by Ross McKillop on July 14, 2007
Have you Googled your name lately? Not entirely happy with the results? This review/overview/tutorial will help you change how you’re represented online.
There are a lot of reasons you may want to alter what comes up when people search for your name. Most likely, you’re about to enter the workforce and you don’t need recruiters and/or an HR rep. looking at your drunken antics on MySpace. The following tips and free-services can help change those Google search results to something you’re a little more proud of.
- Ziki
- LinkedIn
- Naymz
- Damage Control
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by Ross McKillop on July 1, 2007
Update: OK the 10 invites are gone. As soon as I get some more I’ll offer them up here again.
If you’re looking for someone to test it on/with, my user is: rossmckillop
Thanks to a kind user at Mashable, I now have a Pownce account. Though I gave away my first 6 invites to folks @ the same Mashable thread (hey I’m not going to mess with karma) I now have an additional 10 invites. Keep reading for a (very) quick Pownce overview, or leave a comment if you’d like an invite. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on June 8, 2007
Note: the following is not a paid review. I was approached by the folks at Answers That Work to review The Ultimate Troubleshooter. I did accept a licensed copy of the software in order to complete the following review.
What: ATW claims “The Ultimate Troubleshooter is PC healthcare, PC repair, PC tuning, and PC maintenance in Plain English” - and I won’t dispute that one bit. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on May 16, 2007
TweakVI is an application that allows you to tweak, optimize and/or change hundreds of the ‘hidden’ features of Windows Vista. It comes in 3 flavors - Basic (free), Premium ($29.99 USD) and Ultimate ($39.99 USD). This review/tutorial will focus on the free version. Keep reading to see some of the changes that I found most useful/helpful. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on May 6, 2007
by Ross McKillop on May 3, 2007
The following is a paid review: The following was supposed to be a paid review, but ReviewMe dot com didn’t pay out as they were supposed to.
When submitting the review I received the following error:
Please ensure that you have provided the link text in your post EXACTLY as shown: <a href=”http://www.apogee-search.com”>Search Engine Marketing</a>
Which, as you can see, I not only did - but I did it in the very first sentence. After four emails to ReviewMe, none of which were responded to, I suspect I will never be paid. I’m leaving the review up anyway as Apogee went out of their way to respond to my questions, and I still believe they provide a useful service.
Founded in 2001, Apogee Search is one of the largest Search Engine Marketing service firms in the US. If you spend money to buy search terms/ads, Apogee Search can help you spend your money more effectively - by understanding that click-throughs on a website mean nothing unless they lead directly to sales. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on July 28, 2006
How would you like to have a home page that is completely customized to your liking? One that allows you to read articles from all your favorite sites - as soon as they’re published. If that sounds intriguing, I’d like to introduce you to Netvibes.
Netvibes has utilized a number of the “latest” popular technologies (Ajax, RSS, Web 2.0 etc) to create a fantastic home page that anyone with a half-way decent computer and broadband connection can use, and best of all the service is entirely free.
This tutorial will guide you in setting up Netvibes (which you only need to do once), show you some of the useful features, and answer some of the frequently asked questions.. [click to continue...]
