I recently retired my old Samsung monitor, and brought in a replacement. While I work on getting a more official review in order for my new Samsung Touch Of Color 25.5-Inch LCD HDTV Monitor I thought I could at least share my unboxing photos with all of you. Thus far I have been really impressed with it – and I’ll be sure to post more of my thoughts very soon.
Do you find the sound of rain to be relaxing? Being from Texas, thunderstorms in the Spring are like second nature, so I really do like the sound of rain. You can now though add that gentle sound of rain to your environment with Rainy Mood.
This web site is simple, and to the point. You have a big ol’ play button in the middle of the web page, and when you click it – the rain sounds stop or start. The web site plays a 15 minute high quality loop of rainy sounds.
So if you feel like you get your best work done with the rainy noises in the background, be sure to check out RainyMood.com.
The Final Fight game series was always my favorite beat-em up game from my childhood. Who doesn’t want to grow up thinking that whole cooked chickens are stored in oil drums for some odd reason? With that said, I think the Final Fight story would make for an excellent movie. To my surprise, there might be one in the works:
Having been fully entertained by the There Will be Brawl web series, I have high hopes that the production company behind this Final Fight trailer will be able to pull something together. Could they really do any worse than some of the video game to movie adaptation there have been thus far?
The search continues for some of the best Legend of Zelda wallpapers out there on the Web. Having shared two with you already, I figured I would bundle these three find together and share them with you too.
Who doesn’t love a little traffic humor? I’ve done my best to search the Web for some of my favorite traffic signs out there. Some are real, some are questionable, and well – they are all something that would make you do a double take if you saw them on your way to work.
Wouldn’t you like to stop complaining as much as you do right now? For myself, complaining has always been a rather stressful thing to endure – so if I could find something to help me curb my complaining, and bring my personal stress levels down I was all for it. If any of this sounds familiar, the book Stop Complaining: Guide to Living Life Instead of Complaining About It is that helping hand and first step you’ve been looking for.
Happened to run across this fantastic wallpaper the other day, and wanted to share it with you all here. Anybody know knows me well, knows I am a huge Legend of Zelda fan boy – so this wallpaper is just perfect for me.
No idea who the original source is for it, however here are a few different screen resolutions: 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, and 1280×800.
Pick the one that suits your monitor best, and enjoy. (via Fanpop)
Your meta description says a lot about your web page. If you get a lot of visitors from Google, it could be the only thing you have to use to sell them on clicking that link to find out more information. So what steps can you take to make your search engine snippets stand out?
I have a few simple tips to share:
Ensure each page has a unique meta description. Each page has different content, so you should make sure your meta description reflects the content inside.
How about length? Ideally, your meta description should be kept between 70 and 160 characters long.
Make sure it is explicit enough and contains keywords relative to that web page’s content.
For more help with meta descriptions, check out these two resources:
WooRank is an impressive new web site analysis tool worth singing the praises of. I have several of these types of online tools bookmarked, and I have written about most of them. The thing that separates WooRank’s analysis of a domain over any other tool is the plethora of information they provide to you.
Are you looking for a way to spark your creative fuse?
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
- E.L. Doctorow
I love to write, and have done so semi-professionally for the past seven years or so. Sometimes though, a good topic to write about it hard to find, or you might be out of creative muses to inspire you. That is where the web site Write for Ten comes into play.