Google advertising revenue and traffic reduced by 20% with a 0.5 second slower Page load time. Amazon.com found that every 100ms increase in load time of amazon.com decreased sales by 1% (King, Andrew B.). If time is money then it’s time to improve your Website Page load speed. There are numerous means of speeding up […]
Archives for October 2011
How to make a Background Transparent but not Text
On a Website (WordPress or other) you may want to use opacity with some content background whilst having the text non-transparent. Until recently there hasn’t been a simple means of doing this; often an image would be used to facilitate making the background semi-transparent/opaque. Not only was this time consuming, but there were also the […]
Fix Dropbox Indexing Problem
I love Dropbox! Not only has it saved me when my PC recently needed to be rebuilt because of malware but it makes my working life so much simpler by having all my files and settings synced between devices such as my Android phone, PC and laptop. It’s also great knowing that there is always a backup […]
How to open .EPS files in GIMP
GIMP is a popular free image manipulation application. It’s possible in GIMP to manipulate all sorts of image formats including EPS (which is commonly used with Adobe and CorelDRAW). GIMP however needs Ghostscript installed and associated in order to open EPS files. Update: Various combinations of Windows and Ghostscript no longer seem to work per […]
Get rid of WP-Robot 01/1/1970
For years I have run a collection of WordPress Websites that attain and publish content automatically using the WP-Robot Plugin. I mostly use the Plugin for publishing amazon.com affiliate related content however have also experimented with posting content from Clickbank, Youtube, Ebay, Flickr and Twitter. The Plugin has worked really well until recently however, a […]
reCaptcha gone mad
I greatly admire the reCaptcha project including the less popular reCaptcha Mailhide. reCaptcha is really clever as, whilst on the one hand providing verification for Website content, on the other and at the same time digitized content that optical character recognition (OCR) software can’t decifer is solved by humans. reCaptcha provides a great service to character […]