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2/19/2009

by: Josh

posted in: About JoshCanHelp, Helpful Software

Information Reservoirs (or) How I Keep Track of a Large Amount of Incoming Information

A couple of months ago, I felt so overwhelmed and innundated by the amount of information I came across on the regular that I sat up for almost two hours with a pen and a pad of paper trying to sketch out a way to manage this insane digital life I was leading. Between photos, [...]

2/16/2009

by: Josh

posted in: Business How to Start, Everything Else

Craigslist feeds blocked from Yahoo Pipes via 403 error

It looks like Yahoo Pipes, the incredibly amazing feed/data aggregator/sorter, is being blocked by Craigslist via a 403  Forbidden error. In response to my 2 month old to-do item, I went into Pipes to update my job feeds and notcied several errors.
After thinking for a minute, I realized I wasn’t getting my daily emails either. [...]

Facebook Group vs A Blog: What’s a Company to Do?

I was having a virtual conversation with a colleague last week and the topic of Facebook group pages versus blogs came up. She is excited to make a Facebook page to promote us and what we’re doing. I am excited to build a blog and push content that more people can see and interact with. [...]

Website page titles – how to pick one and what they are for

When I first started down this whole website building road, I thought page titles were kind of silly. Titles are the words that show up on the top bar of your browser when you’re on a web page. For example, if you look at the top of this window, you probably see something like “A [...]

2/2/2009

by: Josh

posted in: Helpful Software

Free software and websites that really, really, really help me

From time to time, I go searching for a utility, website, or document to help me with whatever I’m doing. It usually takes no more than 15 minutes to find, install, or read whatever I find and implement it towards a solution. The solution typically completely satisfies the need and sometimes goes beyond. Some discoveries, [...]

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