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Monday, March 20, 2006
Making seamless tiled backgrounds A simple but effective way to do this using Photoshop here. Sunday, March 19, 2006
Search Engine Conversion Rates A study out 15th Feb claims to show which search engines have the best conversion rate for business-to consumer e-commerce sites Read about it here AOL comes out of this with a 6.17% conversion rate, as opposed to Google which has a mere 3.83%. A 'demographics' explanation is offered for this. Not sure if I buy this. Thursday, March 16, 2006
Lock IE history The following registry tweak is supposed to prevent users deleting history in IE. Insert usual disclaimer about registry editing not being for beginners here. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Control Panel] "History"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Control Panel] "History"=dword:00000001 If the second key doesn't exist, ignore it. Wednesday, March 15, 2006
HTML email is evil An oldie but still relevant. Others here and here. If you must use HTML email then there are a few useful tips here and here. Saturday, March 11, 2006
RSS Feeds from feedless sites via Lifehacker FeedYes can help you set up an RSS feed from a feedless website. So can Feed43. Photoshop scratch disk full error This usually means your startup disk is nearly full. You can do various things to try fix this. 1. Clear out some files you don't need. A free program called CCleaner can be pretty useful here on a PC. 2. If you won't need to undo anything you have done already with the image, you can clear out the edit history by edit > purge > all 3. If you have another partition or drive with more space than the current startup, you can change the order of the default scratchdisks by going edit > preferences > plug-ins & scratch disks. Put your drive with the most free space first. Saturday, March 04, 2006
Thinkfree - Office documents online http://online.thinkfree.com Free accounts with 30Mb storage. Interesting idea but is there a need for this? Friday, March 03, 2006
Free search engine ranking checkers http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/ http://www.marketleap.com/verify/default.htm |