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How To Use Facebook Messenger?s New Reactions And Mentions Features

Over the coming weeks, Facebook’s Messenger app, as well as Work Chat in Workplace, will be receiving an update that would bring two new functionalities for the chat app that are targeted towards group chats. The first of the two new functionalities is Message Reactions, a feature that allows users to react to a message…

5 Content Optimization Mistakes You?ll Wish You Fixed Sooner

By now you know that — technical details aside — SEO is not separate from content marketing; it?s an integrated aspect of content marketing. Optimizing your content for search engines is part of your craft and a skill you can strengthen with practice. But even when you rank well for search terms your audience uses,
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Inside America's Last Great Pinball Factory

Pinball is making a comeback, and America's last major game maker is ready.

The 3 Biggest Mistakes I Made Starting My Online Business

Setting out by yourself to start a business can be an exciting and also scary time. Whatever your reason for needing to go solo and make it on your own, what follows is usually a messy experiment of failures and successes than eventually (hopefully) becomes a business you can be ...more

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Irresistible Reading Psychology?s 6tip Guide To Great Writing

There is plenty of great advice around for creating compelling blog content. We read it, but knowing something and doing it are two different things. The missing link is often understanding the why. Why is great writing irresistible to your reader? And how to you do more of it? Here?s ...more

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Remember Stretch Armstrong? Well Say Goodbye Before The Hydraulic Press Smushes Him

Did you know Stretch Armstrong dolls are filled with gelled corn syrup? Well, you're about to see some.

Why You Should Stop Using The Term ?Blog?

Blogs, blogs, and more blogs. They?re in every corner and every pocket of the universe known as the World Wide Web. Everyone ? from professionals and teenagers to fictitious characters and even cats ? seems to have a blog. But what are they, what purpose do they serve, and do you really need one? The […]

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10 Top-notch Deals You Can Get On Amazon Today [US/CA]

Today only, you can get some great deals on mechanical keyboards, Kindle eReaders, and much more! US Deals HL8 Focusing 615 Lumen LED Headlamp ($38.40, 40% Off) HL8 Focusing 615 Lumen LED Headlamp HL8 Focusing 615 Lumen LED Headlamp Pure Beam Focusing Optic with Twist Focus Technolog Buy Now At Amazon $52.00 Light everything up without your hands with this cool headlamp. This is the lowest price it’s ever been available for, so don’t wait to pick this up! Black & Decker Lithium-Ion Drill with 30 Accessories ($41.99, 30% Off) Black & Decker LD120VA 20-Volt MAX Lithium-Ion Drill/Driver with 30...

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The Lean App Toolkit ? Your Key To Building An App People Want

The Lean App Toolkit provides entrepreneurs with instructions for building an app that people actually want to use.

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5 Ux Trends That Will Change The Web In 2017

With an increased prevail of AI services and personalization over static UX, 2017 holds a lot of changes for desktop and mobile design that are going to change the way users interact on the Internet. This article takes a closer look at some of the top UX trends for 2017 and discusses their expected effect […]

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Guy Updates His Computer With Every Single Windows Version In Sequence

And it can keep running 30-year-old programs when he reaches Windows 10.

7 Blogging Mistakes To Avoid In 2017

Everybody makes mistakes. This is something that can?t be avoided all of the time. In fact, some of those errors can turn into some of your greatest learning experiences. However, one of the best ways to save time and money in your blogging is to learn from the mistakes of ...more

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Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource

Dropsource is a brand new mobile application development platform that was built with the developer?s needs in mind. What does this mean exactly? It means that its sole purpose is to make a developer?s job easier and to make building a data-driven native mobile app as simple...

Your Digital Pinball Machine

I've had something of an obsession with digital pinball for years now. That recently culminated in me buying a Virtuapin Mini.

OK, yes, it's an extravagance. There's no question. But in my defense, it is a minor extravagance relative to a real pinball machine.

The mini is much smaller than

Reviews Can Pandora's New Premium Streaming Service Hang With The Big Guns?

Pandora's radio service and Music Genome Project have been around a lot longer than the juggernauts of on-demand music streaming. Does that tech make their new Premium service worth checking out?

Reading Roundup What?s New In Blogging Lately?

