Ubunturd!
I wish I had a clue of what the designs behind Ubuntu were thinking – the interface was already ugly and now they want to go uglier?

As I mentioned in the comments over on CyberNet, this is one reason why I am personally looking a lot more at linuxmint.com and the like.

Have a big block of text you need to send to a friend?  What about a list of URLs or another miscellaneous reason to copy and paste something over from any sort of document to a friend?  TinyPaste is here to help.

To use, all you need to do is copy any text you have [...]

There is another neat web application that has caught my eye this week.  Kwout allows you to "quote" a part of a web page by cutting out a piece of it to post to your own web site.  You can post to Flickr, Tumblr or your web site with the easy to use embed code [...]

PrimoPDF if a great tool to have in hand, if you need to do some printing but you don’t really want to have a paper copy laying around.  This is a free tool that outputs high-quality PDFs.  The very easy to understand user interface scores tons of points for me too.  You also have [...]

Over the past few days I have been playing a lot of the Wii’s Zapper games.  The light gun attachment for the Wii is a lot of fun to use, and I wanted to make sure I got my money’s worth on the deal.  Here are some of the best Wii Zapper compatible games I [...]

With Firefox 3 out, now I need something else to look forward to in the area of tech.  Hmm, WordPress is already working on version 2.6 you say?  I like WordPress, and the hinted at list of new features looks to be building on an already solid 2.5.
Here are a few things to look forward [...]

Time you learned how to defend yourself, isn’t it?  The only catch this time around is you must have a walking stick with you at all times.  Ok, so maybe we don’t all do that anymore but after reading this article on the issue I am looking at the idea of bringing it back [...]

Looks like my post-Firefox 3 bump in stats is starting to come to an end for Firefox Facts.   While the madness was going on (one post got up to 80+ comments!) I came up with a few tactics to try to milk the proverbial press cow as long as I could.
Watch where people are [...]

I always like to check out the new services out there and one of the new ones to catch my socializing eye is Second Brain.  It is another place that promises to be a “catch all” for all of your social content on the Web.  Supporting everything from Flickr to Twitter you can import [...]

Back a few weeks I decided I’d upgrade to DirecTV’s HD lineup.  This of course meant I would have to get two new boxes for my house (one regular DirecTV DVR and one HD DVR) and a new dish.  Ever since then I have almost been kicking myself because DirecTV’s customer service has… well, totally [...]