So, you're wondering "How to add 300,000-plus products easily?" Wandering around the Virtuemart forum, considering which ecommerce option I ought to use for an upcoming ecommerce web development project, I search for threads that shed light upon the status and direction of the open source project while simultaneously searching for…
Here's a brief snap shot of the news, reviews and analysis read throughout the week. Everything from business strategy, sponsorship, motorsports, television, advertising, marketing, retail, ecommerce and branding are referenced and well worth a look.
Vertical Scope, the Canadian-owned giant that touts a whopping 30 million unique monthly visitors amid its 300-plus web properties, according to its Google Analytics report March 2011, announced yesterday via Twitter that rumors of its acquisition of what is purportedly the largest off-road website upon the web, Pirate4X4.com, were in…
Early in the year, Race-Dezert.com was approached for the purpose of initiating an advertising campaign. A fraction of the initiative was unconventional and something I had yet to see upon the web. I wanted to park a brand's Facebook and Twitter widget in the direct line of site and embed…
In the process of reconfiguring a computer for the purpose of producing a live streaming webcast, some of the actions I am taking include removing old redundantly archived files and unnecessary software, modifying the data structure logic for improved workflow and adding hardware that includes external hard drives as well…
Just found this slick new Facebook app from the makers of Flip Video Cameras, which enables you to upgrade from the standard photo avatar to a video avatar for your Facebook profile.
As the day began at the crack of dawn, just prior to the sunburst emerging from behind the eastern horizon, I filtered through the various RSS feeds and and categorized favorites upon my top Firefox bookmarks. And what follows is a snapshot of what I read through, which includes blog…
In search of a buddy who has helped produce video for me in the past, I wandered onto a series of useful Adobe After Effects tutorials on Vimeo that I thought were worthy of note. If you're interested in post video production, specifically the task of editing using video effects,…
Perhaps a bit premature or perhaps not. One thing is for certain, I'm not the only one looking to get integrate the best blogging software into one of the greatest photo gallery scripts. That would be integrating Gallery3 into Wordpress via a simple Wordpress Plugin. As it stands, such a…
It's great when the clock strikes 9 am, and you've already put in a several hours worth of work, allowing for more time to work or play throughout the rest of the day. In checking some quick web analytics (Google Analytics / Woopra / AWstats) on several websites that I…
It's been somewhere around two to three years since I've been struck with any form of malware on any of my computers. After just over a month on the road, I finally had an opportunity to hunker down behind the primary computer and get some operational responsibilities up to date…
I've been hunting around for a way to migrate from my old school Motorola Q9M that I initially purchased due to its integration with Qik and subsequent video streaming capability to Mogulus, which has since become Livestream. At the time, Qik was the only way by which you could stream…
I was a bit bewildered when I querried a tech-savvy buddy in between rounds of this weekend's Ultimate Fighting Champion (UFC) about what he and the others in the room thought about Google TV. Each one had an iPhone or other Smart Phone. One even boasted an iPad that was…
Trouble lurks during the length of every computer's operating life. And I've endured more than a few doomsday scenarios when it comes to computers. To thwart the throat-wrenching latch that a imperiled computer hard drive crash might have on my operation, I have used virtually every means of backup one…
Today I had little time to sift through the wealthy list of links, particularly since there are a few links, while upon public domains, included some collectively confidential subject matter. So, for what it's worth, here are some goods that included a web TV video platform as well as a…
Last night I had an interesting conversation with a friend whom I had not previously spoken to regarding his career. He's got a day job since moving from the East Coast to Southern California and it has nothing to do with his background as an opera singer and web developer.…
I've been slammed with the demand for skills that span the gamut. I love it. Not so much on the web end or social media end, since that's unfortunately taken a back seat to developing media and marketing infrastructure but also extended into business strategy and implementing practices and associated…
I absolutely love the topic of news and how it has evolved with the onslaught of social media and the web in general. Hacks have earned the accolade of online news sources. Seasoned news hounds from the stuffy print newspaper newsrooms have been scooped and charge around with chips on…
Today's links focus primarily upon promotion of your business through social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook but also include business link building by way of calls to action. The favorite amid the day's links I've read is the Facebook Fan Page app for those looking to boost their…
Got links? Here are some good reads. Perhaps the best of the lot is the 10 free social media tools every public relations (PR) pro should master. And if you're a small businesses and looking for some insight on how to increase the eyeballs landing upon your good name when…
Found this skateboarding video on Vimeo, which happens to be one of my favorite video hosting websites for its HD video file size capabilities. Vimeo's general reach isn't as great as YouTube. But its branding capabilities through its pro accounts is fashionable for marketers looking for a professional social video…
Here's what we're browsing today. For those looking to hookup with some slick social applications, this post may not be the best of the best. I don't even think it ranks amid the top 100. There may be some nuggets of note. And it may even be worth a read.…
This race photo is the second shot in a four-shot sequence captured at the 2010 SNORE Mint 400 desert off-road race and features the Orange County Motorsports Trophy Truck. The truck is seen dropping down from a hairpin turn that quickly developed into a silt bed. Much of the race course, which was located just north of the Las Vegas Strip, consisted of rough rocks and deep silt beds.
DVS Shoes is hip. Any association with the action sports shoe manufacturer garners a certain amount of recognition. A mere mention of the name upon any website will earn amiable attention in the form of web traffic.
It's rare that I make my way over here to RDC (Race-Dezert). But after a brief review of a Mint photo thread and seeing some good shots, I thought it a good idea to have a photo showdown. While I'm not going to offer any dough, until we can garner…
It seems as if every time an industry convention or some business mixer emerges, my calendar shuns the event and any hope of mixing it up with forum friends and community colleagues. And when it comes to this year's inaugural Open Camp, which takes place this August 27-29 at the…
I dabble in Drupal. I work with Wordpress. But I'm always jamming with Joomla. The CMS framework is ultra extensible and includes numerous native Joomla extensions and a multitude of others that form a bridge to other popular software applications. Moodle, phpBB, Wordpress, SMF, OpenX are just a few hot…

Of the many explosive moments that went down in the during the legendary 2010 SNORE Mint 400 desert off-road race was captured in this shot of the Langley Productions Cops Class 12 car late in the race. The race photos at this location were amid the best of the race. But of all the Mint 400 photos taken, this was by far one of the cleanest of locations, when it comes to keeping the Nikon cameras clean.

Photoshop Product Manager Bryan ONeil Hughes performs a quick sneak peak overview of the Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5. The tedious task of cloning is virtually solved. Photoshop Content-Aware delivers a near-miracle feature by adding content that didn't exist or simply covering up items that you don't want within your…
Shred or die. Skate or die. I remember the days roaming the San Gabriel Valley in the back of Chris Sanchez' pickup truck and hunting down the sweetest skate spots of the SoCal skate scene. It was grungy. It was on the fly. And it was no big time action…

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