Archive | February, 2007

The Linkman Cometh

Feb/28 in Hot Web Topics

Now historically I haven’t been a person that does a lot of “link blogging” because most of the time I scan over these entries just like you might be doing now. Personally I like the meat and potatoes! Side dishes only throw me off.

With that said, I am willing to give anything a shot at least once – so let the linkman cometh and bring his mighty linking pleasures to you all.

+ Chris is Breaking Up With Vista – Heck, I haven’t even gotten to meet her yet. Does make me feel a little better for not jumping off the deep end as soon as Vista came out.

+ 60 Reasons Why Web Hosts Suck – Number 14 has to be my favorite. Reason number 61 should be “because they don’t listen to the Web Hosting Show”.

+ Eric gets a good subdomain on tumblr. Maybe I should give that service a shot too?

+ Should you pod-vertise? Should I pod-vertise? I think it is awesome that “podcast-related advertising is set to quintuple over the next five years” but I am not going to count my chickens before they start laying eggs.

+ Send me your most wanted Firefox extensions, themes, services – anything and everything you want to get out of that little browser, make it known. I have been having fun answer some requests via Firefox Facts and I am getting ready to (within the next few days) to list some questions I couldn’t find answers for.

Other Worthy Linkage:

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5 Best Flash Podcast Players

Feb/27 in Online Apps, Popular Posts

When it comes to flash players for a podcast, I feel like I have just about used them all. Just recently, I added another one to the Web Hosting Show’s layout and design. While doing so I figured then would be as good of a time as any to write down some of my favorites.

Here are the five best, in no specific order at all.

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My Podcast Turns Two!

Feb/26 in Web Hosting

Who would have ever thought that after two years I would still be creating this podcast each and every week?

I have gone from 5 listeners to over 500 in that time frame and I for one am more than happy to be the voice of the Web hosting industry for one and all to listen to and learn from each week.

Thanks goes to you as well for putting up with me for that amount of time as well. The Web Hosting Show – Two Year Anniversary is now on the air.

Tune in now! Here are some of this week’s covered topics:

Web Hosting Show - 2 Years Old!

  • I Get a Not So Friendly Visit from IHOP!
  • The Web Hosting Show Hits a Web Hosting Milestone – 2 Years!
  • How Can You Create a Private Folder on Your Hosting Account?
  • Karate Thrust and Punch Action!
  • The Best Hosting Sites of the Week From the Past Two Years!
  • Domain Name High and Low of the Week

+ Download and Listen to the Web Hosting Show – Two Year Special Edition!

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15 Wallpaper Resources for Picky People

Feb/23 in Desktop, Desktop Apps

When it comes to finding good looking wallpapers I am a little picky. Ok, maybe I am a little more than a little picky…

I am very picky indeed.

Having a job where I have to stare at my screen for hours and hours, I should at least like what I am looking at though right? That is what I thought. So in my search for some of the perfect wallpapers out there I have run into a lot of different resources.

Here is my list of the best of the best places for you to pick up inspirational and beautiful desktop decorations.

  1. Deviant Art
  2. StudioTwentyEight
  3. Pimp My Desk
  4. InterfaceLIFT
  5. Pixelgirl Presents
  6. Wallpapr
  7. WallpaperStock
  8. Sensitive Light
  9. David Lanham
  10. Socksoff.co.uk
  11. Mandolux
  12. Vlad Studio
  13. Guikit
  14. Caedes
  15. WinCustomize
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Windows XP? Vista? Firefox is my OS!

Feb/21 in Personal

I never really stopped to think about it till now, but it is true. Windows XP is not my real operating system on my computer – Firefox is! Over the past few years it seems like more and more of my Windows programs are getting replaced by Online alternatives.

Another five or ten years down the road, it will not matter if you are running Windows, Apple or a flavor of Linux. With the way everything is moving to the Web – all you will need is a good browser to access it all from. Need a few examples?

How Can I Check My E-mail Online?

Online E-MailPersonally I use Yahoo! Mail to do this, but there are a number of other choices out there. If I wasn’t using Yahoo! Mail – I would probably be using Gmail. Maybe if Google rolls out a premium service – I might switch. Now Webmail is great because it allows you to keep track of, respond to and check your E-mail no matter what computer you are using. As long as you have a browser and a Internet connection – you should be OK.

How Can I Write Documents or Edit Text Online?

Google Docs and Spreadsheets comes into play here. It is a very nice and basic backbone of an office suit. Sure you might not get all the bells and whistles just yet, but who needs ‘em? Since Firefox 2 came out I have been using the spell checker like nobody’s business as well. No need for a text editor to make sure I spelled things correctly before I post. Running my Web sites with WordPress, I can also save drafts of articles that I am not yet ready to make public yet too.

Edit Documents Online

Need a Calendar to Keep Up With Dates?

There are a slew of Online calenders to help you keep up with important dates and schedules. I was trying to decide myself a few weeks back about which one to use, but I finally decided to go with Google’s calendar application.

Yahoo! Calendar

How Can I Read my RSS Feeds Online?

Feed IconOh man, when it comes to ways to read your RSS feeds Online there is no end. There are countless start pages that can do this for you and dedicated RSS feed reader services like Bloglines and Rojo. I have tried just about all of them – and found myself most happy with the Google Reader. There is just so much that you can do with it to make it your own.

