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{ Monthly Archives } December 2008

Using Google Alerts to Track Stuff

When I first discovered Google Alerts I used it to find out what was being written about me, or at least anyone with my name in. It’s amusing perhaps, but not always useful.
However, nowadays I do keep track of a few topics and keywords this way, and it does bring up some useful information from [...]

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12seconds TV

I Really Like 12 Seconds.TV on 12seconds.tv
It’s quick and easy to use with a web cam and microphone.
Check it out at http://12seconds.tv

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Summarizing RSS Feeds

I’ve seen much comment and discussion about the practice of summarizing RSS feeds.
The idea behind doing this, is to encourage those that take your feed to come to your blog. They get interested enough in reading the first two or three hundred words of your latest article, that they click on the ‘more’ link.
This gets [...]

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Get Paid To Park With AdSense

Do you use Adsense?
I’ve actually found better ways to monetize one or two of my web sites, but nonetheless I still find AdSense makes a useful contribution.
What about those spare domains that many of us having laying around, that we think we can use one day, but never quite around to putting to real use?
There’s [...]

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Free SMS from Google

Those of you that know me, probably know I’m a Google Fan. Ok, I know they’re not perfect (who is), but I like the way they integrate most of their services together. I say most – it’s about time you guys at Mountain View did something cool with GrandCentral!
Anyway, I digress.
What I want to write [...]

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uncaught exception: java.lang.NullPointerException

Just recently I started getting this on my Blackberry Curve a few times a day. I noticed that it was always after I’d taken the phone out of the holster (which automatically locks the keyboard), and also after I’d not used the phone for some minutes.
I’d recently updated the OS,  and wondered it that was [...]

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