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Tips

Protect Your Eyes from Monitor Strain with the 20-20-20 Trick

Hot off the (video) presses from the Today show is a technique / bit of advice to protect your eyes from the strain of using a computer all day every day: the 20-20-20 trick. It's easy: every 20 minutes, just take a 20 second break to focus your eyes on something 20 feet away from you. Dr. Keri Peterson also advises that the top of your computer monitor(s) should be level with your eyes, so looking at the whole of…
February 7, 2011
CultureTips

Stop Sending Me The Yellow Pages!

And they are now listening. Hooray! At least according to the Yellow Pages opt-out website, they seem to be doing something about it. I'm never really excited when I find the Yellow Pages at my doorstep, because it's just an extra trip to the recycle bin for me, and it feels so damn wrong to be throwing away an over-sized booster seat worth of paper. Besides, with a smartphone and computer handy, like most folks these days, there's much easier…
February 2, 2011
DevelopmentTips

Quick Shoutout : Duplicate Post Plugin

Russell and I were talking strategy and usability this morning, and we realized one of the few things WordPress was missing was a "Clone Page" / "Save Page As..." function. Now I am writing this post because I am excited that I don't have to make that plugin myself, as it already exists! And duplicating a Duplicate Posts Plugin ourselves would just be silly. Adding "Duplicate" as a quick link on the main Edit Posts / Edit Pages areas, and…
February 2, 2011
CultureDesign

Googles Art Project. Take the Tour

If you are an art lover and do not have the money or time to visit some of the signature galleries across the world. Look no further than Google Art Project that takes you on a virtual and interactive tour of some of the most famous artists in history. Check it out: http://www.googleartproject.com/
February 2, 2011
Development

Alex’s Recommended Plugins – Plugin

In developing with WordPress for a few years now, I have found that there is a shortlist of plugins that I find useful on almost every site I work on. These plugins cover the range from things every good site should have - help with SEO, contact forms, analytics, automatically generated XML sitemaps, database backups - to other aspects that might also be desired - image galleries, A/B testing, eCommerce... and now, you (and I) can have this list available…
January 31, 2011