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Twitter was once a breading ground for 3rd party applications and add-ons but this year it seems Twitter is going through some changes that may kick popular services like TweetMeme to the curb in favor of it’s own features. Twitter recently announced on it’s blog, a retweet button of it’s own. This retweet button can be added to websites and blogs the same way TweetMeme’s retweet button can the, only issue now.. It doesn’t seem to recognize urls of posts, only the actual page it’s displayed on. This creates an issue to many bloggers on Wordpress and other platforms as posts are displayed on the homepage and category pages.

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There seems to be a new wave of the same ol spam but with a new twist to it. If you are an avid forum-goer then chances are you might have received one of these PMs before. Here’s how it works:

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This video gives a sneak peak of BlackBerry’s OS 6 interface. The interface looks like an improvement from BlackBerry’s current OS, but I still can’t seem to get myself to like BlackBerry’s new interface. Regardless, if you love BlackBerry and The Black Eyed Peas, this is the video for you. 

I use DSLExtreme as my internet service provider and i’m moderately happy with my service. I probably should up the speed though. Today i had a lot of trouble with my internet service and it quickly became very frustrating to figure out.

If you are someone who has ever had networking problems then you probably know just how i feel. I probably tried ever trick, setting and troubleshooting procedure to find out just why the heck my connection was dropping out so much and eventually not working at all.

Eventually i figured out the issue, my ISPs desired DNS servers were either down or experiencing difficulties.. DNS or Domain Name System is basically a database that lists all domains, like yahoo.com or youtube.com and translates them to the appropriate IP Address. This happens because domain names are easier for humans to remember than a bunch of numbers.

Anyway, I switched from the DNS databases my ISP uses to the ones OpenDNS has. It’s free, and it has the added security of filtering out all the junk. Check it out :)