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- December 21st, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Foursquare is Fun, Social, and Useful
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I’m a serial early-adopter, and a fickle user. That means it takes basically nothing to get me to try something, sign up, and drink the Kool-Aid for a few m…
- December 13th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
A Christmas List for The Techie in Your Life
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I love Christmas. For a million reasons—one of them is the inordinate amount of food I get to eat. Another is that it’s the only time egg nog is an accept…
- December 9th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
How to Create Your Presence Online
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I’ve spent the last few months of my life obsessively printing resumes, checking Craigslist, looking for openings, meeting people, and doing anything I poss…
- December 7th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Spend Like Scrooge, Give Like Santa
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Thanksgiving’s over, and we already missed Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Unless there’s some other super-cool weekday name still in store over the next f…
- December 3rd, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
11 Ways to Listen to Music Online For Free
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. A couple of days ago, I wrote about how to watch TV online for free. With a few tools that are readily at your disposal, it’s easy to find any show or movie…
- November 28th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
7 Ways to Watch TV Online For Free
I’m a senior in college, and for the first time since I was about 6, I don’t have cable TV. Who knows why: some combination of cheapness, laziness, and some subconscious desire to actually do prod…
- November 25th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Web Tools for the Job Hunt
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. This was originally my column for my school newspaper, the Cavalier Daily. But as seems to happen periodically, it’s just right for The 2.0 Life too. As…
- November 23rd, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Brizzly: A Facebook and Twitter Machine
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Being the super-cool guy that I am, I periodically get to try Web applications before the general public. And being the super-impatient guy that I am, I hate…
- November 20th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
13 Actually Interesting Business and Finance Blogs
Okay, full disclosure: I couldn’t possibly care any less about finance. Stocks, bonds, investments, futures, pasts, eventuallies (I might be making things up now)—they’re just not interesting to…
- November 16th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
10 Great Blogs for Food Lovers
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. One of the things I get asked all the time is what I read: the blogs, websites, and random web-itude that helps me waste the phenomenally large amount of time…
- November 12th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
What’s in My Browser: David Pierce
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. This is the second in a series of posts, about what we all use in our browsers. They’re now where we spend most of our time, and everyone’s got it tweaked…
- November 9th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Posterous Turns Anyone Into a Blogging Powerhouse
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. The Internet’s in the middle of an incredibly important shift: it’s moving away from a closed, geek-only space with tons of prerequisites and knowledge re…
- November 6th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
15 Ways Facebook Can Get You an A+
This is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer, who writes on About.com and about Online Classes. Facebook’s not just a gigantic time-sink, making you less and less productive as the service gets mo…
- November 2nd, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
How to Make Facebook Even More Useful
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Facebook, with more than 300 million users, is now the third-largest country in the world. That’s nuts. It increasingly seems that Facebook is the first,…
- October 28th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Penzu’s the Place for Journaling Online
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Over the course of my life, I’ve probably started a journal about 850,000 times. Every time something monumental happens, or I go on a cool trip, I start a…
- October 26th, 2009
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A Few New Things at The 2.0 Life
I really need to get over this whole “I have to constantly be tweaking something, all the time, always” thing. But sometimes, it comes out pretty well. If you haven’t noticed, there&…
- October 21st, 2009
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6 Tricks to a Highly Productive Me
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. In fairness, this has nothing to do with the topic of this site. But it’s been so helpful and meaningful in my life recently that I figured I’d share. I…
- October 19th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
How to Make Any Website a Desktop Application
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I’ve got a few different tabs open in my Firefox window pretty much all the time. Gmail, Google Reader, Wordpress, a forum I’m on constantly, and even a c…
- October 15th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Use Aardvark to Get Answers You Trust
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I think I can safely say that most of us, when we have a question these days, do the same thing: we Google it. Everything from “when was Abraham Lincoln b…
- October 12th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
6 Ways To Make Your Next Trip Awesome
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Since I’m right in the middle of my job hunt, I’m doing a lot of traveling. Red-eye flights, terrible and overpriced airport coffee, and strange and unfam…
- October 9th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Students: Join the Web’s Focus Group – the Network of Cool
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Forgive me, anyone who’s not between 16-24 – this one’s not going to do you much good. There’s constant discussion, on the Web and off, about what s…
- October 5th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Turn Your Cell Phone Into a Tool of Awesome
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. This post was originally my column for this week in my school newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. But it’s too appropriate for The 2.0 Life to not put up her…
- October 1st, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
10 Habits For Getting More Done Online
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. The Web is this funny being, constantly teetering on the line between hugely productive and hugely wasteful. As easy as it is these days to know more, do more…
- September 28th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Diigo: the Ultimate Bookmarks Solution
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. As long-time readers know, I’ve become a huge fan of Instapaper over the last year or so for all my bookmarking and reading. It’s a great, simple site th…
- September 25th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
25 Time-Saving Tips For Your Computer
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. As someone who spends many, many, MANY hours every day on a computer (seriously. It’s a lot. Like, I’m not even kidding. Except maybe a little.), I’m a…
