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WordPress For BlackBerry Updates To v1.1 Adding New Features And Better Touchscreen Support - CrackBerry.com blogs
Wordpress has released their latest update to Wordpress for BlackBerry. Version 1.1 came shortly after the Tumblr announcement we seen yesterday. I guess maybe they fet some pressure from Tumblr. A lot of enhancements came with this release, especially for BlackBerry Storm owners out there that may be making use of the app. A feature breakdown list is as follows: - Comment Notifications - Geot...
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Finally. You Can Now Share Music on Facebook. - The Next Web
All Facebook has uncovered a recent update on Facebook that see’s the social networking behemoth allow its users to post MP3 files onto their profile pages, just as you would with a URL. As far as I can tell, you still aren’t able to upload audio files to Facebook without using some third party app. But to get a music file to play on your profile just post a link to a file that ends with .mp3....
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Why You Should Always Write Your Headline Last - Copyblogger
When you write a post for your blog, your headline is the last thing you should be thinking about. OK, I realize this is Copyblogger heresy. There’s a lot of emphasis on writing a good headline. Hell, I’ve written posts about how to write an eye-grabbing title myself. Brian wrote an entire series on headlines (including a post on why you should always write your headline first), and he’s been...
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Canon Wants To Setup Their Own .canon Top-Level Domain Name - Laughing Squid
Canon is working on setting up it’s own .canon top-level domain name. If approved by ICANN, this could lead to a whole new approach to domain names. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Email, Twitter & Facebook. Related posts: - Jason Scott on The Atomic Level of Porn at Arse Elektronika 2009 - The Squid List Moves Into The Cloud & Now Has Its Own Domain Name: squ...
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The Definitive Guide to Keeping Your PC Up to Date [How To] - Lifehacker: top
Keeping your computer—including its operating system and all the installed third-party software—up to date is extremely important, but it needn't be a hassle or inconvenience. Here's a look at three tools you can use regularly to keep your system current. Photo by junkDzine. The Windows operating system and all the software we use on it are constantly evolving, due in part both to the efforts...
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Drinks That Don't Destroy Your Diet [Drinking] - Lifehacker: top
Besides listening to The Pogues and wearing green, St. Patrick's Day revelers do a lot of something that's pretty rough on their nutrition ambitions. Want to enjoy without gorging? The Cheap Healthy Good blog has some reasonable draft and cocktail compromises. Photo by Spiros2004. Most relevant to the day at hand, the post notes that Guinness—the draught version, not so much the stout—has few...
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5 Fantastic iPhone Apps for Web Developers - Mashable!
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. Contrary to popular belief, web developers do sometimes leave their desks, and when they do, that’s always when clients seem to call or disaster seems to strike. We’ve highlighted some iPhone apps here that will help you out in those situations, and a few others that will ...
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Super Apps Get Pushy: BlackBerry Push Service Open to BlackBerry Developers - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS
BlackBerry developers can now push information to BlackBerry users.The BlackBerry Push Service allows the application to process information in the background and alert users. The BlackBerry Push Service developer website suggests that developers use the BlackBerry Push Service to incorporate the characteristics smartphone customers love into your applications, including improved battery life,...
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High-Five SXSWi 2010 - High-Five Montage Tribute Brandon and... - Chevy SXSW - Team Detroit
High-Five SXSWi 2010 - High-Five Montage Tribute Brandon and Henry are big fans of the high-five montages from Almost Twins on Funny or Die and decided to make a tribute video while at SXSWi 2010....
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Make your phone line a gold mine - Home Office Expert Guide to Working From Home-Working Naked
When’s the last time you took a close look at your phone? If you use it right, you can increase your profits. • Make calls on the right days and during the best times. Some people are morning people while others wait until late afternoon to kick into high gear. Monday morning isn’t a good time to call someone for the first time. That’s when people organize their week, recover from the weekend ...
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Your Personal Branding Worksheet - Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
Today we’re going to uncover what makes you uniquely you. We’re going to go through your vision, purpose, values, goals, and extract the core of your personal brand. This worksheet is a slightly adapted version of the original by Meg Guiseppi, a good friend of mine and a leading Personal Branding Expert for executives. Save your answers in a document on your computer so you can revisit and tw...
