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Rare Victorian 3.0!

February 26, 2010
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Now that Rare Victorian has started it’s fourth (holy cow) year of existence, I thought it was befitting to do a revamp of the site design. So, voila!
It has been moved to a new, faster server and the overall page design is completely new. For those of you who post comments, you’ll notice that [...]

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Enhanced iPhone Support

February 11, 2010
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If you’re an iPhone user and need your Rare Victorian fix while out and about, you should pop over to RareVictorian.com. I’ve installed enhanced support for iPhone and navigation is now quick and easy.

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Top 10 Antiques Blogs

July 16, 2009

I put together a top 10 Antiques Blogs list for Blogs.com and tried to make it very diverse in it’s genres and topical coverage.  I tried to include a sprinkling of general antiques news blogs mixed with very focused niche blogs.  It’s a very hard process to whittle down to 10 with as many blogs [...]

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Compiling Top 10 Antique Blogs List

July 2, 2009

I’ve been asked to compile a top 10 list of Antiques-oriented blog for Blogs.com and I’d like to solicit feedback from the Rare Victorian community.  If you have some favorite antiques blogs that you follow, please pass them onto me at via the contact page.  I will share the list once it is compiled and [...]

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Rare Victorian Blog On Amazon Kindle

May 16, 2009

If you haven’t heard of the Kindle, it is a wireless reading device manufactured by Amazon that seems to be gathering some wide adoption.  The Kindle allows you to wirelessly buy, receive, and read books them from a device that is 1/3″ thin and has a screen that is either 6″ diagonal or 9.7″ diagonal [...]

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Twitter And The World Of Antiques

May 13, 2009

Since some of my regular visitors and blog subscribers own, operate, or work in the antiques business, I thought I’d take a momentary diversion to address the use of Twitter in the business of antiques.  This will also be of interest to you if you aren’t in the business and have been hearing about Twitter [...]

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Rare Victorian Toolbar Available

April 24, 2009

I’ve developed a toolbar for those of us that use Rare Victorian and the forum on a daily basis. I know some of you are thinking, “John why the heck would I want a Rare Victorian toolbar?”. Well, the answer is that it puts some of the most common links in one place for [...]

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