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Realook Screen Protector Review

After looking around for a screen protector that could offer a better experience than Zagg’s (which has an orange peel effect and “increased grip’ that I don’t want on my touchscreen), I found that people were recommending screen protectors from a company called Realook. I had never heard of them before and I tried to do some research but I found that the company didn’t have an official website. I decided to take a risk and try the product based on the few forum reviews that I found.

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Cruzer Blade USB Flash Drive Review – Small, Fast, Reliable, Cheap

What’s the #1 Flash Drive listed on Google Shopping right now? It’s the SanDisk Cruzer Blade. While I was considering buying my own, I borrowed a friend’s to review.

SanDisk Cruzer Blade Flash Drive

The Cruzer Blade is small and stylish.

This flash drive is tiny! At 1.63″ by 0.69″ and only 0.29″ thick, it’s super-easy to carry around and it looks great plugged into a laptop. It’s also cheap (but built to feel expensive) – get it at Newegg for $8 with free shipping! For a drive this small and cheap one might think that the drive performs slowly, but that’s not the case. The drive reads data at ~20 MB/s and writes at 3-5 MB/s (which is similar to the performance of bulkier $20 – $25 drives.

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Zagg Invisible Shield Review

Last year I reviewed Zagg’s Invisible Shield on my iPod Touch, and now I’m writing a new, updated review of my experience with the Invisible Shield on my MyTouch 4G. I feel like my install on the myTouch was much quicker and smoother, perhaps because I already had prior experience installing one of these, or maybe because there aren’t as many curved areas to be covered.

What’s New

  • The solution came in a spray bottle and not in a small plastic tub. I liked this spray bottle.
  • The squeegee was a bit different, and it felt like it was easier to guide water out from underneath the Invisible Shield without moving the actual shield.
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Comcast’s Horrible Customer Service

It’s time to share a personal experience with Comcast’s service.

Comcast promises speeds that are much higher than Century Link’s speeds in my area. Even though all their advertised prices are promotional (and change after a certain period of time – with no price lock, unlike Century Link) I decide that I want to switch. When ordering online I set installation of the service for October 6th, 2011.

After getting the install date, I call my existing providers for TV and internet service and cancel my services there after October 6th.

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Internal Linking Optimization

Google Webmaster Tools gives us a great tool to analyze the internal linking structures on our websites. Internal links are some of the most important links because webmasters have full control over how they link to their internal pages (this can tell search engines what the webmaster feels a specific page is relevant to). Thus, the anchor text that’s used on a link must be relevant to the content of the page it’s linking to. When you go into Google Webmaster Tools you may notice something strange for your website’s Links to Your Site.

Google is not showing the link anchor texts we expect.

What are these undescriptive anchor texts doing here?

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