mrohde on August 29th, 2010

For those new to blogging and web development this provides a great overview of how Google search really works.  It explains spiders, PageRank, latent semantic indexing (LSI) in very basic terms. This video certainly doesn’t explain how to “game” Google but the concepts extend how to make your good and relevant content more noticeable in  search tools. Technorati Tags: Google, [...]

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I have spent quite a bit of effort honing my skills to make sure that I get things done and more importantly get the right things done but one of the great equalizers seems to be the e-mail in box. I have found a couple great blog post that are worthy of sharing as well [...]

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With the volume of e-mail steadily increasing it’s always a challenge to keep my in in box in check. While I monitor e-mail consistently throughout the day when I am away from my computer conversations continue and the number of e-mails related to topics continue to mount. To save myself time looking at numerous e-mails [...]

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mrohde on August 27th, 2010

One of the Google tools that I frequently use is the Sync application, which allows a user to synchronize the Google Apps calendar with Outlook. Upon the release of Outlook 2010 the application stopped working but in recent days is it is now back online. Welcome back Google Sync! Related articles by Zemanta Google Adds [...]

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In a recent CNN article the president of Clarian Power was interviewed about a their new plug-in power system that can provide solar and wind power for home owners. This is a unique solution because it plugs directly into a standard electrical outlet to off-set the power that you purchase from the grid. To be [...]

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Image via Wikipedia This morning when booting my Windows 7 computer I was greeted an error stating: “The server is not responding properly. Verify that the Credential Manager server is properly installed on the target server” when trying to log in. Interestingly this we not the first time I had see the problem since a [...]

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mrohde on August 8th, 2010

I have been using LinkedIn for a number of years to stay in touch with my business and social contact. While I actively use the site I found that it is easier to monitor the network activity on the site from my favorite RSS reader and see when my contact make a link to somebody [...]

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mrohde on August 7th, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Among the most interesting and educational sights on South Padre Island is the Sea Turtle Rescue Center.  The center is locate on Padre Boulevard near the South Padre Convention center and is comprised of a small give shop and educational center and nearly a dozen tanks containing injured sea turtles. The rescue [...]

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