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Feedly Organizes your RSS Feeds to be More Reader Friendly

screenshot-01OK, I’ll admit it. It took me a long time to get used to the idea of RSS feeds. I liked the concept, I just hated the implementation. More often than not, subscribing to multiple feeds just led to the feeling that I will never catch up on it all.

Sure, I had my iGoogle start page with a few sites I followed: Lifehacker, Slashdot, and a friend’s blog or two, and that worked fine. That is, until I saw Bradley Robb speak at WordCamp in Richmond. In his presentation, he advised bloggers of the importance of RSS, and setting up Google alerts to get the latest news from the topics they’re most interested in. And my whole outlook on RSS changed.

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Follow me on the Social Web

Twitter

Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, MyBlogLog…there are so many tools to keep virtual friends these days, it’s a full-time job just keeping up!

But I’m going to make it easier on you.

Why would you want to follow me on these sites? Why, so I can do the work for you! Many times I’ll share stories, tutorials or other interesting tidbits that don’t make it to the site on these services. I’ll also post whenever there is a new post here on Twitter, but the best way to get those is still good ol’ RSS.

So go ahead and follow me on any of these services- you’ll be glad you did!

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Now writing for GAC!

I’m now writing for the Goodtree & Company (aka GAC) blog. I’ll be writing on subjects such as design, blogging, web 2.0, and more. Any relevant posts I’ll mirror here as well. And yes, I’ll still be writing here.

Check out the Goodtree & Company blog here.

New Skin

I made a new skin and went ahead and launched it. Everything works, though you’ll probably be noticing some heavy changes over the next few days as I tweak out the final details.

Please, let me know what ya’ll think below! Comments, criticisms, browser-incompatibilities, etc. Thanks!

Call For Input!

So if you haven’t noticed, I don’t really update all that much.

That’s mainly because I have a pile of stuff to write about, and I don’t know where to start!

So I’m leaving it up to you guys. What do you want to read here? Photoshop tutorials? Photographic Effects? Text Effects? 3D Studio MAX Tutorials? Illustrator? Linux? Or more articles like “9 More Rules to Designing a Logo?”

Also, I’m thinking of splitting this blog into two separate blogs- one for Linux, and another for design-related stuff. I don’t really post linux stuff all that much, but I wonder if I should give it its own space. On one hand, I think knowing Linux is vital to any serious web designer (and that’s why it fits here), on the other hand, I don’t want to alienate any non-web designers that visit here.

What do you think? Please, let me know!

7 Steps to Designing a Logo

One of my clients is a copywriter, and has worked in the industry for a damn long time. Well, he runs a blog of his own, and has written up a very good guide on logo design.
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New Theme

Got a new theme up and running. This is my first Word Press theme, and I want to test it out for a bit. Once I’m sure every thing’s working right, I’ll make it publicly available.

Power Issues

Haven’t updated lately, because my $300 power supply for my computer exploded early Friday morning. This was followed by lights going out, appliances ceasing to work, and so on. I’m back up and running now, so expect an update to the LCoTD today, perhaps another tutorial or two, and just maybe a Surge Protector Review.

Argh Technology.

The Adobe Updater Could Not Be Started

Found this in the Adobe Knowledgebase I’ve been facing this problem since day 1, but for reasons previously mentioned, I’ve been reluctant to ask on any messageboards. If you haven’t been able to find a solution yourself, and don’t feel like fumbling around the Adobe Knowledgebase, I present to you…The Adobe Updater could not be started (After the jump).

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Google Spam!

As you’re probably well aware, Google has been overridden with spam for a while lately. It seems some guy from Moldova created a script on his ad-laden site that caused the server to generate billions of subdomains upon being visited by a google-bot. Since Google treats sub-domains as regular domains (something that shouldn’t change because of this, more on that below), the pages got indexed fully. Google is currently in the process of cleaning up the wreckage.
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