's free, open-source, and runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Read more at downloadsquad.switched.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/anok4

Upload Files to your Dropbox Folder by Email

Pretty cool trick. Amplify’d from www.labnol.org Upload Files to your Dropbox Folder by Email Send & Store Large Files Instantly! Won "Top 10 Tools" Award - Try Free So here’s an alternate DIY method that kind of offers best of both worlds. You can transfer files to your Dropbox folders by sending them to an email address, there are no limits and you aren’t dependent on another service. Step 1. Setup a Gmail account that will become your Dropbox email address. Gmail lets you attach files up to 25 MB in size but if you need to upload even bigger files , use Hotmail. Step 2. Get the Mail Attachment utility and configure it such that it checks your Gmail account for new email messages after every ‘n’ minutes. Step 3. Set the “Save Location” inside the Mail Attachment  utility to any sub-folder of your main Dropbox folder (you may call it “email-uploads”). Hit the close button to minimize the app to the system tray and it will continue checking for new files in the backgr

Print Documents and Emails from Your Phone With Google Cloud Print

Amplify’d from www.readwriteweb.com Print Documents and Emails from Your Phone With Google Cloud Print Read more at www.readwriteweb.com Google officially announced the roll-out of Cloud Print today, which will enable wireless printing of documents and emails from mobile devices. In a post cross-published to the official Google Docs and Gmail blogs today, Google formally announced that the beta version of Cloud Print would be appearing in the HTML5 mobile version of Google Docs and Gmail shortly. The feature was originally developed for use in Chrome OS and will now be available on any smart phone that supports HTML5. Google says they'll be rolling the feature out to users "in the next few days." Read more at www.readwriteweb.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ann9l

Finding Your Audience with Heat-Seeking Online Video Marketing Missiles

Amplify’d from www.reelseo.com Finding Your Audience with Heat-Seeking Online Video Marketing Missiles Audiences are becoming increasingly fragmented in the ways they find and experience entertainment content and related marketing messages, which can be frustrating for the brands, businesses marketers and advertisers that are trying to reach them. There is indecision and hesitancy about where to best spend tightening marketing budgets and nowhere is this more true than in the explosive areas of online video and social media . Demographics aside, we must now contend with, and benefit from, media, platforms and devices that didn’t exist less than a decade ago. Strap on your helmet and lace up your boots because it’s only going to get wilder. Creating and Delivering Technology-Agnostic Content Read more at www.reelseo.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ann9e

Minimalist Gmail Chrome extension lets you fully customize your inbox

Gmail interface tweaks tend to be all or nothing: you either keep the standard Gmail interface with all its bells, whistles and distractions, or you hide all the links and sidebar doodads at once. The Minimalist Gmail Chrome extension is different: it gives you control over 40+ individual elements of the Gmail interface, from the top bar all the way down to the footer. Amplify’d from downloadsquad.switched.com Minimalist Gmail Chrome extension lets you fully customize your inbox Gmail interface tweaks tend to be all or nothing: you either keep the standard Gmail interface with all its bells, whistles and distractions, or you hide all the links and sidebar doodads at once. The Minimalist Gmail Chrome extension is different: it gives you control over 40+ individual elements of the Gmail interface, from the top bar all the way down to the footer. Read more at downloadsquad.switched.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ann8r

How Infographics Must Look

Information graphics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information. Amplify’d from www.topdesignmag.com How Infographics Must Look Information graphics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information. See more at www.topdesignmag.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/anjh2

10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About

here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about: Amplify’d from www.makeuseof.com 10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About Youtube – You know that site with videos and all. Yeah! It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about: 1. View high quality videos 2. Embed Higher Quality Videos 3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part 4. Hide the search box 5. Embed only a part of Video 6. Autoplay an embedded video 7. Loop an embedded video 8. Disable Related Videos 9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering 10. Download Video See more at www.makeuseof.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bnf7r

Put the Reader link back in Gmail with a Chrome extension

This is really handy if you use Google Reader a lot. Amplify’d from downloadsquad.switched.com Put the Reader link back in Gmail with a Chrome extension Google made a minor tweak to the Gmail navigation links recently -- moving Photos into a more prominent spot and Reader into the More drop-down. While I wasn't particularly concerned (I've got Firefox hotkeys wired to most of my bookmarks for fast mouse-free access), the change created quite a stir on Twitter. Read more at downloadsquad.switched.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bna8t

