OK, so in part one we covered the very basics of twitter. Now it’s time to make it work more easily and efficiently. Twitter has a concept called “lists”, which are both very useful and rarely used. You can follow entire lists from other people or organisations with one click, which is very useful when [...]
Twitter primer Part I
OK, so what is Twitter? Twitter is a short-form broadcast service. “Short-form” because it’s limited to 140 characters, “broadcast” because it’s you sending a message to the world. All of it – not just your friends like Facebook, but everyone. A point worth remembering. (Here’s a recent example of a tweet ending up in the [...]
Firefox v Chrome
Browsers – we use them so often, some people think they ARE the internet. (Mind you, it seems a lot of people think the WWW is the entirety of the internet, so we shouldn’t be too surprised.) I’ve been a Firefox user forever, maybe longer. I was using Netscape while it was in beta. [...]
Oooh, a new modem!
Well, the Billion 7404 finally died. Not that I was ever much of a fan of it, given that it was regularly out performed by the little Speedtouch that came with my contract a few years ago. So time for a new one. My ISP is iPrimus (and I’ve been very happy with them) and [...]
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