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Join Team Dragon Blogger This Saturday for the Extra Life Video Game Marathon

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  This Saturday, November 2nd marks the 5th annual Extra Life 25 Hour Video Game Marathon. The event happens every year in order to help raise money for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals all across the world. Extra Life started as a way to honor Victoria Enmon which her battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia helped inspire the Sarcastic Gamer Community to try to raise money due to Victoria being a gamer herself and help her out by receiving … Read more

Configuring Incapsula for Best Cache Performance

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I spent a good deal of time over the past few nights tweaking and testing every configuration setting possible with Incapsula to eek out better caching and performance for my sites that run behind Incapsula.  As you may or may not already know, Incapsula is my favorite cloud service for security your WordPress blog without having to rely on a plugin and let the potential attacks hit your web hosting provider directly.  I like attacks … Read more

10 Strategies for Growing Community On Your Blog

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When it comes to strategies for enlarging your blog community, there seems to be a common online authority.  As a result, most of the suggestions on this list are coming from an often quoted source on precisely this topic.  It would seem that when it works, it works, so feel free to implement them in order to grow your blog’s community.   Write as though you are “talking” to your audience.  This type of format … Read more

Grand Theft Auto V Review

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Does Rockstar Games have what it takes to make a great game even better? Being a gamer there is always those special two or three game that I look forward to year after year. Some of which tend to deliver the same content as year’s prior and other’s that I cannot bear to even give my hard earned money to just end up seeming like last year’s model with a few tweaks here and there. … Read more

RAVPower 14000mAh External Battery Pack Review

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When it comes to mobile devices these days people want to have a device that they can rely on that will give them the longest battery life possible. Nothing can be more frustrating than when we receive an important call, email or text and notice that our phone has only about  3-5% left on it making that important response back seem like a game of “Beat the Clock” However I was given the opportunity to … Read more

Managing Domain Names with Off Site DNS

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Very few hosting providers offer off-site DNS, GoDaddy is the only major one that I know of, so when I switched DragonBlogger.com from a Bluehost shared hosting plan to WebSynthesis back in February I wasn’t thinking about the fact that I need an Offsite DNS management because WebSynthesis only hosts your WordPress they don’t do any domain management at all. Most hosting providers that use CPanel like Bluehost, Hostgator, Hostmonster…etc require that you have a … Read more

How to use Google Trends to Find New Material to Write About

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The different ways of publishing content, implies different ways to structure a text. There are a number of guidelines that can guide us when making decisions about what and how to write on a website. This will help you achieve your goals and thus, have a better reach to potential clients and/or users. Today, everything is fast and direct, users do not read scanned pages, they give it a quick look until they find something … Read more

Gen Con 2013 Makes it’s Mark in the Gaming Community

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For the past 45 years Gen Con has been a staple in the gaming community where gamers from Dungeons & Dragons to Magic: The Gathering can come together and enjoy a weekend full of fun and festivities. This year marks the 11th Gen Con in my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. For those not familiar with Gen Con let me give you a bit of the convention’s history as well as some of my own personal … Read more

Why Bloggers Need to Consider Web Design

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Most blogger aspire for their blogs to be more than just a diary of random thoughts and information for only friends or family to read or whomever.  At some point many bloggers may start out this way but then start finding an audience and only after they decide they may want to monetize or try to bring in a part time or full time income from doing online blogging, affiliate marketing do they then realize … Read more

Does Every Online Blogger Need a Shtick?

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I read so much content on Pulse its incredible and as a technology and gaming blogger I can really tell you that when you create content online that you are hoping people will consume and enjoy you have to employ and deliver something that stands out against an already and ever increasingly crowded Internet. So when I read an article on Destructoid that introduced readers to Hot Pepper Game review I had to check it … Read more

WordPress Plugin WPNewsman to Manager Your Mailing Lists

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I have bounced between several mailing management systems over the years starting off with Mailchimp, then testing out Simplycast, I have seen though never officially signed up for Aweber I am fully aware of it’s capability and I know a lot of bloggers trying to save costs will implement a mailing list solution that can leverage Amazon SES smtp service which charges a mere .10 cents per thousand mailings. Well, Glock Software makes a WordPress … Read more

Finding and Setting a Default Featured Image for WordPress Blogs

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When you run a blog that requires image thumbnails on the homepage or in posts you can find yourself in a situation where you are constantly looking for images that can capture that post and article as well as draw attention for those who would skim your homepage, notice the image along with the title and click to read more. Sometimes however you just forget to set a featured image or you have a certain … Read more

Add Two Factor Authentication to WordPress Login with Incapsula

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This post is directly aimed at fellow CMS system users, which are those who use WordPress, Joomla or other CMS systems that have a specific administrative or login interface.  Incapsula has always offered some of the best cloud security features for your site and is completely free if you have less than 50GB of bandwidth usage per month, but now they also added their Login Protection package which offers two factor protection and you get … Read more

Camtasia Studio 8.1 Now with Chroma Key and Logitech C920 Support

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A long awaited updated for the PC users of Camtasia Studio has come with the 8.1 release of the software which finally adds chroma key cropping or the ability to remove a single color background from video recordings which allows you now to use a green screen and crop out just the green screen color so you can replace it with a background of your choice. This was a feature that Mac users of the … Read more

modern.IE: The Best Cross Browser Testing Tool For Web Developers

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As a web designer, one of the most annoying parts of designing a website is cross-browser testing to make sure the site functions and/or looks proper on all browsers. The reason this causes so many headaches is that many designers like myself choose to use either a Mac or Linux computer, so we don’t have easy access to Internet Explorer – Microsoft’s web browser made specifically for Windows computers. Up until March 13, 2013, I … Read more

Formidable Pro Create Blog Posts from Form Submissions

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One of the most awesome features of Formidable Pro and there are so many great features that this is the WordPress form plugin that I purchased and use on all of my sites is that you can turn form submissions into blog posts and fully customize or tailor them. Why turn a form submission into a blog post? Well thing of the following reasons, you may want someone to submit a guest post and you … Read more

Review: Otterbox Defender Series Case with iON Intelligence for iPhone 4 and 4S

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  Otterbox has proven time and time again that their products are not only built to last but also built to make certain that your device is protected. The Otterbox Defender Series of cases are built with three layers of protection in order to ensure you that your device is guaranteed to have some of the best protection for your money. This is the newest case from Otterbox in their Defender line of products and … Read more

A Good Free Vector Search Engine

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Even as a WordPress blogger images are very important to making an impression with readers, choosing the right images for your WordPress blog theme, images and logos for your site banners or even social media icons can help draw attention and clicks. I was experimenting with Vector.me a free vector search engine which allows you to find and download free vector and free logo files that you can use for your own websites or blogs.  … Read more

HP Envy Phoenix h9-1320t Review

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    When it comes to gaming on the PC it’s great because you have so many options as far as exactly what you can have put into your computer these days from the graphics cards to the sound, it’s really up to you. However that can get a little expensive when it comes to building your own gaming PC. So if you are looking for a PC that is just ready to go and … Read more