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Smugmug Online Photoshop

Smugmug gives you as much as you need. They offer three levels of membership starting at $29.95 with the Pro level at $99.95 which allows you to run your own online store. I will list the levels and the services below, but the one thing you cannot list is the speed, ease of use, and the ability to change the album to your specific look and feel. I love this online photo shop the best of any I’ve found. I know Flickr has been getting a lot of press, but give Smugmug a look-see and let me know what you think. If you decide to purchase a plan from Smugmug, I can save you $5 on a membership by using this code "t7xidGXRdLOYw" in the referred by field in the signup form.Standard Plan:The site you won't outgrow:* Shoot a million photos — it's unlimited!* Upload 100s of photos with a click* Organize at light speed* Liberate yourself from spam and ads* Make it easy on your friends with 1-click sharing* View more pics with less clicks* Buy top-quality prints and gifts* Sleep well with backup CDs & DVDs* Retrieve your original, high-res photos* Post photos in blogs & forums* Upload from camera phones* Create your own vanity URL* Track visits and watch your popularity grow* Be notified of comments* Crop the bad parts* Enhance the good parts* Password-protect the embarrassing* Create private ShareGroups* Create a bio* Flaunt your friends and family* Organize with keyword tags* View by timeline* Program it!* Just $29.95/year Power User Package:* All standard features plus: Light up your albums with video clips * Wow them with your customization skills * Make custom subjects like Pugs * Pump up traffic to your site * $49.95/year Pro User Package:All standard and power features plus:* Set prices for prints and make profit* Protect your images from theft* Create a guest password for others to upload* Use your own hostname* $99.95/year

Manipulating Search Engines

Wired has a great article online about Greg Boser who gets paid to make your website rank higher in the search engine results. We all know that it’s not as easy to change rankings as it was 10 years ago, but it still can be done. He get’s most of his clients through speaking engagements and gets paid on the results he gets. As he says in the article, “We make lot more money doing this.” here is some of the comments about search engines and manipulating them he had to say…

GoogleX Disappears a Day After It’s Debut

Google paid homage to Apple’s OSX operating system by starting a separate page called GoogleX which had icons like those on OSX which would expand as your mouse went over them. It also had a little rhyme at the bottom of the page that said, “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, OSX rocks, Homage to you.” But the next day GoogleX was gone. Why? Speculation abounds. With all the hoopla around the web about this, maybe Google will come clean. Here’s a peek at it thanks to News.com.

Microsoft’s Monday Partner’s Newsletter Links

From Microsoft's Partner Newsletter; Sales Quick Reference: Tips for Discussing Portal Solutions Use the Sales Quick Reference Guide to present the benefits of integrated portal solutions to your customers during sales calls. This resource provides a Microsoft key value proposition and helps you market portal solutions effectively. Deliver Remote Monitoring and Management Services: Learn how to effectively market, sell, and

A Personal Jumper Cable for the BSOD

We are all familiar with Window's BSOD, (Blue Screen of Death). Well IBM developed their own personal jumper cable to counter the BSOD. It was first shown at the IBM Partnerworld 2005 in Vegas. IBM developed Linux technology which would change a personal device into a rescue and recovery device. You can read the story on the kernalthread blog. Here

Google News Becomes personal

Google News, being still in beta (since 2002), has decided to meet the competition. Starting today, they will allow you to personalize your news feed. Users will now be able to create up to 20 specific sections of the website and distribute their customized layout via email. Here is what Google said about their new enhancement, "We've made a number

Madison River Communications Fined For Blocking VoIP Access

Telecommunications provider, Madison River Communications, was chastised by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week and required to unblock network ports that were closed to prevent connections from customers using Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone connections.