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Saving Time and Reducing Distractions with Instapaper

March 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Working on the Internet can become burdensome as you find yourself becoming distracted more frequently. There have been apps created to help organize your time and planning, but these aren’t always too great. With news becoming more prevalent than ever before it’s not a surprise to find our society addicted to information. A new launch titled Instapaper is changing the way we work. The genius of this tool is within simplicity. Instapaper started off as a mobile app for iOS and has grown … [Read more...]

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Tips on How to be a Successful Blogger

March 25, 2011 By 6 Comments
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For those that may be unfamiliar with its meaning, the term blog comes from the combination of the words web and log. Blogs can typically consist of entries that include comments on culture, hobbies or everyday life, occasionally featuring a video or music. Just about anybody can have a blog, from students to businesses. However, just knowing what a blog is and what potential can stem from it is not enough. If a person wants to have a successful, active blog, they need to take the right … [Read more...]

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Tips for Gaming Front Page Traffic on Delicious

March 24, 2011 By 3 Comments
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One of my personal favorite social bookmarking networks is Delicious. The process of signup is very simple. If you’ve already got a Yahoo account then you don’t even need to change anything! Since Yahoo! purchased the company in 2005 it’s seen a dramatic increase from the number of users. It’s important to understand just how Delicious works. Trending bookmarks are prominently displayed on the front page of the site. These are links which have gained a large amount of saves in the … [Read more...]

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The Resting Changes Post-Launch for Digg v4

March 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Digg v4 was launched during 2010 and did not garner very positive reviews. In fact, many users migrated to the more popular network Reddit where news can flow much more freely. Where did Digg go wrong? I would argue Kevin Rose lost faith in the company. After launching at the turn of the millennium Digg was king online. It offered a fantastic connections system, simple categories and a very popular front page. Most articles would reach upwards of 2000 or more diggs on any given day. The … [Read more...]

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Security Concerns with Outsourcing IT Services

March 2, 2011 By 8 Comments
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Outsourcing has become very common in recent years, especially in the field of Information Technology. So that companies can focus more on their core business, it makes sense to outsource many of their IT services and work to external organizations. In addition to this, quite often outsourcing can provide a cheaper means of labor if sent off shore, which enables the company to reduce costs and remain competitive. There are however security concerns with outsourcing IT services, some of which … [Read more...]

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Coldfusion 9 and IIS

March 1, 2011 By 5 Comments
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I have been developing in ColdFusion for a while locally using the built in web server. Recently at work several of the projects I am involved with moved to an IIS production server. In order to test fully in my local environment I needed to install IIS and setup ColdFusion to use it as the server instead of its built in version. I ran into a few problems trying to figure this out so I decided to write a blog post of the process in case it is of help to others who need to do the same thing. … [Read more...]

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