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Wear this MP3 player on your wrist

April 25, 2007 by Tricia

watch06_wenn1252489_0_0.jpg This MP3 Sports Wristband is one of the latest concepts in active media wear.


Nathan Davis came up with the idea for this wearable tiny iPod shuffle as a way to solve some of the problems that occur with larger sports model players such as slipping and skipping.

The Sports wristband is made of silicone and you can wear it on your arm or wrist. Music is transmitted via Bluetooth headphones which will eliminated the tangle of wires so common with many of the other conventional headphones.

There’s no word yet as to whether this product will actually go into production. It does seem like it could be a hit. What do you think?




Filed Under: Electronics, Technology News Tagged With: gadget, MP3, Mp3 player, MP3 player wristband, new Mp3 player concept, wearable Mp3 player

Bought some new domains

April 21, 2007 by Tricia

I went on a domain buying spree! No I’m not about to create a bunch of new blogs. I purchased new domains so that I could move some of my existing blogs over to their own domains.


You see, my main blog related domain is feverishthoughts.com. I had originally started the blog that is currently located on that domain on another domain that I own. It was on a sub-directory. Last June I decided that I enjoyed blogging quite a bit and I wanted to start a few more blogs but I really didn’t want them to be on my original domain. The original domain that I was using was one that I’d set up for my reptile care website. A bunch of blogs about different topics on an exotic pet domain just didn’t seem right, so that’s how I began my mini network of blogs on Feverishthoughts.

Now all those new blogs that I started last summer have grown in popularity and since I use some of them to make money and I thought that it might be better to give each of them their own domain.

Unfortunately, for a little while at least, I’m going to have twice the amount of blogging to do. You see, I don’t want to just up and move my current blogs to their new homes. The new domains don’t have any page rank yet, or any links going to them. I haven’t even begun to promote the new sites yet either, let alone installed WordPress on each of them.

What I think I’ll do is spend the next three or so months blogging regularly on the new domains. I’ll make sure that whatever posts I make on the new domain are in keeping with the topic and style of posts that are on the blogs that will be moved over to these new sites. Blogging on each of the new domains as much as twice a week for three or so months, and promoting the sites as I build them should help them gain some page rank. Once they’ve attained some page rank I’ll make the move. Or at least I think I’ll be moving them.

The blogs that I plan to move to their own domains have decent ranks now. They range from PR3 to PR4 and have good Technorati and Alexa ranks as well. They also have rss subscribers. Gee this is getting more and more difficult the more I think about it. Within the next few weeks Google will begin it’s dance and there will be a page rank update. If my current blogs go up in rank it’s going to be really hard for me to move them to their new homes and lose that rank.

I really expect my gardening site, which is currently a PR4, to move up to a PR5 and if I’m lucky it won’t take long for it to become a PR6. It’s a popular niche blog so I think I’m being realistic in that hope and well, expectation.

The new domains don’t have anything on them yet but that will change in the next few days:

As the Garden Grows – homeandgardendiva.com
Celebrity Scoop – celebrityscoop.org
WebStyle – getwebstyle.com

My husbands sites
Guitar Licks – guitarlicksandtips.com
Odd Planet – trulyoddplanet.com

and, ok I lied, there’s one brand new site:
Shopping Maniac – shoppingmaniac.net

What do you think of those domain names? As you can see I had already named the sites in a way that describes what they are about to some degree, and luckily I managed to get domains that are very similar to the original name of the site. Well, As the Garden grows will become Home and Garden Diva, but that’s descriptive too.

Filed Under: Site maintenance, Site Promotion Tagged With: blog, blogs, domain name, Google, make money, network, new blogs, new sites, niche, page rank, page rank update, paid blogging, post, posts, pr, Technorati, tips, website, Wordpress

Radia Cell phone

April 18, 2007 by Tricia

radia_phone.jpg Do you believe that this circular object is actually a cell phone? Yep, it is. It’s a clear circular concept phone designed by Michael Laut. His Radia Cell Phone seems to draw it’s inspiration from coasters doesn’t it?

Almost everyone has a cell phone these days, and since they have become such a common item it’s become important for cellular phone makers to start creating designs that stand out from the crowd. Laut says “The Radia phone concept expresses simplicity in form and sophistication in function and user interface. The outer rim, which is made of brushed aluminum makes both a refined professional statement.”

The touch display is large enough to read and display many types of information. Yet the phone is small enough to easily fit into a pocket or small purse.

What do you think of this new mobile phone design? Would you purchase one? If you would buy one would you buy it just because it’s so unusual?

Filed Under: Electronics, Technology News Tagged With: circular cell phone, new designs in cell phones, Radia, Radia cell phone

Top 30 plugins

April 9, 2007 by Tricia

There’s a great article over at Staska.net that lists the top 30 WordPress plugins. The list describes each plugin and gives the reason why it made the list. Often it’s place on the list has to do with a poll that was given to readers to find out how many were using each plugin.

I’ve used a number of the plugins that made the list and agree that many should be on the list and should be used by even more WordPress bloggers.

If I were creating this list a few of the plugins that are listed would have been given a much higher spot on the list than they are currently placed.

Go on over and have a peak at the list. I’ll bet that you find a great plugin to use.

Filed Under: Site maintenance, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: blog, Blogger, plugin, useful plugins, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin

Are you looking for a new WordPress Theme?

April 5, 2007 by Tricia

I was reading the BloggingPro blog earlier today and found a couple of new wordpress themes that I think I might try with some of our blogs. One that I downloaded – the Blogging Pro theme – will likely be used on this site. I like this theme, but it’s a bit too dark for my taste.

Speaking of themes, I also came across a post that said that HongKiat.com has a list of the 49 most downloaded WordPress themes of all time. Since I’m looking for new themes for three or four of our sites I mossied on over there to have a look.

I’m not sure that I want to use the same themes that everyone else is using. I’ve always prided myself on altering and customizing the themes that I choose to use to give our sites a unique look and feel. Well, I used to do that. I haven’t had time to customize a few of the themes I’ve been using on some of our sites lately and as a result of not customizing them I’ve grown tired of the themes rather quickly.

The list of the 49 most downloaded themes shows an image of each theme, which is nice if you are seriously looking at the list to find a new theme that might suit your site. Some of the themes listed are quite old and possibly might not work with WordPress 2.1.

Go have a look at the themes listed at HongKiat and don’t forget to visit BloggingPro too as it has some great web related information in it’s posts that I’m sure you’ll find useful.

Filed Under: Site maintenance, Wordpress Themes Tagged With: 49 most downloaded themes, BloggingPro, bloggingpro theme, HongKiat, list of wordpress themes, new wordpress theme, Wordpress, wordpress theme

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