While Twitter seems to be ruling the airwaves of Social Messaging Platforms, there are plenty of other services that do just as well (or better) at keeping in touch with or sending messages and status updates to your friends, colleagues and family. These services can be broken out into different segments: services that just provide [...]
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Social Messaging Communicators: Ping.fm versus HelloTxt.com




(No Ratings Yet)I wish a WordPress Developer would make the following plugin




(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)I’m not a developer, more of a tinkerer, looking at people’s code and tweaking things. Never had an hour of coding schooling in my life but I can step through some stuff and get the jist of it and even mod it to my own liking (fixed a few WP theme issues and plugins).
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Transition from DD-WRT to Tomato on Linksys Router




(No Ratings Yet)I decided I was tired of waiting around for the next version of DD-WRT to come out (v24) which, as of this writing, was at RC7, I believe. I twittered today that I was tired of waiting and got a tweet back saying that I should check out Tomato and that people were saying some [...]
DD-WRT + OpenVPN + LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Home Edition = Listen to my Home Music at Work!




(No Ratings Yet)To write this all up would probably take way too much time. But for a while I have been trying to find the ultimate solution for listening to my iTunes library where ever I am. There are obviously other combinations of this that would work, but this is the latest iteration that I have come [...]
Fix It: HemingwayEX without UltimateTagWarrior in WordPress 2.3




(No Ratings Yet)As mentioned in my previous post, in order to speed things up on my blog, I have removed the UTW (UltimateTagWarrior) plugins. Unfortunately, the theme that I use (and subsequently modified) relies on UTW for a lot of things. One of these was causing issues for users coming from a Google search related to Tags. [...]
Blog Optimization…it’s WAY too SLOW!




(No Ratings Yet)I use a couple of 3rd party monitoring sites including site24×7.com and mon.itor.us to check to ensure my blog is up and running. Over the past few days, I have only had a 94% uptime on my blog (according to site24×7.com) and this concerns me.
I had personally experienced issues (e.g., not being able to connect [...]
iPhone: AppTapp Installer 3.0b3 released




(No Ratings Yet)The NullRiver folks have released a new version of AppTapp Installer for the iPhone. I have just installed version 3.0b3 and I must say that it was a needed upgrade. The number of apps have grown so much that there was the definite need to reorganize how they were structured. So without further ado, here [...]
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