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Use TypeRoom to Manage Your Web Content

Having a website these days isn’t really setting yourself apart anymore. Not having a website is what sets you apart and then it’s not usually in a good way. What can really set you apart is having a site that’s updated regularly.

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It used to be that the only way you would be updating your own website would be if you knew HTML and how to make all that code happen in a simple text editor. Then came WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editors. These usually required you to still know some FTP information for getting your edited files from your computer onto the server hosting your website.

Not anymore.

Now there are content management systems that integrate with your website and allow you to make changes to your content. Systems like TypeRoom.

TypeRoom has two different versions: TypeRoom Lite and TypeRoom Professional. Depending on the amount of pages you need and the size of your site, you’ll pick the one you need.

TypeRoom has a number of modules that allow you to take as much control or as little as you need. Custom designs, CSS styling, pre-formatted content, and more. TypeRoom also plays well with other web services like WordPress for blogging and services like forums and photo galleries.

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Using Streamy To Stay On Top of the Web

There’s a website I heard about a few months ago and I just ran out of time to really dig into it and check it out in detail. With the holidays I’ve been able to start digging through my old email in my Inbox and notes and have come across the Streamy website again.

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The Streamy website brings together what’s happening all over the web and put it within your grasp at your fingertips. The popular topics of what’s being talked about and shared on the web is organized and presented to you in groups and topics of categories.

You can also integrate your friends and contacts from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Digg and even instant messaging networks like Google Talk and AOL Instant Messenger. Setting up the connections to these other services couldn’t be much easier than my experience with Streamy.

You can also use Streamy as your RSS aggregator and reader tool. Just subscribe to your favorite websites and blogs and all the information comes together with everything else you’re interested in on the web.

The other great benefit of Streamy is that the site makes it really easy to share and talk about what’s on your radar with your friends and followers.

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LocateTV – Arrange Your TV Viewing Schedule

Remember when the little, printed TV Guide was enough to keep an eye on what’s happening on the small screen? One of my favorite past times is watching TV. The good news is with a DVR I can be more selective in the TV I’m watching and save my time by only recording and watching what I want and avoiding commercials to shorten the time spent if necessary. The challenge though is getting a grasp of everything that’s available on TV these days.

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With LocateTV I can put in my location and my TV provider and get exactly the shows I want to find put right in front of me. This is one of the first online providers I’ve played with that actually head AT&T’s U-verse line-up available for show times and listings.

LocateTV allows me to find programs in the normal grid line-up options, by channel or by time. I can also search by keywords, program title, actor, director or just about any other individual associated with the program.

I can subscribe to reminders about my favorite shows and create a widget to embed on my own website or blog to let other people know what I’m watching.

Now if I could just find a program that provided a great mobile client and the ability to program my AT&T U-verse DVR it would be perfect!

Don’t waste anymore time just channel surfing, organize you viewing line-up and agenda with LocateTV.