God only knows how many times I’ve whined on Twitter about the sharp edge on my MacBook Pro right where your wrists rest while working on it. I swear to Buddha that after 15 minutes of working on this thing I have lines deep enough imprinted in my forearms to make people think I’m trying to slash my wrists! Furthermore, this laptop nearly makes me want to!!!

But tonight I’d had enough. After a marathon session of pain, I finally got off my lazy butt and did something about it. So, here is a video of me taking a file to my MacBook Pro and doing what Apple should have done long, long ago!
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As you may know, I use WP SuperCache on all of my blogs to enable them to handle the rather high loads the server runs at occasionally. One of the things that WP SuperCache does is enable compression for all of the cached pages. It’s an option in the control panel, which I ALWAYS enable. This saves a lot of bandwidth and makes pages download much faster for readers.

Well, what I didn’t realize was that the compression is only being performed on the cached files apparently. Because I did some testing and on the non-cached files there was no compression. So, I’ve got a really, really easy trick that anyone can do on their PHP blog to enable GZip compression.

Of course I’m going to show you how to do it in WordPress because that is what I know – but a simple one line addition to your theme file will enable it on any PHP based system (Drupal, Joomla, or whatever). If you have instructions for another CMS please let me know and I’ll add them here too.
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Creative ideas are everywhere, if you know how to listen.

In this article I’m going to show you how you can automatically split videos into images and then use those images to generate traffic for your website. When John Pozadzides (aka the man behind One Man’s Blog) did this, he got 10,000 pageviews on a single blog post in just 7 days.
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	socialnerdia RT @johnpoz: How To Automatically Convert Videos To Images http://onemansblog.com/vidstopics by the very cool @charlesmckeever
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	ShannonAronin RT @johnpoz: How To Automatically Convert Videos To Images http://onemansblog.com/vidstopics - Interesting use of video!
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	camsicle RT @johnpoz: Great OMB Guest Post by @CharlesMcKeever - How To Automatically Convert Videos To Images: http://onemansblog.com/vidstopics
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On January 30, 2010 I did a lecture for the DFW WordPress Meetup group which we called, “Make More Money with WordPress, Social Media and Analytics”. This lecture was similar to the one I did two years ago called, “45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog” in that it covers a wide range of topics all targeted at helping you learn to drive more traffic and earn more revenue from your blog or Website.

As a follow up and companion to this lecture I also posted “The 8 Best Ways to Earn Money With Google Adsense Alternatives“, and I suggest that you investigate that post as well, but not until after you’ve endured this grueling 1.5 hour lecture. I know it’s long, but just remember that it took me many, many more hours to prepare for and deliver this lecture than it will take you to view it. And I’m holding nothing back here, so if you want all the secrets this is the price you have to pay.

Huge thanks go out to Cali Lewis for filming and assembling the video for this lecture, and also to Giovanni Gallucci for assisting with the videography. Also, show some love to Tony Cecala for talking me into doing this and organizing the entire venue and event, and of course thanks to the Art Institute of Dallas for hosting. Now, without further ado, here is the lecture.
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Ok. You’re a blogger. You want to earn money from your website (don’t we all). I realize there are a lot of folks trying to tell you how to make money with Google AdSense (even though most don’t make jack squat), and even though I certainly make a lot more than average from Google AdSense, I actually spent a lot of time researching and testing Google AdSense alternatives in order to see if we could do a little better than simply putting Google ads on our sites.

Below you will find the best Google Adsense alternatives I could find, complete with a little description and a link to the provider, in the hopes of helping you put a little more cash in your pocket.

If you have any first hand experience with these please drop a comment below and let us all know. Especially if you can share some light on actually getting paid by these advertising providers. How long it takes, how much you made, and what your general impression of working with them would be most valuable! Also, please help me spread the word on this particular post since I know it’s something a lot of people are looking for.
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Although we’re constantly improving and updating the method of recording Wealth Nation, I spent the day going through and setting up a new configuration of our recording studio for the podcast, and I figured I would document explicit instructions on exactly how you can duplicate the setup we use.

Keep in mind that I am NOT an expert at this type of thing, so don’t bother asking me questions about variations of different setups. I won’t have the answers. However, if you care to do exactly what we have done, you will hopefully have the same experience but without the steep learning curve it took me.
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By Guest Star: Jordan Kasteler of Search and Social.

