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		<title>Jobseeker: Making Job Hunting in Australia Practically Enjoyable</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Scutari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,&#8221; said Charles Dickens in &#8220;A Tale of Two Cities.&#8221;  And in a similar way, the same can be said about the global job market.  Except for the &#8220;best&#8221; part.
The fact of the matter is that in most economies, the job market is still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,&#8221; said Charles Dickens in &#8220;A Tale of Two Cities.&#8221;  And in a similar way, the same can be said about the global job market.  Except for the &#8220;best&#8221; part.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that in most economies, the job market is still somewhat bleak.  Take Australia, for example.  Just a few days ago came news that unemployment is likely to <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/retail-manufacturing-woes-drag-job-market-down/story-e6frg926-1226242121732">creep up</a>, reversing a happy trend that saw job vacancies in the private sector decrease by almost four percent in November.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the point?  The point is thus: still mired in employment purgatory, millions of Australians are looking for jobs, and the &#8220;blindly send out 4,234 resumes a day&#8221; strategy isn&#8217;t the best use of their time.  They need customization, ease of use, precision.  They need <a href="http://jobseeker.com.au">Jobseeker.com.au</a>.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_6720" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.jobseeker.com.au/"><img class="size-full wp-image-6720" title="Jobseeker Home" src="http://slapstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/home.png" alt="Jobseeker Home" width="500" height="188" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jobseeker Home</p></div></p>
<p><a href="http://jobseeker.com.au">Jobseeker.com.au</a> is a free <a href="http://www.jobseeker.com.au/">Australia job search</a> aggregator that makes searching for a job far less dreadful than it normally is.  In fact, it makes it enjoyable.  So let&#8217;s take a look, shall we?</p>
<p>At first, once you reach the home page, you may feel like you&#8217;ve stumbled upon the wrong site.  It&#8217;s simple and clean.  A bit <em>too</em> simple and clean.  You may wonder, where are the bells and whistles?  The annoying flashing ads?  The company spokesman who eerily resembles a used car salesman?  Answer: they&#8217;re not here, and that&#8217;s the beauty of it all - Jobseeker has the simplest, most intuitive interface in the job search business, and as we shall see, it makes navigation a breeze.</p>
<p>There are simply two boxes: &#8220;Keywords&#8221; and &#8220;Location.&#8221;  I typed in &#8220;Android&#8221; and &#8220;Sydney,&#8221; the logic being, as far as <a href="http://www.jobseeker.com.au/Sydney-NSW-jobs">Sydney jobs</a> go, being an Android developer would be cool.   The results popped up, and if the results look familiar, it&#8217;s no coincidence: they resemble the Google Search results, bringing an air of comfort and familiarity to the proceedings.</p>
<p>From there, the options are limitless and actionable: you can create an email alert for the search, calculate jobs within certain kilometer radius from Sydney (or any city), sort jobs by list date, title, location, job type, and source (e.g. job placement services.)  Pretty cool.</p>
<p>Clicking on a job directs you to the source itself.  So, in the case where I clicked on a certain position, I was taken to <em>The West Australian</em>, where I could read up on the iPhone/iPad/Android Developer gig.  From the Search results page I could Save the job (registration is required), thereby creating an easy-to-manage dashboard of all active job prospects, which is a stark improvement over, say, trying to do it in Gmail, or Godforbid, a spreadsheet.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_6721" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.jobseeker.com.au/j?q=Android&amp;l=Sydney+NSW"><img class="size-full wp-image-6721" title="Jobseeker Android Jobs in Sydney" src="http://slapstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/results.png" alt="Jobseeker Android Jobs in Sydney" width="500" height="425" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jobseeker Android Jobs in Sydney</p></div></p>
<p>These filtering tools are especially cool because pretty quickly users will pick up on certain trends that will, over time, make the job-hunting process more efficient.  They may soon find, for example, that jobs listed by a certain source, say the recruiting firm Skillquest, are far more attractive and applicable than from a competing firm.  Another example: in the Search results, under a specific job summary, there&#8217;s a &#8220;More&#8221; link.  Click on it, and you&#8217;ll find the permalink to the job, duplicate jobs, and jobs from the same source/recruiters.  And the fact that jobs can be searched by &#8220;Type&#8221; - full-time, contract, casual/temporary, etc. - saves time as well.</p>
<p>Which brings me back to &#8220;A Tale of Two Cities.&#8221;  Full disclosure: I never read it, but it takes place during the French Revolution.  The French Revolution, as you may recall, was a&#8230;messy affair.  Lots of angry mobs, castles being stormed, and that tremendously efficient innovation named after a French doctor named <a title="Joseph-Ignace Guillotin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin">Joseph-Ignace <em>Guillotin</em></a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d venture to say that taken in context, our present-day challenge of job-hunting - especially with an easy, free, and intuitive <a href="http://www.jobseeker.com.au/">job search</a> platform like <a href="http://jobseeker.com.au">Jobseeker.com.au</a> - maybe isn&#8217;t so bad after all.  Sure, not the &#8220;best of times,&#8221; but certainly not the &#8220;worst.&#8221;  More like &#8220;not the best, but certainly not the absolute worst of times where, among other things, you could get beheaded for looking at someone the wrong way.&#8221;</p>


