I have recently changed cell phone carriers and I guess that means I needed to update my cell phone at twitter because DM’s were not coming to my new phone. To fix this login to twitter and choose Settings -> Devices and choose “Delete and start over”. Next, enter your cell phone number and twitter will send a pin to your cell. Get the pin and enter it into the screen on twitter. Your cell phone will then be all set and you can get DMs through it or messages from users you have device updates turned on.
Hope this helps! My phone was quiet for a day before I figured this out! Kind of odd I know!
Written on April 6th, 2009 Filed under Did you know?
I have recently discovered the ShareThis button for Firefox. Many blogs have the ShareThis button already installed on their blog but what if I’m not at a blog or what if the blog doesn’t have a ShareThis button? ShareThis has the answer: their browser button. Using the button gives me the same functionality as if the site had the ShareThis code. Using their button I can share pages I find on Facebook, linkedin, myspace, twitter, or any other major social platforms. ShareThis will also let me e-mail a page to someone. I use that alot to send myself a page that interests me. I can keep a copy of the e-mail do check out the site later.
That’s about it for this post. I hope you find the ShareThis button as useful as I have. I would also like to give out my twitter profile and ShareThis’ profile. Give us a follow!
Written on March 11th, 2009 Filed under Uncategorized
I use google chat alot and also ping.fm. For those of you who are not familiar ping.fm is a service that will update alot of statuses at once, or individually using their @ commands. Ping.fm has made it alot easier to use their service now through google chat. You can add their “bot” to your google chat list and send it messages to post to your various social media profiles. Now if you want to update everything you can without even going to the ping.fm website. You can find instructions on how to send out ping.fm updates on their site here. How do you use ping.fm? Is it a good tool? I have heard both ways on it’s merits. If I send out a ping.fm update I usually check on that service within an hour to see if anyone has said anything back to me. Your comments are welcome!
Written on March 3rd, 2009 Filed under Did you know?
I like to give back to my Entrecard top droppers on one of my blogs. Entrecard makes it easy to do this through their “Top Droppers” RSS feed. To get the URL of your feed login to your Entrecard account and click on Dashboard. Next click on “More Stats” in the bottom right of the “Quick Stats” box. Scroll down to the Top Card Droppers. There is a RSS icon next to the text. Right click on that link and select “Copy Link Location”. Use Entrecard Top Droppers Code and paste your URL in the appropriate place. You can edit the num_items variable to display any number of top droppers. I chose 5 for my blog.
This code will need to go in your themes sidebar.php file. In your Wordpress admin area click on Editor under appearance. Next find the file sidebar.php in the list on the right side. Click that and the file will be loaded into the theme editor. Before adding your code in scroll down. If there is an error message you may need to change your file permissions. If there is a submit button you are set to add the new code. Figure out where you want the Entrecard Top Droppers to show up and paste your code in. After the sidebar is saved go back to your blog and your top droppers will be displayed. I’m not sure how often the feed is updated. It’s a great way to give your top droppers some link love and encourage daily visits.
I should mention that this is only for wordpress.org self hosted blogs. Wordpress.com, blogger, and the other free blogging platforms do not give you access to the code. For wordpress.com or blogger you can try going to Feedburner and burning your RSS and then getting an image code and inserting it. It won’t help your top droppers in the same manner as the code above.
If you have a wordpress.org self hosted blog and need help with this feel free to contact me. I’m not free, but my rates are reasonable.
Written on February 28th, 2009 Filed under Uncategorized
I haven’t been on here in a few weeks. I have been busy working on client sites plus learning and integrating the twitter API in my recipe site (Twitter profile). I have the site setup so that when someone rates a recipe a new “tweet” is sent out, asking others what they think of the recipe. It also sends out a tweet when I approve a recipe announcing a new recipe. The site also alerts me when a new recipe is added that way I know to do check it out and approve it.
I am also checking out the site textmarks.com to see what kind of cool stuff I can do with their service. Textmarks gives you a “keyword” that someone can send by their cell phone to 41411 and textmarks will respond with a preset message or it can also respond with the output from a web page (thinking something dynamic).
I’m not ready to release it yet but I am working on an API for my URL shortener. URL shorteners are used alot on twitter because of the 140 character limit. I will announce the API here when it’s ready. You can use the site now from a web browser to shorten URLs for free.
Feel free to check out my sites and twitter profiles. If you add me on there let me know you found me from my blog. Thanks!
It was brought to my attention I have not posted in here in a while. All is well I have been working on client sites and also adding content to a couple of my other blogs. Here is a post I did today that I thought would be good on here too. It’s a tip on how to be a better Dodgeball player on the game Playground for the Nintendo Wii. I won’t add duplicate content you can read about Wii Dodgeball Tips here. Enjoy!
Written on January 8th, 2009 Filed under Did you know?
Here are some quick tips to stay safe while making your online purchases.
Look for a customer service phone number. If you don’t feel safe ordering online call and order.
When you are checking out and giving out sensitive information (credit card info, etc) make sure the address bar starts with “https” and not just “http”
Look for a clearly defined shipping and returns policy page.
DO NOT pay by check or money order. If the merchant is a fraud there is generally no recourse.
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Be wary of any online merchant that only accepts one type of payment such as paypal only or only check or money order.
Look for seals such as BBB, Buy Safe, or Hacker Safe. These sites have been thoroughly verified.
Be wary (it’s still ok to order if you like) or online merchants who do not give a physical address for their store.
If possible pay by credit card (not your checking account debit card). You will have more recourse should problems come up after the sale.
Remember to stay safe while online. The biggest thing is that if it seems too good of a deal to be true it probably is. Stay safe while shopping online!
Written on December 1st, 2008 Filed under Did you know?
No tech news today just a wish that everyone has a great Thanksgiving! Let me know if you need a 12seconds.tv invite. Also check out my 12seconds channel.
I’m a big fan of the favicon. It’s great for branding purposes and now I have a new use for it. In Firefox I can click and drag a site to my links toolbar to quickly add it. Now I found you can maximize the space even more by just showing the favicon and not the title of the page! Check out the image below:
Now I have quick access to my commonly visited sites and can maximize the space used on my links toolbar! Too bad all of my favorites don’t have favicons or I would just have a big list of favicons on my toolbar.
If you found this helpful please subscribe to my newsletter using the box on the right. It’s free and I promise no spam ever!
Written on November 21st, 2008 Filed under Did you know?
Welcome! Thank you for visiting!
