August 2009
28 posts
PCWorld: DHS Clarifies Laptop Border Crossing...
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security made it clear that border crossing officials could continue to search any device that can store electronic media without any suspicion of wrongdoing. Although the revised policy ensures searches will be completed in a “timely manner” (up to 30 days) and that travelers will stay informed about the search’s...
Via Download Squad: Alternate marketing slogans...
Alternate marketing slogans for Windows 7 by Grant Robertson (RSS feed) Aug 29th 2009 at 4:30PM Normally, I wouldn’t do this. A source deep within Microsoft — who just happened to owe me a favor — passed along a list of new Windows marketing slogans which, for one reason or another, just didn’t make the cut. After careful consideration and soul searching, I’ve...
Change Snow Leopard Finder prefs for faster...
via tuaw.com Unfortunately the default out-of-the-box action is still set to look everywhere on your Mac. But don’t worry, it’s easy to change. 1. Make sure Finder is your active app (either click on the Finder icon in the dock, click the desktop or a visible Finder window, or cmd-Tab to switch to the Finder). 2. Choose Preferences in the Finder menu. Or you can just use the...
LazyFeed info salvation, salivation, or overload?
Since I am an info glutton my ears perked up when I saw that the invite-only beta status had been taken off of LazyFeed. Come on, if Louis Gray likes it …louisgray.com: No More Beta Codes: Lazyfeed Is Open for Everyone The product’s uniqueness is one of the more innovative services I have seen in 2009, which was a big part of why I practically have had a part-time job as a beta code...
Mac.AppStorm's toolkit for bloggers--what would...
Whilst many blogging platforms come with excellent web-based administration interfaces, a variety of desktop tools can make the experience far more enjoyable. With a useful set of applications installed, managing a blog is a far simpler and more natural experience. Today we’ll be looking at 60 applications for desktop blogging and tweeting, formatting images for your posts, recording...
Chris Heuer's take on Chris Brogan, Panasonic, &...
As for whether Chris Brogan is less trustworthy as a result of his working with Sony, bollocks. Trust is about honesty and character demonstrated over time, and there is nothing here or anywhere to indicate that Chris was dishonest…. nor was he disloyal in that he owes no loyalty to Panasonic except respect and perhaps the friendships he might have with various people involved there. There are...
Ensight – Jeremy Wright » Best Out of Office...
2. You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn’t have received anything at all. via ensight.org Oh that never happens! ;-) Posted via web from Tris Hussey’s Lifestream | Comment »
5 Things Not to Let the Kids Bring in the Car |...
via wired.com I have to add to this list: Cheap crayons. I had a pack of them literally melt into the seats of a car. Crayola’s might cost more, but they don’t turn into goo in the sun (as fast) Posted via web from Tris Hussey’s Lifestream | Comment »
xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet
via xkcd.com The scary thing is… This is exactly true. Posted via web from Tris Hussey’s Lifestream | Comment »
What's your online persona?
Found this site via Muhammad Saleem’s tweet. MIT’s online personas. Here’s mine: Posted via email from Tris Hussey’s Lifestream | Comment »
Testing Posterous as my content hub--I know it...
If the old way was to write a post for each service, is the new way to write once, post everywhere? If this is written here on Posterous, but also posted to my blog, what are the SEO implications? For posting to my blog, does it just leave out tags and categories? And yes, this will show up on Twitter twice. Posted via web from Tris Hussey’s Lifestream | Comment »
For your next: Is Social Media a fad?...
via markevanstech.com Sure I knew a lot of content was generated every hour, every day … but the scale and pervasiveness is mind blowing. Posted via web from Tris Hussey’s Lifestream | Comment »
Postling is this Web 2.0 hitting mainstream...
Postling’s good….but not great. Is the service worth $9 per month to a business? Probably. However, if they know about the free options, then there’s really no point to Postling at the moment. Still, it boast an all-star team with venture backing and it has only been a week or two since it went live. We hope Postling steps up its game and makes a more compelling case for businesses to spend...
Congrats to AHA Media & kudos to Bob Basil
AHA MEDIA is extremely grateful and thankful to Bob Basil, Professor of Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University for his very generous gift of his old URL http://www.downtowneastside.com to us!! Today is a day of blessed miracles!! AHA MEDIA became ‘ Official ‘ today AND we received an unexpected gift of the URL of http://www.downtowneastide.com which will be forwarded to us...
Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social...
Maybe it’s better to host your own. That’s the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates the users who have published their content online only to see the tools they use become broken or less desirable. The prospect of a distributed, interoperable, self-hosted network of publishing,...
Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed
In wake of the news of the FriendFeed acquisition by Facebook, we’re faced with the real possibility that FriendFeed.com will be shut down for good. According to the press release, “FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being…” In other words, it’s only a matter of time before the site is gone for good. What is the FriendFeed community to do?...
Global Neighbourhoods: My New Canadian Tour & a...
There were, however, a few people who cared. It seemed we shared a common topical interest, a shared passion on something new and different that might change the way people communicate all over the world. I, and the American and Canadian social media enthusiasts shared a common interest and it transcended geographic barriers. These are global neighborhoods. People of the world are using social...
ParisLemon » Cut The BS. The Real Reason People...
IE6 is absolutely the worst browser ever created. And I would even argue that it stifled web innovation for a number of years because developers often had to do double the work just to support it. With apologies to the poor workers who stil are forced to use IE6, I hope more people hop on this boycott bandwagon. The point is that it may force your boss to do an upgrade. via parislemon.com...
" » Shel Israel to launch Twitterville in...
—> ShelIsrael is coming to Canada in September to launch his new book, Twitterville. And he’ll be doing it at Third Tuesday social media meetups in five cities across Canada: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. via propr.ca Always love hearing from a fellow Bostonian. This should be an interesting and worthwhile 3rd Tuesday on Thursday (Sept 17th in...
Death of Tr.im: Rolling your own link shortener...
So if you really must rely on shortlinks for any reason, it probably makes more sense than ever to create or control your own link shortener… via contentious.com Something that I’m going to have to look into—buying a short domain and making a personal link shortener. Posted via web from Tris Hussey’s Lifestream | Comment »
Retweeting Is The New Linkback – Could It Be? |...
Is retweeting the new linkback for you? As mainstream hops on, can we expect to see more stats being integrated into search engines and analytics programs for retweets? (Most URL shortening services are taking note of this) What’s in the future of retweeting? What about linkbacks? via shegeeks.net Corvida is right, RTs are easier than writing a post. The problems with RTs is their shelf...
WordPress Plugin Competition Blog » Section Widget...
Ever wanted to display a widget only on the front page? Subpages of certain pages? Posts with a certain tag? We’ve got you covered. With an extremely easy to use interface, you can create your section-specific widget in no time - without going through the frustration of writing PHP code (ala Widget Logic). via weblogtoolscollection.com After teaching the Websites with WordPress class a few...
WordPress Plugin Competition Blog » WordPress...
The simple to use One-Time Password plugin enables you to login to your WordPress weblog using passwords which are valid for one session only. One-time passwords prevent stealing of your main WordPress password in less trustworthy environments, like internet cafés, for example by keyloggers. For each login you can choose between using your main password or a one-time password. The one-time...
Download all the Competition Plugins! | Weblog...
All the entries into the WordPress Plugin competition have been tallied and have been passed on to the judges. There are 43 entries in total that we have received. They are all listed below with an announcement about each plugin. You can also download a zip file with all the plugins in it, use them at your leisure and then rate them on the plugin competition blog. (If the plugin is not listed on...
xkcd - A Webcomic - Superlative
via xkcd.com Stay, um, hydrated, yeah that’s it, hydrated. Dude. Posted via web from Tris Hussey’s Lifestream | Comment »
Cartoon: Not With a Bang, But a Twitter
via readwriteweb.com Ever wonder what we did before Twitter? Oh yeah, we had lives. Good times, good times. Posted via web from Tris Hussey’s Lifestream | Comment »
5 Tips from Hackers on Cloud Computing - Business...
The current economic downturn has made cloud computing a hot issue, with startups and smaller firms rushing to save money using virtual machines on the Internet and larger firms pushing applications such as customer relationship management to the likes of Salesforce.com. Yet, companies need to be more wary of the security pitfalls in moving their infrastructure to the cloud, experts say. ...
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