Starglider Systems BlogI've been developing software and selling it on-line since 1994. Current products include STG FolderPrint Plus - a tool to Print Folders, and STGThumb - HTML Album Generator, among others. Some of my other sites - Disk Usage, Directory Printer ,Print Folders and Jejum Intermitente .
CopyBlogger posted an interesting article on how to monetize and get Pinterest traffic.
The tips I found most useful were about having interesting images with fonts that are too small for reading through Pinterest – thus requiring the viewers to go to your page.
But there are many more in the actual article.
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I have just released version 3.91 of STG FolderPrint Plus.
There are two changes in this release. First, I've fixed the Load Tree so as to open as read-only and avoid changing the last modified date of stgtree files.
Second, I usually save scans of drives. Yes, the program is fast but when you have several hundred thousands or millions of files – and specially when you turn Open Compressed Files – a scan can take a while.
One thing that really bothered me when opening a stgtree file is that the program just apparently froze, without any feedback. Now it displays a dialog with an animation, as well as a percentage bar and number of files read. And if you use Windows 7 it will also display progress on the taskbar.
10 Awesome Shortcodes For Your WordPress Blog has a nice collection of code snippets that can be useful on your WP site.
My favorites are related posts , content for Registered Visitors Only and Disable auto-formatting .
Turn.js is a JQuery Plugin that adds a turning page transition on HTML 5, with hardware acceleration support.
Looks pretty cool!
SpritePad is a pretty cool tool to make CSS sprites. You can literally make them in seconds.
You just drag and drop the images into place, and the site generates a PNG you can download and the CSS to use each sprite.
Very cool, and free so far.
When I moved this blog from my main site, one thing I forgot till now was removing the site name from post titles.
Adding the site name to each post title is mostly pointless, and even worse, it gives you less of a keyword density for SEO.
It is very easy to tweak the title – just use Infinite SEO and go to Title & Meta tab (Step 3). There you can switch titles and descriptions for the Home page, Posts, Pages and more.
Just wanted to mention DirtyMarkup – a nice, simple HTML/CSS/JS cleaner. Just paste your code, choose your options and press Clean – and in a few seconds, you get a nicely formatted version of your messy code.
HTML5 Please is a pretty cool concept.
Whenever your application requires an HTML 5 feature that the user's browser doesn't have, their API shows a nice screen with browsers that support that feature, including newer versions of the user's browser.
A nice way to get people to update when the new features would actually be useful.
I have just finished reading Client Attractors – How to Write Features, Benefits and Bullets That Speed Up Sales , by Sean D'Souza.
The book is pretty short, but still not only it is a pleasant read, it gave me much better insight on what should be on features, benefits and bullets and how to write them. I have read several other books in the area, but none were as clear as this.
There is also a premium version, which includes a 25 minute video. The video shows his technique for writing compelling sales pages, and also how to fit in the features, benefits and bullets. It does clarify and add to the book, so if the price difference is still minimum as it is now, you will want to get the Premium version.
Very much worth the time, recommended.
I have just released version 3.90 of STG FolderPrint Plus.
The main focus on this release is the Search screen (which you get by clicking menu Edit->Search Tree or pressing CTRL+F).
If you are not aware, you might want to know that when Open Compressed Files is On, Search will find files inside compressed files. Till now the display of this was confusing – but now it display the full name of the ZIP on the Folder Column. See below:
Also, I personally use the Preview windows all the time, and I (and several users) missed it on the Search window. Now it also works when you select files on the Search Window.
So far, STG FolderPrint Plus does not preview files inside ZIP or other compressed files, but that could be improved. What do you think? Does this seem useful to you? Leave your comment below.