What About All My Other Tasks?

Now that I have all of the basic tasks that one might need to do on a day to day basis, I’ll talk about some of the other applications that you can move Online to use.

Need Online Instant Messaging? Try Meebo!

Need Saved Links and Bookmarks? Try Del.icio.us!

Need Remote PC Access? Try Log Me In!

Need Something to Watch? Try YouTube!

Have any other suggestions for Online application replacement? Leave a comment and let me know!

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Best Underappreciated Blogs and Feeds

Feb/20 in Hot Web Topics

When it comes to the best of the best in blogging – you know all of the A-listers and the B-listers and maybe even some of the C-listers.

What about those underappreciated blogs out there that are just as good as the better known brands, but just haven’t had their time in the sun just yet?

Here are some of my favorite blogs I have subscribed to that you might not know about just yet.

+ Wilson’s Weblog
+ Is Your Mission Critical?
+ Life of an Internet Entrepreneur
+ Kyle’s Cove
+ CyberNet News
+ Clickfire Blog

Do me a favor. Try staying away from the overly popular Web sites and blogs for one day – and try finding your same news out there from an alternative source. I bet you might find you will find something you like out there in the blogging masses. Maybe you too can find a few diamonds on the rough?

Have any other good ones to share? Go ahead, try to make me fill up my RSS reader – I dare ya. No wait, I double blog dare ya to.

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Dark and Beautiful XP Visual Style

Feb/20 in Desktop Apps

I just ran across my new favorite visual style for Windows XP on Deviant Art. It is dark, beautiful and more functional than most of the ones you find out there.

Now as long as there are cool visual style designers like this out there in the world, I have no real need to upgrade to Vista for a visual change. It has been a long time since I used that old big and blue default Windows XP theme.

Have a look at it for yourself.

Amok Visual Style

I am running it on my laptop right now, and I will be putting it on my desktop really soon. To use it yourself, you will need to replace your uxtheme.dll (pretty easy process, not too hard to do).

+ Download the Amok Visual Style for Windows XP!

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To Do Lists – a Productive Person’s Best Friend

Feb/19 in Personal

Now I wouldn’t call myself the most productive person I know, but from time to time I go have spurts of productivity and am able to do a large amount of tasks in a small time frame. I have become better over the last few years at managing my time and getting things done. I figured I would share how I get things done in order to better help some of the less organized out there.

One good way of getting more productive is to make yourself a list.

Now I know some people poo-poo this idea because it sets a goal that you can not reach. Your to do list might be really huge, and looking at it might discourage you from moving forward. For me though, a list is a good way to help me remember what my daily tasks should be and what my weekly tasks should be.

You shouldn’t put things on your list like “brush your teeth” or “take a bath”. Hopefully those are given tasks that you know that you will do by the time the day is over with. Things marked on the lists should not be everyday goals you set out to do. They should be the odd little things that take up your free time.

I want you to create two notes to yourself. One should be what you want to get done in a day (normal day to day tasks that you need to make note of). The other should be things you need to get done by the time the week is over with (these can be bigger tasks or jobs that you do not need to do every single day).

To Do List in Action

For example, if I know I have to write five articles, I could try to write them all in one day – but then they would probably be a little suckstatic in their quality. Instead, I have five days in the work week, so I can write down on my daily to do list – write an article. This way one job that would take several hours can now be spread out through the week and take only a few minutes.

Now what is a good way to write these notes to yourself? Here are a couple of program that should help you out in that department. Both allow you to put little sticky notes on your desktop to write things down on.

+ StickyPad
+ ATnotes
+ Stickies

The great lesson to be learned is to not overwork yourself. Instead of doing one big job today, make it into several little jobs you can spread out through the week. This way you can have more hours of your day to do other things you need to do.

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Saved Links Folder for Writers

Feb/19 in Personal

Here is a quick tip for any writers or bloggers (writers in my opinion sounds much more dignified). When you run across a story or an article that you might want to write more about later – you can create a “saved links” folder to move it into for the time being.

For example, lets say you see this post here come across your feed reader of choice. Now instead of trying to remember the link, or saving it to one of the many social bookmarking services out there – you could have me saved right to your bookmark bar.

Saved LinksThe good thing about this is that it is just one click away to get rid of it when you don’t need it anymore. Just hit the old right click – then delete bookmark and you are done.

Let me know if you would like to see more of these quick tips and I’d be more than happy to share how I do things here in the content creation department.

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New Podcast Web Site Layout and Design

Feb/18 in Web Hosting

Well with all of this talk about the Web Hosting Show about to begin it’s third year of bringing audio content to the Web hosting industry – I figured it was about time to give the Web Hosting Show’s Web site a new look and theme.

Yes, we are saying goodbye to year two and hello to year three with an entire new design on WebHostingShow.com.

If you still see a few new things creeping up, don’t mind me – I am just putting the finishing touches on the layout. I do have to say though that this one is so far my favorite of all the “looks” the Web Hosting Show has had.

New WebHostingShow.com

So let me know what you think, and if there is anything you would like to see added – please be my guest and suggest. This Web site is as much yours as it is mine, so if you want to see something here please let me know.

Opinions, suggestions, ideas and complaints are always welcome.

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