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		<title>ImgBox: Fast, Simple, and Guilt-Free Image Hosting for a More Harmonious Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Scutari</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you think of the Internet, what words spring to mind?  Think it over.  I&#8217;ll wait.</p>
<p>OK.  Time&#8217;s up.</p>
<p>For me, when I think of the Internet, I think of, naturally, the words &#8220;Thomas Hobbes.&#8221;</p>
<p>You know good ol&#8217; Tom, right?  He was the famous English philosopher, mostly known for his political stuff, and he coined the phrase &#8220;nasty, brutish, and short&#8221; when describing ancient society.  That&#8217;s what life was like before pre-historic man decided to set up some form of &#8220;government&#8221; and relinquish total freedom.</p>
<p>After all, since life was chaotic and dangerous, why not band together and implement order, so people can live, work, and eat their wooly mammoth drumsticks in peace?</p>
<p>And the same goes for the Internet.  It can be a wild, anarchic, and downright mean place.  But fortunately every now and then someone comes along to make things less inimicable.  <a href="http://imgbox.com/">ImgBox</a>, which provides fast and simple image hosting, is just that someone, and - not coincidentally - they&#8217;re today&#8217;s feature.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_6699" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://imgbox.com/"><img class="size-full wp-image-6699" title="ImgBox Home" src="http://slapstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/home.png" alt="ImgBox Home" width="500" height="331" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">ImgBox Home</p></div></p>
<p>ImgBox lets you safely and ethically upload images and then link to them from their site.  I say &#8220;ethically&#8221; because ImgBox solves the brutish problem that has continued to proliferate across the Internet, and that would be hotlinking.</p>
<p>No, &#8220;hotlinking&#8221; it isn&#8217;t a drunken, bratwurst-infused tailgating ritual outside of Lambeau Field on Packers game day; rather, hotlinking is when people link directly to images from other places.</p>
<p>Traditionally, it has gotten a bad rap because people who hotlink an image from someone else&#8217;s website, rather than uploading the photo on their own server, are essentially stealing the host image&#8217;s bandwidth.  Not cool.   And it&#8217;s into this Hobbesian dystopia that steps ImgBox, who establishes order and calm by saying, &#8220;Hey guys, we got this.  Host your images on our server, and hotlink to them all you want.  It&#8217;s on us.  Keep your server free for more important stuff, like that pirated copy of the new Sherlock Holmes movie that looks all pixilated and washed out.&#8221; (I saw a guy watching it on a plane the other day.)</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s true, there&#8217;s no catch.  Uploading images to Imgbox is like exiting an online confession booth - you feel clean and free having hotlinked without shame or guilt.  But how&#8217;s the site itself?  Glad you asked.</p>
<p>The interface is simple and clean and first-time visitors are immediately prompted to &#8220;Select Files&#8221; to upload.  I did - it was a simple old jpeg - and then was prompted to select the content type (Safe for Work or Not Safe for Work), Thumbnail Size, and Gallery Option, meaning I could create a gallery to put it in should I felt so inclined.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_6700" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://imgbox.com/"><img class="size-full wp-image-6700" title="ImgBox Photo Upload" src="http://slapstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/upload.png" alt="ImgBox Photo Upload" width="500" height="330" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">ImgBox Photo Upload</p></div></p>
<p>I did it and was then taken to a veritable buffet of link-hosting options pertaining to the image.  There was the url for the image itself, a link to it, as well as the HTML and BB code for copy and pasting purposes.  And that was that.  Imgbox also brings of host of other goodies to the table.  It&#8217;s really fast, has 10MB maximum file size, and boasts unlimited storage space and time. No sign up is required, it&#8217;s free, and you also have the option of creating your own account in order to keep track of your images and galleries or edit and delete old images.  And most importantly, your images are confidential and hidden from search engines on ImgBox&#8217;s site.</p>
<p>The practical benefits of a service like ImgBox, of course, are obvious.  More than ever, &#8220;content is king,&#8221; and ImgBox can be, in essence, your own personal server to upload content that can be linked to websites, blogs, eBay auctions, you name it.  So, if you ask me, ImgBox provides a must-have service while eliminating the sticky moral quandaries associated with old-school hotlinking.</p>
<p>Which brings us back to Hobbes.</p>
<p>His main thing was that to avoid mass chaos, people form social contracts that, in turn, form the basis of civil society.  And while the Web may be far from tamed, ImgBox&#8217;s offering - in essence, a social contract enabling users to hotlink to them for free and in an ethical manner - signifies one small step to a more just, cultured, and civilized Web.</p>
<p>(Now if they could just find a way to purge all images of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/the-kardashian-christmas-_n_797341.html">Kardashians</a>.  Then we&#8217;d be talkin&#8217; some straight-up <em>Utopia </em>action.)</p>


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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gibson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The  secret to becoming a power computer user is by using the keyboard.  Although the mouse is a great tool for novice users, ultimately it&#8217;s  faster to find your way around by knowing keyboard shortcuts. For  instance when you&#8217;re filling out a form it&#8217;s quicker to press tab to  switch [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The  secret to becoming a power computer user is by using the keyboard.  Although the mouse is a great tool for novice users, ultimately it&#8217;s  faster to find your way around by knowing keyboard shortcuts. For  instance when you&#8217;re filling out a form it&#8217;s quicker to press tab to  switch from field to field. Or if you&#8217;d like to save a document you can  press control-S, rather than search for the buttons through the  navigation menu.</p>
