The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Category: Blogging

  • New Definition for the idano.net Blog – A Blog Network Portal

    This is not the first time that I written a post with this same basic theme. I have changed the purpose of this website more times then I can remember. Really this domain name is the one that started it all for me. It was my first personal website that…

  • Sometimes You Shoot Yourself in the Foot and Don’t Realize It Until Later (Affiliate Marketing)

    I have been having a phenomenal month with Amazon.com due to a couple of RC Helicopter Reviews that I did for Air Hogs Havoc Heli and Air Hogs Laser Battle. I have search engine results for both and current have over a 20% conversion rate for people who click through…

  • Making Links in Posts from iPhone in WordPress

    In my last post I was complaining about not being able to add links to posts from my iPhone. I was thinking about it again this morning (among the other limitations of the iPhone) when I remembered “hey, I know HTML”. Yes, that is right, I can hand code the…

  • Mobile Admin Plugin for WordPress is Awsome

    It finally happened. Someone came out with a plugin so that you can comfortably blog from your iPhone. Jared Bangs and Dan Cameron put the work in and now I can finally blog from anywhere. With the plugin I can assign categories, manage comments and a whole bunch of other…

  • Posting a Photo from the iPhone

    Well I found out the hard way that WordPress does not support posting photos via their post by email function. I did a little searching and found the Postie plugin that allows you to do so ( sorry I cannot provide a link – the iPhone doesn’t have a way…

  • Text Links Ads – Cleaning Up The Code for Prime Time

    I just got done doing a round of maintenance on the various blogs that I have. The main reason for the work was that I had been approved to sell links on those blogs through Text Link Ads. The real work in adding the link code was cleaning up the…

  • I Am Reduced to Using Live Writer in Parallels to Blog

    I really have not been doing very much blogging lately as I have not found a desktop blog editor that works as well as Windows Live Writer for Mac. I have to tell you that I have really been disappointed. What I have done in order to try and get…

  • Image Manager for WordPress 2.1+

    As you know I have been searching hign and low for a Desktop Blog Editor for Mac that works half way decent. I recently tried Ecto but was not impressed. The biggest item that has been missing from all the Blog Editors is the ability to resize images easily within…

  • Test Post from Adobe Contribute on Mac

    I was recently editing a page in Dreamweaver 8 and discover a cool little function in it. The function allowed you to resize an image in the page and then resample so that the original image became the same size as the resized image. I thought to myself that this…