This week is all about writing (and writing lots), getting your SEO right, and decluttering your online life. Enjoy! 5 Writing Techniques that Stir Your Audience to Action | Copyblogger Emotion, Emotion, Emotion is the new Location, Location, Location. If we’re not getting our audience to feel, how are they ...more

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7 Secrets For Designing Great Forms

Almost every website design includes some type of form. From simple email address collection to sign up for a newsletter or notification to full payment collection forms, it is imperative that you design a form that?s easy to use and understand. The standards of form design are evolving as well. While many forms used to […]

100 Extraordinary Free Php Tutorials Ebooks & Pdf To Learn Programming Online

Want to learn PHP programming? You can come to the biggest resource page on the Internet for PHP learning.

PHP has become one of the most widely used programming languages which can easily be used with different platforms, such as, Linux, Windows, and Unix. Regardless of whether you are working on a big official project or are into internet marketing, PHP is used everywhere.

This language is easy to understand and work with, dynamic in nature and can merge with different kinds of RDMS.

Experienced PHP programmers may want to also check out the most common libraries in PHP that can make you supercharged PHP developer.

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Google Docs Now Has A Wordpress Plugin

WordPress has just gotten a whole lot more flexible as the content management system now has an open-source Google Docs add-on. Available on the Google Web Store page, this add-on will give integrate part of WordPress’ system into the Chrome version of Google Docs. With this add-on, those with WordPress.com blogs or WordPress websites with…

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7 Design Myths That Will Wreck Your Site

When I was a junior designer I made plenty of mistakes. I believed false assumptions mostly because I did not have the experience yet to know better. I still don?t know it all. But, I am always eager to learn new things about design and to see which preconceived notions are accurate or a complete […]

Reading Roundup What?s New In Blogging Lately?

This week’s posts made me want to live in an RV and perennially chase the warmer weather while reading more novels and finding creative ways to stay well-clear of writer’s block. Quite a good week, if I’m being honest! I think it’s probably because it’s grey and drizzly here (autumn ...more

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How Cronitor Made My Programmer Life Easier

?Time is money,? as the old saying goes. In our fast-moving world, it underlies the majority of successful stories. The favorable outcome of any business mainly depends on how good you can master this parameter. You should always be on top of your things. Not only have you to meet all the deadlines but you...

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Basic Computer Stuff Is The One Thing This Badass Secret Agent Can't Handle

Just because you're the brawn of the operation doesn't mean a little computer science background won't do you some good.

What A Grocery Trip In The 2040s Might Look Like

Cultured meat, augmented reality, genetic modification, vertical farming and automation may very well transform our relationship to food.

Everybody?s Working For The Weekday

Why do we spend so much time researching, creating, optimizing, and promoting our content? ?Geez, Stefanie. That?s a silly question,? you might be thinking. ?You of all people should know that content marketing helps with our business goals. In fact, you wrote about that last week.” And you?d be absolutely correct. But that?s not what
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Integral ? A Simple & Extraordinary Onepage Business Theme

So many themes are developed with tons of unnecessary features that are often never used and end up confusing and frustrating the end user. Themely?s approach is different; their focus is on crafting simple and elegant themes which empower their clients to build great websites, without using page builders or shortcodes. Enter Integral ? their...

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4 Financial Habits That Build Personal Wealth

Follow these four financial habits that will help you build personal wealth.

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Canadian Town's Water Starts Running Neon Pink

Potassium permanganate, a chemical used in water treatment, got into the public distribution lines, Onoway, Alberta's Mayor Dale Krasnow said. He also insisted that there was no public safety issue.

How Can Your Website Deliver A Better User Experience?

In order to answer this pertinent question, you need to consider the basis of existence of websites. The main goal is to cater for the needs of all those who visit your given site. Users could be in search of some insight on a given subject, selling and buying of various items while others may...

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Make Your Customers Super Happy With UserEngage

As any owner of a website whose task is to sell goods to people, I'm always in search of tools that will make my e-store a better place for both constant and casual users. And it is not only a matter of withstanding the tough competition that I suppose everyone in the World of e-commerce...

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7 Free Ux Ebooks Worth Reading

A hand-picked selection of free e-books that provide excellent UX advice and insights.

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Attention To Branding 20 Websites With Magnificent Logotypes

In the World of WebGL, brilliant HTML5 experiments, fancy animations and holistic user experience, sometimes we forget about the small static elements of design. They are the most vital and fundamental details that represent personality and individuality. Today we are talking about brand identity and its crucial constituent ? logotype. It can be a purely...

