PlayOn offers streaming content from Netflix, Hulu, CNN, ESPN, CBS, and YouTube directly on your TV through your wireless home network. You pay a one-time fee which is $40 or pick a trial period of 14-days. Turn on your XBox, PS3, or HP MediaSmart TV and you’re watching content in no time. AND they’ll be compatible with the Wii in early 2009. Now this is the kind of digital conversion I can get into.
from Lifehacker
Gina Trapani has written a brief and informative article on getting your PC to spin up faster. I gave it a whirl and cut my start-up time in half. Now I’m going to have to find another time to get my dishes washed.
from ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse
With a new blog being started every second it can be hard to stand out from the crowd. Following are some tips on how to differentiate your blog from the millions of others out there. (more…)
from The Entrepreneurial Mind by Jeff Cornwall
The Better Business Bureau has implemented a new approach to rating businesses. Although it was put in place early in 2009, it is just now getting noticed as its impact is beginning to be felt in the market.
The new system uses a more detailed A+ through F letter-grade, which replaces the old system that rated businesses as either “satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory”. (more…)
I’d like to welcome two new clients to the Meridian Design family with two shiny new websites:
Stratabands : The Art of Union
Stratabands is the new patterned metal wedding ring line from recognized mokume-gane artists James Binnion and Steve Midgett. These award winning designers have decades in patterned metal as masters celebrated for their fine art and specialties in mokume-gane wedding bands.
Steve and James founded XPM Corporation to develop a new industrial process to make patterned metals affordable and in combinations previously thought to be impossible. The XPM process enables new patterns and ring shapes and generates the perfect bond needed to join dissimilar metals. Most importantly, the new XPM process greatly increases the availability of designer patterned metals and dramatically reduces cost.
Buncombe Buckles
Buncombe Buckles Metalworks is a small, one woman company based in Asheville, North Carolina. Each buckle is designed, fabricated and finished by Celia Gray. Celia was trained in blacksmithing and metalwork at the Penland School of Crafts during a two year fellowship program from 2001 to 2003. She has a fine arts degree and is an exhibiting painter as well.
Celia has been making belt buckles as a side project to her artwork since she began her time at Penland in 2001. She decided to make it into a small business and Buncombe Buckles was officially named and began selling in 2006. Celia collects inspiration from repeated patterns, great color combinations, old quilts, vintage wallpaper, and weathered and worn surfaces. Each buckle is designed, made, cleaned, and finished with individual care.