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May 10, 2013

WordPress.org: What Is It and How Do You Use It?

WordPress Dashboard Anyone who has a blog or who has considered starting a blog has heard about WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms out there. But there's often a lot of confusion about the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. This post will explain the differences between the two and then give you more details about why you might want to use WordPress.org—and how.
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Instagram Grabs Ownership of All Your Photos

Considering Instagram is now owned by Facebook, maybe we shouldn't be surprised that the popular photo sharing service has just announced new terms of service that will make them a pile of money by violating their users' rights.

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Simplify Your Life(Hacker)

An article about "simple" ways to do thing that's nowhere near simple enough.

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Remove the Facebook Ticker in Firefox and Chrome

One of the most controversial changes in last week's Facebook redesign was the addition of the Ticker in the top right-hand corner of your News Feed page... Fortunately, if you're using Firefox or Chrome as your browser, there's a simple way to get rid of the Ticker altogether.

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Worst Facebook Update Ever? (And a Partial Solution)

Here's what I don't get. For at least two years, Facebook has been trying to tell us that it knows better than we do what information we're going to find interesting... And, in my case, their selections have never been close to right.

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The Facebook Subscribe Button: What Is It and How Do You Use It?

Last week, Facebook added a new "feature" that lets you subscribe to another Facebook user. It has a similar function to following people on Twitter or Google+ but, not surprisingly, it's a lot more confusing. Because Facebook already has a model for connecting people—it's called being friends with them.

So let's take a look at what this Subscribing stuff is all about...

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Tech for Luddites Is Back!

I really did have the best of intentions to keep this blog going when I uprooted my whole life (new city, new job) last year. But good intentions, the road to you-know-where... well, you know.

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Apologies from the Black Hole

I've received a number of comments and emails over the last couple of weeks I haven't been able to respond to. I just moved across the country (from California to the D.C. area) and so May was pretty much a wash in terms of doing anything non-move related. And now that I'm here, I don't [...]

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Facebook Users: Your Face Is Now on the Washington Post Website

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Thesis: Using the New Page Redirect Feature in Version 1.7

In my earlier post about new features in Thesis 1.7, I mentioned that I was having a problem with the new page redirect feature. I now have a solution to the problem, so I'm going to explain how the feature works and then what to do if you have the same problem.

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Not Liking All This Facebook Liking Stuff

Okay, I'll be the first to admit I wasn't a big fan of the term "fan page" to describe Facebook's pages for businesses and other branded entities. But at least the invitation to "Become a fan!" worked pretty well as a simple call to action. Now what are we page admins supposed to say? "Please [...]

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How To Stop Facebook’s Latest Attacks on Your Privacy

Yes, Facebook is at it again. Now they're making us have to opt out of sharing information with certain third-party websites. They call it "Instant Personalization." I call BS.

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