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Can Insync dethrone Dropbox as a cloud storage service?

January 13, 2012 – 3:22 pm |

A couple of weeks ago I read a Techcrunch article about Insync. It is a service that works almost identically to Dropbox. Their differentiating feature is the fact that they use your Google Docs account …

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Speed up your website and get IPv6 compatibility for free!

September 29, 2011 – 5:38 pm | Comments Off

Prerequisites
This is going to be a pretty high tech article, but the benefits outweigh the work that it requires. I’m going to talk about using cloudflare.com to cache your website and offer IPv6 compatibility. For …

I’ve been hacked and you can learn from my mistakes. :-)

August 28, 2011 – 4:52 pm | 4 Comments

Hacked!
Yes, I let my WordPress installation rot. And it’s entirely my fault. WordPress makes it so easy to keep it up to date now that there is no excuse, so I do accept full responsibility! …

Put a countdown timer on a presentation slide

March 26, 2011 – 2:05 pm | Comments Off

This past week as I was working on a presentation, I had a slide where I asked the participants to discuss among themselves. I wanted to set a time limit, but I didn’t want to …

Ping.fm bookmarklet for multiple Ping.fm accounts

March 1, 2010 – 7:53 pm | Comments Off
Ping.fm bookmarklet for multiple Ping.fm accounts

Since Ping.fm doesn’t allow you to add multiple Twitter accounts to one Ping.fm account, I’ve resorted to have two accounts with them, one for my personal accounts (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace) and one for my professional …

Facebook’s new privacy settings

December 13, 2009 – 3:45 pm | Comments Off
Facebook’s new privacy settings

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Facebook has begun rolling out new settings for who can see your Facebook profile and what they can see on your profile. I suggest you double-check what is viewable about you. I …

OS X not saving passwords?

April 8, 2009 – 10:33 am | 2 Comments
OS X not saving passwords?

About a month ago I noticed that passwords weren’t being saved in apps in OS X like Safari, Omniweb, etc. I didn’t bother trying to figure out the problem, until today when I would go …

Skills You Should Know (SYSK) – vi

April 6, 2008 – 7:57 pm | 2 Comments

I’m starting a new category, that goes along with my blog post Yes I will lead. The new category is called Skills You Should Know – SYSK. Little bits of information …

Inventory control

March 26, 2008 – 5:51 am | Comments Off

Keeping track of inventory can be a difficult, and it seems like every four months someone is asking about what product to get to use for inventory control. I created a simple database in Filemaker …

Yes, I will lead!

March 24, 2008 – 4:19 pm | 2 Comments

I was thinking about my blog post from last week, contemplating on how I should be more positive. People using technology in schools are already facing enough of an uphill battle without me picking on …