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Post Your Facebook Status to Twitter

February 17th, 2009 by Bill Hutchison · 17 Comments

There are some great tools out there that let you post your twitter updates to Facebook. But, some people want to go the other way and post their Facebook Status to Twitter. Here is one way that you can do that quite easily: Get the address for your Facebook Status RSS feed. To do that [...]

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Tags: Social Networking



Does Google Index the Content in iFrames?

January 11th, 2009 by Bill Hutchison · 3 Comments

Over at an article about Ads on GoDaddy Free Hosting we were asked: … do you think ifreames effect the indexing of other pages on the site? While a bot is crawling the page will it see the iframe first and crawl to it rather then crawl the rest of the page? More over, won’t [...]

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Tags: Web Design

I Want the Dell Inspiron 13 – but Not in Australia

September 9th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I have been saving and planning on purchasing a new laptop. Laptops from Dell have always been high on my list of laptops and I had been interested in the Dell Vostro 1400 laptop, but Dell Australia changed the warranty options for their Vostro laptops (no CompleteCare past the first year), so I was instead [...]

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Tags: Laptops



Console and PC Game Skills Training

September 6th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

If you have ever had your but whipped by your 5-year old son, or some young punk online, you might want to have a look at Gamertrainer.com. Gametrainer.com provides training for anyone wanting to improve their gaming skills. They will work with anyone from first time “newbies”, to “professional” gamers. They provide training for these [...]

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Tags: Site News

Automatically Forward E-Mail in Microsoft Outlook

July 31st, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I quite often get asked “How do I automatically forward my e-mail in Microsoft Outlook?“. You can forward e-mail using Microsoft Exchange, but it is better if the individual users can control their e-mail forwarding. that way they can turn it on and off without having to ask the system administrator to do it for [...]

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Tags: Applications

Upload a File to your Ning Social Network.

June 27th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 7 Comments

If you have a Ning Social Network you will find that there is no easy place to upload a file to your Ning profile or the pages. There is no file depository or folder system that is accessible by the user, or even network administrators or creators. The easiest way that I have found to [...]

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Tags: Social Networking