June 25, 2007

Gary Fong Bullzeye3 Review

Filed under: Wedding — admin @ 3:14 pm

This software is sold by super-marketer-ex-wedding-photographer-merchandiser-
real-estate-speculator-vacation-hotel-businessman and who knows what else Gary Fong. It is good image-correction software, easy to use, and available both as a photoshop plugin and as a standalone version. Wedding photographers are the target clientele, since they must correct a large number of images as efficiently as possible.
A Bullzeye3 demo version is available try to before you buy (Bullzeye3 costs US$149 as a download).

BUT WAIT, don’t buy yet! Gary Fong has licensed this software from Pictocolor and is merely a reseller of a repackaged version. If you buy directly from Pictocolor, you’ll get the latest version of the software, i.e. version 6 instead of the version 5 sold by Gary Fong as Bullzeye3, for the same price. Go here to buy Pictocolor’s Software, since you will receive a 20% discount till 31. July 2007 at checkout, which is not normally available through the regular Pictocolor website.

Enjoy!

June 14, 2007

DMOZ is Dead

Filed under: The Web — admin @ 10:55 am

- Google has dropped DMOZ.

- DMOZ itself was dead for editors for most of 2006.

- It contains a lot of stale links, even though the site has an auto-404-checker.

Why should anyone ever use DMOZ?

There’s only ONE reason. It will give you a one-way link from a page with a potentially high Google pagerank. DMOZ itself has a PR 8, so depending where your leaf is in the DMOZ tree, your referring page will inherit a portion of that. Depending also on the number of links already on the page, your page will get a boost from Google.

Forget getting any substantial traffic from DMOZ unless you’re ranked near the top.

The real use of DMOZ as an authority on the best sites on the web, manually edited, is long gone. Good sites are springing up with such frequency that the petrified molass known as the DMOZ editor has not a chance to catch up.

The editors themselves are a bunch of nigh-nosed, sadistic, power-addicted slobs. As an editor, be prepared that your pages will get random edits by other metas, most submissions will get discarded even if they’re way better than the lot already on the page you’re submitting to, other editors will not even respond to your suggestions, your editor account will get deleted for no reason, and DMOZ itself will not work for months on end. Hallelujah!

Don’t we have other, more important work to do? And why am I writing this article in the first place. Let’s move on.


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