Webmaster Level: All Last year we introduced Rich Snippets , a new feature that makes it possible to surface structured data from your pages on Google’s search results. So far, user reaction to Rich Snippets has been enthusiastic — after all, Rich Snippets help people make more informed clicks and find what they need even faster. We originally introduced Rich Snippets with two formats: reviews and people .
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Introducing a new Rich Snippets format: Events
Presentation and Eye Appeal What would your reaction be if you were served a plate of food at a restaurant that had dust, lint, or smudges on the dish? Now let’s switch this scenario around and put this in the context of a job seeker presenting a portfolio that has dust, lint, and smudges on the
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The Do’s and Don’ts of a Successful Portfolio – Part II
Hello all, I just wanted to tell everyone that my book, CLR via C# 3rd Edition, went to the printer this week and should be in stores in early February! The book has been updated for Visual Studio 2010, CLR 4.0 and C# 4.0. The source code for the book is available now and can be downloaded from here: http://wintellect.com/Books.aspx Also, an excerpt from the book’s Introduction can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2010/01/21/rtm-d-today-clr-via-c-third-edition.aspx
Robot Chicken creators/executive producers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich have made a deal with Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim for a two-season, 40-episode pick-up for Seasons five and six. Robot Chicken, the highest-rated original animation series on Adult Swim, began airing in February 2005 and remains the top-rated original on the network
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Robot Chicken Gets Two-Season Pick-Up
Webmaster Level: Beginner Want to eat healthier and exercise more in 2010? That’s tough! Want to learn about search engine optimization (SEO) so you can disregard the rumors and know what’s important? That’s easy! Here’s how to gain SEO knowledge as you go about your new start to 2010: Step 1: Absorb the basics If you like to learn by reading, download our SEO Starter Guide for reading while you’re on an exercise bike, training for Ironman
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Google SEO resources for beginners
The Basics At long last you’ve landed a job interview at a design firm. You’re excited, nervous, and worried all at the same time. You realize that part of the interview process hinges on presenting a strong portfolio.
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The Do’s and Don’ts of a Successful Portfolio – Part I
My position, and that of many in the design community, is that spec work and design contests amount to nothing more than unpaid labor. Designer after designer pitching logos, website designs, brochures and what have you, all in the hopes of getting paid. Something.
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Children designers on design contest & crowdsourcing sites?
Good to see that the dates for the Community Tech Days have been confirmed. It’s now set for 24th January at Microsoft IDC in Hyderabad. The event has a great line up of sessions and speakers, and its a nice opportunity for developers and IT Pros to know about the enhancements in Microsoft technologies right from Microsoft and other experts too
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Community Tech Days in Hyderabad
Ever since the evolution, ecommerce industry is growing rapidly as more and more consumers are opting to purchase goods online. The trust and confidence of the customers in ecommerce has shot up to the extent that sales are increasing to around 11% each year. On the flip side, we have also noticed that still there is a chunk of population that fear shopping online.
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Ecommerce in 2010…
You’re looking for a web project that meets your requirements, so make sure to do your due diligence and ask questions before diving in. This will help both parties get on the same page.
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Five Questions to Ask Your Web Developer BEFORE Starting Your Project
Today, I had to deliver a talk on Security features in .NET and IIS and I was going through the www.iis.net website. In the past I had been there for Smooth streaming and other stuff but I stumbled upon the tools, a truck load of them that are very handy utilities while managing a webserver. URL Scan Site Shell Server Defender and much more related to security at http://www.iis.net/downloads/Security and with respect to performance http://www.iis.net/downloads/Performance Ok, and my titbit for this post is that, if you want to use the URL Scan utility on your server running IIS 7, IIS 7.5, you need to enable IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility before configuring the tool. Here is a write up on the same site to do that at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/125/metabase-compatibility-with-iis-7/ Cheers !!!
