February 8, 2010 | Blogging

When you publish a post, WordPress tells a number of blog indexing services about it.

But it also does that every time you update the post, which for me is often five times in 10 minutes after publishing.

If ping them too many times, they can ban you for spammy behavior.

So, how do you avoid getting banned?

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February 7, 2010 | Digital Devices

Plenty of American and other companies have claimed that Chinese companies have copied their designs.

Now, a Chinese company is claiming that Apple stole the design for the iPad from it.

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February 6, 2010 | Digital Rights

A lot of posts on the blogosphere are talking about the NFL’s policy regarding SuperBowl parties and how it’s actually illegal to watch the SuperBowl on a TV larger than 55 inches.

But is that really true?

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February 6, 2010 | Productivity Tips

As you may or may not know, Digitivity.org is hosted on Dreamhost. Anyway, they used to boot the operating system from the network to allow for centralized configuration.

Now, they’re moving to local OS’s, which requires rebooting their servers. This means a few minutes of downtime per website as the OS reboots.

There’s a way you can get a custom RSS feed of the problems affecting just the servers you’re on.

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February 5, 2010 | Digital Security

I wrote the other day about social media backup with a new service called Backupify.

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February 4, 2010 | Digital Devices

The one big complaint against Google’s Nexus One cell phone was that it didn’t have multi-touch like Apple’s iPhone did.

Not anymore.

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February 3, 2010 | Developer

PHP is the programming language that runs many web applications, including WordPress. PHP’s slower than many other languages, but it’s fast to develop in.

Now Facebook, which also runs on PHP, has announced a new version of PHP that runs twice as fast.

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February 2, 2010 | Digital Devices

Google took many years to come out with a phone after Apple’s iPhone, but it looks like they’ll only take a few months to put out their tablet after the unveiling of the Apple iPad.

Now we have some pictures to preview the planned tablet’s UI.

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February 1, 2010 | Digital Life

The Gizmodo blog did some arithmetic, and it figures that all the digital subscriptions you need to keep all of the devices some people view as necessary these days can cost near a thousand dollars.

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January 31, 2010 | Digital Devices

Steve Jobs revealed Apple tablet computer, dubbed the iPad, in a ceremony at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco.

Here’s a rundown of its specs and coverage around the web.

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