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How To Optimize Your Website Sidebar

by Jeff Weisbein January 11, 2012

How to design an effective sidebar that provides a benefit to the visitor and to your site. An effective sidebar should have a purpose.

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Top Secret: Easily Drive Thousands of Visitors to Your Site

by Jeff Weisbein December 2, 2011

I want to let you in on a secret. Want a great way to drive traffic to your website? There is a way and it doesn’t require any type of special skill set or knowledge, in fact, all you need is good (preferably awesome) content.

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How To: Find Helpful Tech Reviews Online

by Guest Author October 21, 2011

These days, with new tech products regularly being released and an almost limitless number of websites dedicated to them online, it’s no surprise that the internet is brimming with reviews of the latest technology. Trying to decide which new smartphone to purchase? There are many people online willing to offer you input and advice. Looking [...]

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How To Fix: iPhone “Your SMS mailbox is full.” Message

by Jeff Weisbein October 15, 2011

Did you update to iOS 5 and are now experiencing this error message when using your iPhone to send/receive text messages? “Your SMS mailbox is full. New messages cannot be received until you delete some messages.”

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How To: Customize the Mac OS X Menu Bar

by Jeff Weisbein September 25, 2011

Have you ever wanted to customize your Mac OS X menu bar? Tired of the transparent white menu bar at the top of your screen? Perhaps you want a sleek black menu bar. Well, good news. Now you can have one. MenuBarFilter is an extremely lightweight app with only one purpose. It changes the color [...]

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5 Geek Tips for Surviving Without Power

by Jeff Weisbein September 1, 2011

As I prepared myself for hurricane Irene, which swept across the East coast of the United States this past week, I thought it would be worth sharing some of my (geek) tips for surviving without power. All of these tips helped me keep my sanity for the 36 hours I went without power.

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How To: Block Ads On Your Website

by Jeff Weisbein August 22, 2011

If you use Google’s Competitive Ad filter (found in the AdSense control panel), you can easily block specific URL’s of websites whose ads you don’t want to appear on your site. While this is great if you advertise a particular product and don’t want a competitors ad to show up, this is also great for people who care about the types of ads shown on their site. Let me explain.

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How To: Make Your Website Look Like A Linux Terminal

by Jeff Weisbein August 1, 2011

Have you seen my personal site JeffWeisbein.com yet? No? Go ahead, check it out. I’ll give you a minute or so. Alright, you’re back now. So now you are probably wondering how you can create a website similar to that one. Luckily, it’s fairly easy. All you need to do is copy the source code on JeffWeisbein.com, copy a text file, make a few minor modifications to both the source code and the text file, and then upload the documents to your web server.

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How To: Show the Library Folder in OS X Lion

by Jeff Weisbein July 22, 2011

In Apple’s latest release of OS X (Lion), the Library folder is hidden and not accessible by default. For some reason (probably to keep users from causing problems by deleting necessary files) Apple decided to hide it, but what about power users? How do you access the Library folder on Lion if it’s hidden? Well, thankfully, there is an easy way to tell Lion to show the Library folder.

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How To: Customize Adblock Plus for Chrome

by Guest Author July 21, 2011

With almost 130 million downloads, by far the most popular addon for Firefox is Adblock Plus which reliably blocks all forms of advertisements from the internet to make browsing less distracting, faster and safer. A few months ago, Adblock Plus was ported to the Google Chrome browser as well and in no time the community-driven open-source extension has become the second most popular extension just behind AdBlock by Michael Gundlach.

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