Link Cloaking: New Free WordPress Plugin

Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 10:11 pm  
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Link cloaking is an important element in affiliate marketing – or any marketing, for that matter.

It’s important in affiliate marketing because affiliate ID’s and actual destination pages can be left wide open. This leads to theft of potential commissions, leading to potentially massive loss of hard-earned commission profits. I’ve talked about this before, and recommended products that can help solve the problem.

Now, I’ve released a product that I think can help, too – using WordPress. I’d like to offer it to you for free, so you can try it out and see how it can help you.

Just go to:

http://wplinkhyde.com

and sign up. You’ll get your download immediately. It includes complete written and video instructions. You have nothing to lose – it’s free.

Please comment here if you have any problems or ideas about the plugin.

WordPress Cloning Software

Thursday, December 30th, 2010 at 8:17 am  
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The emergence of WordPress Cloning Software recently has piqued my interest, and I’ve tested a couple of the frontrunners so far, EZ WP Cloner Plugin and WPTwin. You can see the results for yourself on those posts.

Why would you want to clone a WordPress blog? One obvious reason would be to have a fully functional duplicate of your blog for back-up. Located on a different domain and webhosting service, it could sit there until needed, like if a mishap were to befall the original. While hosting services and WordPress itself have back-up capabilities, creating one of a complete WordPress blog, with all its intricate scripts, plus all of your add-ons, plugins, files, etc. is a daunting chore. Then there’s the database, which requires additional complicated steps.

With cloning technology it’s relatively easy to do everything in a few steps. With one or more clones of your blog sitting on other servers, if something awful were to happen to your original, in theory it should be a simple matter of installing a new WP blog there, then cloning one of the clones back to it. Alternatively, you could change the DNS of your domain to point to the cloned blog.

But I think WordPress cloning software has greater potential in a slightly different way.

Let’s say you found the perfect WP theme. Perhaps you’ve used a software program like Artisteer to create something totally unique to you, or paid to have a custom theme created for you. You’ve taken all the time needed to install, activate and configure several, even numerous, plugins and done other customizations. You’ve created it to be a recognizable “brand” – to uniquely represent you or your company.

You want to take everything with you as you set up new blogs around the internet, but you can’t. With each new WP installation, you have to do it all over again. You’ve got the theme and the plugins, but they all have to be re-uploaded, re-installed, re-activated and re-configured – every time.

WordPress cloning software could be used to let you set up just one “skeleton” blog, with everything installed and configured, including all elements, pages, logos, images and everything you want to be common to all your blogs. Then you could just clone that skeleton, in full working order, to wherever you want, as many times as you need. The only thing left to do with each new blog is start adding your content.

I haven’t tried this yet, but my little gray cells are jumping around excitedly in my brain pan.

Photo Resize Software

Friday, June 18th, 2010 at 11:28 pm  
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Photo Resize Software scores points with this reviewer.

OK, you know me by now. I don’t get excited about a lot. What’s good is good, and I show it to you. But this one has me jumping up and down.

Here’s my over-the-shoulder demo, in my usual inimitable style :-)

Why do you need this software?

  • You’re a professional photographer and need to resize images for display in various media
  • You are in advertising and need to resize images for printing in diferent media
  • You are a musician and need to create posters, album art, etc. from photos
  • You’re a Real Estate agent and need both printed and online sales photos
  • You’re a webmaster and need properly resized images for photo galleries
  • You are in internet marketing and need to resize your advertising and page graphics
  • You just want to resize your photos to send to your friends or family

Reshade offers:

  • Texture – sharpen or soften edges to achieve ideal realism in your photos (Edge Control)
  • Denoise – Remove visible noise from your photos
  • Reduce Artifacts – Soften or eliminate random pixels that distort images
  • Enable Crop – Select a portion of your image, crop it and enlarge it to your heart’s content
  • Accuracy – Determine the degree of accuracy at which your photos will be reproduced
  • Determine the degree of compression (.jpg), or
  • Convert and save in other popular formats such as .bmp, tiff and others
  • Set the overall Fidelity of the resized image from the original
  • Smooth gradients so overall colors and edges blend or contrast to your specs
  • Achieve the exact results you need for your project
I speak as the owner of Photoshop CS4 and PaintShop Pro Photo. These are excellent programs, to be sure. But they were designed to do everything. Sometimes you need a dedicated program that will do just one thing, and do it well.
Reshade was programmed to do just one thing: Resize digital photo’s. Complexity is out the window (literally). Its simple, intuitive interface was designed to let even a novice achieve excellent results the first time. The default settings work like a charm on most images. But the slider devices let you tweak to your heart’s content, letting you get results that often exceed your expectations.
Does it have problems?

Probably, but I haven’t found any that I can’t live with. So far it hasn’t crashed (or crashed my computer). The only thing that’s a bit disconcerting is that the “Save” dialog doesn’t always display the “progress bar.” But it processes and saves just the same.

CLICK HERE and download your TRIAL VERSION of Reshade 2.0 – 30-Day Trial
Note: When you click the link above to download your free trial, you will be IMMEDIATELY downloading. You’ll get a pop up dialog box asking you to SAVE the file to your computer. The file is an .exe file, and is certified malware and spyware free. No harm will come to your computer by downloading and installing the file!
I hope you’ll forgive my excited presentation of this little gem, but for me, it is the answer to a long-time need. I really like it!
PS: You are entitled to FREE UPGRADES for the term of your license. You should also know that the license covers all current versions of Reshade that may be available.

Create Custom Blog Themes

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 at 4:17 pm  
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Incredible new software allows you to create custom blog themes for WordPress, Blogger and more.

This is fantastic. Really. Just watch my feeble video and see if I gave you ANY idea whatsoever as to what you could do with this.

I came across a website on which a marketer is selling 100 WordPress templates with resale rights. I took a quick look, and discovered he used THIS SOFTWARE to create those themes.
…for what it’s worth :-)