Mobsters 2 Vendetta by PlayDom is a highly addictive game that integrates with your Facebook profile. This is a great way to break the monotony of your work day; a peridioc tab over to the game keeps your mind multi-tasking and I believe helps to reduce stress. There just isn’t anything like putting a mobster on ice to keep the frustrations of coding at bay.

These games also help you to generate friends on Facebook more quickly. These friends may not be relative to your marketing or strategy, but give the appearance that people are following you and your products or services.

Check out this screen shot of a gang war, which shows my high score. In total it probably took 20 minutes to reach it.

IStock Photo provides a variety of sizes for you to select from, but which size is right for you and if you are selling images how do you know what size to make them?

When browsing IStock photo size options, it becomes rather difficult to understand which sizes are Small Medium or Large, as they often have different dimensions associated with them. The examples of image sizes below show that IStock doesn’t have a hard, fast guideline for image sizes.

If you are buying photos, the medium to Large sizes will be more than adequate for your webmaster. If using for highlights, the Small and XSmall may even be usefull. Shoot an email to your webmaster if you have any doubts.

After reviewing the IStock Photo FAQ’s we see that item number four (see excerpt below) implies that IStock Photo resizes the images when uploading for sales.

What are the specs required for images to be uploaded or rules for uploading?

1. Images must be RGB JPG format only
2. You must own the full copyright to any image you upload. This means you must be the photographer or artist that created the image.
3. All trademarks must be removed. This includes logos, brands and entities with copyright or trademarked elements. This many also extend to trademarked products such as cast sculptures, toys, architecture and other elements of design. Copyright is checked with each file.
4. File sizes: the bigger, the better. 300 dpi 5″ x 7″ is optimal. 640×480 images are not usable by most graphic artists. All files should be 1200 x 1600 pixels minimum (anything smaller will be automatically rejected).
5. Entering keywords and descriptions: be descriptive. Include at least 10 keywords and use a title other than ‘dog’ or ‘man’. Supplying more keywords means your image will match more searches. Images with more keywords get downloaded more often.
6. Model releases: images with clearly visible people require a model release (iStockphoto Model Release) form for legal reasons. Children in images can’t sign a model release. A legal guardian or parent must sign for all children under the age of 18 years. You will be notified if you need a model release and it can be uploaded later if you’re not sure.
7. Legal notice: uploading images/artwork that belongs to somebody else (copyright or otherwise) will result in a suspended membership and in some cases may have legal ramifications.
8. Your account profile must have your full, real first and last names, and mailing address entered before completing an application. Anyone uploading with a fake name will be banned immediately.
9. More detailed information is available in the iStockphoto Photographer Training Manual.

WordPress Reaches New Dimensions!

I bet you were thinking this was going to lead to an incredible article about new features in the already hyper powered WordPress platform.

Well nope! Just this really rocking picture I found on SEO Blog

Ever noticed that sometimes, no matter what you do IE just won’t display things the same as other browsers?

You try to fix the aesthetics and next thing you know all the other browsers look bad.

The solution is simple, create a style sheet specificly for internet explorer and then use the following code in your header to point to your IE specific style sheet.

<!–[if IE]><link rel=”stylesheet” href=”style-ie.css” type=”text/css”>
<![endif]–>

Replace “style-ie.css” with the name of and path to your ie specific style sheet.

Don’t get caught off guard and blow the big pitch!

First impressions can be everything – use multiple browsers!

First impressions can be everything when you are trying to sell products and services. That’s why it’s so important that you ensure your website looks good to any potential client.

For example both Google Chrome and Safari display similarly but Ie 7 and Ie 8 look nothing alike and FireFox is in a category all it’s own.

If you are a PC user you can’t assume all your website traffic will be using a PC and if you are a MAC user come on wake up! Apple has a minimal presence in the business computing world (MP3s and Cell Phones are a different story).

Don’t believe us? Check out this sample website in four different browsers!

Google Chrome	Internet Explorer 7	FireFox	Apple Safari

Google’s Ironic choice of CAPTCHA images on Blogger

This one’s pretty funny, while configuring a client’s Blogger account to publish to their website I was presented with the following image verification code.

I wonder what microsoft Bing would thing of this one?

The Genesis theme framework is built on a simple vanilla blog-type parent theme, and can be extended with the use of child themes. Each child theme will come with it’s own home file, which will make extending the parent theme very easy to do. It will also have it’s own functions file as well.

This auction is for 4 128 MB RDRAM Modules and a

P4 1.7 GHZ ProcessorSocket 478

These memory modules and processor were pulled from a working system. They were pulled from pulled from a Dell workstation, that I was given by a client, after upgrading them to a new custom built system.

The cost of replacing the defective power supply (Propriatory shape) wasn’t worth the cost of an upgraded system (Computer booted and worked fine with backup power supply that wouldn’t fit the case).

All parts of use were salvaged, then the case and motherboard were given to the Good Will, as they are a certified computer componant recycler (remember trashing old electronics is against Federal law and can cost you a bundle).

Shipping cost includes packaging – Item for sale in the US only.

Click Here to view the eBay auction.

This auction ends on Jun 10, 200906:40:45 PM PDT

Now that Yahoo has decided to discontinue support for the Overture keyword suggestion tool, we need an alternatives and here they are!

• Google Adwords Keyword Suggestion Tool
• Digital Point Keyword Suggestions
• Self SEO Keyword Popularity Tool