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#FollowFriday – @pfischer: podcaster, father, geek, Balticon supporter.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 23, 2010 Follow Friday

This week’s FollowFriday recommendation is @pfischer, Paul Fischer.  Paul is a podcaster, a father, a computer geek, and one of the many people whose efforts are making Balticon 44 possible.  Unless you know Paul, or are a fan of one of the podcasts he has worked on, you’ve probably not heard of him.  Until now.

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#FollowFriday – @nathanfillion: actor, browncoat, funny guy, scoundrel.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 16, 2010 Follow Friday

This week we have a celebrity for FollowFriday: @nathanfillion.  This is the real Nathan Fillion, actor and star of Firefly, Serenity, and Castle.  Now, if you’re a fan of any of these shows, I expect that you’ve probably already looked Nathan up for yourself and are already following him.  If so, you know how entertaining […]

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Google Voice

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 13, 2010 Phones

As a counter point to the earlier review of the iPhone, this week we’re looking at something you can’t get on the iPhone: Google Voice. A while ago, there used to be a service called Grand Central.  This was bought out by Google and re-named Google Voice.  And then Google started adding new capabilities to […]

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A slight delay…

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 12, 2010 Announcements

I hate to have to do this, but life events have managed to eat up all of my available time this past week.  While I did manage to get out the first of the Follow Friday series of posts, I did not have time to lay out this week’s review.  Normally I get these laid […]

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#FollowFriday – @muskrat_john: creator of Dork Tower, deadly punster, comic wit.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 9, 2010 Follow Friday

I’ve been thinking about how to improve my Twitter recommendations lately.  Thinking much the same as @TeeMonster has discussed in his post on Follow Friday.  My answer was to do a single, long form recommendation here in my blog, but linked to by my Twitter feeds.  It was somewhat hard for me to figure out […]

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How The Nifty Tech Blog Works

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 1, 2010 Feedback

Recently, a reader was asking me about the kind of compensation that I receive for doing The Nifty Tech Blog.  He seemed to think that companies were paying me to review their products, or were providing their products to me free of charge in exchange for a review.  Nothing could be farther from the truth. […]

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Crash Plan

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor March 29, 2010 Featured

One of the most important things you can do with your computer, is back it up. Backups preserve your important data and can save untold hours of work by letting you revert to previous versions when you discover that you’ve done something to mess up one of your precious documents. Backups also soften the blow […]

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Twitter – an interview with Tee Morris

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor March 25, 2010 Interview

This week, in a special review, we’re going to look at Twitter, a free service available at http://twitter.com and available on any system that can operate a modern web browser. Now, there are many worthwhile clients that access and add value to Twitter, but we won’t be looking at any of those in depth until […]

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The Boom Effect: Follow up

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor March 11, 2010 Personal Stamp

Back on February 27th, podcasters converged on a house in Virginia, and people of all different stripes converged on their computers all over the world. They came together for an internet auction to raise funds for the future of a small girl called Sonic Boom: The Boom Effect. During this 10 hour event, goods and […]

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Time for a Poll?

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor March 10, 2010 Feedback

Now that Apple has announced Pre-orders, I thought it was time for a poll to see how you feel about the new iPad offerings.  The press has been filled with glowing reports, and brutal criticism.  There has been very little in between.  I’m not making up my mind until I can get my hands on […]

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