One of the things I found most frustrating about Facebook was the inability to update my Facebook status via Twitter.
It’s obviously something that has bugged the guys at Facebook too, because they’ve recently tweaked their API to allow the Facebook Twitter app to post Tweets to your Facebook status! (You’ll need to be a […]

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I just noticed what looks like a bug with Google Reader in Firefox. I was reading long post by Marc Andreessen, and wanted to declutter the screen so clicked the “collapse sidebar icon” (highlighted at left; notice also the width of the scrollbar in the article pane - highlighted at right):

And I found that […]

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The latest update for Windows Live Writer is available for download; in addition to a bug reported here, it also seems to contain a couple of extra, and unsolicited surprises. When the installer starts, you click through the ToS, and are faced by this:
I just wanted Live Writer installed on my computer - I have […]

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As a regular Splashblog user, I was disappointed to receive an email today from them saying that the service will be terminated in early September. It seems that having acquired Splashdata last year, Six Apart now want to kill off Splashblog and shift that community over to Vox.
I use Splashblog on my Windows Smartphone, but the […]

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