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Thinking about trying Squarespace.com

Ive been thinking about trying out that somewhat new blogging/website building platform called squarespace. If you listen to any of the popular tech podcast, you have probably heard the ads for the site. It sounds pretty good just from the ads. I recently visited and created a login for the free 2 week trial to [...]

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The snipping tool in Windows 7 can be pretty useful for bloggers

This Windows 7 Feature could be a pretty helpful feature for bloggers. Lets say you were blogging about a particular peice of software, giving a tip or showing a bug or something. you wait till the item you want is on your screen and you want a screenshot of it…what do you do?
Well for me, [...]

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EGM-Gone. 1up.com-changed hands. End of an era in the gaming press

I was really sad to hear about 1up.com a week or so ago. I’ll be honest, I hardly ever went to the website. For my gaming news I prefer IGN or I just read random gaming items on Digg. There were several 1up Podcast that I listened to religiously. 1up yours, GFW, and 1up fm. [...]

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Friend Feed, Twitter…Should I be using them more than I do?

I rarely use Twitter, I’m more of a lurker than Twitter-er. I have a Facebook page but I really don’t use it much, other than to see what others are doing. Ive never signed up to Friend Feed. Should I be using those apps/services more?
This question has been on my mind every since I listened [...]

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Zemanta makes blogging a little less time consuming

When you blog about things you found online, how do you do it? If I find something interesting that I want to talk about here, I usually will do my research on it, then just write from scratch what I want to say about the article or product etc. Sometimes, what I write may be [...]

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Malicious code found on your blog?

In addition to yesterday’s problem (click here to read if you havent done so already), I had another problem that was a tad bit nastier. I dont know if the same hacker did this or some other hacker. This is what was happening.
In IE, I type my domain into into the address bar and the [...]

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Has your blog ever been hacked?

I have a blog that I started about a year and a half ago. This blog was an experiment so I used an alias and never associated it with any of my other blogs. I only made about 5 or 6 blogpost on it and forgot all about it. The weird thing about that blog [...]

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I had a little web host problem

When getting a hosting plan for your blog, it is good to make sure you know all the limits and rules that the hosting company has. Ive been with the same host for over a year but ran into a problem that I was completely unaware of.
My allotted mysql database space was full.
For those that [...]

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Next, get a theme for your Wordpress blog.

If you have been following my "how to set up a blog" line of blog post, you should now have your domain name, your host, Wordpress installed and ready for the next step. For those that found just this blog post, heres a little review.

So you want to start a blog - This starts things [...]

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You got a host yet? Heres how to set up wordpress.

If you were following my "how to start a blog" tutorial, you are probably waiting for the next step to setting up a wordpress blog. Following yesterdays blog post, you should have all you need to get started. You have a domain name, and a hosting plan now you have to make them work together.
When [...]

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