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40.000 years ago people used stones a lot in their daily activities. Nowadays they tend to use the new iPhone 3G. But, what’s the difference between the primitive stone and this iPhone? Well, see it in the picture below.
I know, there are others too, like HTC Touch Pro and Diamond, like the new Samsung Omnia, etc. But, i played with every one of them and they have one big problem: are kind of sluggish. But, i have great expectations from this Nokia Tube, the first phone made by the Finnish on a S60 Touch operating system. And considering how fast is the S60 on e51 or N78…. well, it will kick ass! 
Blogging can be easy if you like it. But, blogging is nowadays more of a business than a hobby, so besides liking the subject you write about, you must also consider if your posts will interes other people. And, in order to keep that interest, how many hours will you have to dedicate to your blog each week.
The following presentation shows you 25 styles of blogging, what each of it means, how hard will it be to make a successful blog with that style, how much effort will you have to put in and what are the results you can potentially reach (the Buzz effect). Enjoy it.
It seems the guys at Yahoo are really struggling to revive their flagship: the portal. Thus, a couple of pics of a brand new front page redesign were released online today, looking for the public reactions to this new look.
I for one don’t use any of the services on Yahoo except its mail, but this one also has lost a lot of ground in front of Gmail in my preferences list. But, if i would be a regular Yahoo user, i believe i would appreciate the new design that seems to be more light-weighted and with less intrusive elements present on the page.
As you know from my previous episode about online stores CMS, i had to decide between Joomla + Virtuemart, Magento and x-Cart. After more than a month of testing them, i finally decided for the fourth one: Prestahop.
Prestashop is a new store CMS with its final realease being launched just this summer. But that doesn’t mean it ain’t as good as the others and even better on some aspects. So here’s why i chose this software.
I conducted these days a small Adsense test on a couple of my sites in order to find a better color scheme that would ensure me a better CTR. These schemes differs from site to site, but here is the main conclusion after the first stage of the test: blended ads are a lot better than emphasized ones.
On 3 sites i used to have the following color schemes:
Background: white
Title: blue
Url: blue
and i had the following CTR:
Site1: 4.15
Site2: 1.47
Site3: 4.34
Millions of people are using Myspace everyday. It seems that in US, everyone has a Myspace account, from politicians to lawn boys, from 80 years old grandpas to primary school kids. And even if Myspace’s traffic has gone a little bit down since last year according to this report from May, it still grabs over 70% of the social neighbourhood traffic in US and a big cut of this market on a global scale, too.
What bothers me is that, even if Myspace is so big, it’s kind of hard to get decent Myspace blog layouts these days. Most of them are just crap, full of sparkling and glittering pictures, moving images, popups, etc. Perhaps that’s what people demand, but come on, how hard can it be to find some good simple Myspace blog layouts?
With this question in mind, we started searching for the Holly grail.
After the previous post about an online CMS store, i took some time to search for the best existing software i could use. Here are the best 3 i’ve found, not necessarily in the posted order, with the pros and the cons. And you can read the conclusions at the end.
Joomla + Virtuemart (link)
Joomla has gone a lot better since the last time i wanted to use it, in 2006. This combination allows you to make something more than just a store, as with the help of the various components developed by 3rd parties, you can put together a site with almost everything you want: forum, news section, galleries, community, shop, etc. The code is a lot cleaner, there are fewer bugs, it is a little easier to customize (although you still need to get familiar with its specific coding) and you can find great premium themes for a fee from here or here.
Like the title says, i’m looking for a good online store CMS that has the following features:
Can anyone recommend me such a CMS? Free or paid, that doesn’t really matter, as long as it has the features listed above.
Oh, and one other thing. Can you point me to a good fast working web developper with decent fares? Or at least to some sites where i can find such a guy, except Rentacoder ? I’m looking for someone capable of making a site somewhat similar to this one , with a couple of changes. If you can, please provide the contact details via a comment.
Thanks in advance for your answers, i really hope you can help me with both my problems.
From the moment I’ve heard Blizzard is preparing the new Diablo 3, one quote rested in my mind: "the end of my social life is here" . Cause after all, that’s what the sequel of one of the most appreciated and played game in the history of PC games will represent: hundreds and hundreds of hours in front of the PC, building up for the final encounter with Diablo.
And here’s the first trailer of Diablo 3:
