Monthly Archives: April 2010

Rex’s Perilous iPhone: Will it wash?

Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Rex Hammock

You’ll recall, in my iPhone’s last adventure, it was recovered after being stolen. I was able to track it by using Apple’s MobileMe service. As stolen iPhones have become all the rage during the past two weeks, my iPhone decided … Continue reading →

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A WordPress plugin for adding the Facebook Like button to your blog

Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2010 by Rex Hammock

[Note: This post is rated: Geek.] While I know in doing so, I’m supporting Facebook’s march towards turning the “social” part of the internet into a corporate-state, I nonetheless decided to add a Facebook “like” button to each post on … Continue reading →

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Technical note for those who read RexBlog posts via an RSS newsreader

Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Rex Hammock

If you have just received a blast of about three weeks of posts, I apologize. It means you’ve probably not received those posts during the past five weeks. I believe the issue that caused that to occur has been fixed. … Continue reading →

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Random thoughts, observations, reviews and recommendations about the iPad

Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Rex Hammock

[I expanded this post and added an additional week's thoughts for a post on Foliomag.com.] After two weeks of daily use, I thought I’d collect together and post some observations about the iPad. 1. If you can wait, wait: This … Continue reading →

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Promoted Tweets have a high resonance score along my interest graph

Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Rex Hammock

Watching the live stream from the Twitter Developers Conference of the unveiling of a long-awaited Twitter revenue generating idea, I had several reactions to the, tah-dah, “Promoted Tweet,” a tweet that an advertiser pays to appear if a user searches … Continue reading →

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