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Socialite: Easy Social Media Management

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

There are dozens of great Twitter applications on the market today. Many of them have started to integrate support for other social media services. One of the new kids on the blog is a Mac application called Socialite. Socialite is fully featured social media app that gives the old school apps a run for their money.

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WordPress, How I Love Thee

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

WordPress is the application I use to power most of the websites I build. In fact, unless a client requires me to use another system, I use WordPress exclusively. There are a few great applications out there, but in my opinion WordPress is the best. Here’s why:

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Review: Backblaze For Online Backup

Friday, October 16th, 2009

I regularly use Time Machine to backup my files to an external hard drive. This is great if my laptop hard drive fails, but what happens if there is a fire and my external drive gets burned up along with my laptop? What happens if a thief breaks in and takes everything? I would lose […]

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Clean Up Your Dock with Google Quick Search Box

Monday, October 12th, 2009

In my efforts to become more minimalistic, I have removed all unnecessary applications from my dock. At first it seemed to be a little more of a burden than a help since I was often visiting the Application folder. But then I remembered about a little program for the Mac called Google Quick Search Box.

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Get Dropbox: When You Need to Store, Sync, & Share

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Dropbox is a great tool for keeping all of your files safe, secure, and in sync online. Dropbox is an incredible easy tool to use. In fact, most people won’t even know they are using Dropbox until they need to take advantage of some of it’s incredibly powerful features. You can get a 2GB account […]

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PayPal vs. Google Checkout

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

PayPal and Google are brand names that are recognized all around the world. They both offer payment processing and are a huge help for small business owners and their customers. PayPal is by far the most used of the two, but Google Checkout has some features that might give PayPal a run for their money. […]

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Great Task Management Tools

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

I have been on the hunt for over a year for the perfect task management tool. I have tried almost every online task management service out there and many standalone apps for Mac. I have only found a few to be truly useful, so I will skip the fluff and get to the best of […]

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5 Reasons Why I Love Google Voice

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Google Voice is a service that gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail that is easy as email, and many enhanced calling features like call blocking and screening, voicemail transcripts, call conferencing, international calls, and more.

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