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Branch Office Best Practices
Jul. 10, 2009
Your source for remote and branch office networking tips.
Small Business Technology
Jul. 10, 2009
Building an RSS podcast feed, Part 3
Jun. 18, 2009
Mark Gibbs starts by discussing audio editing tools and then wraps up his discussion of building an RSS feed for a podcast with a couple of news feed building tools.
Building an RSS podcast feed, Part 2
Jun. 11, 2009
Mark Gibbs continues to explore the details of creating an RSS feed for a podcast.
Building an RSS podcast feed, Part 1
Jun. 04, 2009
Gibbs explores the details of creating an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed for a podcast.
Xandros 'Presto: No rabbit in this hat
May. 29, 2009
Mark Gibbs takes a look at an interesting new Linux-based operating system from Xandros called Presto that can be booted instead of Windows in 10 seconds. Gibbs likes the idea but has reservations.
Transferring Files Without E-mail
May. 27, 2009
E-mail and the Mazda Miata are both great examples of successful products, but they share a similar weakness: neither can carry much baggage. If you want to carry two people in a Miata, you're good. But if each of those ...
Excel, Twitter, FreeBASIC and a book
May. 14, 2009
Mark Gibbs points to a great directory of Twitter resources, explains how he finally solved his self-imposed challenge to analyze Twitter with Excel, waxes enthusiastically over FreeBASIC and reviews a book. He has been ...
Debugging the Interwebs
May. 07, 2009
Mark Gibbs opens with an interesting question from a friend about monitoring Internet network outage problems and then reviews an outstanding (and free) HTTP and HTTPS monitoring proxy.
A couple of Twitter search services
Apr. 30, 2009
Mark Gibbs goes looking for other services that provide searching of Twitter Tweets and finds a couple that are really useful. In the process he also briefly reviews a book on tags.
Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 4
Apr. 23, 2009
This week Mark Gibbs wraps up his quest to analyze Twitter data using Excel gets results despite loads of "gotchas". Ugly results it is true but results nonetheless.
Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 3
Apr. 17, 2009
This week Mark Gibbs figures out how to grab useful Twitter data despite Twitter's lame API and begins massaging it to make it really useful. Oh, and he shows cURL and grep a little love.
Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 2
Apr. 09, 2009
After looking at the update of a product that Mark Gibbs was, to put it mildly, rather critical of, he continues his self-appointed task of using Excel to analyze Twitter data.
Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 1
Apr. 02, 2009
Mark Gibbs ponders how to analyze Twitter for a specific search term using the Twitter search API and Microsoft Excel.
Aardvark solves my Gmail problem
Mar. 19, 2009
Mark Gibbs suddenly found that with Firefox on his Mac he couldn't log in to Gmail and there was no obvious reason. After asking his friends he tried asking strangers by using Aardvark, a social search service. Surprise ...
Generating regexes and Gmail filters
Mar. 13, 2009
Mark Gibbs is very impressed with a service that generates code for regular expressions and he has found that Gmail now supports importing and exporting filters. His happiness knows no bounds.
Server Sleuths
Jun. 26, 2009
Network World Fusion's exclusive weekly server management how-to column.
Search tools: hardware, an add-on and a service
Mar. 03, 2009
Gibbs outlines a product awaiting test that searches and captures television programs, raves about a browser search enhancement plug-in he can't live without, and is quite impressed by a service to help you identify ...
Wrapping up TiddlyWiki
Feb. 25, 2009
The excitement is coming to an end...Mark Gibbs has covered TiddlyWiki up one side and down the other and is still amazed with the application.
TiddlyWiki macros and plugins
Feb. 20, 2009
Continuing with his exploration of TiddlyWiki wiki technology, Mark Gibbs looks at the system's macros and plugins that modify and extend the how and what the software can do.
Exploring TiddlyWiki
Feb. 11, 2009
Mark Gibbs discusses some reader feedback on TiddlyWiki and then starts to break down the TiddlyWiki system. Will the excitement never end?
Building a wiki with TiddlyWiki
Feb. 03, 2009
Gibbs continues his detailed look at TiddlyWiki
TiddlyWiki is amazing, fantastic!
Jan. 28, 2009
Every now and then you stumble across a truly great idea and, as often as not, don't get it at first. Then you fall over the idea a second time and click! The light goes on.
Goodbye malware, hello micro-projector
Jan. 21, 2009
After weeks of wrestling with malware on one of his Windows XP machines, Gibbs seems to have found a way to get rid of it .. but he has no idea what was actually removed. Then he checks out a micro-projector. Busy, busy ...
Finding music online and driving IMAP
Jan. 15, 2009
Mark Gibbs discusses a cool utility for finding and recording just about any music you like and sings the praises of scripts that are really useful with GMail.
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