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Speeding Up WordPress, Part 1: Basic W3 Total Cache Configuration and Content Delivery Network

September 28, 2011
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A while ago, I wrote up a small post posting the results of the “blog speedup” I did for my friend Jenn. What I didn’t do was actually explain HOW I did it. This post will dive into the settings and steps needed to make your WordPress blog super-duper fast. NOTE: This will only work [...]

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New Facebook 101: Merging Lists

September 26, 2011
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Welcome to the next installment in our “New Facebook 101″ segment. Previously, I showed you how to set up your “Close Friends” and “Acquaintances” lists for maximum power. In this post we will dig a little deeper into how you can move your previously set up lists into these lists. Why merge lists? In my [...]

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New Facebook 101: Lists

September 22, 2011
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If you are a user of Facebook, you are no doubt aware that there have been some major changes lately…especially around the Feed. I’m not going to tell you why the new way is better, because either a) you already know, so why bother, or b) you already decided it’s not, so again, why bother. [...]

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Making Jenn Fast – How I Sped Up A WordPress Blog

July 25, 2011
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Speed matters, right? It’s a proven fact that the speed of page load has a direct impact on Google rankings and visitor conversion. Well, it’s about as proven as anything is on the Internet, which basically means that a lot of us think it sounds logical, so it must be true. Regardless, having a faster [...]

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How I Set Up My Circles in Google Plus

July 7, 2011

I’ve been playing around with Google Plus for about a week now. One of the major features of the product is the concept of “Circles”, which is similar (in a way) to Facebook “Friends Lists”. Here’s an overview of my personal Circle strategy. What are Circles, anyway? In a nutshell, a Circle is a group [...]

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Making your Gmail account bulletproof

March 7, 2011
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Email can be our lifeblood. Your email inbox is the center of your existence, and if it gets compromised, you can be in for a world of hurt. If hackers get access to your email, they can use this access to reset passwords to your Facebook account, or even your online banking accounts. Because of [...]

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Wherein I start drinking the PowerShell Kool-Aid

March 3, 2011
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If you’re a Microsoft system administrator, it’s hard to avoid PowerShell. Pretty much any of the recent versions of Microsoft server technologies are heavily reliant upon this scripting system. I’ve been resistent to it for a while now, insisting upon using vbscript for most of my scripting tasks, but I’ve recently done a complete turnaround [...]

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