Social media is an all-encompassing term used to describe any of several online channels that utilize the technology to facilitate social interaction through written, visual, or audible communication. Examples of different types of Social Media sites include:

• Social Bookmarking – (delicious.com, stumbleupon.com)
• Social Networking – (facebook.com, myspace.com)
• Social News Aggregation – (digg.com, reddit.com)
• Social Q&A – (answers.yahoo.com, answerbag.com)
• Media Sharing – (youtube.com, flickr.com)
• Micro-Blogging – (twitter.com, plurk.com)

The use of social media as a marketing and promotional tool and strategy is becoming more and more popular with businesses because it can be an extremely effective way to promote products and services to a targeted audience. Websites can function as a static billboard to promote products, services, or ideas – but social media opens up a dynamic dialogue with your audience, allowing for interaction and personal connection.
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You know what? We’re going to start off this little discussion with an analogy to try and make things a little easier. I want you to think of your camera as if it was a third eye – because at the end of the day, that’s really all it is. Just a little man-made mechanical facsimile…

Unless you are endowed with some super-human abilities, your eye needs light to see things. And your eye has a lens (that clear part on the front) through which the light passes and is absorbed by a little area on the back of your eyeball that senses the different colors of light. Well, guess what? That is exactly how a camera works! Light comes in through the glass and is sensed by the “sensor” inside the camera.

Now, if you bought a cheap little pocket camera your third eye has a relatively small, dirty lens (cheap glass), and a tiny little sensor. If you bought a big camera, you’ve got a high quality, extremely clear lens and a large sensor. But either way, the more light you allow to enter the sensor, the sharper your photos are going to turn out and the smaller the file sizes will actually be!
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Well folks, in about two weeks, on January 30th at 4pm, I’ll be giving a complete lecture on basically everything I know about how to have a successful blog. I’m going to deal with the topics of revenue generation, social media integration, analytics and measurement, and God only knows what else! It’ll probably be like a 1.5 hour lecture, so be prepared.

Now there are a lot of local folks who are always asking me for help and advice with your Websites. This is your chance to not only get a very hefty bit of information out of me, but to meet other people who are also interested in the same thing. So, be at this event because as you all know, I don’t have time to do this sort of thing very often. Also, the event is already overbooked so you need to register FAST in order to have a shot at getting in.
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Russell “Rockstar” Davis, from RockstarBartender.com, was kind enough to make this completely awesome flaming tequila based cocktail while I videoed it on a Canon 5D Mark II with a 15mm fisheye lens on it. The results are simply fantastic. If you’ve never seen anyone pour flaming liquid 3 feet through the air before, well… let me just say it’s a sight to behold!

Russell also made another special concoction for us on video, and I’ll get that posted as soon as I get a chance to edit it. I have a LOT of photos and videos that need editing right now, but I’ve also got a lot of other stuff going on, so it might take some time to get everything out. But I know you’ll all enjoy this one!
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	kenkliu nice work John and @Russell_Davis RT @johnpoz: Flaming Cocktails! The Blue Blazer http://onemansblog.com/blazer
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I’m an Amazon Prime member – meaning that I pay about $80 per year to get free 2nd day shipping on all my orders, no matter how big or small… as long as they are Amazon Prime eligible! As a result, I only want to search for items that are Amazon prime, but they don’t provide any easy method of doing this on Amazon.com! Grrrr!!!

So, here are two ways that I learned of which allow you to find just the Amazon prime items:

• In the search box on Amazon, simply add “amazon.com” to the end of your search. ie – “camera amazon.com”.
• Use the Firefox Greasemonkey extension with the Amazon Prime Search Improved Beta script which removes items that do not have the tag on the search results page when you are signed in as a Prime member. (Didn’t work for me for some reason.)

Hope it helps!

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Here is just a little video I threw together with my friend AJ Wood while demonstrating how to use a few of the effects in iMovie. Nonetheless, I’ve had a lot of complements on my cheeseburgers ever since I learned how to make them from the guys working the grill at Whole Foods Market in Plano, TX.

You see… what you do is put the cheese on the inside! Yeah. Take a look.

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	OriginalVlatte RT @johnpoz: Tutorial: The Inside Out Cheeseburger (Yep, Cheese on the Inside!) - http://onemansblog.com/cheeseburger
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