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Archive for March 2012
Full Circle Magazine Issue 59 Out Now
Full Circle Magazine #59 is available from the main site. This month: Command and Conquer. How-To : Beginning Python – Part 31, LibreOffice – Part 13, Portable Linux, Resizing Your VirtualBox Drive, and Create Your Own Greeting Card. Linux Lab – Foremost for data recovery. Review – Bodhi Linux I Think – What turns to/from … Continue reading
How-to: Increase the Reliability of a Windows PC
Or: Realising You’ve Installed Too Much Software There’s an urban myth that any version of Microsoft Windows has and effective ceiling of about 30 concurrently programs, after which the whole thing becomes an unstable mess. It’s not a hard and fast rule, but it does appear true that the more software you install in Windows, … Continue reading
News
• Google Tablet Store Rumors, Changes at RIM • Blind Man Takes Google’s Self-Driving Car for a Spin • Nokia and Apple squabbles delay Sim card ruling • Mobile firms bleed billions to fraud and bill errors
How-to: Reconnect your WordPress to Facebook and Twitter
I don’t know what occurs, but I suspect the Facebook API isn’t as stable or as open as is made out. I do know that sometimes the connections between Facebook or Twitter and WordPress.com break and WordPress stops feeding the social networks. There are periodic fixes, but the breakages are intermittent and ongoing. If this … Continue reading
Opinion: Translating the Resume Buzz Words
If you are touting your resume around prospective employers or have a LinkedIn Profile, you you may want to go do some edits. LinkedIn is the social-networking site for people with business cards and recently LinkedIn itself ran a survey of most overused buzz-words in the professional profiles on the site. The top ten (below) … Continue reading
How-to: Integrate Social Media into your Business
How times move on. More than half the TV ads are now for on-line companies. Every business worth the name has to have a website, or it doesn’t exist in the modern world. And that’s still not enough. Social media is now vital for business owners who want to be taken seriously. No Facebook? No … Continue reading
How-to: Personalise Face Book Subscriptions
Subscriptions is the actual mechanism by which to follow people on Facebook. Subscriptions let you see other people’s public posts in their Facebook News Feed; normally you post to your friends and subscribers by selecting “public” which means everything you post publicly will appear in the subscriber’s News Feed. They automatically subscribe to follow you. … Continue reading
How-to: Begin on Social Media – Twitter
Twitter is the biggest (if not the first) micro-blogging service that enables short posting of text up to 140 characters. You can include shortened web addresses and upload pictures. It has about 100 million users. Quick to post and quick to respond, Twitter is now mainstream, making the news as much as commenting on it. … Continue reading
Photography: Andrew McAllister ‘Looking at the West’
Looking at the Westis a blog about the American West as experienced and photographed by Andrew McAllister, based in Logan, Utah. Currently, it documents Andrews travels through the rugged Western landscapes of the Western states, although Andrew is promising some photography technique blog posts.
Review: the Woman in Black (2012)
Scared or Sceptical? The Woman in Black tries very hard to be scary. And it ought to be. It has the ingredients of a good story – a ghost bent on revenge, dense fog, chilling graveyards, preternatural children, and a creaky old house set on an island from which, when the tide is in, there … Continue reading
News: Ubuntu for Android
Call it a promise, or a threat,but, true to his word, Mark Shuttleworth is bringing Ubuntu to a device near you. Next in line for Ubuntu on Everything, it’s Ubuntu for Android. Yes, if you are designing and manufacturing dual-core smart-phones, Canonical wants it running a full-featured Ubuntu desktop. On a ridiculously long web page … Continue reading
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