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Google brings “Click to Call” to Mobile Ads – http://ow.ly/11OWp # Online fraud down in 2009 – http://ow.ly/11wdB # 5 Social Media Myths for business – http://ow.ly/10I9A # Social Search coming to a Google near you – http://ow.ly/11prD # Five Application Marketing Trends – http://ow.ly/10rJb # Use demo's to increase sales. – http://ow.ly/10gOY # Real time search and your business – http://ow.ly/10rI9 # New Apple tablet is finally official and called the iPad – http://ow.ly/114jJ # 13 Tactics to make Social Media Work harder. http://ow.ly/10gLV # Google Reader allows you track ANY website now, even without an RSS Feed! – http://ow.ly/10AoS # # HootSuite helps you keep your social media campaigns organized! http://hootsuite.com # comScore says global search marketing grew 46% in 2009 – http://ow.ly/ZJmM Can we expect this trend to continue in 2010

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Helpful Marketing Discussion and Resources 2010-01-31

This month we showed you the best times to buy anything, all year round, highlighted a better way to tie your shoes, discussed some problems with the Apple iPad, and a whole lot more. Here’s a quick look back. The Best Times to Buy Anything, All Year Round You’re always hearing about off-season, post-peak times to save money on purchases and food, but it always arrives too late.

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January 2010’s Most Popular Posts [[this Is Good]]

An Internet festival in Brazil billed as one of the biggest in the world has proved an irresistible attraction not only for corporate technology sponsors — but also for military recruiters and politicians.

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Brazil Internet fest targeted by military, politicians (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Nothing in today’s featured office is extraordinarily expensive or custom built, but the office looks like it was designed by a professional thanks to a unified color scheme and use of accessories. Lifehacker reader Veronica Domeier made over her home office and since then she has been steadily tweaking the layout since. She writes: So this year I decided I needed some inspiration in my home office

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Earth Tones and iMacs: A Cozy Home Office [Featured Workspace]

In an abrupt turnaround, the bookselling giant has reversed the stance it had taken with Macmillan over ebook pricing Amazon has given in over the pricing of ebooks which prompted a row with the publishers Macmillan – to the extent that Amazon stopped selling both Macmillan’s ebooks and its physical books in its US store. The initial move had generated a great deal of entirely acceptable heat for Amazon, which wanted to be able to set the prices of ebooks and was prepared to use its power in selling physical ones to do it

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Amazon admits it will have to give in to Macmillan over ebook pricing

門所需要的考試： Cisco Networking Technologies exam (INTRO)…27 Hours of Interactive Training The Cisco CCNA credential represents a basic knowledge of networking and Cisco technology….

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Learnkey Cisco Authorized CCNA Series 640.801 英文教學光碟正式版 (Cisco CCNA 認證27小時的互動式教

… powerful BIONZ image processor that allows for advanced Face Detection, Smile Shutter technology, Dynamic Range Optimizer, and Intelligence Scene Recognition. Readmore Technical Details – 12….Face Detection capture faces with natural skin tones, while Smile Shutter technology capture a smile the moment it happens….Optical SteadyShot image stabilization – 3

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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W230 12 MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom and Super Steady Shot Image Stabilization (Dark Blue)

Facebook for Silverlight Puts a Dark, Stylish Facebook on Your Desktop Chrome’s New Stable Release Brings Extensions, Bookmark Sync to the Masses Sikuli Automates Almost Anything with Screenshot Ease Weave 1.0 Syncs Nearly Everything About Your Firefox Setup Garmin Voice Studio Lets You Create Custom Voices for Your GPS Device OpenShot 1.0 Is an Actually Usable Linux Video Editor Universal Darkroom Turns Any Application Into a Distraction-Free Zone Grab Windows Monitoring Tool WinPatrol Plus for 99 Cents Google Voice Chrome Extension Makes Calling and SMS Even Easier Mac Users Can Now Upload Their Old Email Directly to Google Mail [Sponsored] NEC

Whether it’s fate, serendipity, or someone in IKEA’s design department really wanted a network rack he could put a table lamp on, the Lack-line of end tables is perfect network-rack size. If you work in a commercial setting then, naturally, you’ll have commercial network racks

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Build a Network Rack with an IKEA Table [DIY]

Readers offer their best tips for avoiding trial subscriptions that automatically charge your credit card, browsing the web without distractions, and cleaning dish towels overnight. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page

