Twitter’s to do list : Built-in system to reduce URLS and – much more so – to expand the address on mouseover – as some apps already do. Too many nasty surprises can be hidden in obfuscated links! Renaming the assignments from “following” and “followers” to something easier and more sensible, like “Friends” and “Followers”,
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Real Twitterers DO exist. I know because my bot found them! Ummm OOops. Sussed. I absolutely refute any claims I used a bot to find the following REAL Twitterers! Appearing on this list in a privilege. I WILL be keeping an eye on it! Clowns that @message me with affiliate links are automatically excluded! (Note:
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Autistic UFO hacker Gary McKinnon Posted this reply (to them) in response to The Inquirer’s story about ‘Autistic petition for UFO hacker’ because some of the replies – and even the writer in one place – didn’t have a clue what they were talking about! (The Inquirer site now redirects to TrustedReviews). For a start,
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Twitter apps to avoid (2009) Dear Gods – anyone that follows – submits – to Tweetfind obviously hasn’t read the agreement. Is this even legal!? You hereby grant us, our affiliates, and our partners a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, transfer, transmit,
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Twitter tools (2009) Starting adding a list of reliable sites to help me (and anyone following me) build up a solid base of interested and interesting followers. As some point I will undoubtedly write a guide but for now the side links will do – plus of course we have the day by day progress
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Thesis theme I liked the look of this advert (image gone now, annoyingly), makes me think of strong coffee for some reason. Anyway, I was going to leave it as the Simplicity theme, which I rather like, but I was playing and broke it. Seeing as I’d just bought, well licensed the developer version of
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Windows upgrade path: XP > Vista > XP > (>Vista>) 7 > XP > Linux!!! Recently tried playing with the various flavours. Downgrading up to Vista(!) – tore that bag of kak out. I point blank refuse to use an OS that needs a whacking great 1Gb of memory just to run, especially when it
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Creative Labs GigaWorks S750 killed by an unreplaceable fuse! Letter to Creative after my very nice, very expensive speakers just gave up the ghost! : I turned the speakers off while cleaning behind the computer, now they won’t turn back on. I’ve checked the fuse, which is fine and the only sign of life is
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