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HourCat BETA is Live!

By: Pat Brown | November 29, 2012 1 Comment

HourCat Simple Time Tracking

HourCat has officially been released in its BETA version.  HourCat is a web application built to make time-tracking much easier. …

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New WordPress Paid Events Plugins in Beta testing!

By: Pat Brown | October 19, 2012 No Comments

WP Paid Events is now in its BETA stage.  Here are some of the highlighted features: WP Paid Events Post…

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New WordPress Custom Form and Paid Events Plugins COMING SOON!

By: Pat Brown | October 4, 2012 No Comments

After several weeks of long days and short sleep hours, I am finally able to announce that Cross Distinction will…

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File Backup Solution for Laptops & Desktops

By: Pat Brown | August 22, 2012 2 Comments

File Backup

In this post I’ll show you how to utilize a free file backup system for your laptop or desktop that backs up to the cloud. We’ll be using Fling File Transfer, which is free software that allows you to automatically sync the files on your computer with your cloud server space.

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Who is your audience? 5 Steps to Maximize Your Social Impact

By: Pat Brown | March 8, 2012 1 Comment

When I sit down with small business owners to discuss their current business strategy, we always end up working down…

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Display RSS Feed Using jQuery UI Accordion | jQuery RSS Reader

By: Pat Brown | February 20, 2012 24 Comments

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With Search Engine Optimization becoming so popular, many people are finding themselves scattered across the internet. You’ll often find clients who want to be able to aggregate all of their online interaction into one place. RSS is a great way to do this and jQuery makes it very easy to manipulate the feed and display it however you want.

In this tutorial we’ll be using some PHP to read our RSS feed, spit out some HTML, and then format it using jQuery UI’s Accordion plugin.

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Using WAMP to Set Up a Development Environment For WordPress

By: Pat Brown | February 9, 2012 10 Comments

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The web is always changing and if you have clients like mine, you may find yourself with a long to do list of website tweaks and updates. The good news is WordPress, when combined with Wamp Server, makes it really easy to set up a development environment to safely make changes (and fix errors from those changes) without affecting the live site.

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