Nick Moline's Blog

Charity

Rachel Beckwith's Amazing Gift

For her 9th birthday, Rachel Beckwith asked people to donate to charity:water rather then give her presents. Sadly when her birthday arrived she was $80 short of her goal of raising just $300 for charity:water. A month after her birthday she died in a car crash, in the month since her death,...

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Technology

Saved Chrome Profiles Feature moves to Beta Build

Ever since the Profiles feature was first announced in the canary build I was excited, but it was limited (biggest limitation, these profiles weren’t saved) and the canary build was very unstable at the time. Eventually that early version moved into later builds, but the canary build updated...

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Wearable Technology

Fitbit Tracking

Several months ago I got a Fitbit tracker as a prize for a contest. While I generally dislike exercise (as much as I know I should), I love gadgets, and this thing is as geeky as a pedometer can get (note, the @fitbit folks are very adamant that this is not a pedometer, but it accomplishes the...

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Blogging

Migrated Back to WordPress

Over a year ago , I migrated nick.pro from WordPress over to Drupal. I did this so that I could experiment with Drupal more, thinking I could make a more robust site if I did so. Unfortunately, while Drupal is a fantastic, flexible platform for web development, it is simply not efficient as a...

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Life

Returning to Blogging

I revisit my blog after a busy May 2011 including going to Google I/O 2011 and what do I see as the last post on my blog, a short stinger post about Google I/O 2010. This simply won’t do. I’ve written other blog posts in the last year, they just haven’t been on my own blog. I’ve written a number...

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Writing

App of the Week: BlogPress

In my second blog post on Justia's Legal Marketing & Technology Blog I review the popular iOS app to make blogging simpler: BlogPress. Check out the full article to find out more about this easy app.

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Event Review

Another Fantastic Google I/O

Google I/O was fantastic, and not just because I got a free HTC Evo from Google and Sprint for going. Lots of great things, some of which I’m looking forward to implementing in my work.

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