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Posted on November 28, 2008 - by Kelly Verge
HostGator Black Friday 75% Discount
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Posted on November 22, 2008 - by Kelly Verge
This Tool is Just Right
Those of us who work full time in Internet Marketing spend quite a bit of our time writing. Some days, it seems that’s all I’m doing.
I’ve been using Google Docs, but while the convenience of online document storage is nice, the interface is often just unresponsive enough to be bothersome.
Microsoft Word has everything I need. Unfortunately, it also has TONS of features that I will never use. It’s serious overkill for my writing.
I often find myself using Wordpad just to avoid issues with smart quotes and to ensure that I have clean text.
Today I found a great alternative.
Jarte is a word processor that has been built from Wordpad. It’s lean, fast, and responsive, like the framework it was built from, but it also has a few more features that makes it more functional. Its interface is clean and easy to use.
For me, the handiest feature is that it’s completely portable - it can be run from a flash drive. This makes it simple for me to work at either my desktop or my laptop without dealing with file syncing or such.
It seems like a small change on the surface, but it really makes writing easier and a little more enjoyable. We could all use a little more of that.
Posted on November 6, 2008 - by Kelly Verge
The Definition of Serendipity
As I often find myself doing, I was starting the process of social bookmarking a couple of blog posts on my niche sites. I loaded up SocialMarker.com, entered the keywords for the first article, selected which social sites to use, then clicked “Start Now.”
As many times as I’ve used SocialMarker, I was pulled in by the placement of the action button on an ad placed next to the site selection area instead of clicking on the “submit” button/tab at the top. Take a look at the screenshot below to see what I mean:
I have to wonder just how many clicks this particular ad has generated on the SocialMarker site.
Almost looks planned.
Posted on September 9, 2008 - by Kelly Verge
My New Favorite Hurricane Tracker
I know that this doesn’t really have anything to do with Internet Marketing or building backlinks, but since I’m on the Gulf Coast, hurricanes are always a topic of discussion for me.
I’ve found a great web-based hurricane tracker that has exactly the information we hurricane watchers need without all of the stuff that we don’t (stuff that typically causes SLOW loading times as storms approach land and many people check the status).
The site is called Stormpulse (http://www.stormpulse.com/), and I find that I like it much better for hurricane tracking than weather.com or Accuweather.
If you know of a web-based hurricane tracker that you like better than Stormpulse, please leave me a link in the comments and I’ll be happy to take a look at it.
