I was very happy to see the new Facebook app for smartphone functionality. I immediately found it more productive for marketing and promotion.

The first thing I noticed was the new sidebar menu. It allows us easy access to groups and other profiles the previous app didn’t have integrated well. I found the previous version to be lacking most of Facebook’s marketing functionality so see these changes was refreshing and welcoming.

You will also see in the header they have added easy access to our Friend Requests, Direct Messaging and Recent Notifications. I’m pretty impressed overall with the recent changes and perhaps will use the Blog Engage Facebook group a little more moving forward!
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Have you ever wondered why dragons are often called deities? It is because dragons are believed to provide protection, guidance and wisdom. Furthermore, there is a website that embodies all these aspects and is it’s called Dragon Blogger.

Dragon Blogger is a technology website designed to keep you updated with the latest innovation and findings regarding technology. It is a website that also provides product reviews for some of your favorite technology stuffs. Dragon Blogger’s founder and owner Justin Germino has dedicated most of his time writing informative articles to help other people. He is an expert when it comes to web based technologies, information security and application development.

Dragon Blogger aims to give those tech freaks out there the best of both worlds. Utilizing Justin’s in-depth knowledge, his site provides the latest updates in the world of technology. Whether it is breaking news about the Ipad, mobile phones, or internet software, Justin has them compiled on his site. However technology is not his only focus. There are also a lot of blogging tips that Justin has been using and have proven to be quite effective.

Dragon Blogger also has a section dedicated for those who want to make money online. You’ve probably heard a lot of success stories but wondered if they credible enough for you to use. Justin has recommended different money making sites on this section and has used them throughout his blogging career. In this section, you can also find some of the top money earning programs that Justin has tried and found to be successful.

This Dragon does not just provide all the aforementioned items, he also provides his own entertainment. Aside from technology and the make money stuff, Dragon Blogger also has an entertainment category which has the latest reviews from video games, movies, and even television shows.

For those new to the blogging game, Dragon Blogger provides some services like WordPress installation, Search Engine Optimization, Backlink Building, Keyword targeting and even WordPress or Blogging Education. Some of his services are done via phone calls for easier communication and for you to know that he is serious in helping you on your problem.

Dragon Blogger will definitely be a second home to those people who love technology. You can also like his Facebook page or follow him on Twitter to keep up with all his latest updates. You can also find the same things through his RSS feed via email updates or in a reader. If you’re a totally techie and are wanting all the latest information, be sure to sign up to follow The Dragon.

Visit their site at: http://www.dragonblogger.com/

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Ok, I’m not a “techie” as you can see from some of my blog posts (You are reading them, aren’t you?).   I am, though, always looking for new friends on BlogEngage, so add me as your friend and send me a message to add you.

I want to explain my journey with WordPress and Blogging.  If it weren’t for all the technical people who write blogs on the internet, I wouldn’t have been able to be a blogger.  Two years ago, I had no idea what a blog was.  In fact, I looked up the meaning of the word on the net.  Perhaps that sounds a little funny, but I had been working as a Registered Nurse for over fifteen years and didn’t spend a whole lot of time on the net except for email and playing games.  I didn’t even use Facebook until recently.  As a young woman and mother of young children, one of my jobs was as an Office Manager/Secretary for several commercial companies.  Therefore, I did know about some types of software, but after 15 years in the healthcare industry, I was still lost when it came to blogging and WordPress.

I have found some of the most wonderful people, who have been willing to take the time to help me become a blogger and set up my site correctly.  There are some particular people, who actually went to my site and fixed some things for me, then explained what was wrong so I could fix it next time.  One of those people is John Saddington from Tentblogger.com.  For the first several months, I considered John’s site my “Bible”.  If he talked about Google Analytics, I would study what this was, and if it could help me.  Then, back to John’s site to figure out how to set it up right.  Feedburner was another thing that John helped me with, because I didn’t have a clue what it was, let alone how to utilize it. John even helped fix a few of my mistakes by going directly to my site.  I offered to pay him for this, but he wouldn’t accept anything except to promote his site for him, which I do whenever I have a chance.

