Archive for February, 2010

Migrating to a New Hosting Service Made Simple by CNET

Tom Merritt shows you how to migrate your website to a new host in this video from CNET. Tom uses a WordPress blog as his example and show you all the steps in the process from FTP and database backup to hosting configuration and DNS changes.

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Using Mass-Follow Tools to Increase Your Twitter Followers

When you follow someone on Twitter, by default Twitter sends an email notifying them that you're a new follower. Sometimes this results in someone looking at your profile, checking out your previous tweets, and following you back. So, following people can result in increasing your followers, especially if you can figure out a way to follow people on-mass.

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Distribute Videos on the Web and to iTunes & TiVo with Blip.tv

For anyone creating long-form videos such as recordings of lectures, conference presentations, panel discussions, or other lengthy and large videos, Blip.tv is an excellent and cheap means of hosting and distributing your video.

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Google’s Move to Abandon IE6 & the Case for Web-Based Software

Google has already announced its intent to stop supporting Internet Explorer, so the email I received today from the Google Apps support team was entirely unexpected, but it did contain some interested bits of information that I did find surprising. It also illustrates why the ReadyMadeWeb IT mantra, "Software should be handled by software experts," is so spot-on.

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