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Turning Off Deck.ly in TweetDeck

One of my biggest Twitter pet peeves is when someone tweets longer than 140 characters and you need to click a link to go to another website to see the whole message. My opinion is that there are other ways to communicate messages that are longer than the Twitter limit such as splitting the message […]


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Mass Removal of error_log Files

It’s always a good idea to back something up before you begin working on an improvement to it or upgrading it to a new version. For example, before I upgrade my WordPress installs I always back up their files and databases. This seems simple enough but every time I back up any of my PHP […]


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Twitter Pet Peeves

As Twitter has grown in popularity I’ve developed some pet peeves about the way people use it. Here’s a few. Feel free to add yours to the comments. Live Blogging Events Twitter has become a place for people to live blog all sorts of things. I think this is a good thing. Well mostly a […]


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More Mac Password Hacking (Snow Leopard)

About 4 years ago I wrote a post on Mac password hacking in OS X. The versions of OS X I wrote about was current at that time but, obviously, there have been a few updates since then. Here’s a method I recently read about that works on the Snow Leopard version of OS X: […]


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Follow Someone Anonymously on Twitter

Over time I’ve come accross several people whose Twitter accounts I’d like to keep up with but don’t want to follow. Some are people I’m just mildly interested in. Others are people that I don’t want knowing that I’m following them. Twitter’s Lists feature gives me a great way to do this by creating a […]