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New Digs

New Digs

About 3 years ago I did something a bit crazy, I moved all my content from geeeek.com over to JohnHawkinsUnrated.com. The old domain just didn’t feel like home to me anymore. During the past few years I’ve built up a bit of an audience, so making the switch again is a little...
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New WordPress plugin: Attach Image to RSS

New WordPress plugin: A...

This past weekend while attending WordCamp Utah, I was having lunch with a few of the other attendees who were both attending their first WordCamp events. I mentioned that Utah was roughly my 15th event over the past 2 years. One of them asked me, “Don’t they get...
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WordCamp Utah Wrap-Up

WordCamp Utah Wrap-Up

I’m just getting back to my desk after spending the better part of 3 days in Salt Lake City to attend and present at WordCamp Utah. I had an absolute blast! Here’s a bit about the weekend. The Stay I can not say enough good things about the Chase Suite Hotel. When we arrived...
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The Daily Ted talk

Yesterday on Twitter, my friend Kri posted the following: One of my favorite morning rituals. A new, interesting topic, every day. I’ve watched several of the Ted videos in the past, but I find that I often spend twice as long deciding which video to watch. There are 700+ available...
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5 iPad RSS reader apps reviewed

5 iPad RSS reader apps ...

I have been on the hunt for an iPad app for reading the 100+ RSS feeds I’m currently following. With so many feeds to deal with it’s important that I find one that meets a few critical features: It must pull in my feeds from my Google Reader account where I manage them all It...
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New plugin: Top Pretty Links widget

New plugin: Top Pretty ...

Thanks to Twitter, URL shortening services are basically a must. What bothers me is that by using them, you are giving them all your statistical data. Some of them offer you an account to log in and view some basic stats and then charge you if you want additional reporting. Bah! That...
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RoloPress review

RoloPress review

Since starting 9seeds back in October, we’ve collected a fair amount of contact information for clients and prospects. The trouble is, we don’t really have a single place where we can keep that information and share it between our geographically diverse team. I’ve tried...
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Return of the Mobile Micro Blog

Return of the Mobile Mi...

After 5 years of trying, I was finally able to get my hands on the domain name VegasGeek.com. Best Buy owned it at one point, then it changed hands a couple times between people who would never respond to my offers to purchase it. That changed recently and I’m a pretty happy...
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