What is Twitter?

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Ben Cecka

I signed up for a Twitter account late last year as a skeptic looking at a buzz technology tool. I thought, “Who cares what I’m doing right now” and “How is this useful?”
I’m not sure why exactly, but I recently gave it another go and have become increasingly intrigued with how to use it.
So far […]

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Norton Antivirus for Mac

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Ben Cecka

So Norton has released a version of their flagship product for the Mac? Please tell me this isn’t so!
All that I can say here is that I hope Mac users have paid attention to Windows users with Symantec’s products — specifically Norton Antivirus. I’ll admit that on my personal Linux machines I don’t run anything […]

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LogMeIn IT Reach

Posted on December 9, 2007 by Ben Cecka

While I’m personally a huge fan of UltraVNC and the RealVNC projects, some video issues with our software made them extremely unstable to the point that I had to find an alternative remote support solution. I looked at a few of them and settled on LogMeIn’s IT Reach.
It’s an impressive product and very affordable, even […]

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PAWN Language

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Ben Cecka

After all these years of avoiding the gritty language of C, my last class forced me to get into just that. Honestly, other than being much more detailed in data-types, I found the logic control to be very comfortable given my experience with PHP.
So, now that I’ve been getting familiar with the syntax I realized […]

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The Machine is Us/ing Us

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Ben Cecka

If anything on the Web is ever to be considered sexy, this is it (sorry for the repost for anyone that got this on my family blog):

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5 Reasons Why Facebook Trumps MySpace

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Ben Cecka

Organization - Logical networks compared to… a massive pool of users, their pets, bands (some of them can tune), bands pets, and whatever else you can think of. I’ll take a little structure with my Social Network thank you.
Culture - Let’s see here. One of us is run by a young, energetic, college (Harvard) poster-boy, […]

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