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RIM Opens Up BlackBerry Push API Services to All Developers - BerryReview.com

Now this is a happy day. During DevCon in November RIM promised to open up their Push API to all developers beyond just BlackBerry Alliance members. They promised to do it in the first half of 2010 and they are right in their timeline. As a reminder RIM’s Push API allows developers to push up to 8KB of content to their BlackBerry application in the background making them get information in real...
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The 1% Experience - Simple Marriage
Editors Note: The is a guest post from Todd Sellick of A Private Affair. If on your wedding day someone challenged you to “give a full 1% of your time each week” to each other, to just be together, peacefully sifting through the bits and pieces of your lives; giving space for your love to recover, heal, discover and grow… how do you think you’d respond? “1%? Scheesh… that’s nothing! We’ll be...
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Chevy SXSW Road Trip Challenge Recap - Community (In Real Life)
Wow. What a ride. Two weeks ago, I asked the Detroit interactive community for help, and they totally stepped up. So, after four days of jumping in front of signs, arm wrestling, dog walking and bingo playing, Team Detroit was declared the winner of the first Chevy SXSW Road Trip Challenge. The final score tally proves just how bad Detroit wanted to win this thing. Since points were awarded ...
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Insecurity, Comparison and Fear: Slaying the Giants of Homeschooling - Simple Homeschool
Anyone who has taken on, or is considering, the unique role of home educator knows all too well the giants of homeschooling. Insecurity. Comparison. Fear. Have you ever felt discouraged by one of those? Have you ever laid awake and worried about who is doing what in their homeschool and if you should or shouldn’t be, too? All of us have. It’s human nature. But there is an effective response...
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How You Can Make A Video Blog – cheap, quick & easy - AgentGenius - Real Estate News & Opinion Magazine
A while ago I decided that I wanted a web site that was just for my videos. I have video embedded in blog posts on my main real estate site, but I wanted a clean looking page where people could go and just watch my content. A video-blog, or vlog, as the cool kids call it. As of yesterday, I have one: a screengrab of my Video Site Before I built this, I did a bit of googling, and all the ni...
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Why Reqium For A Dream is a Motivating Movie - Change your Thoughts for true Personal Development
When I asked my friends to tell me their opinion about the movie requiem for a dream some of them said that it was the most depressing movie they ever saw, after all the movie discusses shattered dreams and people who were never able to reach their goals. What’s strange is that some people found the movie extremely motivating and even inspiring so the question is, how can a depressing movie mo...
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Shooting the Space Shuttles - Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now
Ben Cooper combines photography with rocket science Our sister publication Popular Photography has a great interview with Ben Cooper, whose photos of space shuttle launches are both beautiful and technically amazing. When Popular Photography first caught up with Ben Cooper back in 2008, he was a 21-year-old college student, shooting with film cameras and sacrificing his lenses for the sake...
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5 Low Calorie Beers for St. Patrick's Day - Healthy Living
By Mathue Johnson and Brandi Koskie - DietsInReview.com Like many other holidays on our calendar, St. Patrick's is one that can quickly become a consumption fest if you're not careful. Traditionally green-dyed beer is consumed; for that matter, any variety of cold suds are consumed.…
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The Amazing Art of Disabled Artists - Webdesigner Depot
Some of the best artists deal with disabilities in their everyday lives that the rest of us can’t even imagine living with, and use art to communicate with the world. The results are often stunning. We’ve collected biographies and sample pieces from outstanding disabled artists, both famous and lesser-known. The artists below paint with their hands, their mouths and their feet. Many are blin...
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Would You Rather Be Interesting or Popular? - Justin Kownacki
I asked this question yesterday on Twitter and the responses were mostly of the “do we really have to choose?” variety. But yes. Yes, you do have to choose. Because as Colin Dean and I were...
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The Sandpit: 35000 images from Sam O’Hare. - Jason Bowden
This is abso-freakin-lutely incredible. It was made by a talented director named Sam O’Hare, who describes it as “A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.” The tilt-shift effect was done in...
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