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Entries from November 2005

Ten ways to hack your blog

Steve Rubel lists Ten Blogging Hacks. Here’s the rundown…

Blog Alone or Together with Writely
Automatically Post Your Daily del.icio.us Links
Auto-Insert Technorati Tags Using ecto
Blog from Your Cell Phone
Get a Cool Icon for Your Blog
Tell the World Where They Can Find You
Meet Your Blog Neighbor
Make Money with Your Own Blog Schwag Store
Create a Blogroll in One Click
Give [...]

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November 14th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Blogging

Get a linux live CD

Why you need a Linux live CD at Lifehacker–I agree and suggest Ubuntu.

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November 11th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Computing · Software · System Help

Free backup service - 2 GB

Just started taking Mozy for a spin–it’s a free online backup service that gives 2GB of space to store your files. Unfortunatly it’s for Windows XP only for now.

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November 10th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Computing

How to kill a presentation

Bill Gates demonstrates how to efectively kill a presentation with information overload. Writers Block Live says,
How can the most successful technology company in history, run by the richest man in the universe, stand in front of the world with such incredibly lame slides in their presentation? They look like something put together by a high [...]

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November 5th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Computing · Writing

Who would pay for Google?

37signals want’s to know if you’d pay for Google.
If Google wasn’t free, would you pay $5/month for it?
I wonder if they know something the rest of us don’t?

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November 4th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Computing

Who wants more blog traffic?

Well–let’s see–who doesn’t? Paul Stamatiou has the rundown on things like using Technorati, Feedburner and other tools to boost your blog traffic. He also mentions the importance of a bearable site design and decent content. A good piece for beginning bloggers.

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November 4th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Blogging

Organize your reading with flags

Adam Gurno shares a great idea about how to use post-it flags to organize and cross reference your reading. (from)

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November 4th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Reading

Photo sharing simplified

Solution Watch gives a good review of Bubbleshare which looks promising as a means of easily sharing your photos without having to clear membership and setup hurdles. You can even quickly integrate a slide show right into a blog post.

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November 4th, 2005 · 1 Comment | Tags: Blogging · Photography

Podcast advertising made easy

Fruitcast looks like a slick way for podcasters to generate some revenue fairly easily with this service that adds brief advertisements to the begining and/or end of each podcast. Solution Watch has a good review of the service.

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November 4th, 2005 · 1 Comment | Tags: Podcasting

The secret sauce for blogging

I think this applies to a broader audiance than just corporate bloggers.
The Secret Sauce for Any Corporate Blog

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November 4th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Blogging

LCD monitor repair guide

Have an LCD monitor with a bad backlight. Here a good place to start to learn how to repair it yourself–pretty cheap too.
Backlight Quick Fix

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November 4th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Computing

Is Flock floundering?

Scrivs pronounces Flock down for the count before it even stood a chance. I tried it and was a bit disappointed after all the pre-release hype.

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November 1st, 2005 · 3 Comments | Tags: Firefox