<p>One  of the most common workflows is for people to press control-C to copy  and then control-V to paste. Many of us do this multiple times a day.  For instance you&#8217;re reading an article online and come across a term or  name you aren&#8217;t familiar with. You cut and paste the name into a Google  search box. Or perhaps you come across something you&#8217;d like to buy.  Again, you press control-C and then navigate out to Amazon to explore it  further. It seems many of these repetitive key and click workflows all  start with control-C.</p>
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<p>One  of the hallmarks of good User Design is reducing the number of buttons  people have to press to do what they&#8217;d like. So it stands to reason that  a better design would start with when users press control-C, and then  fast forward to what they would like to do. Such a fast forward option  now exists, with click.to. click.to, found at <a title="click.to" href="http://www.clicktoapp.com/" target="_self">clicktoapp.com</a>, is a small desktop app that will revolutionize the way you use the computer.</p>
<p>Once  installed click.to tracks the times users add items to their clipboard.  That is, every time they press control-C or right click and copy. Once  the item is added to the clipboard an opaque set of buttons appears from  which the user can click. They can press one of these buttons, and in  one fell swoop they can complete the action they were planning. So if I  copy a name to the clipboard intending to enter it in Google search, as  soon as I press control-C I&#8217;ll be presented with a series of buttons.  From there I can select Google, and with that my default browser will be  opened to Google&#8217;s search page with the term&#8217;s search results  displayed. The total effort exerted by me consists of pressing control-C  and then a single click.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_6690" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.clicktoapp.com/overview-features/facebook/"><img class="size-full wp-image-6690" title="click.to uploading a photo to Facebook" src="http://slapstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/clickto_facebooken.png" alt="click.to uploading a photo to Facebook" width="500" height="230" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">click.to uploading a photo to Facebook</p></div></p>
<p>This  simple workflow is certainly convenient when it comes to searching  terms on Google. This is just scratching the surface though. click.to  really starts to shine as you add more and more apps to your list.  There&#8217;s anything from making Twitter posts, Facebook updates, uploading  pics to Flickr, and any number of actions you might do online. It makes  navigation of the web quicker, faster, and easier.</p>
<p>The  other workflow that click.to automates are for local apps. So if you  highlight and copy text that you&#8217;d like to include in a Word document,  you can do so. Or if you come across data that you&#8217;d like to add to  Excel it can just as easily be added there as well. All these user  workflows are common tasks people do in their day to day work. click.to  makes them a few steps shorter.</p>
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<p>The  list of web and desktop apps that are supported by click.to includes  many of the most popular apps. It&#8217;s by no means a comprehensive list of  apps though. If there&#8217;s an app that someone uses frequently they can add  it as a custom app. That way people can customize their workflows both  locally and online so common tasks are just one click away.</p>
<p>Visionaries  and entrepreneurs attempt to come up with new and innovative ways for  people to utilize computers. These include touch screens, optical  readers, and any number of ways to send and receive information from the  computer. click.to makes logical and good use of the tools at hand and  makes them easier to use. Rather than clicking multiple times to upload a  photo, or search on a term, you only need to click once. It&#8217;s the new  way to open applications and helps us get to where we&#8217;re going faster.</p>


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		<title>uTales: Read and Create Children’s Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gibson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine once pointed out a difference between people who lived on the poorer side of town, and the richer. She noted that on the wealthier side of town were people who read. They would read journals, novels, biographies, or any number of types of literature. This of course isn&#8217;t a hard and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine once pointed out a difference between people who lived on the poorer side of town, and the richer. She noted that on the wealthier side of town were people who read. They would read journals, novels, biographies, or any number of types of literature. This of course isn&#8217;t a hard and fast rule, but those who enjoy constantly filling their mind and imaginations with information, tend to be more successful.</p>
<p>The joy of reading starts at a very early age. The classic adage is that kids go to school to learn their ABCs. This can be taken as a figurative way of saying that they&#8217;re laying the foundation of learning upon which they&#8217;ll build their lives. And it all starts with reading.</p>
<p>As such, there are entire categories of books geared for each step of the way. First kids start with picture books, which may include a few words or two. Gradually those words come to form sentences, and eventually they become full fledged stories. As children become more adept at understanding the text, the pictures all but disappear. These part text, part picture books are an essential step in learning to read.</p>
