There’s no doubt been a time in your life when you have to buy a present for that person who has just about almost everything. But fear not, help is at hand. We’ve compiled our top 50 favorite presents & gift ideas for the geekier people you know (if none of these work you may want to look at our top mens gadgets).
The Tenori-On is your own personal pocket synthesizer, it has a 16×16 grid that acts as a sequencer and has a number of modes (Score, Random, Draw, Bounce, Push, Solo & Advanced).
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We love concepts here at StoreCrowd, maybe it’s because we like things we know we’ll never be able to have. However, if you’ve been reading our other posts you’ll come across some beautiful futuristic concept cars, 25 gadgets for men (there’s a beautiful concept bike in there by Alberto Del Biondi) & our favourite cell phone concepts.
This time around we’re looking at our favourite concept watches in 2009. But, can you guess which one of these watches actually ended up be produced?
Swatch Infinity
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We all know that a large part of Ecommerce is to do with the range of products you carry & the price you offer them at. But what if your website is slow & you make it difficult for people to do business with you by having a long shopping cart that requires a user account to access?
Here’s some of our favourite Ecommerce Usability Optimisation tips that you can implement right now to see some fantastic results…ninja style.
1. Allow users to transact without Signing Up
Making your transaction process as simple as possible will be one of the greatest & fruitful things you’ll ever do for your business. It’s nice to get registrations & email addresses…..but wouldn’t you rather get a sale & that ongoing relationship with the customer? After all your customers are at your site to shop for something.
Nordstrom allows new customers to buy as a Guest, they then give them an opportunity to register during the checkout process (if they want). This makes the experience much more enjoyable & people are much more likely to register once they’ve commited to the purchase. [click to continue…]
Upgrading Wordpress can be a major pain (if you don’t know what you’re doing). For example, lets say that you know nothing about the UNIX command line.
The typical update path would either use the built in wordpress upgrade function (which doesn’t work for all server setups) or something like:
- Visit wordpress.org
- Download the latest zip file to your pc
- Unzip the latest file
- Fire up your FTP program
- Connect to your server
- Navigate to your blog folder
- Upload the new Wordpress files
- Wait 5+ Minutes for the files to upload one by one
- Visit the upgrade page on your Wordpress Blog
- Finished!
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