- September 23rd, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
With Magma, You’ll Never Miss a Meme
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. It finally happened to me the other day. I became that guy. I found a hilarious video, decided I had to send it to every person I had ever met, and a lot of p…
- September 19th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
How to Empty Your Inbox And Clear Your Head
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Email can be scary - but it doesn't have to be. A couple of weeks ago, I got this comment on a post about my new productivity system: “Can you…
- September 17th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
What’s in My Browser: Squealing Rat
(David’s note: We’re starting a new series here at the 2.0 Life, called “What’s in Your Browser?” The browser, it seems, is the new go-bag: everyone’s got it custom…
- September 16th, 2009
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6 Places to Find Something Good to Read
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I find myself, every once in a while, sitting on my home page on the Web with nothing to do. Well, not nothing to do, but not wanting to do any of those thin…
- September 14th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
MobileMe is a No-Brainer for Mac Users
Post by Josie from the great Geekulous blog. Find her on Twitter. As an Apple fangirl I feel it is my duty to convert all of my PC using friends and family members to Macs, freeing them once and for a…
- September 12th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
4 Examples of Online News Done Right
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I guarantee, someone’s going to yell at me after this post goes up, telling me how I’m adding to the demise of the newspaper, the promotion of new…
- September 9th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Follow Tons of People on Twitter – and Pull It Off
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Twitter’s one of the most useful tools I’ve ever come across – it’s facilitating instant conversation, making it easier than ever to connect with peo…
- September 7th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
10 Extensions That Make Google Chrome Rock
Post by Matt Brian, who writes the great Will I Need It? blog. He’s also on Twitter. About a year ago, Google Chrome threw a wrench into the Internet browser wars, giving Internet users a powerful…
- September 5th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Get Hassle-Free Reminders From Task.fm
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I always used to make fun of people who would say, “sure, let’s hang out. Just let me check my calendar…” Psh. Nerds. Now? If something doesn’t go…
- September 4th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
The HP Better Together Winner Is…
First of all, thanks so much to all those who entered the contest we’ve been running here over the last several days. There were over 1,000 entries, with tons of funny jokes, rude names, and all…
- August 28th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Giveaway Time: Want to Win Two Computers?
Of course you do. It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! The 2.0 Life is giving away two (count ‘em: two) computers, an awesome bag, and some great software to boot. All in all…
- August 26th, 2009
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The Perfect Computing Solution for Students or Mobile Workers (And a Giveaway)
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. As I’ve mentioned a few times before, The 2.0 Life is working with 24 awesome blogs, participating in the HP Better Together: Back to School Giveaway. H…
- August 24th, 2009
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4 Firefox Extensions for Savvier Shopping
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Good economy, bad economy, we’re all still in the business of buying things. And let’s be honest: who buys things in stores anymore? The Web offers a ton…
- August 22nd, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Sync Your Whole Computing World With Syncables
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I rarely, if ever, recommend non-free software to you on this site. Thanks to this awesome Internet thing, there’s almost always a free option that’s as…
- August 19th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
6 Ways to Share Your Documents Online
This is a guest post from Srikanth, who writes at Tech Inspiration about tips, gadgets and technology. For more, check out his profile on LinkedIn. The increased capacity for document sharing online e…
- August 17th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
9 Tips For the Brand-New Blogger
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. So you’ve decided to start a blog. Maybe you want to write about bunnies, or productivity, or just share photos of the funny-shaped fungi you see on your mo…
- August 14th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
21 iPhone Apps That Make Everything Awesome
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Okay, I don’t have an iPhone. I have an iPod Touch. But, for all intents and purposes, the app situation is exactly the same, and I’ll probably use the ph…
- August 12th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
3 Questions Every New Blogger Needs to Ask
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Everybody says the beauty of blogging is that it’s simple. Anyone can do it, it’s simple to figure out, and it blurs the lines between journalists and con…
- August 11th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
Two Computers, Powerful and Portable, One Low Price (Through Aug 12)
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. As readers of this blog are aware, I’m currently involved in a pretty neat giveaway from Microsoft and HP called the Better Together: Back to School Giveawa…
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
5 Filters to Help You Conquer Your Email Inbox
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Depending on how you feel about it personally, email is everything from a wonderful and time-saving technological advance that has been nothing short of revol…
- August 9th, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
10 Awesome Apps To Help You Rock The School Year
This is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer. For more from Karen, check out her blog about Online College Courses, or follow her on Twitter. It’s getting to be that time of the year- many of us a…
- August 7th, 2009
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10 Things Always in My Go Bag
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. I work, whether it’s my day job, school, or blogging, from a variety of different places. Sometimes I’m home, but frequently I’m at a coffee…
- August 3rd, 2009
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Keep Your Files Backed Up, In Sync, And Always Available
Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter. Call me crazy, in a world full of people switching to Web apps and solutions for everything they do, but I still like Microsoft Office. I know, I’m a Web 2…
- August 2nd, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
We Have a Winner. Plus a New Contest!
The contest, running over the past few weeks, for the Peek Pronto complete with service, is finally over. Our winner? Tenness! Here was the winning comment (picked randomly; I won’t bore you wit…
- August 1st, 2009
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davep3355 has posted a new entry on: The 2.0 Life
The Definitive Guide to iPhone Twitter Apps
This is a post from a brand-new contributor to The 2.0 Life – Srikanth. Srikanth writes on the great Tech Inspiration blog about tips, gadgets, and technology. Check out his blog or Linkedin pro…