How to Create a Portable Hackintosh on a USB Thumb Drive

Pretty cool trick. Amplify’d from lifehacker.com How to Create a Portable Hackintosh on a USB Thumb Drive People put linux on their flash drives all the time. They also get hackintosh on their hard drives quite often. However, it'd be nice to be able to get the same live experience we get with Linux using OS X. With a distribution of OS X 10.6.2 called iPortable Snow, we can. You should now be able to boot from your thumb drive just like you would a live Linux thumb drive. Instead of booting into your computer's OS, you'll get the Chameleon screen with a few choices. iPortable Snow is designed to work on most Intel-based computers, though some video cards won't have advanced features (like 3D gaming) out of the box. Read more at lifehacker.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bn7hj

18 Great Icon Search Engines For Designers To Find High-Quality Free Icons

cool stuff Amplify’d from savedelete.com 18 Great Icon Search Engines For Designers To Find High-Quality Free Icons Icons are always been an important part of any web design or creating awesome web applications . Icons can be used for various purposes on web design projects , creating favicons and softwares used in Windows or Mac pc. 1. Icon Library 2. EasyIconFinder 3. Netvue 4. Webshots 5. Photobucket Read more at savedelete.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bmvr5

Sporting Colors: 10 Crazy Colorful Football Fields

Want some artificial color with your synthetic stadium turf? Be careful what you wish for: Turf the color of surf is now a reality at many U.S. schools and the possibilities are mind-boggling… or at least, eye-boggling. These 10 colorful football fields and turf tint concepts prove conclusively the grass isn’t always greener on the other side; sometimes it isn’t even green! Amplify’d from weburbanist.com Want some artificial color with your synthetic stadium turf? Be careful what you wish for: Turf the color of surf is now a reality at many U.S. schools and the possibilities are mind-boggling… or at least, eye-boggling. These 10 colorful football fields and turf tint concepts prove conclusively the grass isn’t always greener on the other side; sometimes it isn’t even green! See more at weburbanist.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bm87z

Why is the Cable Company Still Drilling Holes in My Walls?

Where is my Wireless Television Router? Amplify’d from vitamincm.com Why is the Cable Company Still Drilling Holes in My Walls? Where is my Wireless Television Router? Another Aggravating Conundrum Did you ever buy a wireless router? You plug it into the wall and your cable modem and you’re done. Computer in the living room – no wires, no problem. Computer in all three bedrooms – no wires, no problem. Connect your video game console to the web – no wires, no problem. Read more at vitamincm.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bm6e9

Hilarious Cartoon motivating kids to study science

Hilarious Cartoon motivating kids to study science Amplify’d from www.smbc-comics.com See more at www.smbc-comics.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bm6af

Web Design: Popular Tools for the Modern Web Designer

Web Design: Popular Tools for the Modern Web Designer Amplify’d from www.onextrapixel.com Web Design: Popular Tools for the Modern Web Designer Popular Design Magazines & RSS Feeds The first logical tool would be RSS feeds and magazine subscriptions. Web design and development blogs are some of the most popular communities on the web. They offer useful tutorials, tips, tricks, and articles relating to the latest and greatest web design trends. Color Matching for Designs Free Icon Resources Icons have become a signature part of the new web. Designs today consist of social media icons, comment and user profile icons, and many other interface buttons and widgets. The most notable set is the infamous famfamfam collection which has been done to death by now. CSS3 Made Simple With the recent support for CSS3 properties coming to most major browsers we've seen an influx in interesting design concepts. Web designers have become much more crafty in utilizing these new selectors. Collab

20 Must Know Websites For Latest WordPress Hacks, Tips And Tutorials

Great collection of resources for WordPress users. Amplify’d from savedelete.com 20 Must Know Websites For Latest WordPress Hacks, Tips And Tutorials WordPress is a award-winning web software and various freelancers earning huge amount of money by developing themes , plugins, websites, Thesis customization etc on the internet. If you are such a freelancer/designer – you always look for latest tips, tricks, tutorials and hacks over the internet to expand your WordPress abilities. 1) WordPress 2) We love wp 3) WPBeginner 4) Digging Into WordPress 5) WP Inspiration Read more at savedelete.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bm21y