Our Servers Recently Upgraded with Solid State Drives (SSD) for MySQL

Our servers have been upgraded with the worlds best Solid State Hard Drives (SSD) to deliver mysql performance up to 56% faster than standard Hard Drives. What is SSD? A solid-state drive is a data storage device using integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently. SSD technology uses electronic interfaces compatible with traditional…

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Keeping Your WordPress Site Secure

We have been hearing a lot of late about wordpress websites and blogs being hacked. Hacking has been increasing at a rapid rate over the few years, with 170,000 sites hit in 2012 alone. Over 64 million websites use WordPress as the content management system for their sites. This gives plenty of targets for malicious attackers…

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DIY guitar amp footswitch for Epiphone Triggerman 60 (2 button)

I few months ago, I had been eying  a used Epiphone Triggerman 60 Guitar Amp at Morelock Music in downtown Knoxville. I had decided I had to get it, and had started planning to go pick it up. But before I could, my lovely and thoughtful girlfriend surprised me by bringing it home as a gift.…

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Middle Class Rut Website

Last month we launched a new website for the alternative rock band Middle Class Rut.   Our friends at Relentless Artist Management asked us for help when it came time to put together a modern, useful Content Management System based web site so that they can easily manage their band’s web presence in an efficient…

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Launched: Daptone Records’ Super Soul Superstore Website

We are excited to announce the much anticipated redesign of the new Daptone Records Super Soul Super Store. The website completion comes just in time for the Charles Bradley pre-order of his new album “Victim of Love“, which is officially released April 2. In addition to recording artist information, news and tour dates the Daptone Records website…

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Holiday Playlist – A hipster holiday alternative

In case you are just plain tired of the barrage of traditional holiday music that is played everywhere this time of year, I thought it would be great to have a playlist of holiday music that doesn’t suck. This list is a sampling of interesting covers of holiday classics, and some are just great songs…

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iFrankenDock: The Frankenstein’s Monster Of Car iPhone Docks. A DIY love story.

Most of us havent touched a cassette tape since the 1990’s, and personally I havent really even used CD’s much for music in a very long time. For the past 8 or 9 years my music format of choice has been MP3. I really love listening to music in my car because it’s the best place…

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Google, Yahoo & Bing announce support for new markup SEOs should keep an eye on

Google, Bing and Yahoo have all announced support for Schema.org, a semantic markup protocol that could provide websites with valuable search exposure. Schema.org attempts to enhance the information transfer from website data to SERPs. All the current SEO standards will still be supported for a long time to come, but with potential for abuse not everyone is…

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Critical Components of Website Success

Abraham Maslow theorized that people have an inherent hierarchy of needs which must be met to fully develop. Just like the hierarchy of people’s needs, a website has basic and fundamental needs too. No, the image to the left is not the latest get-rich quick pyramid scheme. The pyramid to the left, shows the fundamental…

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Mobile app days are numbered.

As the commercial says, there’s an app for that. But, the app gold rush days are numbered. Amidst all the Apple, Android and Blackberry apps, mobile development is starting to look back to its roots. Web-based applications are becoming more popular for a variety of reasons. Most importantly, Portability, Market Size, Ease of upgrading application and the elimination…

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