Archive | October, 2007

Mitchelaneous Moving Day

Oct/14 in Personal

Moving DayIf you can see this, that means my move from web host to web host was a success! I’ve decided to move away from my home for the past few years, Hostaga to my account over at FastServers.net due to technical reasons.

I want to thank the folks over at Hostaga for hosting me for such a long time and if your looking for a host, I would recommend them. For better personal organization though wanted to get Mitchelaneous.com moved over to this server. Might take me a while to get back to posting so I can check and see if everything is working once the propagation of the domain is done -but hang in there, I shall return.

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Spooky October Wallpaper

Oct/12 in Desktop, Free Wallpaper

Halloween is just about the only time I bother to change my wallpaper to “match the season” and to get into the spirit of the festivities around. I couldn’t pass up sharing my official spooky wallpaper selection for October with all of you.

Still Thirsty is awesome Halloween wallpaper that won’t make you feel like an e-dork.

Spooky Wallpaper

Available in regular, widescreen an iPhone formats – you shouldn’t have problem finding one that will fill your screen resolution. Want to snazz up your Firefox? Check out my post about Halloween themes for the browser on Firefox Facts.

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Pin Windows to Your Desktop

Oct/09 in Desktop Apps

Working support, I have to look at a multitude of programs and windows on my desktop every single day. Now sure, I would like to pin certain things on top and let other things fall to the bottom of the window stack. The question is – is there an easy way to get that done?

DeskPinsThe best program I have found to do just that is DeskPins. This freeware application allows you to put simple pins in the corner of your windows to keep some things on top. Here is some more information on it from the developers of the program:

DeskPins can be used to make any application topmost, that is, to keep it above all other windows. Just grab a pin from the DeskPins icon in the system notification area (a.k.a. taskbar tray) and click on any window.

This adds the “always on top” functionality to every program you use. If you have Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and you want to organize your desktop clutter this is one good way of getting it done.

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What Was Popular Last Month?

Oct/07 in Hot Web Topics

It is always interesting to see what posts make the popular list and which ones do not. For obvious reasons, my post on Candice Michelle wallpaper is a traffic grabber for obvious reasons.

Here are some of my most popular posts for the last month or so.

As you can see it is all over the board. Popularity can be a funny thing sometimes.

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Helping to Build a Great Resource

Oct/05 in Web Development Tutorials

When leaving Lockergnome and mainly the web developer newsletter, I was sad to see it go. Now though I am excited to drive the working and dedication to a new project – helping to build up Lunarpages Lunartics blog. This blog is the official blog of Lunarpages, and I think I have done some good things for it.

Covering topics like learning the basics of HTML might be shunned some places, but due to the nature of being a helpful resource for both hosting experts and novices, I have a better and bigger chance to write for a wider range of subjects.

Now don’t get me wrong – I highly doubt I am a really huge factor either way for it’s slowly growing success, I am just happy to be along for the ride and helping people who need it.

Lunarpages customer or not, I would highly suggest subscribing to the RSS feed for Lunartics and if you have any feedback, suggestions, thoughts or anything else – you know me I am an open book and easy to get a hold of.

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Top Host Deals = hosting + digg?

Oct/03 in Web Hosting

Top Host Deals

So will Top Host Deals become the digg of the web hosting world? Well there is a little ‘bit of competition out there in the market – ok, by competition I mean one other hosting deal social site Hostigg.com.

Top Host Deals looks nice and look as if it hit all the major high points to be a leader in this area of the web. You have the highest voted hosting deals. You have upcoming or just submitted deals. You have categories to help you trim down your search.

Now that Top Host Deals is out of the gate, I will be interested in seeing what they do to separate themselves from the crowd.

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Web Hosting Sucks

Oct/02 in Web Hosting

Are there something about web hosting that suck? Sure – and I hit on a few hot topics that I have already gotten some interest e-mails about on yesterday’s broadcast of the Web Hosting Show podcast.

Tune in and make the judgment for yourself. From customers to web hosts themselves I did my best to pull no punches. Here are just a few more topics of interest from this week’s podcast:

  • Does the Web Hosting Industry Need a Governing Body?
  • Give AOL’s Xdrive Another Shot, Really! Please?
  • A Few Customer Relation Tips for any Web Hosting Worker

I’m also happy to say the Web Hosting Show made it onto the top 50 hosting blogs list over at VirtualHosting.com. Many thanks!

Download the MP3 | Check Out the Show Notes

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Turn Off YouTube Spam

Oct/02 in Hot Web Topics

YouTube Spam?

Anybody else getting more YouTube spam lately?

I have noticed a few more trickling in lately – so decided to do something about it. If you go visit your My Account page and hunt for around 10 minutes you will find a link for E-mail Options. From there, you can set YouTube to “Don’t send any emails for the above events”.

Hit save, and you should be all fixed up. No offense lovemeChristy72, your just not my kind of girl though.

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Netvibes vs iGoogle

Oct/01 in Online Apps

Netvibes WinsI have been playing with a number of start pages these days, and I have to say I am about ready to make a switch. It seems like over time iGoogle seems to be getting slower to load. I don’t have many things on it – maybe four thingies, widgets, gadgets.

So now I am looking at some of the competition and I have to say only one has impressed me thus far.

Netvibes is becoming king of the start pages, if you like customization, speed and cool tools to use. Now I don’t need a lot to get going – but it is nice to see they have tons of tools to add.

What does Netvibes Have that iGoogle Does Not?

  • More Customization Options for the Web Page
  • Quicker Loading Times Overall

Only reason I can see for using iGoogle is to use their specialty gadgets for Gmail and Google Reader. So am I making the right choice? Is there one that even blows Netvibes out of the water?

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