If your not using Firefox I suggest that you switch over, for simply the sake of time.
If you spend a fair amount of time online, and I’m guessing you do because your reading how to save time by clicking less, the extra tools you can plugin to Firefox WILL save you time.

How much time?

Years, ago I didn’t think so much about the time it takes to click, but when your clicking all day long, the less clicks the better.

Our Example of click time:

Let’s just say we can decrees our clicks on the mouse by 5 less clicks a day using Firefox plugins.
We multiply that by 365 days in a year = 1,825 less clicks
And it takes us about half of a seconds per click (.5 x 912.5 seconds)
We divide that number by 60 (seconds in a minute)
and we find out that by saving only 5 clicks a day
you can reclaim 15 mins and 20 of your life back, Woot!

More plugins = more efficiency, once you know their power.

I was inpired to write this post after reading one of the many many many blog postings out there about FireFox and the power of it’s 3rd party developers.

Thank you open source and brain-e-acts, and thank you jeff chandler.

I finally got the guts and time together to merge the two blogs. I wasn’t sure what I was in for so I set 3 hours aside for research and integration. Optimistic, I know.

Starting Out:

I set out using the always trusty Google Search Engine and plug-in some keywords

• combine wordpress blogs
• join two wordpress blogs
• merge wp blogs
• rebuild wp database with two blogs
• Plugin for WP to merge blogs  (I was reaching for this one)
• wordpress to wordpress blogs

I finally hit a great search page of results when I used Merging Two Wordpress Blogs
Seems so clear now.

I started with trying to export my older blog and import it here, on this blog.
Wordpress to Wordpress is a nice plugin to get your older version of blogs to export a WXR file of your entire blog
The old blog was running 2.0.1
Resouces used:
Aaron Brazell at technosailor.com

After the old blog upgrade:

Once I uploaded and activated the plugin and clicked on “view site”, checking to see if everything was still there, things started to come apart on me. I could no longer log in! I was directed to a page with only the words, “Your database is out of date. click here to upgrade.”
I clicked, and click, but nothing happened. I tried to log in again. Nothing. I was panicked and tried to recreated what happened on another testing server. Nothing good came of that either. An hour of that installing and importing the plugin etc. over and over. Nope. No login means…

I need a new password? :

New ideas crept into my head about resetting the password. I can not login and my email links to reset the password were not working.

Thanks to David from Devlounge I got a nice walk through on going in through the phpAdmin and resetting the password in the mySQL database tables.
Resouces:
davidcubed from Devlounge.net

Importing and checking:

Ok back in and heading for easy export to import
BigDan posting at WebtalkForums.com

Walks you through it with ease. There is no need for the extra cut and past steps given. The newer versions of Wordpress 2.6.2+ allow for imports of images and attachments.

Happy Me:

Now my blog post goes back to sept 2006

Took about 3.5 hours and looks good.
I’m sure there will be things that need a tweak here and there, but I’ll get to those when they present themselves.

Good Luck Merging your Blogs

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update:/11/5/2008

I suggest that you disable plugins you’re not using before you go into this. I didn’t and had a few go foobar on me. Simple fix was to deactive and reactive. But if you had code you tweaked, like similar post plugin embeded in theme editor files,  I had to re-paste the code.

Or you can see there is a whole page dedicated to
What is a Widget on the site

A widget is an interactive application that can be installed on web pages, desktop platforms, and mobile devices that accept this type of content. Technically speaking, a web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any HTML-based web page by an end user. Most widgets have a media-rich graphical interface that becomes visible once the code is successfully installed on a web page.

Companies and advertisers create widgets as a marketing vehicle in order to distribute their content to the places that users spend a majority of their time online. Because widgets can be easily grabbed and shared, they have the potential to go viral. People recognize the utility and fun of widgets, and actively endorse them by installing them on profile pages as a way to express themselves to the world. Users install widgets on their pages because they find the content useful, entertaining or cool.

Widgets typically fall into two categories: Social or Utility. Social widgets, typically placed on social networks, blogs and personal pages possess a “one-to-many” opportunity for exposure while Utility widgets are typically utilitarian in function and provide users with features like news, weather, calendars, and notepads.

I admit I have followed the whole life of this prime quality name, but it looks like Venture partnership.

I have been wanting to get an iPhone for some time now. I am already with ATT and just learned that the plans include "unlimited" internet for about 5 dollars more than I pay now. I have also just learned that the new Gphone named "DREAM" is a go for google.

Main article I read is here

Latest News

The long anticipated and first Android handset, the HTC Dream is all set for a Fall 2008 Release. You can expect the phone to have some great features and specs to illustrate the power of Android, Google’s new open source mobile operating system.

and to get a even more information on what the DREAM is go here

Hmm now I wonder if I’ll just wait and see what shakes out of the competition. The 4 year old razor still works fine.

From debating on using sub-domains, naming directories and even the very url of your website all will play a role in how the spiders rank, index and file your site.

If you have already built a site (or many) or you are getting ready to build out your site, take a look at what SEOmoz has developed for us.

Check out how SPAMMY your websites are.

Check it here —>

I feel so cool. But what I did was nothing more than follow what everyone has access to. The Instructions!

http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended#Detailed_Instructions

I used Dreamweaver, but any FTP program should do just fine.

Now I have access to some new cool plugins and the backend user interface is very clean, and using the drop down admin menu is sweet Thank you ozh (get it here)

Now to find out more about the G Gears…..Happy upgrading

Googles full article

More from their Webmaster Central Blog - Here

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Search Engine Land has a very nice write up on the new technology of SE

Their’s is here

And on the topic of video might as well toss in the Official Google YouTube Channel - Here

“We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network . Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google’s brand is a reflection of efforts to quickly assimilate our business and teams, as well as reinforce Google’s commitment to the Affiliate channel. Together with our new colleagues at Google we are creating new opportunities for monetization, expansion and innovation in Affiliate Marketing.
… Read the rest ->>>

Paul Twomey is president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

At a meeting in Paris Thursday, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — also known by its acronym ICANN — unanimously approved key proposals to allow domain names using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters.

Here

A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris.

The net’s regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.

The decision means that companies could turn brands into web addresses, while individuals could use their names.

Rest Here