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Election video coverage, all in one place

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:31:42 -0600

At Grady Britton, we threw together a few live video streams and a Google widget so we could watch election coverage all in one window. It includes Ustream channels and MSNBC. Enjoy: gradybritton.com/election

Use Google auto suggest for quick keyword list building

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:04:06 -0500

For a real quick and dirty method of building a keyword list, I just use Google’s handy auto suggest. As you know, Google.com helpfully tries to guess what you’re searching for as you type, even going as far as telling you how many results there are for that phrase. So toss one of the more general [...]

How many people use Twitter?

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:02:33 -0500

The actual figure for Twitter user stats is hard to get, unless you’re a Twitter employee. Here’s a list of links that are helpful in estimating just how many Tweeters are out there. http://www.twitdir.com displays a running total of the number of public Twitter users in it’s directory. http://tweetrush.com analyzes number of tweets sent over the last [...]

Add or remove formatting buttons from the Wordpress write post textarea

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:56:52 -0500

As I write this, I’m looking at at single row of buttons at the top of this Wordpress ‘Write Post’ text area that allows me some basic text formatting options; bold, italic, strikethrough, bulleted list, numbered list, and so on. A few of my clients have asked for more formatting options like the ability to [...]

A new right click for MacBook users.

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:31:35 -0500

If you haven’t noticed that your Apple laptop doesnt have a right click trackpad button, I envy you. For those that have, you may have figured out that you can hold ctrl and click to bring up the right click menu. Here’s a new, easier way from Lifehacker’s Top Ten Right Click Tools that I’ll be [...]

Create a photo icon on iPhone that dials your friend

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:05:24 -0500

Jordan Dobson, one of the superstars over at Squad made a neat “iPhone Photo Dialer Icon Creator“. Visiting this site on your iPhone lets you create an icon on the iPhone with a custom image (from the web). http://madebysquad.com/iphone-photo-dial/ Clicking the icon dials any phone number. It does launch Safari and ask you if you want to call the [...]

A list of 5 ways that Comcast sucks, today

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:53:05 -0500

Comcast has called every day for the past week and left a message for me to call them back. Calling the number they left places me at the general Comcast phone system menu. What number do I press for, “I dunno douchebags, you called me?”. I have an account tied to one email address for comcast.com, [...]

Stopping MSN Messenger SPAM in Adium

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:57:01 -0500

I use Adium as my IM chat client because it allows me to chat across networks (AIM MobileMe, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber, ICQ, and so many more) from one app. Somehow, my MSN Messenger contact info must have gotten out, because I began to get hit every 5 to 10 minutes on MSN with a [...]

Mac OSX Application Switcher Shortcut Key Tips

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:24:39 -0500

Here’s a brief tutorial on how to quickly swap between applications on your Mac. If you’re like me, the Command + Tab keys are worn on your keyboard from swapping apps. Pressing that key combo calls up the icons for all of the running apps across your screen. Holding down Command and repeatedly pressing the Tab [...]

Tips for writing headlines and subject lines

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:17:27 -0500

Personally, I find it’s really not too complicated of a process. When writing an email or blog post, I try to think of a subject line or heading that would instantly make me click a story, or open an email. I can look through emails and stories that I have clicked, and re-engineer a headline [...]