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6 Worth Trying Apps If You Never Did

There are many apps out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why we are sharing 6 Worth Trying Apps, If You Never Did. So, without any further ado let?s take a look at these and feel free to share...

The Golden Age Of X86 Gaming

I've been happy with my 2016 HTPC, but the situation has changed, largely because of something I mentioned in passing back in November:

The Xbox One and PS4 are effectively plain old PCs, built on:

• Intel Atom class (aka slow) AMD 8-core x86 CPU
• 8 GB RAM
• AMD Radeon 77xx

How To Craft Timelessly Powerful Stories With Freaks Cheats And Familiars

A few weeks ago, I recorded a podcast episode about Jonah Sachs’s book Winning the Story Wars. He had a particularly useful observation about three story elements that pull in audience attention. He calls them Freaks, Cheats, and Familiars. Sachs explains how these elements can be deployed, like the Hero’s Journey, to make stories much
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An Inferno On The Head Of A Pin

Today's processors contain billions of heat-generating transistors in an ever shrinking space. The power budget might go from:

• 1000 watts on a specialized server
• 100 watts on desktops
• 30 watts on laptops
• 5 watts on tablets
• 1 or 2 watts on a phone
• 100 milliwatts on an embedded system

That's

Plan A Trip To Any City With Facebook?s "city Guides"

Avid travellers could soon rely on Facebook to help them plan their trips as it appears that the social network service is currently rolling out a feature called “City Guides” to the masses. If you’re one of the early ones who’ve managed to gain access to the feature, you’ll be able to find the City…

3 Content Marketing Mysteries Solved

OK, confession time — when I was a kid, I was a complete Nancy Drew junkie. “Sleuth” sounded like just about the best way ever to spend one’s time. (Of course, that’s before I knew what a Chief Content Officer was …) This week, rather than figuring out Irene Adler’s cell phone password or who
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The Persuasive Power Of Analogy

An elderly man storms into his doctor?s office, steaming mad. ?Doc, my new 22-year-old wife is expecting a baby. You performed my vasectomy 30 years ago, and I?m very upset right now.? ?Let me respond to that by telling you a story,? the doctor calmly replies. ?A hunter once accidentally left the house with an
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What Does Guest Blogging Imply?

Guest posting is defined as that strategy employed by bloggers to boost their site?s traffic by simply generating and publishing posts on other people?s blogs. Generally, guest posting can be applied into different ways: Writing a post and letting it appear on another person?s blog Letting others write and publish their posts on your site

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Why Your Blog Needs SEO

In the second part of our three-part series on the What, How and Why of SEO and how it relates to your blog, we?ll be exploring why your blog needs SEO (you can find the first post SEO For Bloggers: A Basic Explanation here). The reasons for writing a blog ...more

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Google Keep Is Now Integrated Into Docs

Google Keep, Google’s answer to note-taking applications like Evernote and OneNote, is getting a huge bump today as the application is officially part of G Suite’s core service. For those who heavily rely on G Suite applications for their daily work, the addition of “Keep” will be useful when it comes to taking notes. However,…

A Look At The Hourly Rates Of Freelance Designers And Developers

The hourly rates of freelance designers and developers based in the U.S. are discussed in this article.

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Dealing With Taxes As A Business Owner

As a business owners, taxes can be a tough responsibility to handle. Between tracking your business finances, filing the right tax forms, and actually paying what you owe, taxes are a lot of work. But planning ahead and knowing your basic tax obligations is not too big of a challenge to wrap your arms around.

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12 Brackets Extensions That Will Make Your Life Easier

Brackets is a great source code editor for web designers and front-end web developers. You can make your Brackets experience even better with extensions.

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5 Things To Think About Before You Start A Blog

It’s time! You’ve had it in the back of your mind for a while now, but you’ve realised the hour is right to take the plunge, and you want to start a blog. Welcome! You’ve come to the right place. If creating a blog is something you’ve been thinking about ...more

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Building The Ikea Bike Is A Pain Worth Suffering Through

The Sladda is a $400 cruiser built to outrun and outlast anything else you could buy for that price at your local bike shop.

Your Own Personal Wifi Storage

Our kids have reached the age – at ages 4, 4, and 7 respectively – that taking longer trips with them is now possible without everyone losing what's left of their sanity in the process. But we still have the same problem on multiple hour trips, whether it's in a