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How to Disable Twitter URL Shortening

Twitter Fail Whale

In short: You can’t. Recently, Twitter has started automatically converting all URL links in tweets (i.e. twitter messages) into 20 character “shortened” links. For example, if you send the message: “http://ChristopherPrice.com is awesome!” everyone will actually see something like: “http://t.co/IzKOWFnE is awesome!” Both links will go to the same place, but the shortened one is, [...]

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Domain-Specific Redirects in WordPress Multisite

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How to write an htaccess call to handle an entire mapped domain on WordPress Multisite. Warning: This post has a pretty high geek factor.You’ve been warned. Since Otto (@ottodestruct) fixed the wordpress permalink issue in WordPress 3.3, when I moved christopherprice.com to a different WP install, I decided to eliminate the /%year%/ portion of the [...]

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When Calling 800 Numbers: THIS IS THE LAW

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I received an email (see below) from someone I know well with the Subject line: When Calling 800 #’s: THIS IS THE LAW.[sic]. Putting aside the xenophobic tone of the message, I thought I’d take a 10 minute break and amuse myself with a quick mental analysis of the likelihood of the proposed technique based on [...]

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How To Directly Copy Files Between the Buffalo LinkStation and a USB Drive

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Instructions for how to directly copy large files from a Buffalo LinkStation to an attached drive without tying up your computer or unnecessarily burdening your network.

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Say Hello to My Little Friend – I Mean Little Printer

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The Moleskine/FieldNotes/HipsterPDA design poseur-types are going to eat this up (first) followed (as usual) by the iStuff crowd. Coincidentally, of course, I love everything about Little Printer. The face indicating print completion is pure anthropomorphic genius. Expect the usual underwhelmed critics who will roll their eyes and inform us that thermal printers are nothing new [...]

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Gmail Exchange in iOS: Does the Trash Icon Delete or Archive?

Does the iTrash icon Delete or Archive?

I changed one of my gmail (Apps for Your Domain) accounts from the standard iOS gmail setup to an Exchange service. I did this primarily for push calendar syncing, but I noticed that following the change the iOS Mail app appeared different in subtle ways. In particular, the Archive icon was gone from my iPhone [...]

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