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Microsoft Caught Using Aggressive Churn Tactics on Twitter
Churn. It's the practice of calculatedly following and then unfollowing on Twitter - purely to build an audience. Churn is something in ...
Simulating Screen Resolutions LARGER Than Your Monitor Can Handle
If you dabble in web design, you’ll know it’s now a prerequisite that your work accommodates visitors using small devices. But what if you...
Ten Signs That a Twitter User Has Bought Followers
You don't want speculation, rumours and tales. You want answers. Which is good, because that's exactly what you're going to ge...
The Guys Who Sell Rolls-Royces For Next To Nothing
A Rolls Royce vehicle on a showroom forecourt at Rednal, Birmingham. [ Update: August 2022... This area has since been redeveloped and is ...
K-Meleon: A Lightweight, Low-RAM Browser For Old PCs 2014 - 2015
Since the update of the Opera browser to a Chrome-based architecture, and the continued insistence by major browser providers on cramming...
Why Twiends Doesn't Work
Twiends. It’s a popular and generally well regarded site for people who want to gain Twitter followers fast. It’s free, and it’s easy to use...
Ten Ways to Spot Fake and Catfish Accounts on Twitter (Part 2)
If you've missed the first instalment of this two-parter, you can find it via the link below... Ten Ways to Spot Fake and Catfish Twit...
Ten Ways to Spot Fake and Catfish Accounts on Twitter
Fake Twitter accounts, also commonly known as ‘catfish’, can be dangerous entities. Before you even examine the motives, the desire to fake...
Are You Posting into a Black Hole?
How do you feel about posting on the Internet?... If you walk away for a month, will you still be in the limelight when you come back? If n...
The Forum is Dead
When I wrote Is the Forum Dying? back at the beginning of 2012, I didn’t really know how long it would be before I was adding a follow-up w...
Top Ten Most Annoying Things on the Internet
I am annoyed. And I’m annoyed because webmasters, software manufacturers and other Internet users do annoying things. I'm in no mood for...
How to Get Forum Reputation Points
Reputation points , alternatively known as Karma points , or more universally as +1s , are used as a sort of ranking system for members on a...
Pennies, Time and a One Pound Note
Only very occasionally do you encounter the unexpected in a way that, for a short while at least, takes you into a completely different spac...
Online with Windows ME in 2012
Earlier this week, I made the rather inexplicable decision that I was going back to the dawn of the millennium, for a trip down memory lane ...
Keyboard Warriors in Close-Up
‘Keyboard warriors’ . Don’t you just love ‘em?… I dare say you’re not completely in the dark about what a keyboard warrior is and does. B...
Faking Your Own Death Online
When I set up this blog/site I vowed I’d try to tackle the most difficult subjects, and cater for people who find it difficult to get the ...
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