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  • This is Broken: Verizon Phone Repair

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    You can’t call Verizon wired phone repair to tell them your phone is broken unless you’re calling from a Verizon number. My AT&T cell and Skype Out both tell me the number on the Verizon repair site, (area code) 890-6611 does not exist. I noticed this way back last year when I had a phone…

  • BBC Scares everyone in the world off Facebook

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    The BBC has been able set up a malicious application that can steal details of not only your information but the people you’re connected with. This is because in Facebook, applications have permission to ‘walk the tree’ of your friend contact details, letting the apps do things like populate the list of people for you…

  • If Supermarkets were Web 2.0 compliant

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    Excellent video, which might not be funny if you’re not part of the ‘in crowd’ for Web 2.0, but which appeals to my sense of humor. Glumbert.com – Supermarket 2.0 (I tried to embed it but it is too wide….)

  • BlogPhiladelphia

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    I really enjoyed visiting Philly on Phriday of last week for BlogPhiladelphia. I posted pictures at Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardgr/sets/72157600805007220/ Also shared my slides from my “Introduction to Social Media” talk: http://www.slideshare.net/howardgr/what-is-social-media-blog-philadelphia/ Great seeing everyone. Thanks, Annie and team for a great job!

  • Useful PDF tool

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    I needed a way to combine a bunch of Adobe PDF files together into one document, on my Mac.I found PDFMergeX, by Malcom Mac Software. It is an easy utility. Just add PDFs to the list, push the button, and voila, a new PDF file with all the pages in the order you wanted them.…