Business, Communication, Technology
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A new feature has come to Flickr, the photo-sharing service, that means you can post notifications and other announcements about your photos to your Twitter account from Flickr itself.
The new feature is simple to set up and works well, as a test tweet I did indicates.
Once set up, you can click on a ‘Blog [...]
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Pete Cashmore of internet news site Mashable asks:
Where’s the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you [...]
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It’s a hot topic, it involves a product many people hate, and it’s from a company that many love to hate.
It’s about Outlook, the ubiquitous Windows application from Microsoft for email, contacts, calendar, etc, a new version of which is coming next year.
Therein lie the issues, say the people behind Fixoutlook.org, centered on Microsoft’s [...]
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If you’re a Wimbledon fan and you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, and you want to keep up with what’s happening at this year’s tennis championship no matter where you happen to be, there’s a treat in store for you.
Just head over to the App Store and install the Wimbledon iPhone Application.
It’s free [...]
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Scott from Google went out on the streets of New York and asked people if they know what a browser is.
The results may or may not surprise you. What they’ll indicate is how those of us embedded with tech, as it were, use common terms like ‘browser’ which many people still simply don’t understand.
Maybe that’s [...]
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The two primary Twitter applications for the desktop – TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop – released new versions in the past 24 hours.
Both are the latest salvoes in a battle where one winner could gain supremacy as the app on the desktop for keeping in touch with what’s happening on Twitter (and, if you wish, [...]
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A post by Frank Eliason on business cards got me thinking a lot about the value of such bits of paper.
And they are bits of paper, aren’t they? Name, title, company, logo, address, phone, email, etc, printed on rectangular bits of stiff paper. The format hasn’t really changed in years.
Yet it’s a format we’re [...]
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A new version 2.8 of Wordpress was released this week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that latest version.
2.8 has some significant new features, enhancements and fixes. What better way to show you what some of them are – just get a load of the much-improved new widgets admin – than with this short WordPress [...]
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The other day, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) was installed on my Dell XPS 420 desktop PC via Windows Update.
Ever since, I’ve experienced a number of weird things. No matter which way I look at them, I can’t see any other reason other than SP2 somehow has Done (or Undone) Something.
What else would you [...]
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European satellite TV company Sky News has launched an iPhone app that enables you to receive the broadcaster’s news and information content on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
The free app offers a rich array of content including news, sport, business, weather and more in words, pictures and video.
You can sign up to [...]
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