Friedbeef’s Tech

Learn to Type Faster Than Your Boss’s Secretary

My dad once told me that learning how to type was a solid investment for the future and I wish I had listened to him more… I have a horribly bad habit of only using 6 fingers to type.  Fortunately, for slow-poke typists like me (I average 27 words a minute), there’s an open-source [...]

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3 Good Reasons Why You Should Use Box.Net For Your Online Storage

Look around the net, and I’m sure you’ll find TONS of free storage sites online… but very few of them have managed to carve out an almost cult-like following like Box.Net. This is one of the few such services which just ‘gets it’.  It’s not all about space, it’s all about the user experience.  Case in [...]

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5 Insightful Site Optimization Analyses You Can Peform Using CrazyEgg

If you want to get more out of your site analytics, set up a free trial with CrazyEgg, a service which tracks your readers clicks so you know what they like, and how to optimize your page to suit their needs. You’d be surprised at what you can learn with just a simple session.  Here are [...]

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Backing Up Your Data : To Spend or Not to Spend?

“Of the nine in ten computer users who store personal information on their computers – such as family photos, personal contacts and resumes – about 24 percent report that they have lost personal information in the past month, generally because of system crashes.  Just 57% of those who store personal info on computer back it up” [...]

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Advertlets vs Nuffnang : The Battle for Malaysian Blog Advertising

VS Two Malaysian blog advertising networks Nuffnang, and Advertlets recently launched within a month of each other, and I just had the privilege of interviewing the founders of both projects. The main purpose of this interview would be to give a voice to these two companies on how they would compete in the local blog advertising market and the [...]

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