SeoMoz Conference 2011

by admin on 14 August 2011

There’s quite obviously and inherently a lot of hype around marketing communities, topics and services. And quite a lot of it is more hot air than quality. So when a company or an event actually delivers very good value, it does deserve a special mention. As a result, I wrote a quick review of MozCon 2011, a conference recently hosted by SeoMoz in Seattle on my still young and experimental Web Marketing blog at invitia.net.

iOS AirPrint to Any Mac Printer

by admin on 2 January 2011

For users of Apple iOS devices like the iPhone and the iPad, who also happen to have a Mac can print using the AirPrint functionality introduced in iOS 4.2 by installing a handy little utility program on their Mac. The AirPrint Activator is a free program, who’s author just asks for donations, which downloads and installs easily.

There’s just one little item to be mindful of: it seems that one has to remove one’s printer from the System Preferences > Print & Fax  and then add it again (also enabling printer sharing). Here’s a short video showing the steps to be taken:

THO Twitter Hashtag Optmization

July 3, 2009

While I’m not about to Twitter my personal life (it’s not that exciting, trust me!) I’m intrigued with it for business purposes. So again my hobby personae to the rescue. It’s in that context that I’ve started to think about my Twitter post in a similar way to SEO. While Google obviously holds links very [...]

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Hobby Personae vs. Real Identity

July 3, 2009

I’m quite skeptical of living one’s life in the kind of total public view the Web makes so easy. But in my consulting practice I also advise on the technology of marketing brands, companies, products and services. And therefore I need to gain and upkeep know-how, conduct experiments and continually get hands on impressions of [...]

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Unearthing business value in popular culture

June 23, 2009

Of course twitter is over-hyped, but like several technology phenoms before it, it also has something special. It’s fundamentally a broadcast technology: one sender many recipients and because of it’s roots in SMS mobile phone texting it’s also short. There’s something to be said about brevity. It’s often been said, that a good poem is [...]

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Cool Text: Logo generator

March 31, 2009

This is useful for anyone who needs to quickly have a little logo or custom bottons or find an interesting font: “Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then [...]

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VMware Fusion vs. Parallels Desktop performance comparison

March 5, 2009

MacTech published a performance comparison for running Windows on a Mac using VMware Fusion versus Parallels Desktop. In most scenarios Parallels seems to be a little faster, however when running Windows XP in a 2 processor configuration, VMware seems to be a little faster. I had tried both virtualizations engines myself in the fall of [...]

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Page Rank Checker

February 22, 2009

Google’s “pagerank” is one of the indicators of how highly Google thinks of a site. Over the years, Google’s ranking algorithms have become a lot more sophisticated, so pagerank isn’t an overwhelmingly big part of the equation these days. Nonetheless it’s a bit of an indicator of how valuable outbound links are from a particular [...]

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Configure Samsung ML-2150 with Apple Time Capsule

February 21, 2009

It seems that for some people under Mac OS X 10.5 a Samsung ML-2150 printer connected to an Apple Time Capsule stops working on a regular basis. One quick fix seems to be to restart the Time Capsule, which is rather slow and obviously defeats the idea of having a convenient wireless printer setup. However, [...]

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Commoditizing Service Provider Dependencies

January 12, 2009

It’s an increasingly better understood business concept to build high end custom things from commodity parts. For example Google has built some of the most powerful data centers on the planet essentially with commodity parts. One of the main reasons for this principle working is the fact that many commodity parts are so much less [...]

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