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27 Social Media Sites In One Place

February 21, 2008 By Bill 4 Comments

Photo by Hamed Saber Check out popurls. popurls allows you to view some of the best stuff on the web in one place. It aggregates (collects) a bunch of information from multiple web social sites and displays them in one location for you to browse through. Here's what you'll see: 1. Digg Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Continue Reading

Six Programs To Help Keep Your Computer Safe And Secure

February 21, 2008 By Bill 6 Comments

Photo by ninette_luz Here are six programs to help keep your Windows XP or Windows Vista PC free from spyware, viruses, and intruders. All these programs are free, which is a good thing. However, I encourage you to purchase any of them that you find helpful for your computer in the long term. Some of the paid for versions of these programs might help you consolidate these Continue Reading

The Technology Foibles Of Our Lives

February 20, 2008 By Bill 7 Comments

Photo by PPDIGITAL This past week I've bumped into the following issues experienced by people who use computers to get their jobs done. They are not computer experts. They are computer users, a sideline wanna-be geekette who spends too much time on technology to get things done. One computer user finds a virus on his PC and dumps the whole computer. "I'll move from Continue Reading

A Beginner’s Guide To Flock

February 19, 2008 By Bill 7 Comments

Flock 1.0 is a web browser. It's a social networking browser. Flock has a tabbed browsing metaphor like Firefox as well as Internet Explorer 7. It is built off of Firefox. Here is the opening page of Flock after a fresh install. Click image for larger view (1024 x 768) As you can see, Flock looks like a web browser but on social networking steroids. Just by looking Continue Reading

Why You Need This WordPress Plugin

February 18, 2008 By Bill 1 Comment

In my article I Thought Plugins Were Just For Bald Guys I talked about what WordPress Plugins are. There are quite a few WordPress Plugins that do a lot of different things. They allow you to extend the functionality of WordPress in many different ways that can be advantageous to your blog. When you first start blogging, you eventually become aware of a service called Continue Reading

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