Monthly Archive: September 2012

How To Speed Up Your WordPress Site in Five Easy Steps

How important is speed to your website? Google found that increasing load time by one half of a second decreased traffic by 20%. Needless to Say, it’s important. So how do you do it? How do you turn your “Homer Simpson” of a site into a “Michael Phelps”.  What you need to do if you want to speed it up is figure out what...

Temporary Down Time

*Update: This is going to take longer than I thought. In the mean time, the main site will be up until at least probably mid-day tomorrow when we have this all sorted out*Late tonight to early tomorrow we may try to implement our new system. This requires domain shifting, and server switches, and all kinds of technical stuff on our part that could take...

Maps Gives Me a 14,000 mile Detour

Whoops! Why does Apple think I’m in England? Apple’s Maps has been trying to give me directions, except for the fact that the results happen to require driving through England. I’m in the New York Metro Area by the way. So that would be a…let’s see…14,000 mile detour. Not quite perfect. That would be the nice way to describe Apple’s maps. The Satellite images...

Apple Earpods Review: The Sound Of Apple

Recently Apple “revolutionized the headphone” with the Earpod, or so they said. With Apple, they tend to hype up everything, good, or sometimes bad. So I tested out the new Earpods versus what should have been a comparable pair; my Skullcandy 50/50s which cost around $40-50 (Earpods cost $30 without a new iphone). My rigorous testing included music from Billy Joel, Green Day, Hanz Zimmer, and...

iPhone 5 Review: Day 2 First Impressions

There’s an iphone 5 in my family (actually two). This meant that I got some demo time with it yesterday asI helped my family set them up. If I were to sum up the iphone 5 in one word, I would say “Zippy”. The 4G and improved processor make the iphone 5 incredibly fast compared to past models. Web pages load in seconds, and...