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Even if your friends aren’t using FriendFeed yet, and if not why not, you can still keep track of their online activities by creating imaginary friends in FriendFeed. For example, if you know your friend’s Flickr username, you can create an imaginary friend with that Flickr account, and you will get notified every time your friend publishes a photo. Follow my FriendFeed here.

Recently, telecommunications regulator OfCom (a UK government organization) “proclaimed” at the end of a long PDF report, perhaps rather naively that a lot of invaluable free information useful to the public is not being seen by its target audience because commercial sites outrank it in the search engine results pages (SERPs). One might say this is simply the way of the world and that OfCom fails to …

My singing group, Big Mouth, recently recorded an audition video for a TV competition and I decided to make a backup, edit it, and upload it to Youtube/Google Videos to share with the other members of the band. Now, aside from the first hurdle being the inability of a Windows Vista and a Windows XP machine to “see” the Sony miniDV camcorder, there were many subsequent issues to deal …

No one likes spam. I bet even spammers don’t like spam. If you run a blog with comments enabled it can be an almost full-time job keeping on top of it. If you’re on Wordpress, then the simplest way to keep on top of it is to use the Akismet plugin which quickly learns what is and what is not spam. Couple that with the Akismet Auntie Spam …

Popups are a pain in the posterior, especially the legitimate ones, such as the Blogspot comment form, that will not let you resize them.

Quick solution if you’re using Firefox. Open the about:config page, filter on the phrase “dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable” (no quotes) and if it reads “false”, double click it to make it toggle to true.

Next time you get a popup, you will be able to drag its corner to …