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Get your Google+ vanity plate here

You can now get your own gplus.to/[YOUR_NAME_HERE] URL for free at gplus.to. Mine: gplus.to/hermanyung. Feel free to follow and suggest links to me there.

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DOODYBRAIN.COM

Nope, that’s not a typo there. At least not a common one. But believe it or not, some people who can’t read will reference this site as “Doodybrain.com”. So to help them out, I’ve gone ahead and made it so … Continue reading

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The Scrollwheel: a video about the frustration of watching someone else use the internet

Guy Collins knows too well the frustration of watching a clueless person use the internet. Simple things we take for granted like pushing enter or using the scrollwheel or using the address bar are entirely absent in “normal people’s” daily … Continue reading

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Go and get your Facebook vanity URL now!

If you haven’t been told already, Facebook is allowing its users to finally choose an appropriate personal URL for their Facebook profiles. This means that if you’ve got a common name, you’ll want to do this ASAP so that you … Continue reading

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Find original Flickr photo pages with FlickFindr

When I come across a link to an image on Flickr that is a direct image URL (like this, for example) I consider it a very irresponsible act of internet publishing. I liken it to hot-linking which is already considered … Continue reading

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BackTweets: See who's talking about your website on Twitter

Most of the time, when you post a link on Twitter, the site automatically turns the URL into a TinyURL to save as many characters as possible for your actual tweets. It’s a smart idea, but not so useful for … Continue reading

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