Category: Blogging

WP Super Cache and RSS

If you run your own blog and traffic starts to pick up a little bit then you may have been recommended to use something called WP Super Cache. I thought I might try it out to see if there was going to be much benefit for this blog given the increase in traffic it has …

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Boydo Blogs for Panasonic

I’ve shared this on Facebook and Google Plus already but I have to mention it here as well. Today, I had my first post published on the Panasonic Australia blog as Insider Guru and, to say the least, I’m quite stoked about it! It’s also my first post on a blog other than my own …

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Improved Social Media Outlets for the Blog!

Things have been progressing rather well for the blog and is certainly keeping me busy in my spare time with an increase in gadgets gracing the household recently. I thought I’d share with you some of the improvements that have been made over the last week. Firstly, you will notice a new social media widget …

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300th Blog – Some Facts and Figures!

Believe it or not, another milestone has come to pass in the form of the 300th consecutive daily blog. At times it has been a bit of a challenge to blog regularly with a trip to Asia and Europe in amongst my university studies via correspondence but I guess discipline is always a good thing! …

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About.me – Your Personal Splash Page

These days, we have all sorts of social networking sites carving out their part of the internet and vying for your precious time. Facebook is one of the big hitters along with Twitter for the vast majority of people but others sites such as LinkedIn and Foursquare also have their uses in amongst everything else …

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New Gadget – Panasonic VIErA Full-HD 3D Neo Plasma TV

A few months back, I came across an article on Gizmodo Australia spruiking the opportunity to get involved in the Panasonic Insider Crew and the chance to win a Panasonic 3D TV. The Panasonic Insider Crew is run by Soup which conducts market research on new products across a number of projects. People can sign …

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BlackSheep – Detect FireSheep on an Unsecured Wi-Fi Network

Last week, I wrote about FireSheep,  a newly released add-on for Firefox, allowed everyone including amateur hackers and snoopers the ability to not only identify individual social networking sessions currently in progress but also the ability to impersonate those people. This was made possible by intercepting cookies being broadcast in the clear (i.e. completely unencrypted) …

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Boydo’s Tech Talk – New Facebook Page!

As the blog heads toward three hundred posts and a truckload of visits this year it made sense to create a Facebook page to make it easier for visitors to share this blog with their friends. It’s fairly easy to find, just type in “Boydo’s Tech Talk” in the search box on Facebook and it …

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Track Your Activity With the Fitbit

If you had a look at the title of this blog entry you might be wondering what exactly is a “Fitbit”. I actually came across this little gadget that I hope will help keep me honest and on track with some weight loss. The fitbit looks a bit like one of them Bluetooth earpieces that …

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In-Flight Power Makes a World of Difference

At the time of writing this article, I am somewhere over the Northern Territory near Darwin at 38000 feet with another 4620km to go before reaching Hong Kong. Since there is no in-flight access to the Internet this article would have been published some time after I landed. That’s not such a big deal for …

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