Category Archives: Tips

Your password is terrible

1Password

If your password is a word, you’ve got a problem. Yes, even if you replaced some of the letters with numbers.  Mother’s maiden name as a “secret question”?  Not so secret.  We’ve all read the…

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I'm everywhere and nowhere

Photo of Banksy Graffiti

It’s fun to say that the Internet tears down walls and allows a free flow of information around the world.  In many ways, it’s true.  People can communicate and organize in ways never before possible….

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My social network is smaller than yours

Path reduces your social network

I don’t know about you, but I don’t know my Facebook friends.  Well, I know who they are, but I don’t “know” them…most of them, anyway.  I knew them at one point, and some I…

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A Modern Looking Glass

Allow me to geek out a bit.  This isn’t anything all that new, but I’d never seen it for myself and thought I’d share a little. Have you ever been walking down the sidewalk or…

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Leave no trace – Avoid the gotcha text

Tiger Woods. Kwame Kilpatrick. Mark Foley. John Ensign. Jim Gibbons. They’ve all given us reason to reconsider how we communicate with others online and via text message. Those chats aren’t as private as we all…

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How I Use Google Voice

Judging by my Twitter feed, Google Voice has been handing out invitations for its newly updated phone and voicemail service.  I know this because few people know what to do with it once they’ve got…

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My personal morning briefing

I was thinking this morning about what sources I rely on for my news and which ones I read religiously.  My Google Reader feed is my pride and joy.  Categorized, filtered and always trimmed to…

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ElfURL

To the class:  TinyURL is good for making shorter links, but ElfURL will let you track how many people click on that link. Score.

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E-Mail Marketing for Chimps

Sending email to lots of people is usually a hassle. Some paste 200 email addresses into the “TO:” field, prompting a heinous “Reply All” thread, others just spam repeatedly without any option to unsubscribe. Email…

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The YouTube for Documents

It’s about time someone found a better way to display documents online. Several companies have tried it, but Scribd gets it right this time around. Previously, websites linked to PDFs, Word documents and other files…

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