I got an e-mail the other day from somebody wanting to know if I knew of any programs for Windows that would allow a user to get popup notifications when Google Reader was updated.
Want to keep up to date whenever your Google Reader has fresh new content to read through?  There are several browser plugins [...]

I have been a big fan of The Legend of Zelda series of video games for a long time, but could not for the life of me find and nice desktop icon of the Triforce.  For those of you who have no clue what I am talking about, Wikipedia comes to the rescue:
The Triforce consists [...]

There is a new poll, put out there by the WordPress team, seeing if you would like to change up the WordPress admin interface any. 
It seems like they would like to move all of the stuff currently across the top to the side, creating more room for you to view your pages inside of [...]

Abouthisite.com offers a very unique look at the world of domain lookups.  They not only give you the standard WhoIs-type information.  They also offer you homepage information, general information, location (with a map!), IP neighborhood, and a little frame to check it all out yourself within the web site layout.

It has plenty to love, [...]

I have always been a big fan of VideoLAN – VLC media player, and with the most recent upgrade it looks like the best just keeps getting better.
The biggest improvement over past versions is that the FLV support is much better.  So if you download a lot of YouTube (or any of the other [...]

There isn’t much more you can do to re-invent the search engine that others haven’t tried before in the past.  What you can do is improve on ideas that are already out there.  You have all seen the pages that search multiple search engines at once, and they all pretty much suck.  Well, I have [...]

Can’t wait to watch more Hurricane Ike coverage tonight. If your confused as to what I mean, check out this clip from Gerardo Rivera earlier on Fox News.

Hurricane Ike, 1. Silly newscaster, 0. Lets see what else develops tonight.

Out of all the years I have been using WordPress, I have probably not used one plugin more often than I have used Askimet.  Now that might be because it rocks, or because it came with WordPress, so it was kind of always “there”.  Love it or hate it, it does get the job [...]

Had a very fun podcast this week, all centralized around myself being a big cheapskate.
On today’s edition of the podcast I am going to teach you how to get your dollar’s worth in many different ways.  Do you really need to spend extra cash to add JSP to your hosting account?  Get four money free [...]

If you have been looking for an online service that does a little ‘bit of everything when it comes to shortening your content, Kissa.be might be the solution.
They not only offer URL shortening services (taking your long URL and creating a shorter one that is easier to share).  They also offer e-mail address shortening and [...]