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Here is a great video about social bookmarking. One of the buttons below each post is a del.icio.us button. I could not live without delicious. One of the best things about it is that your bookmarks are not tied to one computer. You can access them from any computer using a browser and you can [...]

I have been asked many times what the icons below each post are. I guess that means many of you don’t use social networks. In case you do and don’t know what they are I’ll explain it. If you have a Facebook profile for example and you really like a post I make, you can [...]

We took the big step of leaving Blogger and getting our own domain name. We are now www.francetales.com. We took out our own hosting account so we could have more control over the site, <cough>control freaks</cough>. I think it is a big improvement, or it is going to be, but we still have a [...]

I don’t understand why so many people still use Microsoft Internet Explorer. Firefox is so much better, safer, more secure, many more add-ons and toolbars are available, etc. What’s worse is that some people use the browser that their ISP provides. I can understand Safari, but I still prefer Firefox. I have just added a [...]

I forgot I had registered for a new targeted search engine/social bookmarking site about 3 years ago. I used it a lot for 6 months then forgot about it. Well I started again and it again and I love it.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
If you are not interested in the social side of it, as I am not, you [...]

I guess Al Gore didn’t excite you enough to vote in my poll. We were without the internet for 4 days and during that time it was announced that he had won the Nobel Prize. I had planned to write about it but by the time we had access to the internet the buzz had [...]