Archive for 2010


By Brett Bumeter

imageI can almost guarantee that if you use this tool once called Tweact.com, you probably will only use it maybe 1 or 2 other times.  Its a nice example of a gimmicky website that can help you spread a gimicky look around with upside down text.

“Tweact is a fun app that enables users to flip their text and paste it across the social web. Simply type your text and it’s instantly mirrored upside-down....

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By Brett Bumeter

image For decades now, Apple has achieved notoriety and buzz and lots of synergy through marketing campaigns from first, being cool and second being easier to use than cheaper PC products or more entrenched MP3 player or cell phone brands.  Apple helped make it cool to buy a personal computer in the 80’s, and then they made it cool to not only buy an MP3 player, but actually PAY for an MP3 file.  Apple even through...

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By Brett Bumeter

Tonight I’m checking out the new Artisteer 2.4 which just became available.  The new version (in beta still) supports to major feature advances:

Vertical Menus for WordPress or other CMS systems like Drupal, Joomla etc

You can essentially run two menu systems now (at first glance). 

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In the image example above within the Artisteer design environment I have the option of both a...

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By Brett Bumeter

Sometimes the best technology gadgets are not the most expensive, take the RCA Pearl TH1611.  It is a little MP3 player that runs on a single triple aaa battery.  It gets hours and hours of play. Much to the surprise of most people RCA actually came out with the first MP3 player, which I owned way back in the dark ages before iPods.  It was the Lyra and with a really large card it could hold a whopping 48 megabytes of music.

This little Pearl, which is about a tenth the size holds a gigabyte and plays for about a work...

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By Brett Bumeter

WordPress despite being a fantastic CMS system and SEO powerhouse is notorious for slow load times of individual web pages.  Google is expected to start ranking slow loading websites below faster loading websites this year (2010).  So if you want to keep your site competitive even at an SEO level, you need to speed up load times.  Besides a faster loading web page will make your visitors happier!

4 Tools to Help You Speed up Artisteer Themes and WordPress sites

Artisteer Discount Code/Link

If you would like to get...

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By Brett Bumeter
image Blast Applications BLAP Launches Twuition.com

PLAINVIEW, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Blast Applications Inc., (OTC: BLAPNews), a premier creator and developer of iPhone, Twitter and Facebook applications, announces today the official launch of www.Twuition.com.

Twuition.com is a corporate branding and advertising application which responds automatically via Twitter informing Twitter users of translations, weather reports, product pricing, locations and even the national debt by typing in the hashtag “#whatisthenationaldebt”. The tweet platform, generates an advertisement...

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By Brett Bumeter

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AUTOMATICALLY DELETE DIRECT MESSAGES ON TWITTER WITH OFFICAL LAUNCH OF TWEDEMPTION.COM

Save Time and Get Redemption Through Twedemption.com

PLAINVIEW, N.Y. – February 9, 2010 (OTC: BLAPNews) – If you ever leave on vacation, step away from your computer for a few days or been on Twitter for a reasonable period of time, it’s easy for your direct message inbox to get full quickly. Blast Applications, a premier creator and developer of iPhone, Twitter...

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By Brett Bumeter

The Izea Insider program is currently in a bit of limbo.  It is unclear to those of us that were in the program last year (2009) whether or not the program will continue in 2010. 

Contracts were only for the 2009 calendar year, so technically we are all out of the program as of the 1st of the year.

That said, it would appear that Izea does have some interest in continuing the program, and it is probably more a question of

  • (a.) whether or not to fund it
  • (b.) the cost of winding it down...

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By Brett Bumeter

Let’s say you have 50 or 100 or 1000 old blog posts on one or more sites that were sponsored articles.  You were paid up front for a short time advertorial essentially.  That was years ago and those posts haven’t brought any revenue to you since.  :(

Plus, the FTC has changed the landscape of online marketing and now you have to go back and consider adding some new form of disclosure to an advertorial.  Lots of work for no revenue, all cost, no profit, plus if you don’t you risk who knows what from the...

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