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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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Incorrect Time on Diary Entries on iTouch

February 11th, 2009 by chevvy · No Comments

All my calendar entries on my iTouch were coming up about 7 hours incorrectly, the events themselves were correct just wrong time. After checking my computer and Touch had the correct settings I found one other place to change… I went to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Time Zone Support (Near the bottom) -> [...]

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Cannot connect to wireless network in Vista

February 4th, 2009 by dcouper · No Comments

I am at a conference and the guy sitting next to me was trying to connect to a wireless access point in Vista. It was saying that it was connected – but it was not getting an internet connection. I checked the IP address and it was correct , the wirless zero configuration was also [...]

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iPod Touch – Incorrect date/time after Synchronising

January 12th, 2009 by chevvy · 2 Comments

After synchronising my new iPod Touch for the 2nd time it decided to give it a date of about 9 months ago and changed the time to a completly different time of day! I was using Windows XP and iTunes. After searching the web I found that there is an issue with XP and synchronising [...]

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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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VOIP client for iPod Touch

December 6th, 2008 by Alex Costa · 1 Comment

Truphone is a VOIP client that can save you money on your mobile phone calls. Using Truphone over WiFi (WIreless) connectivity your iPhone can make phone calls to landline and mobile numbers. The BBC technology website comments that the Truphone developers plan to implement the ability to also receive phone calls on iPhones. Wi-Fi calls [...]

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