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From the Tips Box: Trial Subscriptions, Distraction-Free Browsing, and Dish Towels [From The Tips Box]

In this week’s pixel-doubled app roundup: AT&T’s entire business model, potentially vaporized! Gears and pipes, diligently organized! Google Voice , web-ized! Restaurant menus, analyzed! Ski slopes, virtualized! “Ist” sites, app(et)ized! Ebook apps, plagiarized! And more… If you’d like to view this gallery as a single page, click here . Fring : It’s the oldest VoIP app in the App Store, and Fring has always been pretty good, even though you were limited to Wi-Fi VoIP calls.

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This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

This week we saw a fancy new tablet from Apple, took a look at the best email clients around, and put the most popular browsers on the market through the paces in a performance face off. The Problem with the Apple iPad Yesterday, Steve Jobs worked his charm, attempting to wow the world with the Apple iPad, a new, super-slim computer he touted as the missing link between iPhones and laptops.

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This Week’s Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

More bad news for the browser that just won’t die: Google will phase out support for Internet Explorer 6 over the course of 2010, starting with Google Docs and ending by dropping support for Google Calendar and Gmail. From the support email that just landed in my inbox: In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.

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Google Apps Drops Support for IE6 [Bad Browser]

We haven’t seen any official announcement, but a few eagle-eyed readers pointed out that the Google Voice web interface now allows users to send text messages to multiple recipients. To send multi-recipient SMS, just click the SMS button, start typing in recipients in the Gmail-style auto-complete box, and send away

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Multi-Recipient SMS Comes to Google Voice [SMS]

Windows only: If you’ve ever come back to your PC and noticed it was rebooted, you might be curious to know exactly when it was shut down, and the Guiding Tech blog has a quick tip to help. To figure out when your PC was last rebooted, you can simply open up Event Viewer, head into the Windows Logs -> System log, and then filter by Event ID 6006, which indicates that the event log service was shut down—one of the last things that happens before a reboot. This technique won’t help you figure out when there was a power outage, but you can filter by Event ID 6005 to see when the system was last turned on—that event shows when the event log service was started again

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Use Event Viewer to Tell When Your PC Last Rebooted [Windows Tip]

iPhone/iPod touch only: The next time you’re debating trying out a new restaurant but want to check out the menu first, whip out your iPhone or iPod touch and take a look at MenuPages. MenuPages for the iPhone plugs you into the MenuPages web site ’s main database of menus. You can search for restaurants by type, location, or just call up the whole list of nearby eateries and skim it that way

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MenuPages Brings Restaurant Menus to Your iPhone [Downloads]

We’ve covered building your own pizza oven before, from nice and cheap to really cheap . But none of these were crowned Best Pizza Food Cart by vlog Ah Nom Nom ; that title belongs to San Franciscan PizzaHacker and his modified Weber Grill. Sure, PizzaHacker’s pizza is delicious because it uses choice ingredients and a sourdough recipe to die for—but the other half of the equation is FrankenWeber, his modified Weber-grill-turned-mobile-pizza-oven

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Build a Pizza Oven Out of a Weber Grill [DIY]

If you make your seafood purchasing decisions based on which stores try to minimize their impact on marine life, then you’ll want to take a look at the Supermarket Scorecard that Greenpeace put together. The Scorecard is actually a 28-page report [PDF] that takes a look at how 20 major grocery store chains approach seafood sustainability. Greenpeace ranks the best and worst places to buy fish based on the buying policies of big-name stores like Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and Costco (Walmart and Target are also on the list).

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Greenpeace Supermarket Scorecard Helps You Find Eco-Friendly Stores [Shopping]

Windows/Mac/Linux: Ever wanted to write a script for some repetitive task, but don’t know how to code? Sikuli makes it possible for pretty much anyone to automate tasks, by telling it what to do with just some screenshots and simple commands. If it has a GUI, you can probably use it with Sikuli.

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Sikuli Automates Almost Anything with Screenshot Ease [Downloads]

Pegboard is pretty awesome when it comes to organizing things but you can’t deny that it makes most people think of garages and workshops. If you want the versatility of pegboard without the garage-vibe, use grids. Gridwalls are often seen in retail shops as a way of hanging a variety of goods for display.

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Use Gridwall to Organize Your Spaces [Organization]