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Online Passive Income
I have had several conversations lately about passive income. This is my favorite type of income and accounts for over half of my monthly online earnings. Am I making a million, nope, but I can say this. The Internet is my full time job and it is paying the bills. A matter of fact, the passive [...]
WordPress 3.0 Upgrade
CyberCoded.net has been upgraded to WordPress 3.0. The one thing that really stands out to me these days is just how easy an upgrade is. A couple years ago I had to plan a few hours out of a day to do an upgrade, today I just click a button. Of course that is after I [...]
Top Ten Daily Tools
While working and sharing tips with others I have come to realize just how important some tools are to me. Some of these are not really tools, but without them I would certainly have gaps to fill in my work flow. They are not necessarily in any particular order. TextPad Firefox with FireBug extension. Chrome [...]
Customize Google Home Page with an Image
Google is rolling out a new option to allow users to customize their Google home page with their own photo or image. The feature is being rolled out in the U.S. over the next few days. As an extra incentive to try the feature they are asking people to Tweet about it…. “And if you’ve [...]
Google SearchWiki
Don’t miss the Official Google SearchWiki announcement and intro video ! The new Google SearchWiki has some pretty cool features. Although changing page rankings will not affect everyones search results it is a great way to see the notes from everyone on any given page, and this just might become as important as the rankings themselves. [...]
My Top 5 Desktop Applications List
I rarely talk about my computer, and the reason is that I try to do as much with Web Apps as I can. On any given day I will work on 3 different computers and I have to be able to keep working without skipping a beat. However, there are several desktop applications that I [...]
Google Chrome & Gmail At Odds?
I thought this was pretty funny, seems Google may need to work on some of their custom error messages. According to this error I received, Google Chrome is not a supported browser for Google Gmail?
Gmail Canned Responses
Now this is a pretty useful addition to Gmail, Canned Responses. If you find yourself answering the same question over and over in Gmail, you can just add a canned response and then set a filter to handle who the response gets delivered to automatically. This is not the same thing as autoresponders, this is [...]
Keep It Simple
Most people have heard of the old KISS Principle, Keep It Simple Stupid. The KISS Principle should also be modified for the Internet, here are some examples: Keep It Simple Social (Networking) Keep It Simple SEO Keep It Simple SEM One of the things I have noticed over the last few years is how so [...]
Social Media in the Workplace
While doing research recently I kept coming across job postings for different Social Media positions with larger companies. In between the lines a couple things got my attention. Why does a Social Media person need to be in a Corporate office? Are we already painting ourselves into a corner with the term Social Media? When [...]
Google Chrome Under the Hood
I can not claim to really understand the in depth processing under the hood of Google Chrome, however, I have found it interesting to watch the processes it is doing compared to FireFox. Using Sysinternals Process Explorer makes it very clear that each tab is using an independent process space while maintaining connectivity to some [...]
