Posts by: Jeff Harbert
I’ve seen several people I follow on Twitter mention “three words for 2010.” It sounded like an interesting mental exercise, coming up with three words, and only three words, to define what you want to focus on in the coming year. Here’s my take on it.
My three words: Reading, Building, Growing.
Reading – I [...]
My biggest gripe about Windows 7 is the impact User Account Control has on the command line. Unless you turn UAC completely off, every time you run something on the command line that Microsoft has deemed requiring your password – even if you’re in the local Administrators group – you get an Access Denied error.
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By holding down the Windows key and then tapping the left or right cursor control keys you can move a window to fill the left or right half of your monitor. If you have multiple monitors as I do you can also move a window back and forth between your monitors. By using the up [...]
Direct Message spam is out of control on Twitter. Here are two things Twitter should do ASAP to help fix the problem.
1 – Direct Messages were intended to be private messages between people. Twitter should enforce that and modify their Terms of Service to disallow automatic DMs.
2 – DMs should use [...]
I’m sure most of you are aware of open sourced software. The creators of the Xtracycle (a long-framed bicycle designed for carrying cargo) have open sourced their design. Electronics have been open sourced, as with Arduino.
Food recipes might as well be considered open source – have you ever [...]
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2009/11/how-to-become-more-intelligent.html
Do you realize that through reading you can learn in a few hours what took someone decades to learn? Reading not only informs, but it also increases your capacity for learning, thereby increasing your intelligence.
Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, Crush It! Why Now Is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion, is a great primer on why and how to use various social media applications – Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc – to build your brand and get yourself known in your niche. The overriding message in the book is that [...]
The website Mashable.com reports this morning that there is a fake password reset e-mail for Facebook circulating. The e-mail comes with an attachment that, if executed, will install a virus on your computer. This is obviously something you don’t want to have happen.
I’d like to take this opportunity to [...]
This morning Twitter stopped working in our house. None of our computers could access Twitter, either through a Twitter client like TweetDeck or directly at Twitter.com. Every other site was working fine. We just couldn’t get to Twitter.
I checked http://www.isthisdownforyou.com/, which reported that Twitter.com was up. I could [...]
I like how Leo Laporte uses Twitter. Remember several months ago when Twitter changed the way it displays @replies? Used to be, if you followed Leo you’d see every one of his tweets. After the change, if Leo posted a reply to someone AND the tweet began with, for example, @username, [...]