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<p>Bringing this entire process online, is <a title="Online books for kids" href="http://utales.com/">uTales</a>. uTales is a twofold website. First and foremost, it&#8217;s a site where children can download imaginative and creative books suitable for their reading level. Second, it&#8217;s a place where people can create such books and make them available for all. That is to say, it&#8217;s an online publishing network for authors and designers of children&#8217;s books. The entire suite of books is available on the iPad, iPhone, home computer, with Android access coming soon.</p>
<p>The core of uTales is the <a title="uTales books" href="http://utales.com/books">books themselves</a>. These can be sorted by language, age group, and category. Most are available in the $3 to $4 dollar range, or you can sign up for $10/month for full access. These brightly illustrated books bring to life the stories within, helping to open up the world of reading to children. There&#8217;s a free trial for those who&#8217;d like to test it out first.</p>
<p>In the same way that authors tend to disappear behind the text of their creations, so they are in the background with uTales as well. Most people will come to the site to download and read books on their mobile devices. But the authors&#8217; section is a rather impressive application, built with professional book design in mind. It comes with a drag and drop book creator where you can add text and images to create the story. A likely workflow is that an author will partner with a designer who will collectively create the story online. Once finished they can press the publish button and begin selling their creation. A set of How-To tutorials for authors can be <a href="http://utales.com/talers/howtos">found here</a>. All books are reviewed prior to publication to ensure they&#8217;re suitable for the intended audience.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_6681" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://utales.com/books/i-cant-hear-you-i-cant-see-you"><img class="size-full wp-image-6681" title="I Can't Hear You, I Can't See You" src="http://slapstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/penguinbook.png" alt="I Can't Hear You, I Can't See You" width="500" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">I Can&#39;t Hear You, I Can&#39;t See You</p></div></p>
<p>If you&#8217;re going to build a web application, you might as well do a complete job at it. uTales does just that with its all in one publishing network and book store front for children&#8217;s stories. It gives seasoned professionals a venue to distribute their creations, and allows amateurs to try their hand at creating children&#8217;s stories. The net result is that there will be more, quality children&#8217;s books available.</p>
<p>The gift of reading is one that stays with you for life. The best time to teach it is when children are young. uTales opens up this gift in a new way, so children can access books digitally, rather than the Crayola scribbled books that litter their play areas. It helps kids learn the love of reading, and facilitates the creation and distribution of books.</p>


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		<title>JotForm: The Form Experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gibson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Using their tools allows developers to work on the more pressing aspects of their sites, and leave the forms to those who enjoy them most.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s said that one of the secrets to success is being dedicated to one thing. By investing oneself wholly and completely into a certain field you&#8217;re bound to become knowledgeable in it. Over time you&#8217;ll know instinctively how to accomplish things better, smarter, and faster. This doesn&#8217;t happen overnight; it takes years to build up one&#8217;s repertoire of expertise.</p>
<p>When it comes to being an expert in web building, one piece of building websites is to include forms. Forms are found in just about every website out there. They&#8217;re the basis of what makes the internet interactive and have allowed for online communities to exist and ecommerce to thrive. Just about everybody who can build a website can build a form.</p>
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<p>So why is there a need to outsource such a simple endeavor? It&#8217;s just as easy to create the form yourself, which most people know how to do anyway. As it turns out, there are forms, and then there are <em>forms</em>. A barebones minimalist form will do little to impress your user base. Drab text boxes with a few radio buttons will get the job done, but to spruce things up you need a better solution. You need <a title="JotForm" href="http://www.jotform.com/">JotForm</a>.</p>
<p>JotForm is built by form people. We aren&#8217;t sure exactly what form people are like, but we do know they exist. Just like all of us have hobbies of various sorts, the JotForm folks are really into forms. Make fun if you must, but the JotForm people have come up with a fully featured form builder tool. Moreover, it&#8217;s free for limited usage. Impressively, they don&#8217;t curtail the functionality for non paid accounts, only the overall usage.</p>
<p>A JotForm form is special in that it provides many easily integrated widgets you can add to your form. Its drag and drop interface allows people to add all the basic form information and then a variety of other features as well. These include, surveys, payment options, calendars to pick dates, and a Captcha option. I have a <a title="Captcha Alternatives" href="http://www.sitepoint.com/captcha-problems-alternatives/">soft spot for Captcha systems</a>, in case anyone&#8217;s wondering. The full listing of form options can be found on their site, which will undoubtedly impress most web developers. The star rating system, slider, and grading options are particularly interesting. For advanced users you can set up conditions based upon users&#8217; actions. You can also integrate it with a Facebook application.</p>
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<p>Once you&#8217;ve constructed the form the only thing left to do is post it online. There are many different embed options including iFrame, Lightbox, Pop-up, or you can use the source code. The simplest is to embed it on a web page just like a video or any other embeddable object.</p>
