December 1, 2009
Call me old fashioned, call me a caveman but until recently, I haven’t found any solid reason to use Twitter. I even have to go to Wikipedia to find a reason. According to Wikipedia, Twitter is: a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. [...]
November 26, 2009
Many bloggers and analysts argue that search engine ranking and SEO are starting to become less and less relevant in gaining traffic as social media rises. Sites such as Digg, Twitter and Stumbleupon are sworn by in the blogosphere for getting huge spikes in traffic when a post goes viral. So if you own a [...]
November 21, 2009
As the owner of a new internet-enabled phone, I have been looking at various ways I can update my favourite online services using the phone’s built-in email function. If I am out and about, and I want to update something, the easiest way to do it would be to send an email with any images as [...]
November 16, 2009
For a little while, free voicemail systems were very common online. You could sign up for any number of services where callers could leave you a voicemail message, and you could retrieve those messages online. Over time, most of the voicemail services started charging or wrapping up the voicemail feature into a larger VoIP package. [...]
November 3, 2009
I wrote awhile back about how my personal blog got hacked due to my negligence. Long story short, I had not upgraded my version of WordPress to the latest and greatest iteration and I got slammed. Now when the problems have been fixed and the dust settled, how do you know if your installation or [...]
October 29, 2009
Today’s “Question of The Day” is for all you online workers out there – the bloggers, the stay-at-home employees and anyone else who can do their job with a keyboard, webcam and internet connection. And here it is : If you work online, what time do you normally start working? Are you an early-to-rise kind [...]
October 28, 2009
If you haven’t heard, WordPress is like the best blogging software, like, EVER! If you want to do it the easy way, you can always start a blog by going to WordPress.com and signing up. Easy-peasy! The other option is actually purchasing web-space (don’t care what some people say, paying for webspace is the way [...]
October 25, 2009
Oh readers, if only you could see me now. You’d be looking at a guy with three day stubble on his face, a pile of junk food in his stomach and a half-finished WordPress website sitting on his hard drive starting a daunting article for MakeUseOf that he has avoided for several hours. You’d be [...]
October 23, 2009
As some of you may know for my previous post here on MUO about NaNoWriMo, where I set up a blog about me writing a novel in thirty days. Normally when I set up a blog it becomes like a new-born child to me ““ I nurture it, I take care of it, I fight [...]
October 16, 2009
Many of us have blogs that we update regularly to keep family and friends updated, to act as a portfolio for a business or for the lucky few ““ to provide an income from advertising. I keep mine mostly for fun and to showcase my writing. However, I’d say somewhere in the region of 90% [...]
