2010 August

Europa Foot

August 31, 2010 By Jeffrey Leave a Comment

About four months ago I did some damage to my right elbow while writing for my Blogs, and I had to lay-out for a while until I could heal. A condition I apply named “Europa Elbow”. Man, it was painful.

I’m not really sure which was the greater of the challenges: taking care of the injury or trying to catch-up on all the writing for the Blogs. The time away was great, but trying to catch-up was not so great. The only good thing about the mess was that the story line….”Europa Elbow”…. took off in the search engines; and I now I rank number 1 in Blogs for the term “Europa Elbow”. It makes a Blogger proud to know that he’s reached the pinnacle of the search engines.

Well, here I am at the cross roads again, injured once more. I’ve been inexplicably struck with “Europa Foot.” No ….. I wasn’t trying to type with my toes. I fell and broke my foot! Ouchhh!!!

I really just want to lay in bed and hurt. As you can see, I’m still able to punch the keys; but I’m afraid that I’m going to have to let the content slide for a while until I can get back-up on my feet. I’m not really one for roasting my lap with a laptop, so ………. I’ll just take it a day at a time.

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Filed Under: Jeffrey's Corner Tagged With: Europa Elbow, Europa Foot, Search Engines

WordPress For BlackBerry. You’re Kidding, Right?

August 26, 2010 By Jeffrey Leave a Comment

WordPress For BlackBerry

I was doing some Blog hopping today and was looking at the “QuickPress” in my own WordPress Dashboard, kinda at the same time. I just figured that the “QuickPress” thing was just a little to small for me to fool with, although I wanted to take a test drive.

As I said I was Blog hopping and saw a news feed for “WordPress For BlackBerry”. BlackBerry or WordPress or both are updating its WordPress Software for the different Smartphones and now you can do just about anything you want on a Blackberry that you can do on the desktop. I kid you not!

I decided to take a look at the downloads so far and for the first couple of weeks there were only about 70 downloads for the WordPress Software for the incredibility popular BlackBerry. 70 downloads! You’re kidding, right? I mean I gave up on “QuickPress” because it seems to me just to be too small and here are 70 mis-guided soles downloading WordPress for BlackBerry.

Every so often I have to display my Blog to others in a public place, usually at a restaurant and the only way to do this is with my BlackBerry Storm. For the record, it’s a painful, it’s just awful. Slow downloads, no flash, not to mention tiny screen. I mean, I know I can magnify, but it’s just too cumbersome to work with. It’s also interesting to watch people’s reaction to my Blog on a BlackBerry. They look at me like I’m nuts. Maybe it’s my Blog. But I have a sneaking feeling that they were wondering why I would put them through the experience of looking through the keyhole that is my BlackBerry to view my Blog to begin with.

WordPress on a BlackBerry. You’re kidding, right? What next? Internet Marketing on a shoestring?

Filed Under: Jeffrey's Corner Tagged With: Blog Hopping, Internet Marketing, QuickPress, WordPress Dashboard, WordPress For BlackBerry

Smoking Content Via RSS Feed

August 25, 2010 By Jeffrey Leave a Comment

I was kinda knocking around today looking for kinks in the armor and checking links; all the housekeeping stuff that has to be done from time to time to keep a Blog well-oiled.
And I hit on the RSS Feed. My Feed is handled by “FeedBurner” of which I have never really been that fond of, however they have a killer “RSS Reader”.

As I was looking over how the content was displayed in the FeedBurner RSS Reader, I could not help but think that this Reader looked as good as my Blog! I think the way it displays images is really cool.

FeedBurner not only allows you to subscribe with the most common of web-based news readers, but also lays out the entire content of a Blog from A-Z, making it extremely easy to read. I’ve noticed that the number of people who read my Blog through some sort of RSS Reader has been growing by leaps and bounds.

RSS Readers or RSS and Atom files provide news updates from a website in a simple form for your computer. You read these files in a program called an aggregator, which collects news from various websites and provides it to you in a simple form. But what aggregator to use? Here are some choices:

Top Picks

Windows: SharpReader
Simple, but gets the job done.

Linux: Liferea
A simple Gtk newsreader.

Mac OS X: NetNewsWire
This elegant Mac-like aggregator is easy to use and powerful.

Web: feeds.reddit
Check all your feeds from any web browser. Plus, vote on items and get recommendations about other feeds you’ll like. Plenty of choices at top of page.

Web: Bloglines
Simple two-pane interface, like email.

Runners-Up

AmphetaDesk
A news aggregator you access through a web browser. (Mac/Win/Linux)

FeedDemon
A more complicated aggregator for Windows. (Win)

FeedReader
Like SharpReader, but sporadically updated. (Win)

NewsGator
Read the news from within Microsoft Outlook. (Win)

News Is Free
Lets you create your own customized news page with feeds from the sites you’re interested in. (Web)

Novobot
A smart headline viewer and news ticker that can also process almost any website. (Win)

Radio UserLand
A full-stregth news-reading application, on your desktop. (Mac/Win)

rss2email
Reads RSS feeds and sends each new item to you as an email. (Unix)

Straw
The GNOME news aggregator.

I’ll be trying to update this list in the future, probably as an individual section here at Bloggers Market. So keep your eyes peeled for that! This is the best that I can do for now as I just don’t have the time to build a new section and provide a solid foundation for this most interesting and important area of Blogging.