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Eric walks you through how to use XML-Sitemaps.com to generate a sitemap.xml for your site and how to upload this to Google through Google Webmaster Central. This will help you inform Google of all the pages on your site to make sure they all get indexed properly. Send requests for screencasts to share@localwisdom.com and follow us at twitter.com/localwisdom

Show Notes: Google Webmaster Central and XML-Sitemaps.com

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I wish this video was around when I first started Local Wisdom, I mean the phrases and the unwillingness to pay for what the services cost is spot on!!!!

Have to admit, this is so funny because it is so true! Thanks to @themartorana for posting this on twitter

I mean, is this really a surprise to anyone???

“Drinking too much cola can increase the risk of a muscle problem called hypokalemia, experts warn.

In people with hypokalemia, a drop in blood potassium levels results in problems with vital muscle functions. Symptoms can range from mild weakness to serious paralysis, say Greek researchers who conducted a review of people who drank between two to nine liters of cola a day.

Two of the patients were pregnant women who were admitted to hospital with low potassium levels. One was a 21-year-old woman who drank up to three liters of cola a day and complained of fatigue, appetite loss and persistent vomiting. An electrocardiogram revealed she had a heart blockage, and blood tests showed she had low potassium levels, the researchers explained in a news release.”

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Talk about every little bit helps! We’ve known for years that white reflects the light back out, but it might just take creative thinking like this to help us turn this thing around. I wonder if this would make my roof shingles last longer

“Making roads and roofs a paler colour could have the equivalent effect of taking every car in the world off the road for 11 years, Chu said.

It was a geo-engineering scheme that was “completely benign” and would keep buildings cooler and reduce energy use from air conditioning, as well as reflecting sunlight back away from the Earth.

For people who found white hard on the eye, scientists had also developed “cool colours” which looked to the human eye like normal ones, but reflect heat like pale colours even if they are darker shades.”

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Off a \\share request, Mike runs his home Verizon FIOS not once, but twice through speakeasy.net’s speed test. Is Fios the turtle or the hare, check it out in this episode of \\share! Send requests for screencasts to share@localwisdom.com and follow us at twitter.com/localwisdom

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Funny, what else can I say! They got this off…

Melissa walks you through how to pull your twitter updates and show them on your website. She also reworks the javascript code to restylize the links to the updates. Bringing twitter updates to your website so people can follow you without going to twitter is what this episode is all about! Send requests for screencasts to share@localwisdom.com and follow us at twitter.com/localwisdom

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Good segment of Gary trying to explain new media to people that in all honesty aren’t getting it. Old media has such a hard time wrapping their heads around it, that it becomes funny!

RNIB (supporting blind and partially sighted people) has a great culmination of Excel (and other program) keyboard shortcuts.

Excel Keyboard Shortcuts on RNIB

Found this through a tweet from Leo Laporte. If you’re into tech like I am, he’s a great guy to follow and his podcasts are awesome. This machine is tiny and it can handle full 1080P video! Check out the image where they stick it on the back of a monitor, it’s funny!

“CompuLab introduces fit-PC2 – the smallest, most power-efficient Intel Atom PC to date. fit-PC2 architecture is what sets it apart from other nettop PCs – fit-PC2 is designed around the Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz and the ultra low power Intel US15W system controller hub, rather than the Atom N270 and 945G used in other nettop-PCs, thereby reducing power consumption by more than two thirds.
US15W incorporates hardware video acceleration. This allows fit-PC2 to run Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux at just 6W and to play full HD 1080p H.264 video using less than 7W.”

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