The next great technical blogger, that I received help from is Justin Germino from Dragonblogger.com.  Justin also helped me with various issues, answered my questions and even fixed a thing or two for me.   He also checked my site out and helped me fix some things that were wrong or needed attention.  He was the one who invited me to blogengage.  Yeah!

There are many other people who write blogs on technical aspects of blogging and wordpress. I have visited a lot of sites and learned so much from these people.  I have become not only admires of these persons, but have become online friends as well.   I could not have succeeded if the above persons, blogs and groups weren’t willing to help writers such as I succeed.

THANKS TO ALL OF THE COMPUTER GEEKS, NERDS, TECHIES, PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL BLOGGERS, CONSULTANTS, SEO SPECIALISTS, AND EVERYONE WHO KNOWS THIS STUFF!

Mobile phones have come a ridiculously long way since the old Nokias and snake games.

Not old enough to remember those? The IG below should remind you…

1) This interactive infographic is pretty amazing. I actually haven’t seen one that was this intense (and had screech easter eggs, haha). Awesome marketing tool.

2) I remember my first phone. It was a brick and I could probably give someone a concussion with it.

Check this out, and enjoy. There’s an embed code on the bottom if you’re interested in sharing too

I can’t embed the actual interactive IG here, but if you click the badge below it’ll take you to it.

What was your first phone??

Everyone, from casual users to major corporations, is taking advantage of the newest technological trend of cloud computing. If you’re not sure what the cloud actually is, don’t worry too much about it.

http://www.thesecurityconsortium.net/images/web/cloud_computing.jpg

The whole point of this methodology is that you, as a user, don’t have to understand! If you’re anxious to be in the cloud, here are some popular ways to get there:

Share Your Thoughts Without a Personal Website

If you’d love to post your pictures, articles, or innermost thoughts, there’s no need to bother with creating your own site. Simply register for an account with the new, cloud-based Quiet Write site. This site allows Internet users to publish their work online and even include pictures.

Hate Writing a Resume? Let the Cloud Do It!

If you’re completely honest, you probably update your online profiles more often than your resume. Instead of rushing through this task when you find a great job opportunity, let the cloud help! Use one of the many free web-apps to create a polished summary of your job experience or, if you’re a LinkedIn power user, use their Resume Builder app to pull in information from your LinkedIn profile. Like most of us, you’re probably never quite satisfied with the final version of your resume. Another cloud application, RezScore, can analyze your final draft and tell you how to improve it.

A Disaster-Proof Backup Plan

Unless you like to live dangerously, you make a habit of backing up your important files to disk or an external drive. The only problem with this plan is that disks and drives can be damaged or lost. To be completely disaster proof, take advantage of one of the cloud services for online backups. With off-site storage that can be accessed from any location, you won’t have to worry about a thing.

Create Your Own Social Network

If you and your friends are always IM’ing or Tweeting, why not create your own dedicated social network? Consider it a private e-party that no outsiders can crash! Although Teambox is supposed to be a cloud-based team management project, it works just as well for a group of friends who want to hang out online with a guarantee of absolute privacy. With this network, you’ll never have to worry about anyone outside your inner circle finding out about your personal activities.

The Cloud Can Make Social Network Management Easy

Even though it feels like everything on your favorite social network will be there forever, partly because it is in the cloud, you never know when it could all disappear. If you want to make sure you have this information no matter what happens, back it up on another cloud-based site.

Need to clean up your Twitter account? Manage Flitter is waiting in the cloud to help. If you’re not too scared to check out your Twitter usage statistics or your public Facebook information, check out Think-Up, a cloud-based social network monitor.
If some of these products feel familiar, you’re not mistaken. Over the past few years, we’ve been living more and more of our online lives with our heads in the cloud!

It appears while the iphone 4 suffers from bad media brought on from the poor or even bad reception quality Motorola gets ready to launch the Droid X which is based on the newest release of the Google Android OS.

We know now that the handset will feature a 5 megapixel camera, an 8GB memory card pre-installed on the device, EV-DO Rev A support, a 1GHz processor, Google Maps, 3G Mobile Hotpot and 512MB RAM.

Did you ever think we would be seeing smart phones with 1 gig processors in them? For the record the iphone 4 also comes with similar processing capabilities.

