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Sunday, April 03, 2011

Twitter Tips and Tools

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Social networking and micro-blogging site Twitter just celebrated its fifth year on March 21. It began as a small project at a podcasting company in San Francisco called Odeo. Thanks to the creative genius of Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the world is closer and more “real-time” than ever before. There is no clearer evidence of this than the role Twitter (and Facebook) played in the recent uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

It took Twitter 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to reach the first 1 billionth tweet. Now there are a billion tweets a WEEK. While the actual number of Twitter users is a moving target, it is no doubt in excess of 200 million. Over the last month, there has been an average of 460,000 new Twitter accounts per day.

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Windows Media Center – Making the PC Cool Again

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Windows Media Center is one of those programs that has been around for a while but doesn’t seem to get much notice. Built into most versions of Windows since Vista, but often neglected by a large segment of the computing public. In this Tech Tip, we hope to open your eyes and look at some of the cool things that you can do with Windows Media Center. While this will not be all inclusive (for that, you can always visit the official Media Center website), it is meant to give an overview of some of the cooler aspects. Please note that we’ll be concentrating on the version of Media Center found in Windows Vista and Windows 7. 

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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Saving and Converting Flash Based Internet Video with RealPlayer SP

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It happens to us all – we see a totally cool video on the Internet we’d like to keep a copy for ourselves*. Maybe you’d also like to convert the video to your phone or iPad – or maybe just rip the audio into an MP3 player. Now with one convenient, free program called RealPlayer SP, you can.

In this week’s Tech Tip we’ll be looking at these exciting features built into RealPlayer SP.

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Sunday, September 05, 2010

Backing Up Your Google Docs

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Like many writers, students, small business people and others, I use Google Docs for a variety of tasks. Google Docs makes it easy for me work, no matter where I am. And I don’t have to worry about transferring files between my computers.

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