Category: geek of technology
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wordpress shortcodes kick ass (or: shortcodes, an affiliate marketer’s best friend)
this one will make the internet marketing peeps smile… let’s say you have some kind of text or phrase that you use a lot. it could be anything, but let’s — for the sake of argument, and for showing the full power of this code — assume that the text or phrase includes a link.…
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the not-so-hidden value of netflix
i’m pretty much completely in love with netflix. it started with some casual experimentation through a friend during college. he had a netflix subscription and we’d often get triple features of obscure asian action flicks (digging deep in the early career of jet li with the once upon a time in china series — which i highly recommend,…
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Free WordPress Plugin: Hello Ziggy
so, you use WordPress. and maybe you’ve turned on Hello Dolly. but if you’re me (chances are, you’re not me, but we’ll pretend for the sake of argument that you’re enough like me to continue reading this statement and past this ridiculous parenthetical tangent), you don’t have Hello Dolly turned on because it’s obnoxious. (no offense to…
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everything’s better in the cloud
since google’s big chromeOS unveiling last week, i’ve been left thinking a lot about cloud computing and chrome as an operating system in particular. while i failed to be enamored about chromeOS, i do think the concept of cloud computing is an exciting developing technology. chromeOS felt half-assed and not-fully-developed (the latter of which, at least, was true). and…
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unbox pandora
i’ve been using Pandora for a long time, and i’ve always been a big fan. when Tim Westergren came to Salt Lake City on his speaking tour, i went to see him at the SLC Main Library and i have the raglan-style Pandora tshirt to prove it. the unique recommendation engine — powered by humans who actually analyze…
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xbox fail
Microsoft: i’m sorry, all your xboxes are belong to us. BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers.