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RSS : what is it? How to read it and how to use it
[I wrote this article some time ago and you will see how old it is now. Everyone uses Feedburner now, but since Google took it over, you need a google account. Personally I only subscribe to a blog if there [...]
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Second Life: is it safe? What is it?
I have known about Second Life for a while now, but what with other things being of more importance and my own reluctance to get hooked in there, I have put it off. A web designer friend of mine however has been using SL for [...]
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Where have I been? Zemanta is wonderful. It can be downloaded as a Firefox add on. It can work on any blogging platform. It suggests photos (from Flickr) for your blog, tags and related articles from other blogs, including Amazon Books with your own referral ID on them. I love [...]
I have tested out the site and you get thumbnails for all your web sites.
TinyFav is a site where you put in all your favorite links, and get one tiny little link back! With this single new tiny link, whenever you go to it, it will randomly select one of the sites you put in [...]
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I have examined Twitter’s search capabilities in an earlier post. I was initially wrong in what I said about its capabilities in this regard. But I still wonder how useful Twitter is. On the surface it looks like a mobile SMS service. You can only use a short sentence or two. You can [...]
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SmarterTrack 4.x is a powerful help desk application built for tracking, managing, and reporting on customer service and communications, including sales and support issues. Businesses can manage employees and company communications at distributed locations around the world from a Web browser—increasing the efficiency of virtual offices, mobile agents, and companies with multiple locations. [...]
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Lingoes V2.6.2 released Jul 16, 2009
The new version of Lingoes integrates cursor translator, looking-up in dictionaries and intelligent translation by creative zoned word translator. With selection of word or sentence in screen by cursor, it will translate as many as 23 languages of text into your native language. It’s [...]
I have spent hours and hours trying to install a new word press blog. I think I made this mistake the first time around and got my host to install it for me. I uploaded and deleted, uploaded and deleted, using massive amounts of broadband.
What was I going wrong? In the readme.html file I was [...]
You should keep your web site up to date. One task, which I have just completed, is to check that all your external (and internal) links are still alive. There’s nothing more unprofessional looking than clicking on a link to see it go to a 404 page.
The other task is to check how your affiliates [...]
It depends what you have done or not done as to why your prints are darker. If you have an LCD computer screen, they will be. All LCD screens have brightness defaults which are too bright. So you can wind down the brightness by 50% to improve quality. Then you have to calibrate the colour. [...]
