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Social Media Bookmarks June 5th, 2009

Posted on 05 June 2009

Some really good posts and information for Social Media and Wordpress integration

Beyond TweetBacks: Introducing TweetSuite | Dan Zarrella – Nice plug-in for integrating Twitter and Wordpress.
SocioFluid – another social bookmarking plugin for wordpress | ImproveSeo.info – A good looking plugin for Wordpress to display the social bookmarking buttons for digg, reddit, … I like the [...]

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Linux Desktop Breaks 1.02% for Personal Computers

Posted on 02 May 2009

As a long time fan of the Linux desktop I was interested to see the the Linux desktop usage number for personal computers increase to over 1.02%. I suspect it’s partially fueled by the popularity of Linux netbooks from the Dell (who offers an Ubuntu option) and Asus (that’s uses a special version of Xandros [...]

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SmartWraps: Earbud Cord Manager

Posted on 22 March 2009

I am hard on  headphones. I have become very adept at destroying them. I get them caught in seat belts, tangled up in my bag, or jumbled in an indecipherable mess in my pants pocket and occasionally they go through the washing machine. My preferred brand is the V-moda Vibe Duo which has a microphone [...]

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4 Tech Toys Not Announced at CES or MacWorld

Posted on 17 January 2009

This year’s MacWorld and CES seems to be a big let down when it comes to new gadgets. The Mac fan boys were crossing their fingers even though El Jobslimo wasn’t doing the keynote that Apple still might announce a new Mac tablet. Maybe they can get Dan Lyons next year. CES seemed to be [...]

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Cfengine Launches Commercial Open Source Company

Posted on 06 January 2009

Starting in 2009 popular, autonomic configuration management tool, Cfengine will be commercially supported by a company formed by Cfengine author, Mark Burgess. Cfengine has a laundry list of brand names that are using their software –AT&T, Bloomberg, IBM, Nokia, and many more. I suspect that many of them would pay for commercial support:
Here’s the news [...]

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Mark R. HinkleHello, my name is Mark Hinkle and I am technology enthusiast and executive for Zenoss Inc. the maker of the open source monitoring software, Zenoss Core. This is my personal blog and does not reflect the opinions of my employer. I am also on the advisory boards for open source collaboration software maker, MindTouch and SourceForge, the world's largest repository of open source software.  If you want to find out more you can read my bio

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