I don’t think this will affect the sales much when it comes to the iphone4 seeing the company has an extremely high brand and customer following.

The consumer doesn’t purchase the product because they think it’s great they know it’s great because apple has proven their self time and time again and is clearly the industry leader in smart phone technology.

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Many iphone 3G users are already hacking and jailbreaking their iphone 3G with the latest IOS4 including multitasking. As a matter fact I am one of those users.

I recently used the redsn0w 0.9.5 beta 5 to jailbreak my iphone 3G and now I’m running all the new functionality of the iphone 4 without any issues.

When I first attempted the jailbreak I experienced some major lag. I automatically assumed this was from the multitasking but to my surprise this was not the cause.

It turns out the lag was being caused by apples new wallpaper option. I don’t know why this would ever cause a lag but after re jailbreaking and removing the check box for the wallpaper I experienced no lag what so ever.

The article on how to jailbreak your iphone 3G with the multitasking and IOS4 complete functionality can be found here, Jailbreak your iphone 3G with IOS4. I will however share the details with you here today in this article.

#1. Download iOS 4 for your iPhone 3G. Place it on your desktop for easy access.

#2. Download redsn0w 0.9.5b5-4. (just Google it) It’s available for both Mac and Windows.

#3. Download and install iTunes 9.2

#4. Now connect your iPhone 3G to your computer and using iTunes, upgrade to iOS 4. Do this the official way and update your phone if not completed already.

#5. Now that you have iOS 4 final build on your iPhone 3G, you’ll have to jailbreak it by using the iOS 4 with redsn0w 0.9.5 Beta 5. Click browse and point it to iOS 4 firmware and follow the instructions on screen. Remember to enable battery percentage and multitasking. [Vista users might need to run redsn0w as administrator] Remember not to enable wallpapers.

#6. Once you’re done and the iPhone reboots, you should have a jailbroken iPhone 3G.

#7. Now go to Cydia and add the following repo http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com. Check here for how to do this. Search for ultrasn0w 0.9.3 and install it and reboot again. Your iPhone 3G is now carrier unlocked. Also remember to add this repo to Cydia http://apt.saurik.com/cydia-3.7.

The article is easy to follow and provides all the links you need in order to accomplish the jailbreak. I hope you enjoyed the article unrelated to blogging I plan on doing some more of these as we move forward.

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Over the last 6 years I was the proud owner of the XPS600 but yesterday I went to load it and the PC wouldn’t load or boot it kept shutting down on me.

I started replacing parts like the video card, hard drive, cd and dvd rom but nothing worked. I did some research online and it turns out this is a known issue for my pc where these caps blow out and my mother board dies.

So here I am with 2, 22 inch hdtv screens, 500 gigs, 4 gigs ddr2 ram 2, 256 SLI 7600 Gforce vid cards and no mother board. I talked with the IT guys here in our company and due to the age of my P4 3.2 gig processor I was best of looking at buying something new.

Like a kid in a candy store look out I’m on a shopping spree. There’s not many things I like to have the best of in life but when it comes to technology I’m the biggest geek you’re ever going to meet. I like fast computers as you can tell from my last purchase. That XPS600 was the bomb in it’s day.

So the question of the day is what did I end up buying. After doing research online I wanted to buy something that would give me speed, performance and the power to run some good games if I ever felt like gaming again. To be honest ever since I owned blog engage I haven’t done any gaming at all and my priorities have totally changed.

I’ve been a customer of Dell now for over 6 years. I must admit it was rocky at first with the XPS support just being createdand all but after about a year the support was simply amazing. Yes communication issues are still in affect but Dell is very good for fixing your issues even if it means sending a tech professional to your home. I never had many issues but at one point I did have a tech come and see me with zero cost.

Seeing the overall positive experience I had I decided to buy another dell product. Mind you I’m getting married in august so I couldn’t spend too much without getting killed. Seeing I have the monitors I could save myself some pretty decent money. After looking at what Dell had to offer I decided to go with the following.

STUDIO XPS 9000

Intel® Core™ i7-920 processor(8MB L3 Cache, 2.66GHz), 64bit, 6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz – 6 DIMMs 750GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive, ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5.

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