Category Archives: Software

My Favorite Twitter Tools

The Twitter ecosystem gets bigger with each passing day and developers are building more and more great tools to use with it. Listed below are some of my favorite ways of using these developer tools with Twitter. Natter- The official Twitter … finish reading My Favorite Twitter Tools

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Site Changes for 2010

With the long 4th of July Weekend, I thought it was time for my yearly site refresh.  After upgrading to WordPress 3.0 (which has a number of advanced features like Custom Post Types and Multiple Sites installations), I decided to … finish reading Site Changes for 2010

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If you have a First Name and Last Name in one column in Excel, here’s a tutorial on splitting them into two separate columns (without VB macros) from LauraJ’s blog. It involves using the Data to Text feature. Very handy.

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If you haven’t been able to install Adobe Flash Player on your Ubuntu 7.10 install, Jayson Joseph Chacko wrote an excellent post with a set of terminal commands to get Adobe Flash installed. Thanks Jayson.

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Check out GMU’s Center for History and New Media Web projects

George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media has been really putting out some great online academic tools. They’re the ones behind the Zotero research extension for Firefox. Now they are developing some software for web sites like Omeka, … finish reading Check out GMU’s Center for History and New Media Web projects

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In case you have some old floppy disks around and can’t get the files out, try out FlopShow. It’s a free and simple floppy disk restore program.

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Google Maps for Palm

So I just got a Palm T|X from work at Los Angeles Urban League. One of the downsides of working in this part of LA is there isn’t a lot of free wi-fi points to make use of the Internet … finish reading Google Maps for Palm

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Startup Guides

A few blog posts about some other software and Internet services that might be useful for starting up a company (or nonprofit). Read and Write Web’s Software for Virtual Teams Nick Denton’s (owner of Gawker and Lifehacker) Startup Kit Evan … finish reading Startup Guides

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More thoughts on MacWorld

Photoshop CS3 looks really cool. The perspective grid looks amazing. By far that was the best conference I attended. Most of the conferences I wanted to go to were really full, which really sucks. Hope that means they’re good. I’m … finish reading More thoughts on MacWorld

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Semagic, the best Livejournal client for Windows, is now also a decent general blogging client. Works with MSN Spaces, Xanga, and others. I’d wish it fetched my WordPress categories automatically.

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