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FAQs -Tutorials

How to get started with Twitter

May 25, 2008

I have several friends who "just don’t get" Twitter.  And I know why – they are not USING Twitter.  They are just looking at the Public Timeline and wondering, "Why do I care about this crap"?
And that is fair.  But that isn’t Twitter.  At least not the best of Twitter.
Twitter becomes interesting (and useful) when [...]

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Twitter and Track

May 20, 2008

Update – as of today, 29MAY08 Twitter Track is disabled. I will update this post when it is turned back on.
Twitter has been described as a “micro-blogging tool”. And it is that. It is also a chat client.
And it is an extremely useful research tool. By tracking specific keywords (your company [...]

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FreeNAS Tutorial for Windows Users – Part 6 – Adding a Drive

April 8, 2008

Since I get a lot of searches for various FreeNAS "stuff" I keep an eye out for trends, and add to this series when I see people looking for specific information.
Lately I have seen a lot of people searching for "adding another drive to FreeNAS", so here is a brief tutorial.
I am using a virtual [...]

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WordPress 2.5 issues

March 30, 2008

Besides my earlier post where I complained about the Widget/Sidebar interface, I have also found three people now who did not have their upgrades complete for some reason. It appears some files, specifically in the wp-admin folder, are NOT getting copied over on the first attempt.
If you see something flaky in the Admin Section [...]

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SyncToy v2.0 Beta – Command Line

March 26, 2008

I get a lot of Google Search hits for this information on SyncToy, so here it is. There is actually a separate executable for running command line options called SyncToyCmd (brilliant!).
Anyway, here is the info.
Usage: SyncToyCmd [-args]
All arguments are optional.
-R [...]

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