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Magid on Conficker

Great podcast by Larry Magid about the Conficker virus. Conficker is causing a scare throughout the world due to a much publicized April 1 trigger that has been found in the code. Not much else is known about it. This podcast sheds some light.


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USB Finger Drive?

There should be some sort of award for this level of geekery. A programmer in Finland lost his finger in a motorcycle accident and had it replaced with a 2GB USB drive. For more see this article at PC World.


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Using Twitter To Post Your Facebook Status

Very often (but not all the time) I’d like to post one of my Twitter tweets to my Facebook status. In the past I would copy and paste the status to both places manually. But I always wanted it to be easier than that. Last week I figured out how. I found a way to […]


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Managing Your Digital Life

A new website has launched that is aimed at helping people manage the stuff on their computers. It’s a project of Scott Bourne, a tech enthusiast who is a jack of all trades. I was first introduced to Scott’s work when I started listening to MacBreak Weekly a couple of years ago. At the time […]


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Beginners Guide To Using #Hashtags on Twitter

I’ve been using Twitter for almost a year and though I’m not an expert by any means I have learned a lot about how it works. One of the features that I had a problem grasping was hashtags. It seems a bit weird at first but hashtags actually make it easier to follow conversations about […]