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How To Host Blogger on Your Domain

Self Hosted WordPress is all the rage these days, in fact this is what we run here at Almost Geek. However there are other options for hosting a blog on your own domain, Blogger is one of them. WordPress and [...]

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How To Sync Bookmarks Across Multiple Computers

For those of you like me whom have more than 1 computer that they regularly use keeping everything in sync is a constant headache. For files, I mostly use Dropbox (review forthcoming) which works very well but bookmarks are a [...]

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Moving pictures to a new cell phone

If you are anything like me you have tons of pictures on your phone that you would like to keep when you move to a new phone. Last week, I ordered a Nokia E5 from Straight Talk which will arrive here [...]

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Updating websites faster from the command line

If you’re lucky enough to have run your owner server or have ssh access on your shared account this thread over on Admin Extra is right up your alley. My buddy Mike asked about updating sites faster by downloading and [...]

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Start New Habits With Google Calendar.

Google Calendar has cool built in reminder features to remind you of an event . You can setup an email, SMS, or Pop-up reminder. I find SMS (text message) reminders to be most helpful. As someone who grabs my phone [...]

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Preventing Spam on vBulletin Forums

Spam is an ever present problem on the internet. Be it regular old email spam, blog comment spam, or in our case community spam it’s an issue for all of us. I’ve been asked more than a few times why [...]

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