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Sites that I found interesting for October 9th 2009

• Microsoft adds free root certificate authority to Windows – Out-of-the-box in Windows 7 free digital certificates issued by StartCom will be inherently trusted by the operating system and its applications.
• Windows Home Server Add-ins: Lights-Out, WebGuide, and Whiist – Handy add-ins for Windows Home Server.
• How To Backup Your WordPress Blog In Three Easy Steps – Helpful article for all WordPressers out there. Via @davedelaney on Twitter.

Sites that I found interesting for May 18th 2009 through May 20th 2009:

• Windows 7 Virtual WiFi lets you connect to multiple hotspots – VWiFi will allow hardware adapters to act as separate WiFi adapters, thus giving the computer the ability to connect to multiple hotspots simultaneously. One of the most useful things you could do with VWiFi is to connect to a WiFi hotspot and also share the connection simultaneously with other laptops. via @windows7center on Twitter
• Ramp Up – Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program that will help you build professional development skills. via @Jere_Joneson Twitter
• BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter – BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

Sites that I found interesting for April 9th 2009 through April 15th 2009:

• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories – Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote.
• MoWeS Portable – CH Software – MoWeS stands for the three letter abbreviation Modular Webserver System and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista).
• 10 Recent Scientifically Solved Mysteries – Epidaurus Theater Acoustics, Crystal Skulls, New England’s Dark Day, Face on Mars, The Barreleye Fish, Solving Checkers, The Unknown Titanic Child, Ancient Tablet Deciphered, Sharks Virgin Birth, Flight of the Bumblebee

Sites that I found interesting for March 26th 2009 through March 30th 2009:

• Google Redesigns YouTube, Copies Hulu – Google is redesigning YouTube to make the site more attractive to the content creators who make the kind of stuff Google could actually sell ads against
• PicoCool – LEGO Twitter Fail Whale –
• Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week –

There are so many articles around about how to find people to follow on Twitter. It is never clear to me why people are searching for some kind of instant friends list. You didn’t show up at school and get a Xeroxed list of people titled “Your New Friends.” It is the same on Twitter. There really is only one good way and it is mind numbingly easy. Go into your Twitter notifications settings and check it from the default (Show me @ from the people I am following) to Show me all @ replies. Save. Done.

I hear you scratching your head. How could this help? Because you will start to see people you follow talking to other people. Granted, until you follow that other person you will only see one side of the conversation but things start to look interesting and you’ll click through to find out more about that new person and then start following and being part of the conversation. Then those new people follow a slightly different circle of friends and you see them talking and add another. And so on and so on. Get it? It is all about finding people naturally.

One simple change. No need to learn anything new. Start following people you are actually interested in following. Make it your own micro community.

Twitter Replies Summary

• A reply in Twitter is any Tweet that you start with @username.
  You can reply to anyone even if they don’t follow you.
• Anytime you create a Reply in the proper way (see #1), the reply will always show up in the Replies tab of the person you are replying to.
• This is true if the person follows you or not and regardless of their reply settings.
• Putting @usernamein other places in your Tweet is common courtesy when you are referring to someone else on Twitter but is NOT considered a reply in any way.

Tips on reply settings

• To keep your recent time line clutter free, set your reply settings to “no @ replies”. Replies to you will always show up in your Replies tab.
• To keep up with conversations with mutual friends, set your reply settings to “@ replies only to those I am following” (default setting)
• To follow all conversations and have more potential to find more Twitter friends, set your reply settings to “all @ replies.” (This is the setting I recommend in this post)

Sites that I found interesting for October 30th 2008 through November 3rd 2008:

• Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials – This list is made up of the best 50 FREE scripts available, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure.
• 40 Beautiful Free Icon Sets – Six Revisions – 40 beautiful, free icon sets that you can use in a variety of ways (websites and/or your desktop). In total, you’ll find close to 3000 invidual icons showcased in this article.
• Announcing MeshPack – Live Mesh is a unified computing environment that gives data access, device access and synchronization for all my important data and software. This means I can access anything I need from all my computers, from a web browser, and even from my smart phone. Mesh also supports sharing so that I can give someone access to a folder. It’s nicely integrated with the desktop and has a great web interface. For more information on what will ship in the first version check out www.mesh.com.