<p>JotForm is the type of tool that we could talk at length about, or just direct you to their service. The WYSIWIG interface is one of the best we&#8217;ve seen and is worth a look-see for all web design enthusiasts. And with that, we applaud JotForm for their sincere and heartfelt dedication to an aspect of web development that is both critical and a tad bit mundane. Using their tools allows developers to work on the more pressing aspects of their sites, and leave the forms to those who enjoy them most.</p>


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		<title>Whatfolio: Bands, Business, or Personal Portfolios</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gibson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With it all people can bring a site online, which can be viewed across multiple mobile apps.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those who follow along closely, we at SlapStart are always enthusiastic about sites that have anything to do with bands. Bands are the opposite of the boring life. In a band you stand before the roar of the crowds, you live the life of luxury, and people buy you free beer. Well, the reality is you stand before half filled rooms of people who might be listening. And we don&#8217;t recommend quitting the day job, but people do still offer you free beer. At least the bartender tends to send some up to you. Sometimes. It happened at least once I think. Anyhow, bands are good.</p>
<p>What bands need most is for people to get the word out about their music. In fact, this is what every start-up initiative needs. Consultants need a home online to direct people to. Many people enjoy having a home page that represents their skills and interests. By now just about everybody has a homepage online somewhere.</p>
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<p>Portfolio pages can be created in a variety of different ways. The truly inspired can build them from scratch with HTML and style sheets. This presents the issue that you&#8217;re reinventing the wheel each and every time. Sidestepping this is to hire someone to build one for you. Those who are skilled in the arts of web development will almost invariably be faster and better than people setting one up for the first time. But paying someone may cost more money than you intended. It also requires a certain amount of oversight to ensure the final product is to your liking. There needs to be a way to build a site on your own but doesn&#8217;t make you start from scratch.</p>
<p>As it turns out there are many ways to utilize prebuilt tools to build websites. Google and Yahoo offer various versions of these, along with any number of other vendors. The question becomes which should you choose, and why. <a title="Whatfolio" href="http://whatfolio.com/">Whatfolio</a> is one such provider of online portfolio building tools, and they bring a new slant to their product. You can not only build a website, but it&#8217;s readily converted to be iPad, tablet, or mobile device format as well. With it anybody can access your site from the device that&#8217;s most convenient to them. So if you meet someone at a social gathering and want to share your site, they can bring it up on their Droid or Blackberry right then and there.</p>
<p>When building any site content is key. Whatfolio&#8217;s prebuilt pieces give you a number of widgets you can add. These include Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, or RSS feeds from your <a title="SlapStart Feeds" href="http://slapstart.com/feed/">favorite blog</a>. You can also add content from your Tumblr account including posts, photos, quotes, music, and videos. Or you include your Blogger account. Finally, and true to our highest ideals, you can add Bandsintown and Soundcloud. What would the world be without music?</p>
<p><div id="attachment_6661" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://whatfolio.com/#!prettyPhoto"><img class="size-full wp-image-6661" title="Whatfolio Home" src="http://slapstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/home2.png" alt="Whatfolio Home" width="500" height="317" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Whatfolio Home</p></div></p>
<p>The core offering for Whatfolio is free. You can set up an online portfolio and point the entire world to it. Soon to be offered you&#8217;ll have the ability to remove the Whatfolio branding and solely include your own logos and labels. You can also use your own domain, which makes it a fully white label solution.</p>
<p>Whatfolio is a dynamic tool that people can utilize to create a presence online. Whether they&#8217;re a business, an inspired individual, or an up and coming band, it&#8217;s an easy way to set up an attractive portfolio website. With it all people can bring a site online, which can be viewed across multiple mobile apps.</p>


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		<title>BroadbandGenie: Independent Broadband and Smart Phone Price Comparisons in Plain English</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Scutari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ BroadbandGenie's primary value proposition is its objectivity and its keen ability to articulate complex telecom and networking terms in plain-spoken English.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m in the early stages of trying to find a flight home for Christmas.  It&#8217;s not pretty.  Airfare is ridiculously high and showing no signs of coming down - yet.  Fortunately, there are a ton of cool tools like kayak.com and orbitz.com to help me search multiple carriers for the best deal.  The same thing can be said nowadays with car insurance, home electricity, hotels, and so much more.  It&#8217;s a good time to be a consumer.</p>
<p>But what about shopping for your home broadband, mobile broadband, or smart phone?  After all, there are tons of providers out there, and as anyone who&#8217;s checked their monthly bills can attest, the fees sure add up.  Well, now there is a third-party, unbiased site to help you intelligently shop around for the best broadband and smart phone deals out there: <a href="http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broadband/uk">BroadbandGenie</a>.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_6653" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk"><img class="size-full wp-image-6653" title="BroadbandGenie Home" src="http://slapstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/home1.png" alt="BroadbandGenie Home" width="500" height="317" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">BroadbandGenie Home</p></div></p>
