Find Out What Twitter Users Are Viewing Your Website

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 …

Why I Love Ubuntu 8.10 After Four Months Of Use

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.

1. It's Free - I had to get this one out …

WordPress 2.7.1 Released

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 …

My Issues With Ubuntu 8.10 After Four Months

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 …

Web Standards Plugin For Adobe Dreamweaver

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 …

How To Beat the Recession Without a Government Bailout

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 …

Refresh Your Windows Or Mac Wallpaper Automagically

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 …

YUI Compressor Gets An Awesome Online GUI

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 …

Computer Basics 101: Phishing

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 …

Awesome Interactive Photo Game On YouTube

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 …

More Passionate Inspiration From Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk. I posted a video a while ago here that is one of my favorite inspirational videos ever, even though it's not really an 'inspirational' video by definition. Well, Gary recently spoke at the Future Of Web Apps in Miami and he was once …

The Cobbler's Kid Finally Gets New Shoes

I've finally gotten around to redesigning Randy Jensen Online. The last time I redesigned it was probably around 4 years ago and it was a rush job for a job interview. I feel much better about this design. Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

The only …

Mount ISO Files Virtually On Windows

I recently needed to run an ISO file on Windows Vista. I could have burned the file to a CD/DVD and run it from there, but since I only needed to run it once, it's far easier to mount it virtually. Here's how to do it.

Installing Virtual CloneDrive

1. Install Virtual …

cForms Plugin Gets Removed From WordPress.org

I woke up this morning to find I had a plugin that needed to be updated. Not a big deal. It was the cForms plugin which is constantly being updated. This time, however, it came with a special note:

In light of special circumstances, cforms will not continue to be …

Adding a Right-Click 'Open With Adobe Photoshop' Command In Ubuntu

Thought I'd create a quick video to show you how to add 'Open With Adobe Photoshop CS22 command to your right-click menu in Ubuntu. It's my first video tutorial and the quality seriously sucks. If people like these, I'll start doing more and spend more time on the QA …

Why Marketing Still Works...Because You're So Damn Predictable

I just finished reading the book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. This book is amazing. It details how we continually, and seemingly predictably, make the same 'bad' decisions over and over again. Ariely focuses on 'The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions' and …

Using Desktop Flickr Organizer To Manage Your Flickr Account In Ubuntu

Being a pretty avid Flickr user, one of the first things I looked for when I switched to Ubuntu was a good Flickr Desktop app. I looked everywhere and ended up settling on an app conveniently named 'Flickr Uploader'. Although this app only did one thing, it did it quite …

Update ClamTK Virus Definitions

If you've decided to run antivirus software on your Ubuntu machine, it's more than likely ClamAV aka ClamTK (the GUI frontend for ClamAV). I went to update the definitions just for the fun of it the other day and I got this...

Luckily this problem is easily remedied. …

SSH Host Verification Failed Error Fix

A couple weeks ago I showed you how to share files between two Ubuntu computers. Well yesterday I decided to install Windows 7 Beta on my secondary machine, that was running Ubuntu and had the share I created in that post. Since the computer is pretty old, I decided to …

Enable Num Lock On Boot In Ubuntu

One of the things that instantly annoyed me the first time I really started using Ubuntu was that the num lock was turned off by default at boot. A very small thing, but one that seems odd they wouldn't fix since it's so incredibly simple. Here's how I did it.

1. Once …