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Follow Friday for March 13, 2009

Bob Buskirk — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:00:37 +0000

If you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed that the past few Friday’s I’ve been telling you who I think you should follow on Twitter. Follow Friday started when someone thought it would be a good idea to give a shoutout to the people that they thought were interesting and other people would like to follow. You can read this post about how follow Friday got started. I decided to make this post because I wanted to do a lot of shoutouts in many different categories and why I actually follow these people. Twitter is not only a networking tool it is a great way to gain information and meet new people. So here are some people I think you should follow…

Motivational People
@iamdiddy – Ah, P. Diddy! He is always pumped no matter what he is doing! Everytime I read one of his tweets I am pumped to get back to work.
@garyvee – Gary Vaynerchuk, he always has interesting posts and always talks about making the most of things, definitely follow him!
@tedmurphy – Ted Murphy, founder and CEO of IZEA, always talking about good stuff…WOOOOOO!

Bloggers
@johnchow – If you run a blog and don’t know who John is then you need to get out from under that rock!
@tyleringram – Tyler is a Vancouver based blogger and he always has interesting things to talk about.
@ianternet – Ian Fernando, friend and great guy who is doing his thing on the internet.
@michaelkwan – Michael Kwan, another friend and blogger who always has something interesting to post or talk about

Tech
@iphoneincanada – iPhoneinCanada.ca, great iPhone blog even if you are not in Canada!
@gizmodo – Where I get all of my gadget news.
@thinkcomps – ThinkComputers newly created twitter account!

Celebs
@rainnwilson – Rainn Wilson, we all know him as Dwight from the office.
@aplusk – Ashton Kutcher, Surprisingly more interesting then I thought he would be.
@kevinrose – Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com and host of Diggnation.
@JasonCalacanis – Founder of Mahalo, he always has something interesting to talk about.

Pittsburgh Based
@carley – My good friend Carley, she just got into blogging and is always on Twitter!
@colindean – Colin Dean, ThinkComputers staff write and all around good guy!
@wpxi – Yes, WPXI has twitter…and actually knows how to use it!

I’m not sure how often I will do a post like this but it is always good to point out interesting people. Remember when doing a follow friday tweet use the #followfriday hash tag. Make sure you are following me on Twitter!

Are You Working Hard?

Bob Buskirk — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:34:14 +0000

I made a post a while ago talking about how summer is over. That means that most people are going back to school or work. For me that means it’s time to dig in and work even harder. During the summer there is less internet traffic and it’s nice so you want to go out. In the fall / winter you see an increase in internet traffic and since its cold and cloudy most of the time it’s not like you want to go outside all the time. I have been working really hard on many things, here is what I’ve been up to.

ThinkComputers
As I mentioned earlier I have been really pumping out content on ThinkComputers. We did 20 straight days of content last month and we are averaging around 5 reviews a week if not more. This is a hard thing to accomplish but I have a very good system in place to get things done. Also we have a steady flow of products coming in and my staff is really kicking ass!

There are some new features on ThinkComputers too. I have revamped the articles page. Now the articles are separated into categories instead of a long page of all the articles on the site. This way they are easy to find and navigate and it gives more exposure to older articles.

ThinkComputers also has an official staff blog now! It will give ThinkComputers users a behind the scenes look at what we have going on. It will be updated once a week or so, nothing major but something to keep people coming back to ThinkComputers.

I will also be adding more features to site in the coming weeks too!

ThinkPenguins
I launched a new website, ThinkPenguins. Since launching it has been great so far. I have met many people who write about the Pens and it is great to write about something other than technology and the internet. I love hockey so writing posts is easy. I’m averaging a post a day!

I hope to get a good following going in the Pittsburgh area, we will see how it goes!

The Blog
I haven’t done much with the blog since the new layout was launched, but I have a long list of things I want to implement. Hopefully you will be able to see them in the coming weeks. If you have any suggestions for the blog please let me know and they will go on the list!

I hope everyone is working hard during this busy internet season, make that money so you can take it easy during the summer months!

CES Wrap Up

Bob Buskirk — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:01:05 +0000

As I said CES really kicked my ass! Unlike a lot of people who went for fun, I was there for work. One of my goals for this year is to take ThinkComputers to the next level and with that means a lot more work. So while at CES we tried to cover as much as we could as well as meet new companies and fit in a few parties. For those who haven’t been over to ThinkComputers in the past week or so here is what you’ve missed from CES…

CES Unveiled 2008
Digital Experience
Buffalo Technology
The Booth Babes
Antec
Microsoft
ViewSonic
Thermaltake
Intel
Targus
Dell
ASUS
Sony
In Win
Lunch @ Piero’s
Zalman
Cooler Master
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
The Sands Expo

As you can see there is a lot there so make sure you check out a few of the articles.

CES Swag Contest Over

Back on the Smartphone

Bob Buskirk — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:00:34 +0000

A few years ago I purchased an Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone. At the time it was the world’s smallest smartphone and I loved it. This was before AT&T went over to Cingular. Once the switch happened I had to get a new phone. I ended up getting a Razr. I have been happy with it, but it’s just getting boring. So the other day I found my smartphone in a drawer and wondered if I would be able to use my Cingular sim card in it. I put it in and like I expected I got a no service message. So looking online I found a very easy way to unlock the phone.

Windows mobile is a great platform. One of the best things that I like about it is that I can easily sync via USB. I can sync e-mail, contacts, and appointments. I really liked the appointments feature because I would put in my classes in and I would never be late! Another great thing is that you are able to customize the look of the screen with different homescreens. Here are a few examples…

A State of Trance

Bob Buskirk — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:07:29 +0000

As some of you may know I enjoy listening to techno and trance. It is hard to find new music that you haven’t heard if you are working at your computer each day. I swear I listen to so many of the same songs it gets annoying. That is why I am happy when Thursday’s come around. Each Thursday I listen to Armin van Buuren’s live radio show A State of Trance. On this two hour radio show Armin plays some of the latest trance and progressive music. You can listen to it free on DI.fm’s Trance channel. A State of Trance is on every Thursday from 2-4PM EST. If you are not by a computer you can still listen to the show. Here is a list of FM stations around the world that broadcast A State of Trance.

- America: Indie 103.1 FM Southern California (international)
- America: XM/Worldspace “The System” (satelite, Northern America)
- Canada: The 246 Element Show Canada Chin 100.7FM Toronto & 97.9FM Ottawa
- Cyprus: Energy 107.6 FM (south, greek)
- Jordan: Play 99.6 FM (nationwde)
- Netherlands: Fresh FM 95.6FM (nationwide)
- Russia: Radio Record – 106.3FM (nationwide)
- Luxembourg: WAKY 107FM (105.6 and 105.2 on Cable, nationwide)
- Australia: Kiss FM 87.6FM (Melbourne)
- Dubai: Dubai 92 92.0FM (nationwide)
- Lebanon: Mix FM 104.4FM (Beiroet, Mount Lebanon, the north, Saida)
- Ukraine: Kiss FM, check the website www.kissfm.ua for your frequency (nationwide)
- Switzerland: Rouge FM 106.5FM (French side of Switzerland)
- Romania: Deea FM 92.1FM (nationwide)
- UK: Kiss 100 – www.kiss100.com

If you have never listened to trance you should give it a shot, you might just like it. I know that it always puts me in a good mood to get a lot of work done.

CES Swag Contest Over