<p>BroadbandGenie provides, in their own words, &#8220;a place where UK consumers can learn about home broadband, mobile broadband and <a title="Smartphones" href="http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/smartphones">smartphones</a> and how to compare broadband providers in an unbiased, independent, plain-English environment. We maintain reviews and price comparison data for all the leading broadband ISPs and mobile broadband networks, and many of the smaller ones too.&#8221;</p>
<p>The site makes navigation simple.  Just choose from one of four major boxes: compare home broadband, mobile broadband, smart phones, and talk to a human (what a concept!)  Then there are also cool deals available, consolidated on its mobile broadband with iPad and <a href="http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/mobilebroadband/tablet-pc">tablet PC deals page</a>.  BroadbandGenie is ahead of the curve on this one, as anyone who&#8217;s been following the smart phone market will tell you.  For those not in the know, we just learned a few weeks ago that Amazon has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/technology/anticipated-amazon-tablet-to-take-aim-at-apple-ipad.html?pagewanted=all">officially entered</a> the tablet arms race; the online retailer, along with other electronics manufacturers believe that they can effectively go after and undersell Apple.  It&#8217;ll cause many sleepless nights for business managers over there, but it&#8217;s great news for consumers, which is why BroadbandGenie&#8217;s offering is so cool.  It provides a subsidized iPad or tablet PC with a pay-monthly mobile broadband contract.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/mobilebroadband/tablet-pc">Take a look</a> at what they&#8217;re offering and you&#8217;ll quickly see it&#8217;s a veritable buffet of tablet goodness.  For example, for £149 upfront and £25 per month, I can get a 24-month contract for a 64GB iPad with speeds of 7.2Mb and 15 GB&#8217;s worth of downloads per month.  And that&#8217;s just one of many deals available - all of which will fit into your budget.  In addition, BroadbandGenie takes the lessons taught us by Amazon and their ilk by providing informative, peer reviews so you know what you&#8217;re buying in advance.</p>
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<p>The same principles also apply to UK <a href="http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broadband/uk">broadband comparison</a>.  Now call me a technology neophyte, but back when I was in England in 1998 I was struck by the sophistication of the country&#8217;s mobile devices and networks.  (I mean, here in 2011 my friend still can&#8217;t get reception in a small American city; he has AT&amp;T, of course.)   The UK&#8217;s wireless infrastructure has only improved in the past decade or more, and given the fact that there are multiple broadband providers vying for your business, BroadbandGenie&#8217;s comparison tools, deals, and peer reviews can save you time and money.</p>
<p>Check the <a href="http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broadband/uk">link</a> and you&#8217;ll see a host of UK broadband deals available.  The top deal - which comes along with a 69% approval rating of users - finds Sky offering £5 per month unlimited broadband for six months, plus 20 MB broadband with unlimited downloads.  After seeing this, as an experiment, I went to Sky&#8217;s website to shop around for similar deals.  I was confused.  I mean, they had a &#8220;Shop&#8221; selection on the navigation bar, but under it, there were multiple, seemingly repetitive options, &#8220;Bundles and Offers&#8221; versus &#8220;Broadband &amp; Talk&#8221; versus &#8220;Buy Sky.&#8221;  My point: it took me a whopping .05 seconds to find that killer Sky deal on BroadbandGenie&#8217;s site, whereas after a minute or two on Sky&#8217;s home page, I found myself flustered, irritated, and just not fun to be around.  Throw in the fact that Sky is just <em>one</em> single provider - others include Virgin, Talk Talk, Plusnet, BT - and you can see how difficult it truly is to shop around on your own.</p>
<p>Ergo, the beauty of BroadbandGenie: it consolidates deals from multiple UK providers so you don&#8217;t have to, saving you time and money in the process.  Most importantly, it has no broadband dog in the hunt, as we awkwardly say here in the States; meaning, BroadbandGenie&#8217;s primary value proposition is its objectivity and its keen ability to articulate complex telecom and networking terms in plain-spoken English.  How refreshing.</p>


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		<title>Replo: Tracking Ad Efficacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gibson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With it web development and marketing firms can clearly document the effectiveness of their ad spend and make quantitative decisions with that information.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Internet marketing is one of the weirdest things in the world. People carry on with the oddest antics in an attempt to get more attention. Some employ complex keyword schemes to trick Google into sending them more search traffic. Others establish voting brigades on social networks to push their preferred content to the top. Still others <a title="Golden Palace my goodness" href="http://thinkguerrilla.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/golden-palace-tattoo/">tattoo their logo</a> on persons of questionable character. Sometimes I stop and wonder, how did it ever come to this?</p>
<p>One of the tried and true methods of gaining internet traffic is to pay for it. You pay an advertiser to host your ads on their network of sites. Many if not most web developers take part in this either as a host or advertiser. This method is a great way to bring an immediate influx of targeted users. It&#8217;s also a great way to spend a whole lot of money. As paid advertising can be a costly endeavor businesses would do well to track the success of their campaigns. They need to know which advertisers are leading to the highest conversion rates. Once you have more than one advertiser in the mix and target multiple pages this data becomes fleeting and time consuming to monitor.</p>
