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Ways of working: Dropbox

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 I have used Dropbox for some time as a way of sharing files between my desktop, laptop, and Android phone, and originally heard about it as part of a project I was working on.  Here is an article that tells why it is valuable as a project management tool.  You could do the same thing with Google Docs and similar tools.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/dropbox-will-simplify-your-life/

Drupal 7 audio/video player for HTML5 with Flash fallback

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I needed to add audio to a site to play some mp3 files.  The site is Drupal7, so I decided to check out how to set this up for HTML5 and Flash playback.

I found the Drupal7 module jplayer, which seemed the answer to this need.  I downloaded and enabled it.  I also had to get the jplayer jQuery code from jplayer.org and put it in sites/all/libraries.

Drupal 7 Photo/Video Gallery

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I needed to add a photo gallery to a Drupal 7 web site.  I decided to try the media modules to do this, and found that it was much easier than I expected.  Here is how I did it.

Maintaining freshness in content of a web site

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When you have a web site, visitors will come back if you give them a reason to do so.  If you maintain content on the site that is interesting to you, then the visitors will probably not be the ones that are good for your business, but are your competitors.  You need to have content that is attractive to your intended visitors.

Post-Amazon to Barnes & Noble

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California recently passed a law requiring merchants with a presence in CA to collect sales tax.  Amazon's affliliates are deemed a presence, so the battle has begun.  Amazon cancelled all CA affiliate contracts, so my Amazon search block in the left margin was worthless to me. 

Amazon negotiated a bill with California that will require them to start collecting sales tax in October, 2012.  That will cost California about $200 million.

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