Defragmenting (a.k.a. ‘defragging’) your hard drive is one of the best things you can do to speed up your computing experience. Here’s a simplistic analogy that will help you understand why it’s so important.
Your hard drive is like a roll of toilet paper. As your computer writes files to it, it calculates the number of sheets required to hold the file and then goes hunting. Let’s say your file requires 3 sheets. Your computer goes and finds the first three contiguous sheets available that will fit that file and …

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First, let me say up front, 25% free space is a fairly arbitrary rule of thumb. But let’s talk about the why behind it before we worry too much about the number, ok? Keeping a good chunk of space free on your hard drive is particularly important if your computer is low on RAM (memory). You see, your computer needs…

Here are my favorite 3 tricks to speed things up, only one of which costs any money.

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Here we go with a great little add-in for your FireFox browser: Alexa Sparky. Now you can see Alexa ranking data in your status bar, for your site, and every site you visit on the ‘Net! No more having to trot over to Alexa.com to check your (or anyone else’s) popularity rank.
Written by Alexa, this add-on also provides a right-click menu full of handy links that:

show how this site’s traffic compares to other sites’ traffic
shows you other sites like the one you’re on with Related Links
tells you whether this site …

There are two main ways websites are compared and ranked and each of them has problems, but nonetheless, have become the ’standard’ measurement tools. The first is Alexa ranking and the second is Google PageRank.
Today I want to introduce you to your Alexa ranking. What the heck is that? Well, it’s a popularity rank from the most popular site on the web on down. Today on the Global Top 500 list, #1 is Yahoo.com. That’s out of all the websites on the Internet. When you look at …

Well, for starters, the 3 reasons on the FireFox homepage have been true for me:

it’s faster
it’s more secure
it’s fully customizable

Given that I spend hours and hours online every day, all three of those reasons are extremely important to me.
Other reasons are:

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As we discussed, link love is a term used to describe linking to someone else’s site or blog. When you do this, you are potentially sending traffic their way, hence the ‘love’ part of the term - we all love traffic. Just like in real life, the best way to get love is to give love, and the same is true here online.
WordPress has a handy little plug-in available to help you give extra link love (automatically!) to those who comment on your blog and it’s called, no surprise, …