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Web

A simple and easy way to back up your Google Docs

May 22, 2009

If you do a lot of your work on various computers in different locations (as I do), conveniently accessing your documents is important.
Though I carry a 2GB USB drive everywhere, I actually find it easier to use Google Docs and store my work ‘in the Cloud’, so to speak.
But, that amorphous blob of computing-storage could [...]

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Reasons why I unfollow someone on Twitter

March 12, 2009

Recently I had a great discussion on Twitter about Unfollowing…a much discussed topic of etiquette amongst the Twitterati.
One school of thought is that when someone follows you on Twitter, it’s proper for you to follow them back.
That’s not my belief though. If that were the case, then it would be impossible for me to derive [...]

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Getting Things Done with Gmail?

December 9, 2008

Usually Google Apps for Business is the last of Googles free online application suites to receive new features, but ever since Google enabled Google Labs within Apps for Business, new features are rolled at the same time.
Today Gmail received a simple Task List manager:

Like many of Google’s enhancements, it’s a very simple implementation — but [...]

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What to know when changing website hosts

December 3, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I found the following in an email from my webhost:
Your web hosting account for bradgrier.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for
up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
After a quick call to the [...]

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Google Chrome: a quick look and how to block ads with Privoxy

September 14, 2008

photo credit: Randy Zhang

Google Chrome is no Firefox (yet).
For the last week and a bit, off and on,  I’ve been using Google Chrome (Google’s new entry into the browser wars). On the 3 XP-based systems I’ve used it on, I’ve found it to be very fast, very efficient, and stable. Pretty good performance for a [...]

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I love mashing technology! (freebies)

August 8, 2008

Moo + LinkedIn = Free Business Cards
I’ve written before about Moo (cards & stickers) and LinkedIn (the business social network), but this is the first time I’ve written about both in the same post.
Short story.Moo is letting you make 50 of their beautiful photo-enhanced business cards for free!
It’s really mashup2Moo itself is a mashup of [...]

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Bag Open. Cat Out. Internet in danger! OpenDNS to the rescue?

July 22, 2008

Your ISP may be vulnurable to the Multi-Vendor DNS Issue. Here’s how to tell, and a simple fix you can do to protect yourself.

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Merging domains — important things to consider when you feel the urge to merge

July 18, 2008

photo credit: Kevin Steele

A friend recently asked me for a bit of advice regarding merging two corporate domains. Two organizations, with similar or complimentary lines of business are now one. What to do about the left-over websites. A quandary.
Below I’ve outlined 6 areas to consider, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
I guess the only [...]

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Wordpress 2.6 is out — and you’re using it now.

July 17, 2008

photo credit: purplelime

It was a fairly painless update (thanks to the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin), but there were a few quirks I’ve had to address:

Avatars. WP 2.6 has much better support for Avatars (images used to identify authors of comments). But, my theme doesn’t natively support them so I’ve had to maintain use of [...]

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How to *really* know your blog is successful (or not)

June 26, 2008

Hey! How’ya doin’!There are many ways to define your blog’s success; Hits, Links, Trackbacks, Comments, PageRank, Subscribers, etc.
These are all good indicators of activity. Your blog is busy. You’re getting a lot of pageviews. People are hitting and reading and crawling the pages and posts of your blog. All is good, according to the numbers.
But [...]

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