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A Little Gift from the Boss
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4GB, Baby! 2GB more than my desktop...
I’m sure Cory expects me to work harder now, if that’s possible, but after reaching the conclusion that 1GB of RAM in my MacBook just wasn’t cutting the butter or the cheese (my specialty), I found him a great deal using a site I no longer recommend for 4GB of RAM for $45 after mail-in rebate. The next thing I knew, I was on there ordering an upgrade.
Before the upgrade, I was running on 23MB of free RAM according to my Dashboard. Checking now with Live Chat for iThemes, 12 Firefox 3 tabs open, and TweetDeck, I have 2.5 GB of free RAM. Let’s do some math really quick.
4GB - 2.5GB = 1.5GB used — CRAP! I only had 1GB before! I suppose that’s why the hard drive was always churning. For kicks and grins, I loaded up World of Warcraft and it’s running without a skip or snag. I’m in computing heaven not waiting for windows to wrap up a few more cycles before responding. I will say Mac does a much better job of memory management than Windows, but it still has limitations with a finite amount of RAM.
How Is YOUR Economy Now? Bumper Crop on the Web!
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I feel like singing!
I just can’t say enough about the increase in entrepreneurial spirit on the Internet brought on by economic uncertainties. It would seem that a number of people are taking their incomes into their own hands and creating websites to create multiple streams of income to skim over rough times nearly unscathed.
I was one of them for quite a while, and I’m continuing today, even though I still have a job and my wife has a full-time job for the time being. It all started with my gaming site, Gitr Knows WoW back in 2005. After several months, I realized that I had a voice in the community and was getting enough traffic to monetize my site. Within a couple of months things started to happen. I slowly ramped up my Text Link Ads to the point that it was and is paying for an entire year’s hosting every month. For quite a while, I was selling enough electronic merchandise that I had to claim my site on my tax return. Not bad for writing about one’s playing, I say!
Fast forward to now… zzzzZZiiiipppp! Read More→
Record-Setting Time for iThemes
Posted by: | CommentsWe are just simply having a blast now that we released FlexxTheme to smashing accolades and testimonials from our testers and the first recipients of the theme via the Theme Club. We’ve had to work out a myriad of new bugs that cropped up due to the larger diversity in hosting plans, plugins, and other circumstances, but things really couldn’t be much better for how complex the code is that drives its features and ease of use.
Here are some samples of how the theme can look with various headers, backgrounds, and layouts - all of which are done without touching a line of code. Trust me, our graphic designer didn’t know squat about WordPress a while ago and is just cutting his teeth on this theme as far as going into the dashboard. This is not simple stuff for a newbie, but it is with FlexxTheme.
Today, it has been non-stop requests to upgrade to our 2008 Theme Club for our limited, one week only offer of including FlexxTheme in the Club downloads. After midnight of November 19th, we wil be moving FlexxTheme to its own developer’s pack and it will no longer be a part of the Theme Club. I know this sounds pretty sales-pitchy, but I’ve seen some pretty cool sites pop up in under an hour with the use of FlexxTheme.
Introducing the Easiest Theme Ever: FlexxTheme
Posted by: | CommentsAfter nearly two months of development, iThemes has released what we believe is the world’s easiest theme to use and modify. Because we have nearly 20 themes in 9 months, we felt that it was time to rock the industry and develop something that takes a quantum leap in terms of user-friendliness.
The result of our company retreat in September was a whiteboard that detailed our theme goals and dreams of usability-enhancing features, along with the framework of a layout options page to allow for 96 unique layouts. Within a couple of days, it looked like we were going to have around 700 layouts. The final tally is an industry-leading 1,056 unique, functional, and ultimately desirable design layouts. Read More→
