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I discovered this brief ‘howto’ (on twitter, of course) from @the_api_book via @ginatrapani.
Head over to google.com and enter the search phrase:
site:twitter.com/*/favourites your_username
where your_username is your twitter user name.
For example, this search returns the results for all of the folks who have favorited a tweet made by the user @lifehacker, and which tweet it was that was favorited.
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If you’re as unimpressed with the new DiggBar as I am, this brief tutorial will show you how to make sure it never appears on a site you visit via digg again. [click to continue...]
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Bored this today? When I had a day job I certainly disliked Wednesday the most, even more than Monday. So to kill some time today, head over to PearlJamTenGame.com. Each stage of the puzzle that you complete, you “unlock” a different song from the upcoming reissue of Ten (Pearl Jams first album). If you can complete the entire puzzle (it took me 31 minutes, you can do it faster I’m not very good at these games) you get access to a cool but short video montage of Pearl Jams history.
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Thanks to my friend Armen for this trick. This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to buy or rent content that’s only available in the US version of the iTunes Store, from Canada. I would be hugely appreciative if you could give this a try if you live in Australia, England, France, Italy or any country other than Canada and let me know if it works by leaving a comment. [click to continue...]
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One of the problems I have with file sharing is that more often than not, it’s rather slow. When I say file sharing, I mean between one person and a friend, not bittorrent, eDonkey or Gnutella. For this you usually have to go through an Instant Messenger’s file sharing program or through sites like Rapidshare or Megaupload. The problem with IM file sharing is that it’s usually slow and if it gets interrupted, often you’ll have to start all over. The problem with sites like Rapidshare is that they don’t stream, which can be frustrating. Yes, there are sites like Streamfile that try to fix that last problem, but it can still mess up and you have to start all over! [click to continue...]
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This is a list of five of my favorite webcomics. They were chosen because they update regularly, have great art, and have a good story to go with it all. I also tried to stay away from the well known comics (like Questionable Content). They are listed in alphabetical order, not by how much I like them :) [click to continue...]
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I love Picasa. Here are five reasons you should use it, along with some tips. They are listed in no particular order. [click to continue...]
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This brief tutorial will show you how to download music embedded in Facebook profiles and save them as MP3s. [click to continue...]
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This is guest post from Ivan at Hacks PC blog, where he writes about various PC Tutorials. Fell free to subscribe to his RSS Feed if you are interested to follow his writing.
Sometimes you have to convert videos, pictures or other files to another format. There are many applications which can convert various types of file formats. But why spend time downloading and installing software which can contain viruses, spyware etc, when you can convert many files online without downloading any software. Just go to the site, which offers free online conversion, the load file(s) from your PC, choose the format and press convert. This method is also very useful when you need to covert files from computers where you are not allowed to install any additional software, like at work or school. Below you can find list of free sites which offer online file conversions. [click to continue...]
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Yep. Leave a comment below and use the email address you want me to send the brightkite invite to in the E-mail field of the comment form (not in the body of the message). The first ten get invites, then I’ll just disable comments or delete this post. Cheers!
Update: all gone
If you’ve been wondering why there haven’t been any Mac tutorials lately, here’s the reason - I’ve acquired another site, SwitchingToMac.com. I’ll be leaving all of the existing Mac content here, but going forward, Switching To Mac will be where all my Mac/OS X focus goes. Simple Help will turn into a Windows and Linux (and Windows Mobile, Symbian, BlackBerry etc) site. If you’re an RSS subscriber because you liked the Apple content, you might want to unsubscribe from this site (you don’t have to) and subscribe to the Switching To Mac RSS feed instead.
Also, there’s a pretty active forum over there, with a lot of really helpful, friendly and active folks.
You may have also noticed that the massive majority of posts lately have been from folks other than myself. Ken Murray is a Linux genius and recent N95 owner, and Skyler Huse has been coming up with some great Windows stuff. This has allowed me to focus on getting Switching To Mac transferred (I had no idea domain transfers could be such a hassle), redesigned and a lot of articles queued. Ken and Skyler will continue to contribute to Simple Help, though you should see more frequent posting on my part too.
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I’m one of those people who can’t claim they were on BBS’s long before the Internet. I do go back far enough that my first computer had a 14.4kbps modem, and the word broadband was only used by a handful of people. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I got my first desktop with a Pentium chip. Compiling Linux kernels in just 8 hours? Amazing!
Times have certainly changed. I’ve switched from Linux to OS X, from a desktop to a laptop (MacBook Pro). My mum has adopted my EeePC as her own, and prefers Ubuntu to Windows (this is a woman who last year would ask me daily how to attach pictures to her emails). Her desktop is sitting next to mine, unplugged in the garage. Smaller, faster, cheaper. I’m not complaining 
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Instead of offering help, this time I’m looking for some.
1. Folks who would like to contribute tutorials for Simple Help. Windows and Linux tutorials specifically. You’d be paid on a per post/tutorial basis (via PayPal). It can be a “one off” thing or an ongoing thing, it’s up to you. Think of it as a “paid guest blogger” deal.
2. Someone who has experience customizing WordPress themes. I’ve recently purchased one, for a new site I’ll be doing, and because I’m artistically inept, I need someone to customize it. This project would not involve actual WordPress coding - the theme itself has all of that covered. I’m looking for someone who can take an existing theme and give it a custom look (vs. the “out of the box” look that it has by default). This is, of course, a paid job as well.
If you’re interested in either of the above items, please contact me. Please include links to your previous writing or design work. Thanks!
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Once again I’ve been issued 10 invites to the Brightkite service. If you’d like one, leave a comment below, and be sure to use the email address you’d like the invitation sent to in the E-mail part of the comment form.
Update: and that’s it, all 10 invites have been spoken for. As soon as I get more, I’ll offer them up here.
PC-BSD 7 was recently released, and with it comes a whole slew of updates and upgrades. Some of the highlights include:
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