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As the economy gets tighter, many people in marketing industries find that they are being turned into freelancers. Big firms are still around, but the trend is heading towards hiring freelancers to work on a job or two as needed. I worked out of my home for a bit, but one day I got the [...]

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“Get off the road you damn bikers.”
It was a phrase I often muttered when trying to drive across town and being slowed down by a cyclist on the road. Times have surely changed now. I am one of the people now. Other people are yelling at me now.
My wife and I [...]

Well, my dad just spent the weekend here. He is a man who loves to debate politics which is to say that he loves to repeat every negative item about Democrats and Liberals that he hears on Fox News. I love my dad, but there are times when our political discussions drive me towards the [...]

Hi, this great tutorial for making a GrabUp script for Mac / QuickSilver and Linux has moved to Asheville Web Design and Development. Click here to redirect.

I’ve heard several odd sounding questions and statements about the trend we like to coin “social networking”.

“What is your fascination of Twitter? Why do you follow all those people?”
“Doesn’t it bother you to have your picture on the web for everybody to see?”
“Why should I bother to write a blog. I don’t have much time. [...]

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There are a couple software packages to make your Macbook into a webcam. Most wind up costing some money. With a little ingenuity, you can use some free utilities to get the job done cheap. This is not terribly hard to do. You’ll need some comfort on the command line along with [...]

This has been the year that Twitter has exploded. I admit that I love the simplicity of micro-blogging. You are limited to 140 characters, so you find ways of saying something “short and sweet“. That’s the whole beauty of it. Twitter is a blog for busy people who don’t have time to read and write [...]

There’s no doubt that Americans buy a lot of stuff they don’t need. What really kills me is when we do things that make no sense what-so-ever. I’m talking about the weekly leaf blower cacophony that originates from our dedicated lawn men.
We witness it from several locations during our day. It’s usually the same type [...]

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All the time my wife tells me to go and and take a walk in our neighborhood. She encourages me to do this for better health, stress relief and general well being.
Still there is a reason I don’t like to walk around in our North Asheville neighborhood: I don’t feel safe.
I’m not [...]

I’ve finally come to the bottom of an incredibly annoying problem with my Macbook. I’ve seen a couple of forums outlining the problem, but no real solutions or causes are outlined. Let’s state the obvious facts.

You go to Safari preferences in order to make Firefox your default browser
You go to iChat preferences in order to [...]