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All the extra tools bloggers need–WordCamp Victoria talk

by Tris Hussey on November 14, 2009 · 10 comments

in Blogging, Blogging 101, Conferences & Speaking, Cool tools, Featured, Internet Life, RSS, Talks, Web 2.0, WordPress

It’s not hard to get blogging, regardless of what blog engine you use (though WordPress is the best IMHO), but there are tricks and tools that make life easier for you. At WordCamp Victoria I decided to distill and talk about the blogging toolkit that I’ve built up over the years. Tools like blog editors, image editors, RSS readers, note gathering tools, even Twitter clients.
Usually bloggers start out like this …
Domain: check
Web host: check
WordPress installed: check
What’s next? The tools. The goodies. The tools that make the job a little easier. [...]

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Twitter Worms are 1990s HTML email all over again

by Tris Hussey on April 13, 2009 · 1 comment

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

All that is old is new again, or so we’ve been told. This weekend the Twitterverse has been slammed with a couple of bothersome worms that propagate rapidly using basic social engineering: we like to click links from friends.
Mashable [mikeyy: Second Twitter Worm on the Loose] and ReadWriteWeb [Twitter Worm Could Take Over Your Computer (in Theory) - ReadWriteWeb] covered this charming present from the Easter Virus Bunny over the weekend but it seems that most folks missed a basic point while pointing fingers at Twitter: we’ve seen this all [...]

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FoxGLove results of the “Chrome effect”

by Tris Hussey on November 24, 2008 · 0 comments

in Internet Life, Web 2.0

Catching up on my newsie tweets this morning I caught Lifehacker’s FoxGLove headline…whoa a standalone Google Apps Portal. Let me at it!
Crafty Firefox user Alex customized his own Firefox Portable installation to tightly integrate with Google Apps. He calls his creation “FoxGLove,” and uses it as his own Google-powered productivity portal instead of Microsoft Outlook. Along with his pick of add-ons that enhance and integrate Google Apps in Firefox, Alex tricked out this portable Firefox version with a Chrome-like theme, custom homepages (that auto-load in tabs), web site favicons, and [...]

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