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Why I Switched To HootSuite

As many of you know I spend a lot of time on Twitter and have been spending more and more on it. 40,000 tweets later I have finally decided that TweeDeck was not the client for me. Yes it handles multiple lists very well and helps you organize your twitter experience. At one time TweetDeck ...

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What I Use Analysis

On my blog I post on the right hand side a list of all the applications I use. I use Wakoopa to track real time what I am using. I thought I will do something different and analyze the top 10 programs I use and what surprises me/does not surprise me. My Top 10 as ...

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The Open Source/Cloud/Paid Software Mix

I use at home what I called the Open Source/Cloud/Paid Software Mix. You might ask what this is? What this is a mix between open source/Free software, Cloud computing strategies and paid software strategy. The big reasons for going this route are cost, support, usability and flexibility. Besides my Hardware I have fully licensed versions of ...

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Video Game History

This week Google put a full version of Pacman on its home page in honor of Pacman's 25th anniversary. I thought I would share some other key video game dates for you for fun: 1. Space Invaders - June 1978 2. Donkey Kong - 1981 3. Centipede - 1980 4. Mario Brothers - the game debuted in 1983 but ...

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Headway Issues

A lot of you might know that I switched to the Headway theme sometime ago. Lately I have been having a lot of problems with my dashboard and upgrading to the latest version of Headway. The good news is my problem is solved. It turns out that my Web Hosting Provider, uses PHP 4.0 as their ...

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Dropbox

The last six months I have played with several Cloud Based File storage sites. I had been using Microsoft's Beta of Live Mesh to Sync files over multiple computers. Part of the issue with Live Mesh is that it will not let me retrieve files from my Iphone. This is a big consideration for me ...

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Strong Passwords How They Can Help You

Every time I read an article about Cloud Based security, the article always mentions that the security for Cloud applications is not ready for prime time. What these articles forget to mention is the weakest link and that is the end user. Why is the end user the weakest link you might ask? One of ...

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More of a Move Away From Microsoft

This week I took what a lot of people would figure I would never do. On my primary pc at home I made a complete move away from any Microsoft applications. As of now I am not running one Microsoft application. The move I made to Google last week made this an even easier decision ...

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Why I Made More Of a Move To Google

In the last week I made two big moves in my personal computing universe. The moves all concern Google. One will shock readers of my blog and the other one probably will not. For the last year I have used a Microsoft Exchange Server on my web hosting provider as my email back end. This past ...

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My IPhone Applications

Most people know that I made the switch from Windows Mobile to the IPhone earlier this summer. The switch has been fantastic and has made my mobile life more fun and more easy:) Besides Email and Safari my IPhone apps that I use most are as follows: 1. TwiiterFon - I am a twitter addict so why ...

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