Archive for February, 2008
· February 29, 2008 at 6:19 am · Online Tools
Ever wonder how fast you could type? I remember in middle school learning on these old DOS games how to type, and here lately I have been looking for something equal to those to help tech my nephews the same skills. Keybr.com is an awesome free solution that just might save my day and answer [...]
· February 28, 2008 at 9:24 am · Web Development
How does it go again, if you can’t beat them – join them? How about copying them instead? There seem to be a lot of clone scripts out there for some of the more popular destinations on the Web.
Attack of the Web 2.0 Clones!
Del.icio.us Clone? Scuttle
Digg Clone? Pligg
MySpace Clone? [...]
· February 28, 2008 at 6:10 am · Free Hosting
I have another free hosting tool that you might want to give for a spin. UploadPedia is the most recent to catch my attention. You can upload up to 100 files at once, with the max being 100 MB. One interesting thing that they do is list all the top downloads and recent [...]
· February 27, 2008 at 6:55 am · Online Tools
I have friends that come to me and say…
"Ok Mitch, I got a Twitter account, now what?"
Many people look at Twitter and either don’t understand it or use it to give me a summary of what they had for breakfast (just in case you were wondering, I had toast). Here are five ways [...]
· February 27, 2008 at 6:25 am · Software Help
If you are looking for free software that makes creating an RSS feed as easy as filling in a few blanks inside of a program, then look no further than RSS Builder. This simple program will make it easy to generate an RSS feed for your web site.
It provides an easy to use [...]
· February 26, 2008 at 6:30 am · Hot Web Topics
I always love things a little outside your average realm of normalcy, and that is the reason why this project caught my eye. RuberBandTogether.com (as a part of the Stanford Entrepreneurship week Innovation Challenge) has set out to create the largest ball of rubber bands ever.
This whole thing reminds me of the big [...]
· February 25, 2008 at 9:00 am · Web Development
It isn’t a big secret that I love WordPress and feel like it could be used for just about any project out there, blog or not. There are a lot of guides out there on how to install WordPress, but not many tell you what to do after you get it on the [...]
· February 25, 2008 at 5:58 am · Personal, Web Hosting
This week marks the 3rd birthday of the Web Hosting Show podcast. Three years later and 143+ podcasts recorded, I think we are still going strong and thankfully can continue to say we are the number one web hosting podcast out there today and the one and only voice of the web hosting world.
Here is [...]
· February 22, 2008 at 6:54 am · Web Development
Fonts always confusing me when it comes to editing or creating a stylesheet for a web site layout. Thanks to CSS Type Set this is no longer an issue.
To use, just fire up the web site and paste in the text you wish to style. Then use the controls at the bottom of [...]
· February 21, 2008 at 9:30 am · Free Hosting
Looking for a free place to park your wiki? The people at Wikidot.com are putting out a product that looks highly impressive. For those of you who may be outside of the Web lingo world:
A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often [...]