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All the extra tools bloggers need–WordCamp Victoria talk

November 14, 2009 By 11 Comments

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, [...]

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Twitter Worms are 1990s HTML email all over again

April 13, 2009 By 2 Comments

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 [...]

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FoxGLove results of the “Chrome effect”

November 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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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 [...]

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