Web 2.0 Archives - TwisterMc

Reddit Secret Santa Was Awesome

20 Dec, 2016

This year I participated in my first Reddit Secret Santa gift exchange. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect out of it, but thought it was worth a try. Turns out, it was great. Now I didn’t get Bill Gates as my secret Santa, but the person who got me made me very happy. They got me […]

Marxico Brings Markdown to Evernote

23 Oct, 2014

I’ve been getting more and more into using markdown to take notes do to the simplicity. However, the biggest issue I have is that I haven’t found a good app that’ll keep all my notes together and synced across multiple platforms. I’ve been using Stackedit for a few months now, but that was until I […]

Facebook advertising works well, even if you shouldn’t have to use it.

25 Feb, 2014

I decided to give Facebook advertising a try on a page I manage by boosting a post. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, so I kept it under $5. I promoted two posts, at two separate times, and one post did amazing and the other did OK. In both cases, I spent […]

No unsubscribe link in that press release email? Here’s how to report emails to the FTC.

19 Feb, 2014

There are a lot of good email marketing companies out there, however there are a lot of PR “professionals” that don’t follow the rules outlined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). These companies think they can spam everyone and get away with it, but you can report them easily. To report an email, forward the […]

Why does web design and development take so long?

31 Dec, 2013

As a web developer, I often talk to clients who don’t understand why it takes so long to build out their website. The answer is that you don’t fully understand how much work has to go into building a website and how many steps are actually involved. I’ve been working on a new version of […]

Why is Google Hangouts So Bad?

9 Dec, 2013

Google is well-known for their ability to create great products. I don’t think I could live without Gmail, Google Analytics is fantastic too, and what would we do without search?! However, every now and then some of their products fail. Google Wave and Buzz to name a few. These fortunately were new products that, when […]

Review: The Automatic Link – Smart Driving Assistant

25 Nov, 2013

I’ve had my Automatic Link for a few months now and I’m very happy with my purchase. It’s easy to install and just works. Setup First, just plug it in. That was the step I was most worried about as I hadn’t ever interacted with the OBD-II port and I’m not to mechanically gifted. However, […]

Say No To Social Advertising

11 Nov, 2013

Both Facebook and Google+ are using your profile pictures to tie into ads. This helps those ads seem more appealing to your friends since you Liked or +1ed those companies in the past. Social ads are easy enough to disable though. In Facebook go to Settings -> Ads and click the ‘Edit’ button for ‘Ads […]

Flashback. WordPress Circa 2005.

18 Oct, 2013

Remember 2005? Sin City was big at the box office, Hollaback Girl was on the radio, and WordPress was at version 1.5. Lets take a look back and see how amazing WordPress was back then. Keep in mind their site was run off the latest and greatest version of WordPress at that time.

WordPress Multisite 101 – WordUp Presentation

12 Oct, 2013

Why have one blog when you can have 50!? Here is the presentation I gave at WordUp 2013 about WordPress Multisite. If you were there, it’ll be a good reminder of what we talked about. If you weren’t, it’ll give you some info but it may be out of context as my speaking notes aren’t […]