The last time I took a look at Screenr, I was really impressed. They make recording a quick screencast really simple and as of late, they have made some renovations to turn a good service into a really great one. I thought I would take a few minutes out to let you know what new Screenr features I am happy to see.
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7 Successful Forum Hosting Rules
Building and hosting successful forums on your website can be a lot of hard work. Just like you would do if you were building a house, you have to build your forums with a good foundation. Here I have for you seven different successful forum rules you should keep in mind when you either set up a forum script, or look to redo some of your forums to make them easier for users to navigate through.
Marketing Your Secret Features
You can do great things, but if nobody knows – did you really do them at all? After reading a recent interview with Richard Branson, on building a brand for your business, something he said really made me think.
Better Freebie Marketing
We have all been a part of freebie marketing, probably without even knowing it. Your standard freebie marketing is when you are sold stock items at a lower cost (or they are given away for free) so you will pay more for the product the free things are for. The most popular examples of this would be printer ink and a printer, or disposable razor blades and the stick you put them on. People are starting to catch on to these tricks though, so I say it is time to reinvent the freebie marketing business model and make it more useful.
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Like/Dislike Comes to Disqus Comments
Thanks to Disqus, you can now quickly like or dislike any post that has Disqus as the commenting engine of choice (including all my projects).
These are the kind of surprises I like to wake up to in the morning.
New Layout for Mitchelaneous (Give Me Your Feedback!)
What have I been hard at work at this weekend? A brand new layout for Mitchelaneous, my blog for tech tips, web development and geeky entertainment. Based on the Press Box theme, I think this new layout is easier to navigate and read, but just as feature rich and useful as the old look was.
Go check it out at Mitchelaneous.com and let me know what you think!
Simple Machines Forum
SMF, or otherwise known as Simple Machines Forum, is a free professional software package that will let you get yourself an online community setup in minutes. I had not heard much about this software till I started working for Lunarpages, since it is what they use to run their forums. Ever since though, I have been sold. It is a powerful, and customizable forum script.
This forum script uses PHP and MySQL to run the backend, so that means that any shared hosting account should be able to host it. Here are a few more features:
- Comprehensive template system.
- Advanced permission and user management.
- Supports multiple languages at once.
- Open and well-documented source code.
- Tracking of new and old unread topics, not just from your last visit.
- Designed for optimal performance and scalability.
- Multi-media output.
Twhirl, the Best Twitter Client Around?
After trying out several different Twitter clients, I think I have found the one for me that gets the job done. I decided to go with twhirl, because it is one of the most highly recommended Twitter clients out there.
Here are the key features that I enjoyed the most:
- shorten long URLs (using bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd)
- search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, and follow topics in near-real time with saved searches
- automatically find tweets mentioning your @username
Another thing I really needed, which from what I could tell TweetDeck didn’t provide was multiple account support. Since I am now working on my own Twitter account and the Lunarpages Twitter account, I needed a way to keep them both separate but running at the same time.
The only annoyance I have found with twirl is that when running multiple clients for multiple accounts, you can’t have one be a different color than the other. If any developers are reading this, that would be a handy feature to toss in there.
So, twhirl gets my geek candy seal of approval. Come follow me and see what I am doing throughout the day @mitchkeeler and @lunarpages.
Featured Again in Ping! Zine
Just got the latest edition of Ping! Zine at my door yesterday, and I do have to say it is great cover to cover, front to back. Yes, I also had an article in it this month, Website Hosting vs Personal Backup Hosting (check it out on page 46).
Download Vol 6 Issue #3 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)
If you did not get the paperback copy of the magazine, you can also pick up the digital version from PingZine.com. If you want to get the paperback version of the magazine for free, check out this special subscription offer from WebHostingShow.com.
Cross Browser Web Dev Widgets
The team behind Meteora have set out to do something different and cool. They have launched a lunch box filled with rich and customizable web applications that you can use right here, right now. No pages of documentation to be read, and no need for excessive programing knowledge.
Here are a few more details from the developers:
Meteora is built on top of MooTools and the package comes with a full version of that framework. If you’re already a MooTools user you may read Quick start for mootools users, if you have not used MooTools before just keep reading.
After you have uncompressed Meteora, you’ll notice that it’s around 1.1M in size, this is mainly because of all the images it contains, also because it’s distributed with a full version of the MooTools framework. But do not worry about loading times, with Meteora’s automatic dependency resolution your browser will download only the javascript the page needs and nothing more.
I do have to say, some of this looks even easy enough for me to wrap my head around. These tools would be perfect to slice into your recent project or web page and offer a lot of eye candy and functionality to the mix.
Not convinced yet? Check out the demos to see this powerful set of tools at work.
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