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Looking for a project to make the most out of your long holiday weekend? Here are 15 of our favorite DIY and how-to projects, most of which you can tackle in the time left in your holiday. Amplify’d from lifehacker.com 15 Awesome Projects Worth Tackling on the Extra Day of Your Long Weekend Adam Pash — Looking for a project to make the most out of your long holiday weekend? Here are 15 of our favorite DIY and how-to projects, most of which you can tackle in the time left in your holiday. Back Up and Play Your Wii Games from an External Hard Drive Turn Your XBMC Media Center into a Video Game Console Try Your Hand at Cracking a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password Get Started with Usenet in Three Simple Steps Boost Your BitTorrent Speed and Privacy Build a Hackintosh Mac and Install OS X in Eight Easy Steps Run Mac OS X in VirtualBox on Windows Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera Transform Your DSLR into a Supercharged, Professional Video...

Getting Online on the Move – Which Device is the best? Amplify’d from vitamincm.com Getting Online on the Move – Which Device is the best? – Guest Post Having access to the Internet while away from your home or office Wi-Fi is a nirvana that has only recently come into being. While push email services have existed for a while the ability to browse the Internet while on the road has not really been available until quite recently; however with the newer Smartphones currently in production and Mobile Broadband networks fully deployed across most urban areas, access to the Internet is both faster and easier now than it has ever been in the past. In addition, as the different telecommunication companies scramble to get new customers, deals abound from free laptops to discounts on Tablet PCs, making this the best time ever to choose a new way of getting online. Smartphones Tablet PCs Laptops Read more at vitamincm.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a13uu0

10 of the Best Contact Us Pages on the Internet Amplify’d from www.blogtyrant.com 10 of the Best Contact Us Pages on the Internet The dreaded Contact Us page. The place where you have a last ditch attempt at getting potential clients, customers and fans to get in touch or, in my case, convince them otherwise (I get a lot of emails). NOTE: Please give this post a Tweet if you like it. It’ll only take you one click of that button up in the top left. You guys are amazing commentators but terrible social sharers! It needs to work It needs to grab attention The copy needs to be extremely seductive It needs to set the client up for future relations The best Contact Us pages I’d like to hear from you now and read some comments about what you think makes a good Contact Us page. Is it design or copy? Do you think they are even that important? Please leave me a comment and let me know and feel free to share links. I really don’t care about links. What makes a good Conta...

Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About (part 2) Amplify’d from www.freewaregenius.com Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About (part 2) I’ve been meaning to publish a follow up to my first “ 43 must have Windows Enhancements ” posting forever, but it’s taken a long time simply because I wanted to stick with the completely arbitrary “43″ number of entries, and of course I wanted to only post apps that are worth writing about (as it turned out, I had many more than I needed). 1. Listary : advanced file filtering in explorer at the press of a button 2. Nemo Documents : displays your desktop files on a calendar grid 3. Browser Chooser : lets you choose the browser you want to use, case-by-case 4. ClassicShell : brings back some cool XP features to Windows 7 5. QTTabBar: provides tabbed folder browsing in Windows 7 Explorer (see screenshot). Read more at www.fr...

a site audit checklist that will walk you through how to do a site audit. This will work for most sites - in many cases you will need to customize the checklist a bit as some aspects won't be relevant or are unable to be changed. Amplify’d from www.seomoz.org Technical Site Audit Checklist We all want to deliver actionable site audits, but doing the research can be a bit overwhelming if you don’t have a process in place to systematically go through a site. I have created a site audit checklist that will walk you through how to do a site audit. This will work for most sites - in many cases you will need to customize the checklist a bit as some aspects won't be relevant or are unable to be changed. Quick Overview Content Duplicate Content Accessibility Site Architecture Technical Issues Canonicalization URLs Internal Linking Title Tags Meta Tags Check indexed pages   Do a site: search How many pages are returned (this can be way off so don’t put too much sto...

This post begins our series on the five switches of manliness. The five switches of manliness are the power switches that are connected to our primal man and deeply ingrained and embedded in the male psych Amplify’d from artofmanliness.com The 5 Switches of Manliness: Physicality This post begins our series on the five switches of manliness . The five switches of manliness are the power switches that are connected to our primal man and deeply ingrained and embedded in the male psyche. When they’re turned off, we feel restless, angry, and apathetic. When they’re turned on, we feel alive, invigorated, motivated to be our best, and just plain manly. The two principles behind these posts that must be adopted in order for the recommendations to be successfully integrated are: 1) the switches are simply either on or off, and 2) turning them on requires only small and simple changes in behavior. The biggest obstacle to flipping the switches will be pride–the belief that...

Want to secure your computer with the same techniques used by the National Security Agency? Turns out the NSA has published guides for securing Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris operating systems using methods that "are currently being used throughout the government and by numerous entities as a security baseline for their systems." Amplify’d from lifehacker.com Lock Down Your Computer Like the NSA Want to secure your computer with the same techniques used by the National Security Agency? Turns out the NSA has published guides for securing Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris operating systems using methods that "are currently being used throughout the government and by numerous entities as a security baseline for their systems." It being a government organization, you'd expect the guides to be somewhat opaque or confusing, but the free PDFs, like Security Highlights of Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Hardening Tips , are actually well written primers to system securit...

50 Free Apps to Run your Small Business Like a Professional If you are running your own small business; you know that every penny counts. You can literally bankrupt yourself by overindulging in high-priced software and services. This list will help you get things done like a pro while preserving your business’ life-force - CASH. Amplify’d from vitamincm.com 50 Free Apps to Run your Small Business Like a Professional If you are running your own small business; you know that every penny counts. You can literally bankrupt yourself by overindulging in high-priced software and services. This list will help you get things done like a pro while preserving your business’ life-force -  CASH . Internet Browsing Productivity Tools Communication Applications Business Services Media Creation and Management Web Development Apps Utilities and System Tools See more at vitamincm.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a135xf

New WordPress Power Tips For Template Developers And Consultants Amplify’d from www.smashingmagazine.com New WordPress Power Tips For Template Developers And Consultants Foreword for New Developers: What is a “Hook”? The Underused Pagination Function “I Wish Posts Were Called Articles For My Client.” Redirect Failed Log-Ins Add Body Classes Based on Special Conditions “You Can Have Settings Access, But Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You!” Remove the “Links” Menu Item Take Out the Dashboard News Feeds… and Add a New One of Your Own Add Your Own Credits to the Administrative Footer Read more at www.smashingmagazine.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a122vq

How to Automatically Backup Your WordPress Site to Dropbox http://db.tt/h2xegBG Amplify’d from wpmu.org How to Automatically Backup Your WordPress Site to Dropbox Step 1: Signup for Dropbox if you don’t already have an account. Step 2: Install and activate the WordPress Backup to Dropbox plugin. Step 3: Authorize the plugin with Dropbox. Step 4: Select the day, time and how often you wish your backup to be performed. Step 5: Wait for your backups to appear in the specified Dropbox folder. See more at wpmu.org   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a11lf1

Signed up for #HuluPlus last night. So far not working on PS3, iPhone not impressive either. #Unimpressed