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Google Reader: An Introduction

August 14, 2008 By Bill 3 Comments

I use Google Reader as my RSS Reader to read blogs.  I've used it for quite some time now and was recently talking to some folks who had no idea it existed or how to use it.  These people read blogs by browsing to each one everyday to check out if there's anything new to read. I introduced them to Google Reader and told them how they could read through their blogs a bit quicker Continue Reading

User Interface Design – What Would You Do?

August 12, 2008 By Bill Leave a Comment

Recently I went to shut off email forwarding on my wife's hosting account and was confused by what should be a simple task become a stressful decision. Below is a screen shot of the choices I had that would allow me to shut off email forwarding. What would be your next step to shut off email forwarding? Let me know what you think.  Also, I decided to email the Continue Reading

24 Terrific Tweets

August 11, 2008 By Bill Leave a Comment

This is a continuation of my weekly Terrific Tweets from Twitter - 22 Terrific Tweets and 23 Terrific Tweets lists.  Here are 24 Terrific Tweets from just an inkling of the Twitter community.  There's gold in them there tweets. 1. – The first week of Ed Dale's The 30 Day Challenge has been completed and there continues to be a bunch of great stuff to learn.  I'm way behind Continue Reading

Upgrading PHP

August 10, 2008 By Bill Leave a Comment

A couple of months ago I was trying out the PicLens WordPress Plugin.  After installing it and trying to activate it I received a message that said, "This plugin requires PHP 5.1 and you have 4.x.  So what to do? After investigating a bit using Google and instant messaging my host provider, the solution was to add this line: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php to the Continue Reading

Four WordPress Themes and Two WordPress Plugins Go Into A Bar…

August 9, 2008 By Bill 1 Comment

When you first start blogging in WordPress it can be a daunting task just to pick a theme.  Themes are what makes your blog look somewhat unique or completely unique.  WordPress itself started its theme directory back up with some pretty nice free themes. However, there are also free themes scattered throughout the Internet as well, all you have to do is a Google search for Continue Reading

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