http://www.mattearle.com Thu, 17 May 2012 11:49:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a cut and paste of the The Telegraph's coverage of the day before the facebook IPO.  I am intending to read this in a couple weeks when the stock has done whatever it is going to do.  Read the article and the comments. Facebook backers sell bigger stakes on ... http://www.mattearle.com/article-and-comments-before-facebook-pump-and-dump-ipo/ I was looking for a solution to easily get photos off my phone and into Dropbox. Ideally they would make it so you could setup any folder on your Android phone to sync with a Dropbox folder. This will probably happen sooner or later but as far as ... http://www.mattearle.com/uploadselect-multiple-files-in-android-froyo-22-to-dropbox/ I think it is important to share this experience because I had to waste an hour dealing with this thing and I want to save some other people time. How I Got The Virus I am a programmer, former IRC geek and earn my living running websites and doing internet marketing so ... http://www.mattearle.com/xp-home-security-2011-virusmalware-removal-instructions/ Check out facebook down. They provide a central hub to confirm if facebook is actually down or if it is more of a local issue. You can also post a report of your downtime and read about other people's experiences with it being down in real time. http://www.mattearle.com/new-facebook-downtime-tracker-website/ I call this software because that it is web-based software but think "a few clicks on a website and it works" rather than downloading and configuring a standalone piece of software. This wonderful company has come up with a PC screen capture software called Screenr. You can find ... http://www.mattearle.com/extremely-easy-screen-capture-software-review-screenr/ I just came across this website called Boutiques.com and it is made by Google. Proof here: http://www.boutiques.com/terms.py. Pretty surprising that a company that almost exclusively hires nerds and cannot do anything social for the life of them would attempt a foray into fashion. Wait a second... I know what ... http://www.mattearle.com/boutiquescom-by-google-yup-google/ I have been researching about options for water heaters and the cost of owning versus renting and just wanted to share my conclusions. It seems renting a water heater is a really BIG rip-off. Regardless of whether you get the tankless or the tank kind, your rent from ... http://www.mattearle.com/renting-water-heaters-directenergy-ripoff/ This is hilarious. Maybe because of this article and the many other ones like it pointing out what a racket and waste of time the products behind this series of ads is, they have adapted the title on the ads to "1 Tip for a Flat Belly". ... http://www.mattearle.com/1-tip-for-a-flat-belly-ads/ This is such a cool advertising campaign for the new GAP Sprize loyalty campaign: http://adsoftheworld.com/media/ambient/gap_sprize_loyalty_program_launch Though it seems rather blunt and obvious, no one had done it before and it is actually very clever. Not to mention the free buzz something this clever gets because it is very bloggable, twitterable and ... http://www.mattearle.com/gap-store-sprize-turned-upside-down/ Check it out http://searchfaction.com http://www.mattearle.com/new-search-marketing-company-searchfactioncom/