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Who Wants a DropBox Invite?

I recently picked up a DropBox invite from Richard Davies (thanks Richard!) and the service is an unbelievably nice experience.  I’ve got it linked to a few of my machines and it makes file sync very, very easy. If you are unaware of what DropBox is, I’d suggest having a quick look at their overview …

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Thoughts on Twitter…

Twitter is a really strange service. When I first caught wind of this, my immediate reaction was; do we really need to be pouring more ephemeral nonsense into an internet already smothering with useless information? I have to say that after using Twitter myself for the past few weeks, and playing around with the ActionScript …

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Web Host Transfer Complete

Yesterday, I became so absolutely fed-up with the hosting provider I’ve had since 2002, PowWeb, that I decided to pack up and switch over to BlueHost. After a year of lousy customer service and even worse actual hosting services, it was time to call it quits. I still have some client sites with them, and …

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Web Host Frustration…

Can anyone recommend a nice, stable, FAST webhost? My patience with this current host is wearing thin… plagued by mySQL slowness.

Messing Around with Twitter

I’ve taken some time today to experiment with Twitter using the ActionScript 3.0 API that is available. It’s a very simple class library and, as such, pretty easy to build a widget around. One thing that has bothered me a bit is the seemingly lengthy amount of time the services take to update the API …

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