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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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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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