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Technology How-To

This past weekend at the Burlington, VT ECHO Center, I saw this curious sign: Once I downloaded the app reader described on the sign and pointed my iPhone camera at the honeycomb pattern, the software decoded that pattern into a web address and started playing a video about a tree planting with the Missisquoi River [...]

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Comment spammers are relentless. I spend time every day just deleting the comments that make it through Akismet and other spam filters. The spam-filtering service Akismet defeats most automated spam, but I suspect there is a class of low-wage human-powered spamming going on based on some internet marketer’s idea of link building. The reason some [...]

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Here’s a peek at what I’ve been up to at Heroix, where I’m blogging about my experiences in the technology trenches. The items below are excerpts from the longer entries…click on over to the Heroix blog to read the rest of the story… Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner

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I swore this blog was not about “lifehacks” or productivity tools…but when I searched for how to do this task, I found outdated advice on lifehacker, so I had to write my own… Suppose that you have decided to embrace the web, so to speak, and want to use Google Mail to replace your existing [...]

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Social media strategists and consultants should take a good look at the Salesforce platform as a complement to activities like blogging, twitter, and facebook. Until I spoke with John Durocher, a VP at Salesforce who specializes in the Financial Services Industry, I thought of Salesforce as strictly a CRM product. But what Salesforce is doing [...]

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Embedding Video: Happiness

by Dave Atkins on July 31, 2008

in Technology How-To

I have several posts in the pipeline that I have not had time to edit and publish. But in the meantime, I wanted to test embedding a video from bigthink. Some of their interviews are great, some are not, but I found this piece by Dan Gilbert to be engaging…

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Roadtrip Planning

by Dave Atkins on June 17, 2008

in Parenting,Technology How-To

On Friday, we’re planning to load up the minivan and drive 600 miles to visit the grandparents. My Mom was going to come up to Boston in February, right after Marshall was born, but she fell and broke her hip and hasn’t had a chance to meet Marshall yet. Planning a drive from Boston to [...]

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Motivation Trumps Expertise

by Dave Atkins on June 9, 2008

in Technology How-To

One of my challenges at work is to effectively utilize a company that manages our internet servers. In an ideal world, if there is a problem at 3am, they take care of it so I don’t every have to carry a pager. But the ideal world is far from reality. A couple of incidents this [...]

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