When you’re out and about surfing the intarwebs you should stop by and make a comment or two when you stumble across a post you like. Leaving comments around the web allow people to get to know you online.

Another great way for people to get to know you is to show your face around the web too. You can combine both methods of letting people know who you are by using Gravatar.
Gravatar is a service that works in coordination with WordPress, Intense Debate, VideoPress and PollDaddy. Gravatar is a development from Automattic, which are the same people behind WordPress itself.
One …read more

I enjoy Facebook. I love twitter. Plaxo is a handy little tool as well. Oh, and I’m a blogger. I love being able to extend my network of audience from just my blog site out to my Facebook friends and twitter followers.

The problem is I’d like to more accurately group, consolidate or disperse the comments as needed so that when someone leaves a comment, anyone could read the comment from the blog itself. Right now I’m not sure of the best way to accomplish that task. I know there’s a plug that will let you pull in twitter …read more

There’s now a WordPress application for BlackBerry that allows users to manage and post to their WordPress blogs from their phone. I’ve been waiting on an application like this for years and it looks like I’ll still be waiting.

Although the BlackBerry app is in beta and the developers caution users and testers to be careful in using the application, we need more of these types of devices being built for phones and mobile devices.
I do quite a bit of blogging and there’s plenty of times where I’m sitting somewhere without my computer and have a quick post idea. The ability …read more

I’ve been blogging now on WordPress for quite some time. Over the years I’ve migrated from relying completely on the WordPress dashboard web-interface to write my posts, up through now using and loving Windows Live Writer. Now I’m ready to expand my blogging migration to other areas.

I want to be able to type out some quick blog posts while I’m out and about with my cell phone. My cell phone has a full, slide-out keyboard that I’ve become quite adept at typing on efficiently.
I’m very surprised that the WordPress dashboard doesn’t have a mobile friendly interface. Without that option available …read more

I’ve been playing around with the Evernote website and application for the last few weeks. As I get more things going on with blogging and other social media items, I keep trying to organize my thoughts and what I call “blogging fodder” together into something cohesive and easy to manage.

Prior to using Evernote I was using a combination of simple text files and Google Notebook to organize websites and other things I’d find online.
The Evernote application has been great. Mainly because it allows me to add items through the stand-alone application, the website if I’m on someone else’s computer, there’s …read more

While Windows Live Writer is a wonderful blogging software that lets bloggers work offline, it is poorly documented. Ironical. On top of it, the Windows Live Writer blog, much like other Windows blogs has no search feature to check for help.
When a blogger posts a blog through Windows Live Writer, it also maintains a copy of the post on the local machine. For regular bloggers, that adds up to a lot of space with time. A “proper delete” through the Open –> Delete makes it clear that deleting a post is equivalent to deleting it from the local machine as …read more

The Mac users can cheer up once again. Juan brings us news that Google Calendar supports iCal. In fact, I’ve read somewhere that Google Calendar is trying to be as syncable and integrable with other calendars as possible.
Milo recently summarized a Sandra Gittlen series called “Mac Vs Vista” quoting her excerpts. The series covering Manageability, Reliability, Security, Price and Others is going to surprise every reader in more than one way. Be sure to glance through them if you don’t have enough time to go over the actual series itself.
You’ve all heard about Microsoft and Yahoo! talking. Again. But have …read more

I started this month as the new damn PC guy and ended it by buying a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 in one of the Black Friday deals though I wish I had won a PC in a giveaway.
I had been opinionated about using push buttons and organizing program files, worried about the rising types of blog fraud and spam mail, conscious about the precautions to be taken in a cyber cafe and disposing e-waste responsibly, sad about the layoffs and the Mumbai attacks, and excited about the Ancient Rome 3D and the LIFE photo archive projects. I also began an ongoing …read more

Readers looking for PC tips are requested to skip this post. Having found that That Damn PC has become a victim of blog fraud, it is my duty to alert the community.
Blogging is increasingly being seen as a sustainable model of income. Where money is involved in large sums, there is also fraud. Problogging is perhaps at too early a stage to discuss at length about blog fraud, but there is undoubtedly an upward trend in these cases.
A blog with too many advertisements, IMHO, is not a fraudulent blog. It is simply a bad idea, and sometimes not altogether bad …read more

It’s never easy to do but its a necessary evil. Sometimes you have to open up and tell the people what’s going on. This is something that Twitter has learned recently. With all of their downtime and problems, they have found that simply notifying their users that something is wrong makes everyone feel a bit more comfortable that their favorite micro blogging service will be around.
The IT folk out there could really learn from this. Inform, don’t shelter.

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