February 2009

Prevent your Twitter stream from becoming a flood

February 24, 2009
Flood by TandemRacer

Loic Le Meur, a high profile geek and founder of Seesmic, took drastic action yesterday and unfollowed 23,000 twitter users via an unfollow script. He simply became overwhelmed with the spam, robots, and noise so he decided to unfollow everyone and reboot his twitter stream. His newly imposed criteria for following a twitter user is: [...]

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Hard Drive Recovery made easy with TestDisk

February 24, 2009

An IT professional is often only as good as the tools at their disposal. Occasionally I discover a new tool that I know will become an indispensable addition to my overall toolkit and such is the case with my latest find. Introducing TestDisk. Hard drives are troublesome devices. They fail, they corrupt, and are categorically [...]

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Let Me Google that for You

February 4, 2009
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I enjoy helping people I really do but sometimes…. Do you ever get questions that make you wonder if the asker has every heard of Google? Ever been tempted to answer an inane email inquiry with the Google results page? If so allow me to make you day by introducing, Let Me Google That For [...]

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Email – You’re Doing it Wrong

February 4, 2009

It’s not hip. It’s not Web 2.0 but email is still the primary method of communication of almost every internet user worldwide. Yet after popular use for over a decade it’s stunning how many users still can’t grasp how to properly use and manage email. Just so we are clear I’m not talking about web [...]

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RevWatch – Google Earth, Firefox, Chrome, and Backtrack Beta 4

February 4, 2009

Google has released an updated version of Google Earth (5.0.11337.1968). The update includes a host of new features including Google Oceans – The ocean floor is not a 3D terrain instead of the previous 2D map, you can even see wave motions, and now you can fly below the ocean as well. Google Mars – [...]

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