2008 April | CyberCoder

Home Network Wireless

I know, I know, just a few days ago I said “…home network wiring before I moved in…”, well the times have certainly changed. I realized real fast that this was not necessary.
The main PC is my desktop with a wired connection to the router on my desk. The other desktop is in another room and has been using a Linksys WET11 bridge to connect to the WRT54G Wireless Router. All the other computers are laptops with wireless connectivity.
One of the concerns I had was that a wall between the office and 2nd PC was lined with 1/4″ mirrors [...]

April 29th, 2008 - By David

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What Time Is It In?

While working with people in other locations around the world I have had trouble keeping up with the time differences.
A quick trick that can help with quickly knowing what time it is somewhere else is using Google to show you the current time anywhere in the world.
It has been reported that Time: is an “advanced operator”, although it is not listed on the Advanced Google Search Operators page.
I have found that you can simply enter the word Time followed by any location. If your search term is not specific enough to return only one time zone, it will give you [...]

April 24th, 2008 - By David

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Home Network Wiring

I have been away from the Internet a lot since last Friday, and it will probably be that way for a couple weeks as we closed the deal on our house and we are moving next week.
I promised myself the last time I bought a house that I would do any of the home network wiring before I moved in, and that is one of the big projects I will be working on. Of course now with wireless networking the whole task is a lot easier than it used to be. But there is still a lot to do.
I am [...]

April 16th, 2008 - By David

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Timing Contextual Advertising

Contextual advertising works better with search traffic compared to that of more direct traffic, such as RSS subscribers. Although some may still argue over this, I believe it to be an established fact, at least in my experience.
One thing I realized recently was that most of my search traffic comes from my older posts. However, I found myself doing the same thing as a lot of other bloggers, placing my contextual ads on pages and not considering these facts about who is visiting the pages.
Typically I would place contextual ads on most of my blog pages except for the home [...]

April 11th, 2008 - By David

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Twhirl

After trying Digsby for a week, I have now downloaded and installed Twhirl. Digsby had more options for other social sites like Facebook and MySpace, but it was extremly slow.
So far Twhirl has met my expectations of what I wanted in a 3rd party Twitter client. It is customizable and loads quickly. I will continue to try other Twitter clients but so far I am satisfied with Twhirl.
Twhirl has been aquired by the video chat service Seesmic, here is a good post at Seesmic to explain why.