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September 3rd, 2009

Using an HP LaserJet 2100TN with Snow Leopard

When Mac OS can’t connect to the printer.

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July 24th, 2009

Your Twitter Experience is What You Make It

An analysis of two kinds of Twitter accounts.

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May 31st, 2009

May 2009 Links

Links for the month of May.

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March 31st, 2009

March 2009 Links

Links for the month of March.

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March 16th, 2009

Five Tips for Composing a More Effective Social Networking Bio

Is yours saying what you really want to say?

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March 13th, 2009

Twitter Primer: @Reply vs. DM

Get ‘em straight! Use ‘em right!

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January 31st, 2009

January 2009 Links

Links for the month of January.

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January 4th, 2009

December 2008 Links

Links

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November 30th, 2008

November 2008 Links

November 2008 Links

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April 11th, 2008

One Back to My Mac Solution

I finally get it to work.

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March 1st, 2008

Tips for Connecting to Shared Computers with Leopard

What you might see when you connect.

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February 17th, 2008

Leopard 10.5.2 Adds More Support for Routers

Makes Back to My Mac feature accessible to more Leopard users.

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February 12th, 2008

Video Blogging with Viddler and WordPress, Part I

What’s this all about?

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February 2nd, 2008

February 2 Links

Links worth following.

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January 13th, 2008

January 12 Links

Links worth following.

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August 2nd, 2007

Twit This

A service that makes it easy to post links on Twitter.

I recently found Twit This, a Web site that enables you to post any URL to Twitter as a tweet.

Here’s How It Works

When you browse to a Web page you want to share with your Twitter followers, you invoke Twit This.

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May 11th, 2007

Four Steps to Get the Most Out of Twitter

Some tips for taking the “yuk” out.

I first heard about Twitter a few months ago on either the MacBreak Weekly or TWiT (This Week in Tech) podcast. (Both highly recommended, by the way.) I immediately checked it out. At first, I thought it was kind of cool, but then I realized that

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April 11th, 2007

File Sharing: Tiger & Vista, Part 2

A solution for Vista network connection to Macintosh problems.

Back in December, 2005, I wrote an article titled “File Sharing: Tiger & Vista,” in which I reported my efforts in getting my Dual G5 running Tiger to talk to my Dell laptop running Vista. As that article explains, I was able to set

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December 5th, 2006

File Sharing: Tiger & Vista

Stuck? This might help.

I’ve been working with Vista on my new PC for a few months now. I’d originally done an install over Windows XP, but the other day I did a clean install of the Vista Gold Master, wiping the computer clean so there was no old stuff on there. (When the

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