FebruaryFeb 13 Friday 09
I've used the TwitterCounter badge that tells people how many followers I have on Twitter for quite a while now. It's nice, but not really useful unless you're a narcissist. They've recently released something much more useful: TwitterCounter Remote. Remote is a small …
FebruaryFeb 12 Thursday 09
I recently wrote a post about some issues I was having with Ubuntu 8.10 after I've been using it as my primary machine for the past four months. To balance things out, I wanted to write about why I absolutely love Ubuntu as well.
FebruaryFeb 11 Wednesday 09
WordPress 2.7.1 was released today. It's the typical bug fix release that they always do. What I think is really interesting about this release is that normally, the .1 bug fix comes about a month after the initial release. This time, however, WordPress 2.7 was released …
FebruaryFeb 10 Tuesday 09
I switched to Ubuntu about 4 months ago after my Windows XP system crashed and I had the choice of taking an entire weekend to reinstall, or finally make the jump. Overall I've been incredibly happy with Ubuntu. I mean how much can you really complain, it's free …
FebruaryFeb 9 Monday 09
If you don't know who Jeffrey Zeldman is, he's the web genius behind sites like A List Apart and Happy Cog. He's also written several books and is pretty much just an overall web genius with a strong background in web usability.
About a month ago he released a plugin …
Odd that Saturday Night Live would hold the key to beating the recession, but I think they've finally solved America's woes. If you're in debt and having trouble getting out, you may want to watch the video below.
I have a feeling the name of the book was changed to …
FebruaryFeb 6 Friday 09
I never used to be a big wallpaper kind of guy until I started using John's Desktop Switcher. It's a seriously cool app that has a ton of features like rotating your wallpaper as often as you'd like, or make a collage or photobook from your pictures. I found another app …
FebruaryFeb 4 Wednesday 09
I use YUI Compressor to compress all my JavaScript files and up until now, they only way to do it was via the command line. While this is fairly easy for me, I think the majority of people don't compress their JS files because they're not sure how (or this practice …
FebruaryFeb 3 Tuesday 09
I think everyone should have to take a test to use the computer. Think: Driver's Training, but for computers. There are just far too many people out there that have absolutely no idea what they are doing and that will click on anything they see that even looks remotely …
FebruaryFeb 1 Sunday 09
Just came across this on BoingBoing. It's an interactive YouTube game using images of Oscar movies. After you press play you will see two of the same image, but with one difference. The screen on the right is divided into 9 sections. You simply click on the section that …