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March 1, 2010

I’ve been a fan of Click­free backup sys­tems for a while now. Drop­dead simple and effect­ive for most home usage. Well now the kind folks at Click­free have given me the oppor­tun­ity to share the love, so to speak, in the form of a con­test, my first, in fact.
All the gory details are here, but the […]

Tagged as: Backup, Blog Contest, ClickFree, Data Loss, Entertainment, free, Lifestyle Technology, Technology, Writing

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Still wondering why people follow me on Twitter

January 15, 2010
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Last year, I wrote a couple of posts explor­ing the reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter:

Won­der­ing why people fol­low me on Twit­ter?
The reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter

Well a year has passed since I did that basic research, and Twit­ter has been ‘improved’ in the mean­time — revised ReTweet func­tion, Lists, new desktop […]

Tagged as: Communications, followers, Following, Marketing, PR, Social Media, Spam, twitter

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How to avoid becoming a Twitter spammer, the easy way

November 2, 2009
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been receiv­ing spam on Twit­ter from trus­ted people I fol­low.
It’s not that they’ve all been over­come by the need to mon­et­ize their Twit­ter accounts (there, I said mon­et­ize in a blog post, I’m doomed), rather, they’ve fallen vic­tim to diabolically-crafted account phish­ing schemes and their Twit­ter accounts are now […]

Tagged as: OAuth, password, privacy, Security, Social Media, Spam, twitter, Twitter Spam, Username

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How to automatically post your Facebook status to Twitter

July 15, 2009
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Well it looks like Face­book and Twit­ter are now play­ing nice. If you’re logged into Face­book, this page will walk you through the pro­cess of hook­ing things up so that your Face­book updates will go out to your Twit­ter feed. Select what you want, and pro­tect the rest. I’m going to leave this post as […]

Tagged as: application, Facebook, Lifestyle Technology, Social Media, twitter

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How to view PDF and other files on your iPhone and iPod Touch

April 26, 2009
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I have to read a lot of fic­tion in the next few months. A lot of Sci­ence Fic­tion to be pre­cice, and it’s so I can cast an informed bal­lot to help select the best of the genre at this year’s World Sci­ence Fic­tion con­ven­tion (World­Con).
As a mem­ber of World­Con, a packet con­tain­ing this year’s […]

Tagged as: Adobe, app, Apple, application, Book, ebook, import, iPhone, iPod Touch, Lifestyle Technology, load, pdf, read, Reading

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Major Tom cover version — official free download available

April 17, 2009
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You’ve likely heard it in the Lin­coln MKZ com­mer­cials, but last night I finally paid atten­tion to the ad and listened… and heard this awe­some ver­sion inbetwixt shows. So obvi­ously I had to find it some­where.
After scour­ing Google videos and all, I’d finally resigned myself to hav­ing to listen to it through this blip.fm track.
Then, […]

Tagged as: download, free, Major Tom, Music, Peter Schilling, Shiny Toy Guns

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