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Technibble is on Twitter. Actually, we have been on Twitter for some time except we just havent announced it. If you dont know, Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service and allows you to send short text messages called “tweets” to your friends and followers. Some people use it to announce what they are doing right now to their friends and businesses often use it to send out small updates. I use it to send out things that I believe a technician would find interesting, but isnt worthy of a full blown Technibble post. I also use it to keep in contact with other technicians that read Technibble.
The last few things I posted to Technibbles Twitter was:
- Creepiest casemod ever? http://is.gd/nd8x
- A technician just posted a clients attempt at replacing a laptop power jack. Wont charge afterwards for some reason: http://sn.vc/89Hu
- In response to my Mac post. After some of the Techs got into a PC vs Mac fight, one tech finished it off nicely. “I, for one, am in this business to make a living… not to pick sides.”
- Following my Mac post. I’m surprised that some techies refuse to work on them. It’s not a lack of technical knowlege, they just refuse. I think that’s crazy. What better client to have than a cashed up Mac user thats a computer novice? Most of the work is really easy.
- Someone taking 24 x 256gb SSD drives and RAIDing them (2gb a second transfers): http://tinyurl.com/9lnrld
- Silly Microsoft: http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/7922/funny.jpg
- China’s Electronic Waste Village slideshow. Lots of computer parts in there: http://tinyurl.com/7g6uab
Unless you already have a Twitter account you may not care that I am on Twitter, this post is more for the people who are so they can follow and chat with me @technibble. However, in the few months I have been using Twitter I have found it an invaluable resource to talk to big guys in the industry, fellow technicians and get new information about the tech world very quickly, long before it ends up on any websites.
You can use the Twitter on its main website, you can use a Firefox plugin like Twitterfox or you can use your mobile device as most of them have an application for it.
So, if you are a Tweeter already, follow me as 555 other Tweeters have at @technibble
If not, you can check out this site for more information about what it is, why you would want to use it and how to get started.
I clicked on the link to the Creepiest casemod ever? When on the page I started to scroll down and read it when I got redirected to one of those sited that pretended I had viruses on my computer.
I knew this was fake and choose to click the back button rather than anything on the page. I then got a popup asking if I was sure because it was going to slow my system down.
I knew at this monent that if I clicked anything on that page at all I would probably get infected with Antiviurs 2009.
I was unable to close the browser, could not right click the taskbar tab could not close the window. So I went into task manager and ended IE.
I am sure had I clicked anything my computer would have been hosed.
Really, V? I got nothing whatsoever with Firefox. I think IE is your problem there. No techie in their right mind uses it.
TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/warrender
Xander,
Sometimes you just don’t have a choice. Where I work we must use IE because the company web site will not work with anything else.
V, does IE view for FireFox work? IE just sucks, but it is amazing how reticent people are towards changing over to something new. Once they got Firefox very few revert though.
For now we just have to stick with IE, eventually it should work with Firefox but right now IE is a requirement.
There are Vista issues to deal with first.