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What’s the Buzz?

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 16, 2010
You’ve heard of Facebook, you’ve heard of Twitter, and now we’re hearing about Buzz. It’s pretty surprising that we haven’t heard anything earlier, given that the new kid on the block is a full blown Google release without the standard “alpha” or “beta” tag line that we’ve come to expect. This is a well thought [...]
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Mozy On Down To Backup Town

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 11, 2010
Since I spend a lot of my life working with computers, you’d expect that I know a lot about backing up. I’m always telling people about how important it is to protect their digital belongings, and yet I’ve got virtually no backup system in place! I’m not alone either, with most people I know being [...]
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No, My Site’s Not Down, Is It?

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 3, 2010
I was sitting on my lunch break today, innocently checking up on the latest news as I munched on pizza sub with a Farmer’s Union iced coffee. As I scrolled through the sites on Google Reader, my very own blog appeared displaying my last post! Ok, so I wasn’t exactly surprised since I had subscribed [...]
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Synchronize Your Life With Google

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 2, 2010
The word “cloud” is thrown about a lot these days, with services such as Amazon’s EC2 bringing the cloud within the reach of your humble developer. For the uninitiated, Wikipedia describes cloud computing as the following: Cloud computing is Internet- (“cloud-”) based development and use of computer technology (“computing”). In concept, it is a paradigm shift [...]
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Top 10 Apps for 2010

By Matthew Blackford | Published: January 28, 2010
I’m an iPhone kinda guy. Not quite a fan-boy but I must be getting close. I bought my first 3GS in July, and it’s quite literally changed my life. It synchronizes my contacts, emails, calendar, tasks, music, podcasts and news feeds with negligible effort on my end. All of this using the built in software [...]
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My 2010 Resolutions

By Matthew Blackford | Published: January 26, 2010
As the world celebrated the end of 2009, I was watching the Google countdown on my iPhone with 30 to 40 of my newest friends. In amongst the cheering and embracing, people were asking each other the age old question, “What are your new year’s resolutions?” Personally, I’ve never taken my resolutions very seriously, and as [...]
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