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Computers & Technology
My 21 must-have programs
I received my shiny new Asus U30JC-A1 last week and thus begins the age old process of making it my own; a sacred ritual familiar to all geeks — removing bloatware, setting up preferences and user accounts, optimizing, tweaking, securing, customizing, etc… You know the drill. It also includes installing your core set of applications [...]
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Computers & Technology
Two great Mac programs: Journler and Quicksilver
05.15.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsTesting Journler’s blogging abilities — If you see this, it worked. Yay! For the last few days I’ve been messing around with a great program for the Mac called Journler. It’s like a journal on steroids. It has all the basic features you would expect from journaling software, but then takes it to a whole [...]
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Cyberculture & the Net
Twitter-mania
While we’re on the subject of Internet phenomena, be sure to check out twitter.com. I’ve been twittering (tweeting?) for a little over two weeks now, but I was a little reluctant at first. Twitter is sort of a cross between a blog and an away message. Unlike a blog, you can only post 140 characters [...]
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Cyberculture & the Net
Tracksy.com
10.15.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI have to say, Tracksy.com is a pretty slick website. I heard about it on an episode of commandN and they had had nothing but good things to say about it. At first glance, it seems to be very similar to Google Analytics in that they both offer free web statistics for you website (or [...]
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Computers & Technology
WordPress widget; testing 1, 2, 3
I just installed a WordPress widget for my Macbook and I decided to give it a spin. If it works like it’s suppose to, I will be able to post messages a lot faster than going through the normal interface. Granted, I won’t be able do much text formatting. I also won’t be able to [...]