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IIS Tools – truck load of them at www.iis.net
Video Copilot presents the all new 3D lens flare studio: Optical Flares! Key Features include: 3D Position & Light Tracking Real Texture Mapping Includes 60 Presets (Pro Preset Pack Available) Realistic On-Lens Simulations Automatic Luminance Tracking Dynamic Triggering (Animation without Keyframes!) Creative Tutorials and much more! Check out the product right now: Optical Flares Product Page Be sure to watch the feature videos for an exciting, in-depth look at using Optical Flares. With such a powerful plug-in, we separated the videos into individual sections so you can check out the features you want to see! Optical Flares will be available Monday, Jan 25 in our online store. Optical Flares is available for download only
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Optical Flares Page Online!
Webmaster Level: All We thought it might be fun and educational to create a quiz for webmasters about issues we commonly see in the Webmaster Help Forum . Together with our awesome Bionic Posters , we’ve tried to come up with questions and answers that reflect recurring concerns in the forum and some information that may not be well known. Some things to keep in mind when taking this quiz: The quiz will be available to take from today until Wednesday, January 27 at 5PM PST
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Test your webmaster know-how!
Hello, I can’t login to phpmyadmin getting following error error : Existing configuration file (./config.inc.php) is not readable. Solution Login to your server with root and check ther permission of config.inc.php # cd /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/ Please check the permission and ownership of config.inc.php . It should be as follows: -rw-r—– 1 root cpanelphpmyadmin 2409 Jan 17 22:09 config.inc.php
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phpmyadmin error
Here’s a brief look inside one of my latest graphic design reads: Studio Culture: The secret life of the graphic design studio . Edited by Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy, here’s the blurb: Studio Culture provides a unique glimpse into the inner workings of 28 leading graphic design studios. In a series of penetrating interviews, the secret life of the studio is revealed, and the mechanics of building and maintaining a vibrant studio culture are laid bare with disarming frankness.
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Studio Culture
After Effects CS5 will to be a 64 bit application only. At the moment QuickTime is only a 32 bit application and users of other 64 bit applications like (3D max 64 bit, Nuke 64 bit, etc.) do not have the ability to import or export any QuickTime files. So seeing how QuickTime is one of most popular formats that has been supported by After Effects since the beginning, what will happen with AE CS5? I received direct word from the Adobe After Effects product manager himself: Michael Coleman ____________________________________________________________________ He said this: “QuickTime is very important and we will continue to have QuickTime support in the next After Effects
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QuickTime & AE CS5: The 64 bit Question
Six Minutes weekend reviews are back for a third year of bringing you the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: speechwriting lessons from Martin Luther King Jr.; structuring your presentation logically; becoming aware of your voice; benefits of a flip chart; mistakes with visuals; speaker habits; stages in a professional speaking career; and more! From the Six Minutes Archives One Year Ago from Six Minutes … Speech Analysis: I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King Jr
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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2010-01-15]
As some of you may know, the new version of After Effects CS5 will be native 64 bit, which offers major speed and memory enhancements (among other things) but 3rd party plug-in developers like Video Copilot, will need to update their code before they will work in 64 bit. But worry not… When After Effects CS5 ships, (some speculate later this year) Video Copilot is committed to offering free product upgrades to customers on all of our plug-ins. All… TWO of them Twitch & Optical Flares
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Optical Flares & Twitch: 64 Bit?
It’s More than Just Talent When you are going after a graphic designer position, your prospective employer is not only seeking qualified talent but “soft” skills and abilities. The “hard” skills as described in our last article, What Employers Are Looking for in Graphic Designers – Part I, gave a list of the skill sets that graphic
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What Employers Are Looking for in Graphic Designers – Part II
Freedom Fone’s ability to fulfill it’s promise as a must have tool for bridging the digital divide has yet to be determined. Millions of poor people have access to mobile phones, but with tariffs as high as they are in countries like Zimbabwe, experimentation in this field is still costly. And of course, for our project these are early days
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Free Kiswahili synthetic voice for Freedom Fone a possibility