http://www.friedbeef.com Solving Everyday Problems With Simple Technology - Freeware, Productivity, Useful Tips & More Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:28:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees and sponsored presentations" - ... http://www.friedbeef.com/8-tips-on-how-to-run-your-own-unconference/ It had to happen.  Friedbeef.com buys a cow :) Last week I promised to give out up to USD50  based on a number of comments received for that post to celebrate Blog Action Day's fight against poverty theme and we received 89 comments in total for that one post!  More ... http://www.friedbeef.com/thank-you-readers-for-helping-make-blog-action-day-a-success/ Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo. Today is Blog Action Day.  More than 8,000 blogs around the world have banded together to talk about one cause: Poverty. Consider this. One third of deaths - some ... http://www.friedbeef.com/drop-a-comment-help-the-poor/ Welcome to BarCampMalaysia coverage day 2.  Noticeably fewer people today, but because the sessions were slightly smaller, I found that it really made for more personable, more interactive and less hectic talks.  I also learnt my lesson about picking sessions in barcamp yesterday, as I found out ... http://www.friedbeef.com/barcampmalaysia-day-2-its-all-about-sharing/ BarcampMalaysia certainly lived up to its promise of being an unconference to remember!   Great people, open sharing, and a good amount of ideas bouncing around the room - and every auditorium for every session - packed to the brim.  To give you a lowdown of the events, ... http://www.friedbeef.com/barcampmalaysia-day-1/ The world's most famous 'unconference' will be coming to Kuala Lumpur this weekend! What is Barcamp? BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.   BarCamp Malaysia is an ad-hoc conference and is part of ... http://www.friedbeef.com/friedbeefs-tech-barcamp-malaysia/  Photo taken from SlashPhone Mobile phone games have until recently always been second rate to me.  A few months back though during a bloggers meet, I got the chance to mess around with Nokia's new nGage service and had quite a bit of fun with it. The new ... http://www.friedbeef.com/best-way-to-get-games-for-your-nokia/   For the last 6 months TechCzar has been helping to keep this blog going by providing lead sponsorship.  Unfortunately, TechCzar will be putting its entire blog network on hold to focus on other priorities at the moment, and from May onwards will no longer sponsor any blog.  ... http://www.friedbeef.com/thank-you-techczar/   Time for our monthly shoutout to our lead sponsor TechCzar :) TechCzar has a column I find pretty useful called 'Ask Molly'.  Here you'll be able to find out answers to useful tech questions which cover many topics including: Domain Name Tasting ... http://www.friedbeef.com/get-your-tech-questions-answered-at-techczar/ Just want to give a shoutout to my lead sponsors TechCzar.  As you may know from previous posts, they help translate this blog into multiple languages, and bear a good amount of the costs needed to run this blog - and for that I'm very grateful. ... http://www.friedbeef.com/thank-you/   Just a quick shoutout to our lead sponsor Tech Czar.  TechCzar.com is trying to build a community & rewards program which consists of IT professionals.  In exchange for answering a few online surveys, you'll be given rewards points which you can redeem accordingly. Learn more about Tech Czar ... http://www.friedbeef.com/thank-you-sponsors/ 10 days ago, this blog set forth on a comment drive for charity - enabling readers to change the world by simply dropping a comment.  I'm happy to say we got a pretty good response, as we received 25 comments telling us about non-profit sites from across the ... http://www.friedbeef.com/friedbeefs-tech-readers-help-to-change-the-world/ Happy new year, and happy birthday to Friedbeef's Tech! Born on December 31st 2005, this blog is now officially 2 years old :)  It's been a busy year for Friedbeef's Tech.  Here are some of my favorite moments: Having the site featured in a video podcast appearance on Command N ... http://www.friedbeef.com/friedbeefs-tech-is-two-years-old/ Ah, 2007 is almost over, and around about this time last year, I wrote a post outlining my tech predictions for this year... let's see how I did - and let me once again stick my neck out on what I predict for 2008. 3 out of 5 ain't bad ... http://www.friedbeef.com/looking-ahead-tech-predictions-for-2008/ We’ve finally reached a million unique visitors in total ever since this blog started on December 31st 2005… Nothing would have been possible without readers like you – thanks so much.  Keep on reading, keep on commenting, and here’s to another million.[tags] stats, blogging [/tags] http://www.friedbeef.com/finally/