Techno

Tools: Automate YOUR Technorati Faving!

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This tool was broken for a while, but now it’s operational again! I just faved everyone who faved me! Thanks, guys! Make sure you grab the copy with the May 31st ending on it. Earlier copies just don’t work anymore!

(Ed. this post has been moved as it’s quite useful!)

There are a lot of helpful tools out there on the Internet for your blog, but once in a while comes a tool that helps with the promotion of your blog, it’s free, it’s useful and it’s simple to use! Technorati Fave Tool allows you to login via its simple interface. It will find all your blogs registered on Technorati, and all the people who favorited you. Then it will return the ‘fave-r’, if you will! That’s a nice tool. It worked well the second time, because I thought it had crashed, but it turns out the warning is right: it’s slow. I guess it may be even slower if your favorites are already counted in the hundreds!

To try it out, go to Engtech.com and download the zip file. Extract it. Run it. You can also find full instructions here. For your infotainment, I’ve included the jpeg of the file below. Wonder if John Chow knows about this tool!

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iTWire – Palm Foleo flop or future?

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Apparently, Palm has done it again! It’s broken the mold, with a new sub-notebook computer that even John Chow could find useful on his trip to Taipei! It pairs up with your handheld to offer (cough!) convenient and portable computing (cough!)… There’s really not much information about this machine at all, I can’t find much about the actual specs either other than it runs Linux, has some editors for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus a PDF viewer. It comes with a 10-inch screen and full-size keyboard. And it sports upto five hours of battery life in its compact design!

There are some pretty useful features for mobile computing that we’d need on it so it includes “Instant on, instant off”, it’s light, and sports an OpenSource OS! No word on the chips, processor, RAM or onboard storage yet! I’d have to add that quality of the build is very important as Palm has screwed up majorly on several previous models of its handheld series with component problems and surly service. Let’s hope that they get this one right!

You can read more about it at these stories: Palm Foleo flop or future? or at Palm’s website.

Technology Enables and Disables at the same time!

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Technology is kind of like a drug at times, as a user or patient, your use of technology empowers you to do new things: to create a blog and update it easily and quickly without so much as a second thought!

But when it goes wrong, it really disables you! You can no longer do anything that you could do with ease! Your frustration mounts! You want to throw things at the problem!

In the past week, I’ve faced three technology problems, only one of which I was capable of fixing: 1. DNS problems at my hosting company; 2. another internet cable under the sea has limited browsing, download and upload speeds; and 3. my D-Link wireless router DI-524 (by reputation, one of the crappiest wireless routers on the market, see my review and Amazon’s reviews, too!) made by a company that USED TO turn out good products! I have to get up and reset the box every 10, 20 or 40 minutes… As a result, I’ve lost postings (2 today already), patience and my temper! (oh, and slapping the box really hard does NOT make it work better!)

In fairness, the third problem is something I could fix, but I want to go back to a regular cable, just can’t squeeze it in to my room, without my wife’s strenuous (and justified) objections to another cable in her living room!

Mmm… Should do something about that!