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Author: CMDR Mitchcraft

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    A Little Geek Humor for your Day (Yakov Smirnoff style!)

    If anyone wants to add to the fun, feel free to in the comments below. In the US, we follow twitter to catch up with friends. In Soviet Russia, twitter follows you! And you always get caught 😉 In the US, College students use facebook to find out where parties are. In Soviet Russia, "The…

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    A Look Back at WordPress

    …we’ve come a long way from this: …to this… …with a brief stop here… …and to where we are today! And how sweet it is! (thanks to Ozh for a wonderful post – if you aren’t familiar with WordPress, head to his site for a history lesson!)

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    What 2009 Holds for Social Media

    Normally I’m not one to recycle information on the net (I think that we’ve already become a big enough echo chamber without one other voice being added) but I do like this PDF put out by 14 of the best minds in Social Media.  It’s a great read! Social Media 2009 Publish at Scribd or…

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    WordPress 2.7

    WordPress 2.7 is nothing short of amazing.  The WordPress team (and 150 others from the community) went back to the drawing board and redesigned the interface from the ground up.  It’s absolutely beautiful, and a testament to great design and an amazing user interface.  But it’s not just pretty, it’s awesome under the hood! Never…

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    Marketing on 34th Street

    Tell Santa he made me a Cole’s shopper. I’m coming here for everything but toilet paper. Any store that puts the parent ahead of the buck at Christmas deserves my business. Tell Mr. Cole his Santa Claus ought to get a raise. I am such a fan of Miracle on 34th Street (yes, both the…

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    Happy Birthday to Studionashvegas! And *Whew* What a Year!

    Today marks the first anniversary of studionashvegas.  A lot of people don’t know my story – they just know that I’m some guy on the Internet who does design, social media, and fools around with WordPress to the point of obsession.  But, it’s actually a really funny one.  Want to know how it all started?…

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    Set Up An Amazing E-Commerce Site in 30 Minutes with WordPress

    Step 1: Get a great product (you’d be surprised how many people forget this step…) Step 2: Install WordPress Step 3: Set up a static front page (Settings > Reading)… create a page called “front page” and a page called “blog”.  Head to the options menu and select the reading tab.  Change the “Front Page…

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    WordPress 2.7 is Coming To Town!

    The rumors are WordPress 2.7 will be coming to a download near you sometime tonight.  Release Candidate 1 is widely successful and I’m really looking forward to upgrading to the full version.  If you’re curious as to what the future entails, here are some great posts around the Internet showcasing the new goodness: The Official…

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    Creating a WordPress Theme from a .PSD file – Part 5 (footer.php)

    This post is part of the “Creating a WordPress Theme from a .PSD” series for designers to use for theme development. The other posts can be found here: Part 1 – Background / Introduction Part 2 – From .PSD to .HTML Part 3 – WordPress Structure Part 4 – The Header (header.php) Part 5 –…

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    4 Great Ways To Show Readers Some Christmas Lovin'

    Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone, ushering in the Christmas/holiday season (whether its shopping, parties, or travelling that you do, you do so much more of it during the last 30 days of the year, it seems).  But it’s easy to forget sometimes that your readers, commenters, and online social network friends are there all…