I am sure that many of you have seen a few of these commercials from time to time, but they are still quite impressive. They started airing a few years ago to promote fantasy football (in which I am a huge believer).
The videos appear to be recorded with a cheap handheld camera, but the effects are very realistic. Misdirection and creative editing allow for many of the tricks (or talents), but others are hard to fathom.
Watch the video below, then tell me your thoughts — How were they made? Effective advertising?
About an hour ago, Tweetie 2 (iTunes link) for iPhone was approved by Apple for the App Store. It’s already the leading trending topic on Twitter, and I thought I’d show you why.
First, let me begin by saying that I believe the original Tweetie was already the best Twitter iPhone App available — now it has completely separated itself from the competition. The game isn’t even close!
If you want to know all the details about the update, you can read the feature list or head on over to Loren Brichter’s (the developer) site, which I’m sure will be updated very soon. I’m just going to show you a couple of the winning features that I already love. [Read more →]
If you have enabled the Thesis Feature Box in your Theme, then it is probably the first thing to show up when a reader reaches your blog. So why don’t you use it for things like introducing the reader to your blog, pre-selling, marketing or promoting content. In this post you will learn exactly that – How to style the Feature Box and put in relevant content.
If you have “Share This Post” links on your Wordpress blog posts, you probably need to automatically display shortened urls. While there are a few different techniques out there, I’ve found this particular one to be the easiest and most effective. [Read more →]
Acorn — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — has diminished any credibility it had remaining. In the last 48 hours, there have been some truly horrible revelations about this group that is supposedly an advocate for the poor.
Before I get to what has been revealed in the last couple of days, let me give you a recap of their past. President Barack Obama worked for Acorn as a community organizer, represented them in court, and trained their employees. Additionally, his campaign donated $800,000 to them to aid in voter registration efforts. Of course, Acorn supported Obama’s campaign as well.
Reports surfaced that The New York Times squashed a story that would have been detrimental to Obama’s campaign. They were also accused of voter fraud when their employees registered fictitious people such as Mickey Mouse to vote.
I have been asked many times, “What plugin did you use to get your social media sharing icons on your site?” Well, I didn’t use a single plugin to do it! Because of that, I decided to make a tutorial showing exactly how you can achieve the same thing.
Watch this short video for an overview of what we’re going to do.
The Thesis Theme for Wordpress is by far the most powerful and most flexible available. It has a very large and helpful support community that most Thesis Users have taken advantage of at least once or twice.
Despite that, there are a few things that I get asked all the time that are rather simple. This is not to say that those asking are unintelligent. Quite the opposite, actually. In most cases, they are simply trying to optimize their use of the powerful theme. That shows intelligence right there!
I’ve put together a few short video tutorials for those just getting started with Thesis. Instead of creating a new post for each video, I’ve decided to list them here. If requested, I will add new videos — so be sure to bookmark this page (On Delicious, perhaps). [Read more →]
The world of blogging has been flooded with resources over the past few years. There are many self-proclaimed ‘experts’ that have no portfolio, limited experience, and horrible blogs.
Part of becoming successful in the blogging world is being able to filter through the mess to find the gems that do exist. No matter how successful your blog is or eventually will become, there is no doubt that you’ll have to learn from others on a daily basis. Whether you choose to lean on Darren Rowse or take a more creative approach, you WILL have problems arise.
The following is a list of 10 Mostly New Things that will help you speed up the learning process and ultimately Make Your Blog Rock! [Read more →]
