Well, I never went to school in the 70's, or even existed for that matter. But if I had have, this is what my school photo would have looked like:

This was created by one of the coolest iPhone apps available, Old Booth.

By the way, I realize that I haven't been blogging enough lately. I'll get on it!

I just wanted to make a brief post about the ranking software I've been using very happily now for over a year, it's simply called Rank Tracker. I highly recommend it to anyone who either runs an SEO business/agency, or even just has one website but is serious about organic search ranking. (more…)

Have you ever wanted to be able to record video of people or events without anyone knowing? Well, if you're something of a nerd, and people are accustomed to seeing you with a shirt pocket full of pens, then I have grat news for you! You can now get a pocket video recorder from Comtrex, and wear it in your shirt pocket like any other nerdy pen.

It takes 30 fps AVI video, with resolution up to 640×480. OK, so it's no HD recorder, but for under $200 can you complain??

OK, I'll admit it: I'll never be one of those guys who earns his entire income from his blog, and gets to sit around in a housecoat sipping coffee while he thinks up the next thing to write about (ironically enough, I actually am sitting in a housecoat with a coffee, but that's only because I just got up). Anyhow, this blog has become a popular destination for web programmers and students, and I have put a lot of time into it, so I'm happy to say that it does give a little something back to me.

If you're building a blog or website based on solid content that is going to be useful to a number of people, I would highly recommend that you consider monetizing it. For me, there are four main ways to make money on an average website:

1. Contextual ads (e.g. AdSense)
2. In-text link ads (for me it's now Infolinks that provides this)
3. Affiliate ads
4. Direct ad sales

If you're trying to decide which to use first, here's what I have found to be the results: (more…)

First of all, I apologize to my readers for the more… mature theme of this post. I know I usually write more about technical stuff, but this is rather important to me, so I thought I'd pass it on like I have with the other solutions I've discovered. (more…)