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Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 03:39 PM GMT
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Short, one-word domain names are scarce, commonly fetching 4 and 5 figure payments for their purchase. Without this kind of funding to start with, you will most likley be choosing longer two and three word long domain names. One trap to avoid is choosing a domain name that is too long. Search engines do lend weight to websites whose key words are also listed in the domain name, however, lengthy names can deter people from wanting to visit the site and may deter them from remembering the domain name itself.
Your domain name should be memorable and something you can say out loud without getting tongue-tied. Try rehearsing the domain name out loud as if informing someone of the site. If you find yourself stumbling too much, it probably isn't a good choice. For instance a dash can help in finding the domain name of your dreams, but too many dashes can interrupt the flow of speaking and might hinder its memorability.
Be creative. Try adding a related number or word to the beginning or end of the domain name. I may have wanted customkitchens.com or custom-kitchens.com, but that was taken long ago, so I might try customkitchens101.com, 1000customkitchens.com, or yourcustomkitchens.com.
Also, try different top-level domains besides ".com". Not all country- code top-level domains require you to be located or doing business in their country so you can sometimes grab some very creative names. I highly doubt "Insure.me" is doing much business in the country of Montenegro.
To check availability of your domain name ideas, use the domain name search tool at the top of our webpage, webhero.com. If the domain is not available, our tool does generate a few suggestions including the popular ".com" top-level domain alternatives such as .net, .us, or .me.
Need more ideas? Give us a chat from our new live chat feature located in the upper right portion of our home page, webhero.com.
Monday, July 14, 2008, 06:03 PM GMT
[ General]
I believe Beauty is one of designers staple mega-weapons and I wholly agree with this websites featured article:
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When it comes to beauty nothing can beat the beauty of nature.
Although we, designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything,
nature often manages to provide us with beautiful eye-catching
perspectives we would never have explored otherwise. We have collected
hundreds of wallpapers already (see links below). In this post we would
like to focus on wallpapers which emphasize the variety and beauty of
nature.
This post showcases 50 remarkable nature desktop wallpapers.
This post covers various themes and subjects; we have included both
photographic and artistic (photo-manipulated) wallpapers. Hopefully,
everybody will find something from himself / herself.
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Here are some of my favorites

Then of course there is nature in space if you will...

Hey.. I know they are wall papers and not icons web templates etc, but you have to take inspiration from somewhere!!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 02:33 PM GMT
[ General]
Link to article here
"...
The departure of Gates, who will remain the company's non-
executive chairman, coincides with an escalating rivalry with
Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and other competitors who are using the
Internet to chip away at Microsoft's software dominance.
With Gates taking a step back, the weight of Microsoft's
future falls squarely on Ballmer's shoulders.
..."
"Microsoft just hasn't come up with anything all that
innovative," said Andrew Loechl, director at Eagle Harbor Asset
Management. "It's been buying up companies left and right for
years, but it has not come up with anything internally."
WHO NEEDS INNOVATION WHEN YOU'VE GOT CHARM!?!

Monday, June 23, 2008, 01:54 PM GMT
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This man has made my gut ache many many times.
"George Carlin mourned as a counterculture hero"
Link to article here
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's
Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest
pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He
had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and
Hotel in Las Vegas. He was 71.

"He was a genius and I will miss
him dearly," Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with
Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press.
Monday, June 9, 2008, 04:10 PM GMT
[ General]
Link to article here
" Brunschwiler and other IBM researchers piped water into cooling
structures as thin as a human hair (50 microns) between the individual
chip layers to remove heat efficiently at the source. The 3-D chip
stacks would have an aggregated heat dissipation of close to 1 kilowatt
-- 10 times greater than the heat generated by a hot plate -- with an
area of 4 square centimeters and a thickness of about 1 millimeter."

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