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<p>Providing a tool that gives marketers, advertisers, and site owners full insight into the effectiveness of their ad campaigns is <a title="Replo" href="http://www.replo.com/">Replo</a>. You can install simply tracking codes which will produce full reports to monitor the success of your ad campaigns. Replo is a tool for a web development and marketing firms to implement so they can provide reports back to their clients.</p>
<p>A full articulation of Replo&#8217;s usage can be <a title="Start here" href="http://www.replo.com/support/start-here/">found here</a>. A high level overview is you first create a client. Next you create a campaign. From there you follow the campaign wizard to set up tracking for your ad campaign. The campaigns consist of goals, landing pages, ads, advertising channels, and then routing rules. The goals could be something like selling more mud masks or registering new users. The landing pages are the pages that the user will arrive on once they click an ad. The ads are typically banner or text ads that link to the landing pages. Advertising channels are the sites that will host your ads. And the routing rules explain all the different paths between ads, advertising channels, and landing pages. You may have the same ad hosted on multiple sites, targeting multiple pages on your own. You can set up all the various paths to your content so all the data is collected.</p>
<p>Replo allows multiple methods of deployment as well. Ads can have a tracking code installed on the link so Replo will know where it came from. Or the ads can be tracked by the landing page itself. The latter is useful if you include an easy to type URL in a mailer offline. That way you can even track offline marketing efforts. You can also track ads using redirects from Replo, which routes the user for a split second to Replo&#8217;s server and then on to the landing page. Replo just provides the tools, clients can select the solution that works best for them.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_6626" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 444px"><a href="http://www.replo.com/"><img class="size-full wp-image-6626" title="Replo Dashboard" src="http://slapstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/dash.png" alt="Replo Dashboard" width="434" height="316" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Replo Dashboard</p></div></p>
<p>As the data is collected there are many ways to filter it. You can slice and dice it however you like. If you&#8217;d like to see all the goals achieved from a certain advertising channel you can filter on that. Or if you&#8217;d like to see which advertising channels had the most conversions across the board that&#8217;s readily viewable as well. It provides online graphs, and all data can be exported in CSV format for offline processing. A particularly helpful feature is the custom reports. Here you can create a report and share it with your client. That way you don&#8217;t have to email reports back and forth. Replo allows you to add users and set permissions to give staff and clients appropriate access.</p>
<p>Advertising online is at the heart of any successful website. It&#8217;s the only tried and true method of maintaining a steady influx of traffic. Replo gives you the tools to ensure you&#8217;re getting the most value for your money spent. With it web development and marketing firms can clearly document the effectiveness of their ad spend and make quantitative decisions with that information.</p>


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		<title>Proto.io: Prototyping Excellence for Mobile Apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gibson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Proto.io is the culmination of their expertise and allows you to produce a working model of your mobile designs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the world of software development there&#8217;s a quiet battle that goes on. On one hand you have the waterfall style of development, and on the other you have agile development. Waterfall development works much like its name implies. You have a design team that designs the product. Once finished they lob it over the fence to the software developers to build. In an ideal scenario nothing is left to chance and everything is planned out exactly as it will be in the final product. In the agile world you have a list of components that the application should include. Each is built sequentially almost entirely on its own. As the product progresses it morphs and changes to accommodate the new pieces. Part of the idea behind agile development is that you can&#8217;t really plan for all the intricacies of a final product so why waste your time attempting to.</p>
<p>As it turns out there is a scenario where it makes a lot of sense to plan as much of the final product in advance- when working with clients. The key to managing clients is laying out as much of the final product ahead of time and getting them to sign off on it. Otherwise you&#8217;ll end up making lots of changes down the road. If you aren&#8217;t careful these changes will have to be done for free. Which brings us back to the issue that it&#8217;s exceedingly difficult to accurately design a final product with wireframes, mockups, and descriptions. Invariably as the application comes together you encounter unforeseen issues that need to be addressed. This task gets even more difficult when you&#8217;re designing for mobile apps, as they have their own set of features and limitations.</p>
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<p>Into this complex and challenging issue in the design cycle comes <a title="Proto.io" href="http://proto.io/">Proto.io</a>. It&#8217;s a prototyping tool that strikes at the core of the toughest design paradigm of all- the mobile space. They go far beyond providing a basic wireframe tool and static mockup builder. Proto.io allows you to create functional working prototypes for all mobile devices with specific UI elements for iPad, iPhone and Android. What&#8217;s more, they allow you to make them quickly. It addresses all the drawbacks of waterfall design with one simple tool.</p>
