Posted 19 Jul 2007 — by HarriMac
Category Soulville
This is post #1 from the land called SOULVILLE. A quick description – I am HarriMac and the name of this feature comes from “The Wiz” (awesome movie, you should check it out).
This weekly feature will carry “How-To’s” about community service, sports and sporting goods, computers, web design and graphic design, home needs and organization; occasionally there will be some reviews of something new I’ve found or gotten (I’m such an athletigeek). So, tune in every Thursday and look for the good stuff.
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Posted 17 Jul 2007 — by Ellie
Category WordPress
I always thought sponsored WordPress themes were tacky. I have come across a few, but it just wasn’t my cup of tea. Why would I monetize my blog in order to help someone else get money? That’s akin to me working at my job and giving someone else my paycheck. 
Basically, sponsored themes had ads or text link ads in the sidebars and footers that are associated with the designer – not you, the user. According to some WordPress users, these additional links can prevent you from conducting your own site monetization. Sucks, doesn’t it?
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Posted 16 Jul 2007 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
A few weeks ago, I covered disposable email addresses in Geek Girl Special: Top 5 FREE Disposable Email Services, but here’s yet another to add to your arsenal.
MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address. It is has 3 very unique features, which makes MintEmail.com stand out amongst the other disposable email address providers.
- MintEmail.com will automatically verify the email address for most websites. This means you no longer have to click on the URL link to verify the email.
Posted 09 Jul 2007 — by Ellie
Category Geek Girl
Last week, I gave you some advice about how to increase your office productivity. The next step is to organize your computer files! Lifehacker posted some interesting advice – but I think their method attempts to change our trained habits a bit too much and could cause a lot of problems for those of us who are less technologically advanced.
My top 5 tips for organizing your computer files:
If you have a USB (thumb) drive and access to a computer, you can access your Firefox settings anywhere.
Yes, really!
PortableApps.com offers all kinds of portable software, including a portable version of your favorite blogger’s favorite browser, Firefox.
Not only has PortableApps.com provided us with a USB version of Firefox, but you can rest assured that it won’t leave any tracks on the computers you use AND you can copy your settings from your computer to your Firefox Portable and vice-versa.
J. David Macor has a problem. His website traffic is increasing on his well established blog, but he is just not seeing the numbers of readers, subscribers and commenters that he’d like.
I empathize. I’ve had this blog in various formats and names since 1998 (before “blogging” was blogging 
) and I have only started seeing major traffic and more than 0 comments on my posts!
I have tried the tips below to increase my readership. Hopefully, they will help anyone out there who is trying to increase their impact on the blogosphere and get a return on the investment of blood, sweat, tears and money to blog about the topics you love.
This is a preview of
How to: Increase an established blog’s readership
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Read the full post (523 words, estimated 2:06 minutes reading time).
Now that you have that fantastic new computer and all kinds of other gadget goodies, you need a good way to keep everything organized! The last thing you want is to to have cords and pieces of gadgets everywhere. Here are five tips to organizing your workspace for maximum productivity:
