Archive | July, 2008

31 July 2008 ~ Comments

Ping.fm: Updating Your Social Networks Without Spamming FriendFeed

Ping.fm is a service that allows you to send out updates of various types (status updates, blogs, micro-blogs) to multiple social networks. I have been using it for some time and my results have been mostly positive. This is not a tutorial on how to use it. After seeing the topic on numerous occasions (here, [...]

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29 July 2008 ~ Comments

Give Your Pidgin More Bite With Snarl

Give Your Pidgin More Bite With Snarl

I recently noticed a shared item from Google Reader in my FriendFeed that I hoped would solve a major issue I’ve had with keeping up with things. I have Remember The Milk for storing my To Do items and Google Calendar for keeping track of dated events. I even have a slick method for capturing [...]

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29 July 2008 ~ Comments

Viddiction: Dream, Create, Transmit…Get Paid?

Viddiction wants to give you cash for videos, a trade I’m more than willing to make. I like creating random videos and posting them online, so this opportunity definitely caught my eye. My mainstay for videos used to be YouTube, but the quality of the comments and community there sometimes leaves much to be desired. [...]

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28 July 2008 ~ Comments

Remember The Milk: Adding Tags While Sending Tasks

In my post, Remember The Milk: Posting Directly from Your Desktop, we covered how to add items to Remember The Milk using the popular desktop launcher Launchy. This provides us with a lightning-quick way to capture tasks and ideas without interrupting whatever we may currently be working on.
With a simple tweak, we can actually make [...]

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24 July 2008 ~ Comments

…But by the Content of Their Character

Success is not based on who is following you on Twitter. Success is not based on how much traffic you get to your blog each day or how many people are subscribed to your RSS feed. Success is not the measure of how many people appear to be watching your content online. If this paragraph [...]

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22 July 2008 ~ Comments

Make FriendFeed Slightly More Productive

FriendFeed is becoming more and more central to my online activity. I feel I have only scratched the surface of what can be accomplished with it. Even at this early stage, I know that I have accelerated the development of relationships, and the growth of my personal knowledge just by being a regular FriendFeeder.
A recent [...]

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20 July 2008 ~ Comments

What Happened to My Priorities?

I remember when I first started trying to get organized years ago. I started off with a Handspring Visor and then moved up to a Palm III. I also remember struggling with prioritizing my tasks. Should I clean the bathroom first, or shave the dog? Which was more important? I think I spent more time [...]

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19 July 2008 ~ Comments

The A-List Doesn’t Care About Your FriendFeed

“You can have relationships and discussions with people on FriendFeed without them actually being a part of your network”

I finally decided to check out this friendvenn app and was actually surprised at some of the names I saw that don’t follow me. There is no reason I should have made the assumption they cared about [...]

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14 July 2008 ~ Comments

To Do Lists Are Not Just About Task-Management

You To Do list may be a lot more powerful than you think. Here are a few ideas that may get your imagination working as to how you can harness the full power of one of the most basic organizational tools. Feel free to share any ideas you have in the comments section.
Borrowing/Lending
Tracking things you [...]

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07 July 2008 ~ Comments

Remember The Milk: Posting Directly from Your Desktop

In a recent post, we talked about 6 Ways to Add A Task to Remember The Milk. While the methods discussed were varied and useful, I was not satisfied with any of them. This post will show you another quick method to handle this.
I have very simple criteria for being able to add tasks to [...]

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06 July 2008 ~ Comments

A Leader Doesn’t Care What You Think

Do you find yourself worrying about how others perceive you? Are you often embarrassed or anxious about others judging you? If so, you definitely have some work to do. Your success in life is contingent on your ability to ignore others and focus on “doing you.”
In her post, What People Think of Me is None [...]

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05 July 2008 ~ Comments

Would You Still Love Me If I Post for Pay?

I have to admit that the I was turned on to blogging because I wanted to make money. I kept reading about it being a good way to market online, but it also held a special attraction for me because, well….I’m a geek. Now that I have been blogging for a few months, I realize [...]

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04 July 2008 ~ Comments

UBD Money Maker Theme and Expected Blog Content

UBD Money Maker Theme and Expected Blog Content

Unique Blog Designs recently released the UDB MoneyMaker Theme, which I promptly installed and modified for my own evil desires. For some strange reason, it really caught my eye and I had to have it.
A quick list of things I hacked:

Integrated the Ad Rotator plugin to provide a variety of 486×60 banner ads
Implemented Disqus widgets [...]

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