The Porsche name has long since been associated with high performance and high speed. What if you want that same kind of experience when sitting in front of your computer? While it probably won’t be the same as getting behind the wheel of a real sports car, this portable hard drive might be just as quick.

What you see here is the LaCie Porsche Design Portable External Hard Drive. Much like other products that bear the Porsche name, the design here is super slick and will certainly grab some attention. The kicker here is that it comes with a USB 3.0 interface, offering much faster data transfer speeds than the USB 2.0 connection that you may currently be using.

The aluminum casing is a solid 3mm thick, helping to protect all your precious data inside. Also bundled with the external hard drive is the Wuala online storage and LaCie Private-Public software, further protecting your data. Keeping the environment in mind, this drive also has an eco-mode that reduces power consumption by up to 40%.

You can find the LaCie Porsche Design 500GB USB 3.0 external hard drive at a variety of retailers and e-tailers with a going price of around $99.

All kinds of different companies, individuals and organizations choose BlueFur web hosting. One such example is KAZ Photographics. Based in Slave Lake, Alberta, KAZ offers a range of photographic services.

While some other photography studios may focus on wedding photography or portrait photography, that’s not what KAZ is all about. Instead, the focus is more on commercial work and assignments, “including aerial and location shoots.” They also specialize in photography for annual reports and corporate collateral.

Perhaps the best way to understand the artistic style of KAZ Photographics is to view the gallery on their website. All of the images are incredibly powerful and would be great to accompany all kinds of business communications, magazine publications, and even larger format printing for wall mounts!

Do you use BlueFur to host your websites? Let us know and we can feature you in a future blog post. Send an email message to blogfeature@bluefur.com with your name, website URL, and a brief description of what you’d like to see highlighted.

You want a clean, yet very visual theme for your WordPress site or blog? An option that you might want to consider is Triton Lite, which is available as a free download.

Triton Lite has been designed to be an all-in-one WordPress theme, working with all sorts of different applications. It is appropriate for all kinds of blogs, as well as company websites, portfolio sites, and more. There is a slider at the top, plus several “featured post” areas below that with thumbnail images.

The theme comes preloaded with three fonts, two patterns, custom widgets, easy to use shortcodes hard-coded into the post editor, multi-level dropdown menus, and more. You’ll also notice the social buttons, easy theme options, and Gravatar support. It also helps that it is a one-click install with no plugins needed.

Check out the live demo of the Triton Lite WordPress theme, then head over to the developer’s site to get at the free download link.

Having your health without wealth isn’t a lot of fun, but it’s probably even worse to have wealth without good health. Life is all about balance and that’s the theme for this week’s blogosphere tour!

Darren Barefoot starts out with an interesting tale about how someone on Reddit became an author overnight. It started out as a story on the AskReddit section, but it has since grown to have huge potential as a full e-book or physical book. Behold the power of the Internet!

Neil Patel of Quick Sprout offers the Mark Zuckerberg guide to building great Facebook profiles. Many people aren’t leveraging the popular social network to its full potential. To do that, you need to attract as much attention to yourself as possible and, hopefully, it’s the good kind of attention.

Buzz Bishop turns to the world of tumultuous finance, discussing his experience with managing his TFSA. He initially invested in safe stocks like Apple and Lululemon, but in going for the homerun, he saw nearly a 50% drop from peak to valley. If you’re going to manage your own portfolio, perhaps it’s best to keep it simple and think long.

Jennie Yuen turns some conventional wisdom on its head. We’ve become an overly medicated society, so have common pain relievers become more detrimental than useful? They’ve been linked to all sorts of negative side effects, including nausea, unusual fatigue, and easy bruising, as well as (ironically) headaches and joint pain.

Michael Fortin has a deeply personal story to share with us about his mother. She’s a fiercely loyal woman who would kindly help anyone who asked. Her health has taken a turn for the worse, reminding Michael that life is precious and we should all live every day as if it were our last. You never know when that could very well be true.

Twitter is a fantastic tool to use for marketing your company, its products, and its services. It’s a great way to get the word out about what you do, as well as about any specials or promotions you may have. However, you need to be mindful of when you send these out.

The time of day can have a dramatic impact on the relative success of a “promotional” tweet. If you have a restaurant that largely caters to the late night crowd, it’s unlikely you’ll get much attention by announcing something at 8am. Sending out the message at 9pm may not be the best either, since these people may already be out.

There is no such thing as the perfect time for every tweet. Instead, it depends on a number of factors and that’s why you should track the relative success of your tweets. If you are sending out a link, use different tracking URLs and send out the tweets at different times of the day. After several of these, you should start to see a trend emerge as to when the tweets are the most viewed and when the links are clicked the most often.

As with any other aspect of marketing and advertising, getting the right metrics can make a huge difference on whether your promotion succeeds or fails. And the time of day for a tweet can play a huge role in that.

When you run any kind of blog, it’s important that you update it on a regular basis. This also means that it helps when you have an ongoing list of post topics, ensuring that you always have something to write about.

Saving these topic ideas as “draft” posts, sometimes with some quick bullet points to jog your memory, can be very helpful, but it’s not always convenient to access all your drafts. That’s where the simple yet effective Drafts Dropdown plugin comes into the picture.

Created by Crowd Favorite and Alex King, well known names in the world of WordPress development, Drafts Dropdown grants you faster access to your draft posts and pages. Assuming that you are logged in, you can see the drafts pulldown menu from every page on your blog via that gray toolbar that stays persistent across your site. It’s that simple.

Head on over to the WordPress Plugin Directory to get the FAQ, installation instructions, and screenshots for this plugin. It is also there that you can access the free download link. The current version is compatible with WordPress 3.2+.