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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

That is probably the punniest headline I’ve written to date.  Sorry for the groan.

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My ISP is a DNS Sellout!

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia This has been brought up in the past, but recently I’ve noticed that my Internet Service Provider ([[ISP]]), Road Runner from Time Warner Cable, has decided that when I typo on the location bar, it’s perfectly acceptable to send me to a not-so-helpful search result page.

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Toluu Just Got Better: New Feed Page Views and More!

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Many of my regular readers will be familiar with Toluu because I have linked to it quite a bit, especially in my RSS Reset articles.  Toluu is a useful, unique utility that allows you to build a portfolio of RSS feeds that you subscribe to, and then using a ...

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WinExtra’s New Sunday Blog Review: First Up, scribkin!

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

It was with complete surprise that I learned tonight that this blog was chosen to be the very first on WinExtra's new series, the Sunday Blog Review!  I was looking forward to seeing the review, as Steven Hodson had promoted the series earlier in the day.  I ...

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YAAOF - Yet Another Article on FriendFeed

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I know what you are thinking... This is the 35th FriendFeed post I have read in the past week! And you are absolutely correct. I Need A Fix FriendFeed has been a big news item for a while and especially recently ...

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First Look: Zemanta

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

  Image by Tom Raftery via Flickr Today I noticed an interesting new multi-browser plugin called Zemanta. Having both Firefox installed and a WordPress blog, I decided I would give it a spin and see what it could dig up for me with itself as the topic. So far, ...

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Tell Me About RSSmeme

Monday, May 12th, 2008

This isn't going to be just any run-of-the-mill review from me. Why? Because the application I am going to review is different in several substantial ways: It isn't a piece of software you install on your PC It isn't a web application like Gmail or YouTube It really isn't exactly meant to be ...

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Tell Me About Digsby

Friday, April 25th, 2008

You're on AIM, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger. You have Google Talk through Gmail and you still have that old ICQ account lying around. You think you have it covered with Trillian or Pidgin. Perhaps you think you are a step ahead of your coworkers because you are using Meebo. Think again.

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TwitKit - The Perfect Twitter Sidebar?

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

In the course of reviewing different Twitter add-ons to Firefox yesterday, I noticed there was an entire page of betas that required a login to install. One of the betas that I noticed was called TwitKit. Apparently, I'm too lazy to create a login, but I did ...

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Tweetbar vs. TwitterFox

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Even though Twitter itself is a web site, don't you occasionally want to have access to Twitter while you surf away in a different window, or at least be notified when someone sends a tweet your way?  In that case, what you may be looking for is a Firefox add-on ...

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Tell Me About StumbleUpon

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

StumbleUpon isn't very much like any social bookmarking site out there. And, in a way, that is good. If you are relatively new to web surfing, or even if you feel like you are going to the same 5 web sites every day, StumbleUpon is the perfect remedy.

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Tell Me About Flock

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Every modern operating system comes with a web browser. On Windows, it is Internet Explorer. On a Mac, it's Safari. Linux usually comes with more than one, but usually has at least Firefox. All of these (arguably) are decent web browsers and do the job ...

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Tell Me About Twitter

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

It has generated a lot of buzz in the past year, but for many, what Twitter does is still a mystery. Why do we need to log in somewhere just to type in a sentence worth of text? Isn't that what Instant Messaging is for? I heard it is just like Dodgeball. I have ...

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Tell Me About Google Reader

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Most everyone has heard about Google Reader at this point. But I am sure there are more people out there who don't know an RSS feed from a banner ad, and how Google's product leverages this technology. First we need to discuss what RSS is. RSS stands for Really Simple ...

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