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Google Search Tips

Mike — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:47:18 +0000

Google Search Basics can help empower your searching on the web…did you know you can search by an item or a part number? If it’s in a database that Google has crawled, then you’ll probably find it.

Sometimes you want to search within a specific website…so you would enter your search words (space) site name, for example, if you’re looking for news about social media in the New York Times, you would enter: social media site: nytimes.com

You can also specify a whole class of sites, like if you’re just looking for Texas state government pages, for example: Texas site:.gov

To find an exact phrase, enclose your words inside “double quotes” although Google’s default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. The double quotes will make your search very specific, instead of generic.

If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (note that you have to type ‘OR’ in ALL CAPS;) for example: Dallas Cowboys 2010 OR 2009 would produce team results for either one of those years.

Google also publishes good search tips in their blog, along with company news and events.

WordPress 3.0 Beta

Mike — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:19:59 +0000

I’m pretty excited about the WordPress 3.0 Beta that was just announced a few days ago.

We’re going to see some important improvements in this new version, which will push WordPress even further along as the leading CMS tool on the web.

The WordPress Blog has posted about some of the biggest changes in the 3.0 Beta, listed here:

A Custom Menu System
WordPress and WordPress MU have merged
A New Default Theme called Twenty Ten
Custom Post Type Functionality

The new WordPress 3.0 Beta has the blogosphere buzzing…I’ve found the following posts have been the most informative.

CyberCoder on Twitter:
Nice changes to the WordPress 3.0 Edit Themes page, cleaner file names, descriptions, selected file. The new Default Theme and Custom Menu in WordPress 3.0 appears to be a nice addition.
CyberCoder is testing the WordPress 3.0 Beta here.
mashable.com WordPress Beta 3.0 Released
net.tutsplus.com 10 Features to Look Forward to in WordPress 3.0
WordPress Development Updates wpdevel.wordpress.com/
WordPress Trac Timeline core.trac.wordpress.org/timeline
WordPress Planet planet.wordpress.org
Beta testers can report bugs at wp-testers mailing list

Thanks to CyberCoder

Mike — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:09:13 +0000

I’d like to give a big Thanks to CyberCoder for helping me update the DailyRover. As my personal blog, it needed a few changes, and you were able to step right in, see what needed updates, and run with it.

It may seem obvious, but it’s so true. Focus on your strengths as a team and you’ll be more efficient. That sure works for me.

The Daily Ramble

Mike — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:45:01 +0000

Originally dailyrover.com was about my favorite dog Enzo, so I called this TheDailyRover. After he moved away I ran out of pictures and video, so I decided to turn this site around and use it as my personal blog.

I think I’ll call it The Daily Ramble.