Monthly Archives: January 2008

Update: CNET Reports Gizmodo Banned

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Tom King

Unsurprisingly the CEA (CES organizers) have banned Gizmodo and are looking at further sanctions. CEA’s take on CES Gizmodo prank: Banned! This results from the earlier presentation-fouling pranks, Gizmodo CES horseplay reported all over the web. Lesson learned for presenters … Continue reading →

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Rapid Syndication Surfing: FeedDemon & NetNewsWire

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Tom King

Reading blogs has become a primary source of news for me. I sorely missed FeedDemon when I switched to Mac. Then I found about about NetNewsWire, but dawdled on buying it. Surprise, BOTH are now free. My favorite apps list … Continue reading →

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Applications I Loved in 2007

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Tom King

Here is the promised new year follow-up with applications I really like and use. Open source stuff [Windows & Mac]: Firefox 2, Flock, Thunderbird 2, FileZilla, and Audacity All of those worked great on Windows and great on Mac. In … Continue reading →

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Services/Web Solutions I Loved in 2007

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Tom King

Year transitions mean two things in the media (and the blogosphere)– old year recaps and new year predictions. I predict that I will get to prognostications for 2008 in a future post. I also predict I will love these things … Continue reading →

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Quick Firefox Tip: Open Location + Address Completion

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Tom King

Here is a quick tip for Firefox: Enter Ctrl-L company Ctrl-Return. [Use Command-L and Command-Return on Mac.] Bam! Firefox completes it as http://www.company.com and goes there. Here is how it works. You use Control-L to automatically place the cursor in … Continue reading →

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Baby Got Backlinks

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Tom King

OK, I just watched the last 2 segments of VH1 100 Greatest Songs of the 90′s on Tivo, so please forgive the back-dated back reference. Maybe I should have gone with “D’oh, FINALLY Got Blogger Backlinks Working.” Using RAGE Google … Continue reading →

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