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    Apple Store refresh to show new Cinema displays, not MacBooks

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    The recent rumors you’ve been hearing, the ones about new MacBook Airs, may not be true. Recent intelligence shows another possibility. You remember those leaked part numbers from Apple, don’t you? At first, we thought those were for some new MacBook Airs that were supposed to be refreshed on July 14. After that never happened, those leaked part numbers made no sense. The new rumor is that those part numbers are for Apple Cinema displays. These displays are to be updated with Thunderbolt support. This way, you can ditch standard display connections and use the new Thunderbolt technology to connect your Mac to a display.

    This rumor wasn’t just dreamed up like the past MacBook Air rumor. Apple actually leaked this information theirselves. They posted an image on their website showing a cinema display connected to a MacBook Pro via Thunderbolt. What caught our eye on the image is that the displays show the Lion background instead of the Snow Leopard background that is being used on all other images on the website. Furthermore, the letters in the URL that the image was located at corresponded to the previously mentioned leaked part numbers. To add fuel to the fire, the cinema display portion of Apple’s site would not allow purchases for a while. The “Buy Now” link was broken, but this was later fixed. Whatever the case, a near-future refresh to the cinema displays seems very promising. We might also see Lion released with the new displays, since the leaked images show the Lion background instead of Snow Leopard. Lion is, in fact, due to be released sometime in July, per a promise by Apple.

    Best Time To Share On Google Plus

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    While content is the most important factor on people selecting to leave a comment or re-share your posts, the time of the day you post also plays an important role. The factors to consider when posting are:

    – Time of the day when your target interest group is most active – The post “Time to live”. How the amount of comments and re-shares is distributed across the post life – Day of the week. People are more active over the weekends on social sites. – How many posts you make per day.

    There is an interesting info-graph on the science of social timing here.

    While this information applies to Twitter and Facebook, the main trends do apply to Google+. They tell us that: – Wednesday and the weekend are the most active time periods for social media – The time to live from a post peaks right after the post goes live and drops down quickly afterwards. – Spamming and not posting are equally wrong strategies. In Facebook your followers will give you more likes if you post something every 2 days. Masters of the social media like Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble post multiple times a day, thus it does not feel as if they were spamming your stream.

    Now that we know some of the basic parameters, we can turn to the question on how to get the best time of the day for your interest group. The transparency report tool from Google gives you an overview of internet traffic on your country. For example, for Switzerland:

    Note that you can search for different countries and across many Google domains. Unfortunately they don’t yet have stats for plus.google.com yet. Using the traffic for all Google sites should suffice for our purposes. Also note that different countries have different “footprints”. This is the graph for the US:

    You can see the difference in surfing activities among citizens of these 2 countries. In Switzerland it peaks in the morning and after lunch. There is a “low traffic zone” in the afternoon and a peak in the evening. In the US this is more normalized: maybe because of the amount of time zones in the country. But it is still clear that the highest traffic is in the evening.

    From the Kissmetrics blog we know that social activity is higher in the evening. This makes sense since many people don’t check social media while they are at work. From the country graph for Switzerland we see that the largest evening usage is between 7PM and 9 PM. The best time to get attention from Swiss people is to post at 7 PM (GMT+2)

    In the US the best time would be between 6PM and 10 PM Eastern. We have also learned from Kissmetrics that most of the population of the US is in Eastern time (48%). This fact is reflected in the curve start-up time.

    There is one remaining point to be discussed: Hangouts. If you want to organize a truly international hangout the best time is 10 AM Eastern time. You get the Europeans around 4 PM, the folks in Asia late at night, and the west coast folks are used to being up early to take the pulse of the world.

    Do you have any recommendations on how to increase the visibility of your posts that you want to share with us?

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    THE DOW JONES REBOUNDS MORE THAN 1,000 POINTS AS TRUMP SEEKS $1 TRILLION IN STIMULUS FOR COVID-19 FIGHT

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     US Stocks surged Tuesday (March 17) — rebounding from their worst day in more than three decades — as Wall Street cheered White House plans that could inject $1 trillion into the U.S. economy to cushion the blow of the coronavirus, CNBC reported.

    Ending the session on Tuesday, the Dow Jones soared 1,048.79 points (equivalent to 5.2%) to 21,237.31 points, briefly dipped below  the 20,000 for the first time since February 2017 before rebounding. The S&P 500 was up 6% at 2,529.19 while  Nasdaq Composite gained 6.2% at 7,334.78.

    The Trump administration is weighing a fiscal stimulus package of more than $1 trillion that includes direct payments to Americans, according to a source familiar with the matter. Earlier, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters the government is considering directly sending checks to Americans in the next two weeks. “Americans need cash now,” he said.

