Must have OS X App: Skitch

August 12, 2009

Even though I can’t think of a must have use for this app at this very moment doesn’t mean that there isn’t one. You’ll need to take screenshots. You’ll need to take a screenshot of something and email it to a friend. Maybe a copy of some uncopyable photo on Flickr, or a hard to [...]

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Must Have iPhone App: Instapaper

August 11, 2009

My favorite iPhone apps usually bridge gaps between my desktop and mobile lives. I’ll pay a lot of money for the ability to do something on my desktop and updates my iphone automatically. Instapaper is just that kind of service, and it’s free!

Instapaper saves web content for later. It’s tupperware for you blog articles… tin [...]

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Add Links Images and HTML in your Email Signature with OS X Mail

May 15, 2009

Customization isn’t really Apple’s thing. Mail.app doesn’t let you do sweet things to your email signature, so this is a little screen cast to show you how it’s done.
Made with Screenflow.

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I Can Solve Your Problems With CrossLoop

May 15, 2009

Check out CrossLoop. It’s free screen sharing software that is super simple to set up and install. Plus, it makes it easy for me to help people with their web communication needs and teach them how to fend for themselves. If you’re a computer genius, you can sign up to be a “helper” on the [...]

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Web Appropriate Videos: Now in HD!

January 9, 2009

Here’s what I’ve been up to the past couple of months. I’ve been cranking out videos for personal and professional use with my Wal-Mart special HD camera, and a Canon Vixia HF-10. Click like this to watch in HD

See if you can tell the difference:

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Video Tutorial: Lifestream, a Social Network Wordpress Plugin

November 26, 2008

Here’s a little screenflow movie that I made for my student bloggers re: Lifestream, a social network plugin for Wordpress.

Lifestream is a great way to aggregate social network content and seamlessly integrate it into your blog. It requires php5, which means that you need to access the .htaccess file in your web hosts public_html folder [...]

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Student Blog Training Materials, Part 1

September 25, 2008

I just went through a little bit of training with my newly hired, fresh out of high school student blog team. While preparing for training, I noticed that there was nothing under the large hand of google that was specifically targeted to the training of student bloggers, so I collected a number of posts on [...]

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Use Yahoo Pipes to workaround Facebook’s One Feed Limit

August 11, 2008

Here’s what to do to work around the Facebook one RSS feed limitation: Make a pipe with Yahoo! Pipes. Yahoo Pipes lets you plug multiple rss feeds into one feed. My facebook profile now receives information from this site, Brightkite, Jott, and whatever else I think of to add later through the pipe that I created. You can use a pipe for other purposes as well.

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Quick Tip: Use the Facebook Bookmarklet to Share Your Favorites

July 28, 2008

I was eating a dollar double cheeseburger from BK, and I had an epiphany: I wonder if Facebook has a little bookmarklet for those moments when I want to tell someone about a sweet video, website, article, or contest.

They do.

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Facebook’s New Look

July 23, 2008

Major changes at facebook last week. The interface you’ve come to know and love for it’s cleanliness and non-myspaceness has changed… for the better! You may want to check it out before I continue.

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