The Great Geek Manual

Resources

7 iPhone Apps to Manage Energy Consumption – Here’s 7 iPhone apps being developed by firms that want you to cut back on your pad’s energy use and which are available now, or will be soon enough, through Apple’s iPhone app store.

10 Cool Things you can do with a USB flash drive – Your USB flash drive can do a whole lot more than just move data around. Tech Republic introduces a variety of creative ways to put that drive to good use.

10 Tools to run an URL Shortener on your own Domain – The sudden shutdown of popular URL shortener tr.im will be resulting in broken links around the net come New Year’s. One solution how you can prevent this in the future is to run your own URL.

15 Great Tips For Ubuntu Power Users – Today in the Linux section we have something for the power users. Here are a few tips you should try out if you are an avid Ubuntu user.

Free Software Project Hosting – The Changelog compares the leading project hosts side-by-side.

PingWire – A nearly live feed of images being posted to Twitter through Twitpic, yfrog, or Twitgoo. Clicking on a thumbnail will take you to the full sized photo. Entertaining the you can enjoy watching clouds scuttle past.

The Story Behind Wikipedia – The true story of how the world’s most democratic storehouse of knowledge really began as a tribute to the knowledge that saved one little girl’s life.

Top 5 WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Don’t Follow – Did you know that you can move your wp-config.php file outside of your root WordPress directory?

ZAMZAR – Bookmark this one. Zamzar is an online tool that let’s you convert files into any of a wide variety of popular file formats.

Discussion

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Tech News

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Twitter Zombies: 24% of Tweets Created by Bots
URL Shorteners Help Track Links, Take Heat for Framing
Will Future iPhones Rat You Out?
Wikipedia’s Growth Tumbles