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Clone & Deploy Blog (Same Domain) From One Host To Another

Have you attempted to clone your blog onto another host? Have you tried backing up and transferring your WordPress blog to another host, let alone ensuring all your categories, posts, comments, permalink structure, themes, customizations and plugins are intact and activated? Was it easy and painless? <insert laugh track> Exactly! It’s painful, isn’t it? Wil…

Creating A Vlog Post From Your WordPress Dashboard For Free

Have you ever wanted a simple way to record an on-the-fly, "talking head" video blog post from within your WordPress blog’s dashboard? Now you can, with Kaltura’s free video hosting (10 GB of free hosting and streaming) and their "All In One Video Pack" Wordpres plugin. In this tutorial, I’ll show you the steps to…

25 Tools That Save Me Time And Money

Here are some online/offline tools that make my life easier: // Hardware // >> Macbook Pro (http://apple.com/macbookpro/): Convenient plug and play. Lifestyle, media and business applications are all very intuitive. Saves me time, frustration and agony not worrying about the typical annoyances on a Windows machine. Generated thousands in revenue from leveraging audio and video…

If Only I Knew In My Stocking Stuffer

‘If Only I Knew’ by Lance Wubbels is a book I found in my stocking stuffer this morning, gifted by my wonderful wife, Sarah. The byline reads, ‘Gentle Reminders to Help You Treasure the People In Your Life’. The inscription reads… To Spencer Ingvalson The precious boy who loved his yellow bike… and his mother…

Tilt Shift Generator App Demo For Easy Image Editing

Takayuki Fukatsu (@takayukifukatsu, ArtAndMobile.com), a brilliant Japanese iPhone and Flash designer and developer, created Tilt Shift Generator to help us easily create ‘toy camera’ images. Tilt Shift Generator is available as an iPhone, web-based and Adobe Air desktop app. Take your pick. In this 2:38 min video demo below, I modify a colorful royalty-free stock…

Andre Agassi’s Coach, Brad Gilbert Slaps Me In Open

Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open, is a raw and inspiring memoir that gripped me from beginning to end. You can read the hundreds of 5  star customer and editorial reviews at Amazon for yourself. I read ‘Open’ in 2 days, and brought back many wonderful memories of when I played competitive tennis as a junior. It…

Animoto Reveals High-Resolution Streaming On Unbranded Player Pages

Animoto (affiliate link), the movie trailer/music video style video creator I personally use and recommend, just released news of their 'high-resolution streaming' feature. It reminds me of the "HQ" button you can click on YouTube videos to see the High-Quality/High-Def version. Animoto gives you control of your time, budget and results when creating dynamic and…