Your Yahoo! avatar is a cartoonlike character that you can create for your Yahoo! account. You can customize the avatar's look, hairstyle, accessories and clothes, adding a touch of personalization to your account. Once you set up your avatar for you...
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As a Google Blogger, you have access to powerful tools that help you customize your blog's appearance. The Google Blogger interface helps bloggers modify basic blog sections, such as headers and footers. You can't, however, use the interface to apply...
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Facebook allows you to import your blog to your profile or page as an RSS feed, though to do so you'll need to install an application designed to import your RSS items as links. There are several different RSS readers available on Facebook for free;...
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We've covered several programming languages now, but we haven't really gotten into database development yet. Although NoSQL is hot, SQL (structured query language) isn't going away. Different databases (such as Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL) use different variations, but the idea is to have a unified system so that a developer can move from database to database with a minimum of relearning.If you're not quite sure yet what a relational database is or why someone would use one, check out our guide to database terminology. Otherwise, let's dive into some books for beginners, and one for experie
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As of June 2011, Facebook and Mobile Me services do not offer a feature to directly upload Mobile Me galleries to a Facebook profile. There is a work-around solution however. You can share Mobile Me photo galleries by downloading the gallery pictures...
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BuddyPress is "social networking in a box," as it allows you to create your own Facebook-like network with a few clicks. You can have your own Avatar, or small picture, that appears on all of your posts. You can change the size of a BuddyPress Avatar...
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Location based social network Foursquare celebrated 10 million registered users yesterday but how are businesses and organizations using the platform? I wrote a year ago next month about the incredible potential offered by Foursquare accounts for organizations: following a Foursquare page as a user is like opting-in to view the world through the lens of that organization's geo-annotations. It can be awesome. (My favorites? History Channel and Eater.)Are businesses getting into it? For one perspective on that question, I extracted some data from the 128 most recent Foursquare Pages that hav
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Facebook allows you to "Attach" links to external content to your Facebook Status Updates, which presents several advantages to simply copying and pasting the URL itself into your update. Namely, the Status Update interface allows you to edit the pre...
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CSS Lint is a tool for checking your CSS code. Like JSHint and JSLint (see our previous coverage).CSS Lint was created by Nicole Sullivan and Nicholas C. Zakas. Based on the conversations thus far is bound to become as infamous as JSLint. However, since CSS Lint is open source, if you don't like the rules, you can host your own version and change the rules.SponsorMany of the seemingly strange rules (such as "IDs shouldn't be used in selectors") stem from object oriented CSS, a paradigm promoted by Sullivan.Here's a video by Sullivan on the subject:Discuss
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One reason that Google's free "Blogger" platform is so easy to use is that it offers you the choice of literally dozens of preset themes. If you're unsatisfied with one aspect of a pre-existing theme, you need to create a new, custom one to make the...
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McAfee is a networking security tool that various customers use to protect their network in such markets as homes, small businesses and enterprises. With the McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise platform, network administrators are able to block risky websi... by Herman Cruz
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While Google's Gmail service allows extensive space for your email messages, you may wish to create a personal backup copy of certain ones. Post Office Protocol is designed to put the load of email messages on the user, instead of the server. Typical... by Serm Murmson
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Affiliated Business is a social network of bloggers, webmasters, and Internet entrepreneurs. It allows you to publish and share your news and to discover the best resources, tips, and ideas concerning affiliate marketing, blogging, homebusiness and making money online. You can submit your stories, vote for interesting news, take part in discussions, and network with other site users.