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Search: Tell Them How-To Do It

People want to know how to tie a necktie and would really like their favorite search engine to give them a hand.

Improving Your Blog Karma

Whether you believe in karma or not, making your blog a success often has a lot to do with a series of seemingly disconnected events.  Every post you make, person you contact or comment you leave adds to the sum total of your efforts in the blogosphere.  Building relationships is important in any industry, but blog karma is the idea that what you do and how you behave will ultimately have an effect on you directly or indirectly.  Blog karma is not often written about, but very often spoken about by bloggers, especially successful ones.  So if you did believe that blog karma does exist, how should you go about increasing yours?  Here are 10 ways you can improve your blog karma:   

Social Media Headline Formulas That Work

Although content is important when you are trying to leverage social media sites like Netscape or Digg, the story title used for the submission maybe as important if not more important. Here are a few types of titles that I have found to be effective. 1. Increase Your [Blank] within [short time period]

Howto Backup your Mac incrementally over SSH

Do you have access to a shell account on a unix server with some spare space? If so it's pretty easy to incrementally backup your files securely with SSH.

Using Coldfusion to Make an RSS Feed

I was planning a simple tutorial on how to create an RSS feed. This would be a very simple and direct "Do This", and not "Here are the ten thousand versions of RSS" type of article, but Pete beat me to it.

Uploading Files Like GMail Attachments

Google's GMail has a nice way of allowing you to add multiple attachments to an email.

Yahoo! Developer Network's PHP Development Center

Woohoo! The PHP Development Center is now live on the Yahoo! Developer Network.

Fedora Time Bug

The question of setting time comes up frequently. Setting the timezone and the system clock can be confusing, particularly if the machine is dual boot.

Yahoo Launches Podcast Directory

Yahoo has launched a podcasting site, a place that's not only a directory of podcasts but also a great resource of rich information on podcasting generally, and a one-stop-shop for your podcasts and music purchasing.

Yahoo! Spain Threatens Blogger Over Piracy How-To

Yahoo! Spain didn't take too kindly to Spanish blog network Weblogs SL when they posted a third party tip on how to illegally download videos from Yahoo! Launch on their software blog Genbeta. After threat of legal action, the post has since been removed.