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How to Allow Administrators to Edit Users in a WordPress Network

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Brent

Jason Conroy of _FindingSimple emailed me today to ask if I knew how to allow site admins to edit the profiles of other users. I hadn’t even realised administrators couldn’t edit users! That’s because it relates only to WordPress networks. In … Continue reading →

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The Web Without Facebook

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Brent

I live in Vietnam where the government block Facebook. I knew Facebook was rife, but seeing content disappear all over the web has still surprised me. It’s amazing just how much of the web is now pulling data from Facebook servers. … Continue reading →

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Word Spectrum in Mac OS X

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Brent

One of my favourite features in Mac OS X is Dictionary. And my favourite part of Dictionary is the thesaurus. Apple uses the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, which comes with a nifty tool called Word Spectrum. Word Spectrum lists synonyms between … Continue reading →

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Instagram Prints & Photobook

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Brent

Thanks to Instagram, I’ve got all these faux-pro photos to show off on tumblr and its elk, but I have nowhere physical to flaunt them. A quick Google brought me to a post by Kin Lane & another by Allan Hoffman … Continue reading →

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Add your Latest Tweet to DotNetNuke, Including Retweets

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Brent

It’s easy to add your latest tweet to a DotNetNuke website, you just need to add a bit of HTML to your skin templates. Continue reading →

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Floodaid is the Future

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Brent

Floodaid.com.au is not a charity, nor is it a business. We’re not a non-for-profit or an organisation. We’re merely an international group of like-minded people following a vision and combining skills to create a new type of social network with … Continue reading →

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