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I Got an iPad Case & Stand for $23 at Target
My wife recently got me an iPad and I love it. I want to buy a whole bunch of accessories too, but after just spending $$$ on the iPad, I’m not up to paying $40+ just for a case, not to mention a stand. So I went to Target.
Turns out, you can get a 10.2 inch netbook sleeve that fits the iPad pretty well. It’s a tad bit big, but sometimes the added space is nice as it’s easy to get the iPad in and out. The one I got was $19 which wasn’t to bad. There might have been cheaper ones, but I really liked the basic black neoprene one.
Customize Your Wells Fargo Check Card Any Way You Want
Did you know that you can customize your Wells Fargo check cards any way that you want? Create your own graphics, upload them and they’ll print you off a custom card for free.
Lily On My Credit Card
The process is pretty easy, however you may need some graphic skills if you want to get creative. If you just want to upload an image, you shouldn’t have any issues.
To create your own custom Wells Fargo check card, login to WellsFargo.com go to Account Services then Access Card Design Studio, select an account, select Customize Your Background and then get creative.
Use Google Chrome’s Private Browsing To Login To Multiple Accounts
If you’re like me and you need to access multiple accounts on the same service, like different Gmail or Twitter accounts, on a daily basis, logging in and out gets to be a pain. You could always just open up a different browser, but that’s annoying too.
Google Chrome however has a good work around as you can use private browsing to login to multiple accounts without ever having to log out of your current account.
Basically, when you start a new incognito (private) window in Google Chrome, you get a fresh start. You’re not logged into anything which is very handy. You can then log into a different Google, Twitter, Facebook or whatever account you want to.
Speeding Up WordPress Starts With Plugin Developers
I’ve recently been looking at Google’s speed test tool and working to increase the speed of some of the sites I interact with daily. Where as there are things that we, as blog owners, can control, a lot of speeding up WordPress falls in the hands of plugin developers.
Here is what WordPress plugins developers can do to help us all out:
1. Set the Height and Width of Images
I know this is an easy one not to do, and it’s one of the most common issues that Google reported, but it’s so easy. Please set the height and width of all images in your plugin.
10 Things You Should Know About CSS
I’ve been working with cascading style sheets (CSS) for years and have learned quite a bit. So I thought I’d write down some of my tips and tricks for all those that are learning about CSS.
Here are my 10 CSS tips that web developers should know.
Start off with a CSS reset.
A CSS reset is a way of defining the default settings for your HTML document. There are different ways you can do a CSS reset, but most are to extreme for me. What I like to do is set the margin & padding to 0 and set the default font.
New URLs & Lots of Patients
For some time I’ve wanted to remove the month, day, year from my URL structure on my blog but I haven’t. Everything I’ve ever learned about SEO is to not change the URLs. However I really wanted to.
Then, late last week, my host somehow blocked Google bot from accessing the server I’m on and my traffic tanked; badly. Once I got that figured out, I realized that now was as good of time as ever to re-do all the URLs. Since my site was already screwed up in Google, why not?
Blog Traffic
A Day In The Life Of Bacon on Twitter
Who doesn’t love Bacon?
Here are just some of the bacon chatter I picked up on Twitter recently.
RT @bacon Mr. Sus got a free Squealin’ Mary at @BeaversHouston for wearing his @rstevens “Bacon is a Vegetable” shirt: http://yfrog.com/ar118fzj
RT @cfarias: Dude, Where’s My Bacon? #bacon http://twitpic.com/1g0zrg
RT @marengoni: Bacon Instantâneo! http://twitpic.com/1g0ctr
RT @MadLabM: #BaconQueen approved! RT @LouPeb: and of course there’s bacon beer for everyone! #carniepawty http://twitpic.com/1ge0yn
RT @imarielle: Bacon band-aids! @catitudeftw http://twitpic.com/1gehmg
RT @bacon RT @sassybritches: RT @Jablair51: http://twitpic.com/1gllwr – Hooray for bacon!
Are There Any Great Weather Apps For The Mac?
I’m a big fan of the weather, but I lack a great desktop weather app for my Mac.
I have WeatherDock which is decent. However, it basically just shows the temp and forecast. No radar, and nothing special. It is however the one I use most.
WeatherDock
Meteorologist was cool back in the day but I haven’t checked it out lately. Seems like it’s back to life so that’s on my list of possibilities. It seems to have a good mix of the basics, some details and a radar.
Meteorologist
iPox Version 3
iPox version 3 is now available!
iPox v3 has landed with some re-designed elements, bug fixes, and iPox Aqua mixed in.
So what’s new?
- The scrollbars have been re-designed utilizing CSS. They are now a light grey with a nice mouse over effect.
- The throbber has been reverted back to the Mac throbber.
- The URL bar has been re-designed to *hopefully* work better with URL extensions. It’s now all CSS and even highlights when active.
- Added a full screen button.
- Also includes many fixes under the hood to incorporate a bunch of smaller, missing elements. Probably didn’t catch them all, but it’s better.
Surviving Without My iMac
It’s now day 4 without my iMac and I’m surviving quite well.
You see, my iMac screen decided that a yellow vertical line was cool and I didn’t agree. So I called Apple and my screen was on recall so they’re fixing it for free. The downside is that it’ll take 5-7 days. So I’m living without it.
I guess it’s not to hard to survive when I have an iPod Touch and my wife has a Mac Mini; so it’s not like I’m computer less. But I am without my computer which I thought would be an issue.
