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Google, What is all this Crazy Buzz About? A First Glance at Google Buzz

OK, so Google is RIGHT NOW beginning to release Google Buzz, some sort of social network-meet twitter-meet Facebook thing and it seems the Internet and Twitter is all a BUZZ about it.  I’ve nabbed A FEW links from Google Search’s live search stream just to share a bit about what people are saying RIGHT now:

Google’s [...]

My First Attempt at Web-Working

As a personal update, I want to let my readers know that I am going through a bit of change in my life.  Recently I made a change from a full-time employee to being employed part time while filling the rest of my income by web-working.  In this article I would like to talk about [...]

How to choose who to work on your computer

A while back I wrote an article for MakeUseOf.com titled 5 Sites To Learn How To Repair Your Own Computer.  In it I complain about the repair prices of the “big box stores.”  Well, as it turns out I found an interesting video depicting some investigative reporting done on the topic of PC repair.  Check [...]

The Age Old Question: Should I Buy a New or Referbished Computer?

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This is one of “those” questions, I believe.  If you’re looking at buying a computer, you may be asking yourself this question: new or used?  I know there are many people with strong opinions that fall into both sides.  I think this question can actually have a different answer depending on [...]

Firefox Friday – 3 Pages of Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

I ran across this cheat sheet the other day.  It was a PDF file and all it contained was plain text, Courier I believe.  There were no graphics, no fancy fonts, and no fancy introductions.  However, what it did contain will probably change the way you use Firefox, forever!
All it contained was 3 full pages [...]

MorgueFile’s Back With Lessons Learned

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Hooray for MorgueFile!!!
After a bit of down time, they are finally back up running!  Check out this blog post explaining what it is that happened.  In the post, they outlined several lessons they learned from the experience and I think they are worth analyzing.  Let’s check them out:

Backing up [...]

You Can Now Dress Up Firefox With the Timmyjohnboy.com Persona!

A few Firefox Friday posts back I wrote an article about an easy way to personalize the look of Firefox with Personas.  I also mentioned that I tried my hand at designing my own and had submitted it to the gallery.  Well, yesterday was my lucky day!  I received an email indicating that my Persona [...]

8 Tech Sites I follow That I Think Others Should Follow, Too

Today I want to do little more than share a list of sites I think you’ll find helpful.  I hope you get as much out of these sites as I do (in no specific order):

unclutterer.com – Visit this site to find ways to unclutter your life (who doesn’t need that?)
WebWorkerDaily.com – This site is all [...]

Where Was The Twitter Security Leak and How Could It Have Been Avoided? My Take on the Twitter Information Leak

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Interesting news lately!  It seems a hacker has leaked some confidential information on some of the employees over at Twitter (not good press) and some news sources (namely TechCrunch) have said they’ll publish some of it!  Now there’s a bit of a debate over whether or not it would be good [...]

Firefox Friday – First Impressions of Firefox 3.5

I upgraded Portable Firefox to 3.5 this weekend and I immediately noticed a few differences.
First thing I noticed was that a few add-ons were not yet compatible, including WeatherBug, which I quickly looked for an upgrade which fixed the issue.  I found an indispensable link which includes two lists, one of add-ons that ARE compatible [...]