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If you have a website and you’re interest in increasing the traffic you get from search engines then you perhaps can recite the SEO Trinity when you’re sound asleep: Make sure that your site is optimized for search engine crawlers, and your readers of course. Create content that will …
keywords crawlers, search engine, search engines, seo, traffic
We haven’t done any pointer posts to utilities for Mac lately, so here is a nice list of 11 free tools for web designers working on OS X, from The Next Web. (Actually, at least one of them is offered for Windows as well)
keywords free tools, os x, pointer, web designers
It seems reasonable that APIs will have increasing relevance going forward. Mashape lets you list your API on their site as a way for it to gain traction by facilitating its distribution. You can even use their library to create APIs. For context, here’s an interview with Mashape’s …
keywords api, ceo, relevance, traction
Getting a new PC is great but oh the tedium of installing all the web browsers, messaging and media apps, utilities, developer tools, imaging and document software as well as security software, file sharing, etc., required by today’s modern computer user. Well, ever heard of Ninite? Simply …
keywords all the web, computer user, developer tools, tedium, web browsers
There has been plenty of talk about online content curation as a way to make sense of the information overload by relying on people we trust to point us at items worthy of our attention. Cameron Koczon takes this notion a step or two further, toward “content shifting” where users …
keywords cameron, information overload, notion
I just love niche tools that do one thing very well, and Rubular is a great example of this, if you haven’t heard about it. There are many tools for building regular expressions, but Rubular is an easy to use, dynamic web-based Ruby regular expression editor that some say is the best way to …
keywords dynamic web, niche, regular expression, regular expressions, ruby
From the Codecentric blog here is a short intro tutorial on iOS and Objective-C, meant for Java developers, covering protocols, properties, methods and messaging as well as memory management.
keywords blog, java developers, memory management, objective c, protocols
We can assume– well in fact we know–that everything in our Gmail accounts is crawled, so that we may have the most contextually relevant ads popping up within Gmail and possibly for other reasons. While you can manually turn off your web search history when you are logged into Gmail …
keywords gmail, search history, web search
Cody Burleson has a nice little tip on jarscan, a tool that enables you to find Java classes or packages in Jar files.
keywords jar files, java classes
Derick Bailey over at Los Techies wasn’t happy with the documentation he found for Thor, the handy tool for writing command line apps in Ruby, so he improved the Thor Github wiki and added a ‘getting started’ page to help.
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