    Mnuchin added corporations will be able to defer tax payments of up to $10 million while individuals could defer up to $1 million in payments to the Internal Revenue Service. Mnuchin also said President Donald Trump authorized the deferral of $300 billion in IRS payments.

    Treasury yields jumped, with the 10-year U.S. rate breaking back above 1% on news of the big stimulus plan. Yields move inversely to prices. The iShares 20+Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) dropped more than 6% as investors fled bonds for stocks.

    The Federal Reserve announced measures to help companies struggling to get short-term funding amid the outbreak. The market has been hampered by a lack of demand for paper issued, and Wall Street has been looking for central bank intervention along the lines of what happened during the financial crisis.

    Amazon shares jumped 7% after an analyst at Bank of America noted the e-commerce giant will benefit from the global “in-home shift” due to the coronavirus. Netflix climbed 7% as well while Apple closed 4.3% higher.

    Biotech giant Regeneron, meanwhile, said Tuesday morning that it’s aiming to have doses of a potential drug for COVID-19 ready to start human clinical trials by early summer. The announcement, which represents a marked acceleration in the company’s drug timeline, sparked a 11.5% rally in the company’s equity.

    More than 5,700 cases have been confirmed in the U.S. along with more than 90 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. President Donald Trump also said the crisis could stretch into August, adding the administration may look at locking down “certain areas.”

    The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) — Wall Street’s preferred fear gauge — posted its highest-ever close at 82.69. That tops the financial crisis’ peak of 80.74. On Tuesday, the VIX traded down 9.2 points at 73.2.

     

    Blackberry Revive Various Options

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    Shawn
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    Blackberry mobile phones repair might be, and is particularly frequently costly along with pestering towards the operator And leaving you motionless and could not discover ones get in touch with checklist sometimes in vital areas may it be internet hosting is and / or online business is so important. I want to as a result receive a minute and additionally explain an action which could avert not just Phones revive, however, the distractions which go along with it, and also a procedure that are often very good to anybody in which has the alternative to having to have to wait with the Cell phone to have it?s correct – possibly a full week, to a couple several weeks.

    As a result, you determine to restoration an individual’s Smart phone, you’re taking them with a revive practitioner, the real key itemizes their service to uncover what is wrong while using gadget, bills you for those elements and expenses anyone for those hard work, and all this occassion your private stats are within reach of all of the Blackberry mobile phones service expert As not so personal many people feel. And after all of this you could be playing a huge amount of money to cover, which is certainly a product that in the course of the best quality economic situation is not really met by having a look much more so during these times of this debt state.

    So that the replacement for think of next to Blackberry mobile phones resolve is to delete, make trades and even promote the actual Smart phone that is ruined or perhaps not functioning appropriately this will sound outrageous, techniques advertise a busted Bb? . . . However, there is web sites internet based that could pay any dollars compensate to use any damaged Bb off of the hands, which suggests most people stop the mend, the repair costs additionally, the headache of this Rim undergoing a repair with a stranger and additionally as a replacement you receive some bucks position perfectly into a brand-new Blackberry that will be obstacle cost-free, struggling to find hardly any problems and also at the best price tag because of the monetary funds an individual been given with regard to trying to recycle that worn out product, which will believe it or not has numerous health benefits, not just to you will however the setting additionally.

    The process is brief as well as simple providing you with choose the right provider in selling a worn out Rim to help, a niche expert on the markets that you know has got expert movement, as well as a pro sales staff and you will get the immediate provider, wage day with zero issues that happen to be associated with Cell phone revive. Such as; the particular ‘Cash For’ relatives contain a blog specializing in fighting Blackberry’s significance proprietors may well avert Mobiles adjustments not to mention bonus, via visiting their webpage you will experience that an established service is serviced through the overall transfer along with security and safety is vital directly to them, because of this should they have a person’s Cellphone, right before anything at all deeper is performed the particular memory space is definitely wiped maintaining your private details secret , which happens to be of paramount importance for you to your own self additionally.

    Artisteer 3 Review

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    Shawn
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    Since a couple of years, Artisteer has been providing us with an excellent tool to create templates for our blogs and web sites. Last month, they released a new version, Artisteer 3. In this review I’ll handle some changes and new features. By the end of this article you’ll also know if it’s worth for you to upgrade to Artisteer 3.

