Tweet That!

A growing trend among bloggers is to provide readers with pre-fabricated tweets – such as a short quote from a blog post – that can be tweeted instantly simply by clicking on a link that says “Tweet that” or “Click to tweet” after the quote. I call these “Quick Tweets”. Here is an example.

Quick Tweets can help spread your blog’s message. (Tweet that!)

Go ahead and click on “Tweet that!” and see what happens.

Password, Please

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If you have been using the Internet for more than about a week, you have probably accumulated a list of user names and passwords that are required in order for you to access certain websites: online banking and bill-paying, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, other social networking sites, online shopping sites, G-Mail or Yahoo! webmail, PayPal, music and media sites, etc. User names and passwords are great security measures to keep other people from having access to your personal information. If you don’t have a reliable way to remember all those user names and passwords, however, they can keep YOU from having access to all those wonderful online services with which you have established accounts.

There are some important guidelines that should be considered when creating user names and passwords, and also when storing and retrieving them.

MIDI to MP3 Converter

Midi to MP3From time to time I will post information about software that I use and find useful. Today’s post features a program that does one thing, and does it remarkably well. Piston Software’s “Direct MIDI to MP3 Converter” allows you to convert a MIDI file to an audio file in any of the following formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, or OGG Vorbis.