Archive for December, 2007

Ten Tips to the Top of the Search Engines

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Having a website that gets found in Google, Yahoo, and MSN, etc. isn't hard to do, but it can be difficult to know where to begin. Here are my latest and greatest tips to get you started:
1. Do not purchase a new domain unless you have to. Due to Google's aging delay for all new [...]

How to repair Nokia’s Backup.arc?

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Imagine: you've made a backup of your Nokia smartphone to two memory cards and tested restore with them before you updated your phone firmware at Nokia Service Point. After update neither one of the 14 MB backups restored. The restore process took only about two seconds. With older software it took about two minutes.
And... that's [...]

How To Win Jobs On Freelance Job Bidding Sites

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Skimming through the comments on the recent FSW poll about freelance job bidding sites, there's not a lot of love out there for the freelance bidding sites like Elance, Get-A-Freelancer, Guru, Rent-A-Coder and the like - and it's no wonder when you see projects offering to pay you $1 per custom designed t-shirt image!
The general [...]

10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

1. Stop taking so much notice of how you feel. How you feel is how you feel. It'll pass soon. What you're thinking is what you're thinking. It'll go too. Tell yourself that whatever you feel, you feel; whatever you think, you think. Since you can't stop yourself thinking, or prevent emotions from arising in [...]