Friedbeef’s Tech

Top 5 Ways to Increase Your Blog’s Search Rank

Guest post by Aidan Henry, edited by James Yeang Everyone wants to improve their search rank and drive more qualified traffic. Bloggers are no exception. However, blogs should be treated differently than ordinary websites. Blogs function as content management systems (CMS) and therefore require a different type of optimization than traditional non-CMS driven sites. Having said [...]

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5 More Ways to Save the World Using Your Desktop

Carbon offsetting is the new environmental buzzword around town.  Al Gore’s preaching it and Rupert Murdoch’s adopting it, so here are a few ways you can implement it from a tech standpoint… 1. Save Energy by Switching Colors on Google BlackGoogle.com is a site which allows searches and results on Google to be displayed against a black background.  [...]

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Sneak Preview: TestFreaks – The Intelligent Review Aggregator

TestFreaks is a new service which aggregates product reviews across the web.  Still in it’s Alpha stage, I managed to get the lowdown on what I thought was pretty exciting technology (or at least promises of it). Here’s the Deal What they’re trying to do is to make a product review aggregator just like Wize, but add in [...]

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How to Track New Software Updates – FileHippo

How do you get the latest versions of your favorite software…without checking different sites every day to see if your software’s outdated?  FileHippo makes it easy with their free update checker.  It scans your Windows registry and lets you know which software needs some upgrading, and provides useful information like the size of the download, the [...]

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Top 5 Firefox Extensions for Images

Firefox is so flexible that there are currently more than 2000 ways to customize its features!  Everything from better ways to read news, quicker way of downloading, to better organized bookmarking can be adapted to your needs. It is also offers up powerful tools for handling images on the web.  Here are some of the best image related [...]

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