    I still can imagine the days before I knew Artisteer. Creating nice looking templates took a lot of time and efforts. Until I saw an advertisement for Artisteer. I was very curious so I downloaded the trial version. When I first used Artisteer I was blown away. It now was possible to create custom, professional looking templates within 1 hour! I remember I gave a demo to some collegues, and they were all also very enthousiastic about this new software. Since that day, I’ve been using Artisteer for a lot of projects.

    Today I’m very excited to review Artisteer 3: will it be as user friendly as the previous version? Did they made it better? Are there a lot of interesting new features? You’ll get all the answers in the following review!

    Short introduction on Artisteer

    Artisteer is software to generate templates for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Blogger, DotNetNuke,.. The thing is that it’s really easy to use and that you don’t need any technical knowledge to create stunning templates.

    New features

    There are a lot of new features in Artisteer 3:

    Additional header and background graphics and effects

    A lot more color themes

    More design layout options

    Flash headers are included

    Support for fluid layouts (resizable sheet width)

    Publish your website direct to Artisteer.net

    Online templates

    New vertical menu

    …

    If you want more information about these new features, read my previous post “The 13 Best New Features In Artisteer 3”.

    How Artisteer 3 works

    Get inspiration

    If you don’t know where to start you can always let Artisteer suggest you a design. This can be the whole design, or specific parts (for example different menus).

    Create a design

    It’s easy to create a design with Artisteer. At first, the many options can be a bit overwhelming. But the more you use Artisteer, the more useful all those options are going to be. Thanks to all those options it’s possible to create the custom design like you want.

    Export your template from Artisteer 3

    After you created your theme, you have to export your theme. Just save it as a zip file on your computer.

    Import your template into WordPress (or another blog system / CMS)

    In WordPress, go to “Appearance” > “Themes” and select the “Install Themes” tab.

    Click the “Upload” link, select the zip file on your computer and click the “Install now” button. That’s it!

    The result

    Cross browser

    Let me start with asking you a question; which browser do you use? Internet Explorer? FireFox? Chrome? Safari? Did you know that every browser handles a web site a little bit different? This means, that the same web site will differ a little bit depending the browser. As a developer, this is the part I usually hate because it can really cost you a lot of time before your web site looks and acts the same in all browsers.

    Luckily, if you use Artisteer, you don’t have to care about all this! Artisteer generates the needed code so you don’t have to worry about the browser of your visitors.

    HTML code

    One thing I like about Artisteer is that it generates well coded templates. Maybe you’re wondering why this is so important. Well, it’s not only very important for SEO reasons (see below), but also if you want to do some changes yourself afterwards. Imagine searching for a file on a chaotic desk or a clean desk. Which one do you prefer? Well, that’s the same thing when you want to make some changes at the code of a file. When it’s well coded en the structure is good, it won’t take long before you find the part you need. But when it’s bad coded without structure…

    SEO

    I already wrote that Artisteer generates well coded templates, and that this is very important for SEO. Well coded files are easier for search engines to read.

    But there is also a little negative point, and that’s the fact that Artisteer doesn’t take advantage of using the right header tags on the right place. Artisteer uses the H1 tag for the name of your blog. I don’t like that. And much more important, Google doesn’t like that either . The H1 tag should contain unique information about the page, and no general information. It’s the same problem for the other header tags.

    However, there is a very simple solution to solve the Artisteer 3 header issue which you can find here!

    Pricing options

    If you only want to use it for creating WordPress templates, then the Home version is an excellent choice.

    You can only buy Artisteer as a download, it’s not possible to buy it in a regular store. Price is $49 for the Home version and $99 for the Standard version. You can also buy an upgrade. You have to submit the license key of your older version of Artisteer to know the price of the upgrade.

    If you want more information about the differences between the Home and the Standard version, then take a look at the comparisation table. If you only want to use it for creating WordPress templates, then the Home version is an excellent choice.

    Still not convinced? Download the trial version and see for yourself!

    Verdict

    As you can see, Artisteer 3 makes life much easier. If you don’t have the skills to develop your own custom template, then Artisteer is the best choice you can make. If you’re a professional web developer, like I am, then you should also give Artisteer a try. It’s a great choice when you need to create a basic but professional looking template. For a lot of web sites, Artisteer 3 will just be fine. There is only 1 major downside: wrong usage of the header tags (but you can read here how easy it is to solve this problem!). But don’t let that spoil all the fun (and if you’re a pro, it’s easy to edit).

    Oh yes, and then there is that incredible low price tag. In my opinion, $49 (for the Home version) is a real bargain. I just don’t think there is a better way to create custom templates at this price level.

    Do you also want to share your experiences about Artisteer 3? Don’t hesitate to leave a comment, the other visitors will be very thankful!

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