September 2010
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New WordPress for iOS Brings Video Support →
(via Mashable) WordPress for iPhone and iPad has reached version 2.6, and it brings several very interesting improvements. Most importantly, you can now record, upload, attach and play videos within the application. As video becomes an increasingly important part of blogging, this functionality will be invaluable for bloggers on the move.
Sep 30th
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Notepad++ 5.8.1 now out →
(via Download Squad) Notepad++ is a great open-source text editor. It’s open-source, extensible, and is incredibly nimble for a beast of its power. … The Notepad++ team released 5.8 a short while ago, but it was worth holding out on the upgrade — because they’ve now released 5.8.1 with a couple of important bugfixes. The most important feature for 5.8 is that Scintilla,...
Sep 30th
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Sep 30th
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Skype and Facebook to Announce Partnership →
(via Mashable) Facebook and Skype are working on a deal that would integrate Facebook Connect with Skype accounts, AllThingsD has learned citing sources familiar with the situation.
Sep 29th
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An Introduction to The New Yammer (via Yammer) We use Yammer at work. Great office tool. Wondering how these new things will improve Yammers service beyond just an interoffice twitter like service. Can’t wait to see. - K.
Sep 29th
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ThinkUp Beta 1 Released  →
(via smarterware.org) ThinkUp lets you get insights from the time you spend on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. We’ll be adding more networks in the future. ThinkUp stores your social data in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter,...
Sep 28th
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Windows Live Writer 2011 to default to... →
(via Inside Windows Live) … when Windows Live Essentials 2011 releases later this fall, Windows Live Writer will also use WordPress.com as its default blogging solution.
Sep 28th
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Microsoft Replacing Windows Live Spaces with... →
(via Mashible) Microsoft and Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced today that the Windows Live Spaces blogging service will be phased out in favor of WordPress.com. Users of the service will have the ability to transfer their blogs via a new migration utility beginning today…. WordPress.com
Sep 28th
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iTunes' Ping Network Now Works with Your Music... →
(via Lifehacker) When Apple added a “social network for music” to iTunes, at first you could only “like” or “post” songs you’d purchased or found in the iTunes Store. Now Ping explorers can share music from their own libraries.
Sep 27th
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FileZilla FTP Client →
FileZilla, the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License This is my FTP client of choice. I basically live in the thing during the week. - K.
Sep 27th
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Sep 24th
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Customize your Themes with Meta Types (via rockabletumblr) Tumblr makes the process of creating an “options panel” as simple as it can possibly be. While a platform like WordPress requires a fair bit of coding, with Tumblr, it’s simply a matter of adding one or two meta tags to your theme. That’s it! I’ll show you exactly how in this screencast. Download the Source Code.
Sep 23rd
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Scrivener for Windows - Coming Soon  →
(via literatureandlatte.com) Scrivener is an award-winning program for writers which has until now only been available for Mac OS X. Whereas the main tools of page layout programs and many word processors are predominantly focussed on the appearance of a document, Scrivener’s tools are focussed on generating content. It is not intended to completely replace a dedicated word processor but is...
Sep 23rd
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Formspring for your iPhone →
(via Formspring) Introducing Spring for iPhone and iPod Touch, the best way to use the insanely popular Formspring! Ask questions, give answers, and learn more about your friends. Spring helps you express yourself and learn more about the people you care about.
Sep 23rd
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Ask Us Anything @ Formspring
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Sep 23rd
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Blog Oklahoma Update Podcast Coming Tonight
Recording the next episode of the Blog Oklahoma Podcast tonight (Thursday 9/23). This is going to be a special episode to talk about the state of Blog Oklahoma, future plans for the web site, the web ring, the Blog Oklahoma Podcast, and several other projects in the works. If you have any questions you would like me to answer on any of those subjects please feel free to contact me. I should be...
Sep 23rd
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Microsoft Security Essentials Going Free for Small... →
(via Lifehacker) Microsoft Security Essentials has always been free for personal use, but now our favorite Windows security suite is coming to small businesses as well. Starting in October, small businesses will be able to license Microsoft Security Essentials for no cost on up to ten PCs. …
Sep 22nd
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Facebook Now Lets Page Administrators Ban Fans And... →
(via All Facebook) Facebook has made a significant upgrade to their pages product, enabling administrators to report spammers and ban people who have made any abusive comments. …
Sep 22nd
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NPR on Tumblr →
NPR is now on Tumblr
Sep 22nd
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Sep 22nd
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Facebook to Make Games Less Annoying, More... →
(via Mashable) Facebook has devised a plan to make games less annoying to non-users, and more engaging to gamers at the same time. The first part is relatively easy: Facebook will simply be showing application stories only to users who are already engaging with the application, meaning that people who don’t play Farmville won’t have to endure Farmville-related posts in their feeds.
Sep 22nd
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Sep 20th
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Setting Up a Home Office on a Budget →
(via Mint Blog) Home offices have become common in recent years. For those of us who don’t want to spend too much or simply can’t afford to, there are ways to set one up on a budget — without raiding your employer’s office supplies cabinet.
Sep 20th
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Windows Phone 7 Demos: Netflix, Twitter, Flixster, OpenTable, Travelocity Here is a look at 5 of the demos presented at the event last night celebrating the final release of the developer tools for Windows Phone 7. Also check out this preview for Seesmic for Windows Phone 7
Sep 17th
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Sep 16th
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Sep 15th
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Add Bing Search to your Site →
(via Bing) Put the power of Bing on your very own website - without learning any actual code. The search box powered by Bing provides a fast, customizable search solution for your website or blog.
Sep 14th
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Google Font Directory →
(via Google) The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers.
Sep 14th
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Fixing the Seesmic Desktop 2 Mac install issue if... →
(via Seesmic Blog) Most Mac users can install Seesmic Desktop2 fine but few users have the “application cannot be installed” message. Here is a workaround while we are working on a full fix.
Sep 13th
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Seesmic Desktop 2 Launches: 40+ Plugins for... →
(via Mashable) Seesmic Desktop 2 has just arrived, and it’s bringing an entire marketplace of apps along with it. … seesmic.com / marketplace.seesmic.com
Sep 10th
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Canvass With Your iPhone (Organizing for America... →
(via Democratic Party on Facebook) We are using new media and technology to engage voters and empower volunteers. Introducing a revolutionary feature on the OFA iPhone app to let canvassers go door to door with nothing but an iPhone. Download the app before your next canvass. This is a really interesting tool for canvassing a neighborhood. I wonder what the other organizations are using?
Sep 9th
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Blog from Anywhere Instantly With Posterous →
(via How To Geek) Do you find it too difficult to keep your blog updated? Let’s take a quick look a Posterous, an increasingly popular hosted blog system that lets you post anything to your blog by simply sending an email.
Sep 9th
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Social Media Serenity podcast on the power of... →
(via GSPN) In this episode, Cliff and Erik are joined by Justin Lukasavige to discuss the power of Linked In for Business To Business Networking. Up to this point, I (Cliff) had thought of Linked in as a social network for people looking to get a job. …
Sep 9th
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The Evernote Site Memory Button →
(via Evernote Blog) Since the beginning we’ve been focused on one thing: making it trivially easy for you to remember all the stuff you love. It turns out that you really love saving webpages—it’s the most popular note type in Evernote. So, today we’re announcing something that makes saving webpages an integrated part of your browsing experience. For the first time ever, we’re releasing a...
Sep 9th
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