Take Advantage Of Vistas Powerful Search
The Windows Sidebar team blog has a tip for getting the Vista Sidebar Slideshow Gadget to use images based on a search, rather than all the images in a specified location. The trick is to take advantage of Vista’s powerful search functionality (which regrettably, is hidden and handicapped in the Vista Explorer UI) to get the Gadget to use a virtual folder (known as a saved search) as its picture source.
Ten “New Rules” for Successful E-Newsletters
Here are ten “new rules” that are shaping effective ezine content today.
Google Checks Out PayPal’s Market Lead
Google’s young online payment service, Checkout, is one of the few Google products to live up to the hype in some time. As of Cyber Monday 2006, Checkout halved PayPal’s market share lead.
ASP.NET: Export a DataTable to Excel
Back in February I wrote a post on how to export DataTables to XML and Excel and I still get a lot of search engine traffic to that post.
Duplicate Content SPAM
QUESTION: We’re a very small company with an 11 year website history, with web development resources somewhere between quite miniscule and non-existent.
ASP.NET: HttpModule for Moving ViewState to Bottom
There are two reasons why it is desirable to do so.
Which Is The Top Embedded Video Player?
If you liked the dueling video services, then here’s something real interesting: Eight different embedded players on a single page, served up as a comparison. While I can’t tell who has the best video quality, there are a few things I can say:
Effects of HTTP Acceleration / Compression
There are plenty of reasons visitors convert and even more reasons they don’t. The site’s layout, color choices, word choices and call to action, button/anchor text, layout, nomenclature and similar factors all have an impact on a site’s conversion rate. These are factors that you can manage and control.
Search Blog Wrap-up
There were a number of posts from the search engine side of the blogosphere that may not have seen. Here are a few that caught my eye: MSN Updated Their Index During The Thanksgiving Weekend MSN’s search engine, Live.com, updated their search engine index this weekend… and just in time for the holiday shopping season, […]
Demystifying Blu-Ray Duplicators
The CD/DVD duplication industry is generating some buzz around Blu-ray technology but all that buzz might get you into something you don’t need. Let’s demystify the Blu-ray duplicator.