In the quest to develop my personal brand and portfolio, to and simply create a place where all of my writing efforts across the interweb can have a single home, I came across a neat little plugin for Windows Live Writer (which all bloggers should try using, if they don’t already) called xPollinate. xPollinate allows for easy cross-posting of blog entries created in Live Writer — including posts created in the past — to a multitude of services via Ping.fm. This makes the process of creating your personal online hub a lot easier. All you need is a Ping.FM account, Live Writer and the plugin, and a blog service that makes both posting and sharing your collected works easy and, if possible, fun. For my purposes, I chose Tumblr, the microblogging/blogging platform and network, and so far, things have been running smoothly. Hit the jump to find out how to set it up.
Category: Applications (page 26 of 29)
Windows Mobile is not known for being either pretty or exceptionally user friendly, and the apps have been repeatedly put to shame by iPhone and Android software. WinMo users were waiting with baited breath for the launch of the Windows Mobile applications store (Skymarket), but initial offerings were largely disappointing and often grossly overpriced. Hope springs eternal, however, and TouchTwit, the newest Twitter app on the block for Windows Mobile, leaves you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.
So you’ve installed Windows 7, and have decided you want to repartition your disks. You could use Windows 7’s built-in disk partitioning features, but what if that doesn’t work? That recently happened to me. Windows 7 refused to partition the disk, telling me ‘There is not enough free space on the disk to complete this operation,’ even though I had ample space on the disk. A Google search revealed this to be a common problem. I searched for and found an alternate solution.
You may think from the title that I am a bit less than enthused with Skymarket, the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile app store. You wouldn’t be wrong, either. This may come as something of a surprise to some of you, considering how much I have obviously been looking forward to the release of Skymarket, but my bitterness, and thus bitter message, is a direct result of keen disappointment.
You’ve heard the repeated warnings: "Backup!" You know you should do it. But are you? Are you backing up your computer’s data? And if you are backing up your data, is your backup solution reliable? Here are four steps you can take to provide yourself with a comprehensive backup solution, along with a few recommendations of products that I’ve been using. Using these tools together should also provide you with some redundancy, so that you can have piece of mind that you’re not putting all of your eggs in one basket.