Looking for a fresh way to boost your email opt-in list? Check this out. We’ve recently been experimenting with a service from LeadPages.net. It’s called Lead Digits. This is a mobile opt-in lead gen solution. It builds leads based on people texting a keyword to the short code that’s been assigned to it. This might be […]
If you’re reading this, you know how aggravating it can be to get an email from someone, seemingly with an attachment, but there is no a attachment. The culprit of this phantom file is invariably the logo or image they are using as part of their email signature. After a period of trying to ignore […]
Congratulations! You’ve finally made the leap into the world of streaming media players. Personally I think the Roku is super slick. But I had this experience the other day, when trying to set one up for a friend of mine, that almost put the kibosh on our Bomb Girls. (yes, that’s right, I said Bomb […]
If you’re using Disqus, which I highly recommend for managing your WordPress blog comments, you are probably serving up ads at the bottom of your posts and not realizing it. I got alerted to this when a client contacted me with a simple message: “WTF?” I dug around a little and noticed that this same […]
So you’ve got a new book in your Archived items on your Kindle. But for some reason every time you try to download that new purchase you get the message “Sorry your book cannot be downloaded at this time. Please try again later.” Turning the Kindle on and off doesn’t seem to clear the issue. […]
This post should also be titled, how to get around the 27 page printing limitation on the Brother Compact Laser Printer. “Out of Memory” errors in the middle of a print job can really kill your productivity. Before I used the process outlined below, it would take me all day (and I do mean all […]
A friend of mine recently shared with me that she wanted to write a novel. She had the story, but it was locked in her head. I can acutely empathize with her. In fact back in 2012 I wrote an article about this funny yet painful process. However, what my friend really needed was a […]
This article is written for those familiar with Visual Composer running on Self Hosted instances of WordPress. For more information about this KILLER plugin that greatly enhances the development process, please visit: https://vc.wpbakery.com/. Today I ran into a new problem on two of my websites. The back-end editing tool called Visual Composer was not working. […]
This technique solved my print problems on the Brother HL-L2340DW laser printer. However, I’m confident these steps have a good shot at working for any printer, on any computer. Step away from the baseball bat. One of the most frustrating experiences you can have with your computer is trying to get it to print something. We’ve come […]
There are so many things that I love about reading a magazine on my iPad. But every so often something glitches, and I’m unable to read a past issue. This recently happened with my Harvard Business Review magazine subscription. For me there has always been a modicum of confusion with how Apple put together Newsstand. […]
**NOTE: This article is not intended to be taken as medical advice. I am not a medical professional.** My brothers and I have this problem. Every once in a while when we are eating, food gets stuck down in our throat. This food plug does not block our airway, but every time we swallow, what’s […]
Today, July 25 2015 marks the 15th anniversary for the crash of the supersonic passenger jet liner known as Concorde. Concorde was one of only two supersonic passenger airliners that could fly twice the speed of sound. To put that in context, today it takes about 7 hours to fly from NY to London. On Concorde […]
Earlier this week, I got this text message from my nephew: Through the accumulation of certain facts, based on statements made by my grandfather, I believe the answer to this question is yes. My grandpa used to work at the Franklin Institute. There, he said, they were using a computer “as large as a room”. […]
When Kevin Spacey in House of Cards started speaking so lovingly about Ada and the iOS game Monument Valley, I knew that my generation’s affinity for video games had absolutely become the norm. Those of us born in the late 60’s are really the first generation to have grown up with Atari and ready access […]
Every once in a while a grown man can receive a gizmo for Christmas that causes such temporal regression as to induce the drug-free jabbering overload of a sugar-addled boy unwrapping a new toy. This year Santa outdid himself when he delivered Trace “The Action Sports Tracker”. http://www.traceup.com/. Simply put, Trace geo tags and records your skiing, snowboarding […]
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