<p>Proto.io is one of those tools that&#8217;s best understood by using it. They make it easy to do since the single user license is free. There are also a couple demos <a title="Demos" href="http://proto.io/en/demos/">posted here</a>, both of which were built in less than four hours. You have the ability to view and work with your prototypes online, but more importantly you can use them on the device they&#8217;re targeted for. So if you&#8217;re designing an app for the iPad you can build a prototype and test it out on an actual iPad. It even accounts for the iPad specific features such as whether the screen is horizontal or vertical. It also allows you to design for the various touch events that exist in mobile devices. For those too lazy to test the demos you can watch the brief video below. Notice the soothing music while the prototype seamlessly falls into place.</p>
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<p>The editor itself contains a drag and drop interface which requires little training or explanation. For those in need of help they can review the <a title="Proto.io" href="http://support.proto.io/home">knowledge base</a> of tutorials and guides. A few notable <a title="Features of Proto.io" href="http://proto.io/en/features/">bonus features</a> include the ability to create reusable templates and reusable containers which can be attached to any screen or template. The entire prototyping application is web based though it also includes many keyboard shortcuts for common actions. As a matter of interest, all Proto.io components render in HTML5 placing them directly on the cutting edge of the latest the web has to offer.</p>
<p>Proto.io is a tool brought to us by those that have been in the web development world for some time- <a title="Sideshow Netquest" href="http://snqdigital.com/">Sideshow NetQuest</a>. With over 14 years of web development and other digital services experience they&#8217;re familiar with the intricacies and challenges of successfully designing products. Proto.io is the culmination of their expertise and allows you to produce a working model of your mobile designs.</p>


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		<title>Swackett: The Weather Peeps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Gibson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a Apple based app that runs on their desktop and mobile devices that tells you exactly what you want to know- what to wear when you walk out the door.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonight I enjoyed one of my favorite parts about living in San Francisco- the ability to see world class tourist destinations right out my door. And so I went for a walk and ended up at <a title="Coit Tower" href="http://www.staysf.com/attraction.php?ac_id=8&amp;a_id=37">Coit Tower</a>. It provides a great view of the bay (especially if they&#8217;ll ever cut the trees back!). The view of the bay bridge with the east bay in the backdrop is actually the best. You can see the pristine water with the lighted bridge above it. And then lightening in the background- in September. What is this madness? There I was in shorts and a fleece and it&#8217;s about to rain all of sudden. Living in California I&#8217;ve grown slack on how often I check the weather. It&#8217;s usually pretty nice most of the year.</p>
<p>Knowing what mother nature has in store for us is rather important though. In many parts of the world it can be a serious safety concern. Not only do you need to dress differently but you might not leave the house at all. As such, people have turned to the web to find the latest weather. Based upon the temperature and chance of various weather systems coming through they decide what to wear and how to go about their day. For many checking the weather is an essential part of their day.</p>
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<p>Checking the weather is about to get easier and more instant, with <a title="Swackett" href="http://www.swackett.com/">Swackett</a>. It&#8217;s an Apple based app that runs on desktops and mobile devices that tells you exactly what you want to know- what to wear when you walk out the door. Swackett derives its name from the slang for sweater, jacket, or coat. This summarizes the decision people need to make as they get dressed. Once installed you can add your location and check it instantly. What you&#8217;ll find are cartoon people, dubbed peeps, that are dressed per the expected weather conditions. If it&#8217;s cold out they&#8217;ll be wearing boots, coats, hats, and the like. And if it&#8217;s sunny they&#8217;ll be in flip flops and shorts. In a matter of seconds anybody can determine what to wear.</p>
<p>Swackett pulls its information from one of the major weather channels, AccuWeather. For those who want the full blast of data it&#8217;s there for their perusal. They can see real feel temperatures, humidity, dew point, wind direction and speed, animated weather timelines and radar imagery. For those who just want the bottom line they can look at the peeps and see what they&#8217;re wearing and dress accordingly.</p>
<p>Swackett introduces some creativity with their peeps in that you can <a title="Swackett peeps" href="http://www.swackett.com/v1/?page_id=4">download various editions</a>. These are each dressed differently according to various styles. They have academy peeps, the little peep edition for kids, the modern edition, the 1950s edition, with many more planned. Some are free, others are $1.29. You can also request custom editions for your organization or club.</p>
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<p>The weather is constantly changing. Thus most people need to check it every day. Swackett brings a new level of convenience to checking the latest forecasts. With it you can know instantly what to expect, and if you&#8217;re curious you can readily find detailed information as well. It provides both simplicity, ease, and a bit of entertainment to one&#8217;s weather checking. The pressing question of the day will not only be how nice it is outside, but also what the peeps are wearing today.</p>


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