Google Priority Inbox

Google launched Priority Inbox today and I am incredibly excited to see how this can help me with piles of email: 

Priority Inbox uses information such as keywords, the people you e-mail the most and your e-mail habits to select the most pressing e-mails in your inbox. Those e-mails are brought to the top of your Gmail and marked as important so you deal with them first.

Priority Inbox is also an adaptive algorithm. Marking items as important or unimportant teaches the system what types of messages you deem the most urgent. You can also use Gmail’s filters to automatically mark certain messages as important (for example, from your boss or your spouse). – Mashable

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WordPress 3.0

We’ve been using WordPress since before it was named (seriously) for our own sites and our client sites as well. In fact, this site is driven behind the scenes by WordPress. The next release of WordPress has been in the works for about a year and includes some pretty serious changes that we are just thrilled about.

Perhaps what has the most potential for disruption in the small-footprint CMS arena are the Custom Post Types, which are going to allow almost any kind of content to be managed in administration forms that match the way people think about what they publish. We are currently in development with a client who is needing custom Event Pages, so we’ll probably work with Custom Post Types to make that happen for them.

Google Changes

Google Changes it’s search. Google design, changed. Google’s interface simply vanished in a blink of an eye while I was using it.

When the page refreshed different than any Google search result I had seen before, at first I thought maybe I was on a niche Google site (for images or videos or something). Alas, not only was the old Google Search design gone, so were some of the results.

Free Software for Taking Screenshots

Take a screenshot of your computer. Sounds easy enough, but for some folks there are serious technical hurdles. Hopefully this free screenshot software will help. Jing is free screen capture software. You can also record a screen-cast.

What I like about Jing is that it is super simple to take a picture of your computer. You can also annotate the screenshot to provide details to say your web developer, writer/editor, or web designer with details about what you need or what doesn’t quite work. Below find some samples of screenshots I have annotated recently with Jing that can give you an idea of what I mean.

RedReynolds.com Launched

Today is the official launch of RedReynolds.com, my new home for all my business activities. Expect frequent updates here (no, seriously) as I process this experience of going out on my own to form my own IT/IS/Web consultancy, focusing on Internet Marketing, and building web applications for business. I will also be posting a lot about what I am reading, the technology I find interesting, and the opportunities for people to leverage the web for their success.

And since I have to get used to marketing my services and talking about exactly what I do…

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Red is an excellent project manager and utilizes his available resources with excellence. While I could not always see the ‘big picture’ like he could, his results validated his vision every time. I have always found him willing to listen and learn as well as teach, sometimes in the same conversation. Red has excellent skills and the results speak for themselves. He was instrumental in our website which far exceeded all expectations and still brings about compliments constantly.

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