Archive | 2009

Your Own Online Egg Timer

Nov/17 in Online Apps

An Online Egg Timer

Having a timer can come in handy for all types of jobs.  Lets say you wanted to work on your novel for just one hour a day, or perhaps you needed to get up from the computer a stretch a little bit every 30 minutes?  The online tool, e.ggtimer.com is perfect for that.

An egg timer, for those who have never heard of such a device, is something that’s function is to measure a set amount of time.  Where do eggs come into the picture?  It is most commonly used to aid in cooking an egg in water.  What e.ggtimer.com does is it brings that classic idea to the Web.

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10 Wonderful Web Site Widget Resources

Nov/16 in Online Apps, Web Development Tutorials

Best Web Site Widgets

There are many services out there that offer widgets you can embed into your own web site layouts.  How do you know which ones are the best?  Well, I am not an expert. Since this is the Internet though, I can pretend.

Here are my top 10 favorite widget related web sites.

Widgetbox – Tons of free widgets to put on your site.

LinkWithin – Post related stories and thumbnails on your web site.

ShoutMix – Free shoutbox/tagboard chat widget.

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Style, Grammar and Spell Checker for WordPress

Nov/13 in Online Apps

Free Style, Grammar and Spell Checker

Everybody can use a little help when it comes to writing.  After the Deadline is a plugin for WordPress, that is like your own little sixth grade grammar book, living inside your content management system.   They use artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find errors in your writing and to offer smart suggestions to correct them.

So, what all does After the Deadline do?

  • Checks for Spelling Mistakes
  • Detects Misused Words and Common English Errors
  • Checks the Style of Writing
  • Checks for Common Grammar Errors

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Get E-mail Alerts for Twitter Lists Keywords

Nov/12 in Online Apps

Get Keyword Updates for Twitter Lists

The new lists feature (that was added to Twitter a while back) has made it easier for you to share your favorite groups of people, and track their tweets.  What Listiti brings to the table is free e-mail alerts when somebody, on a predefined list, references a keyword you wish to follow.

For example, you have a large list of every web host on Twitter, and you wanted to be notified when one of them mentions the word, “coupon”.  You would tell Listiti that your list was located at mitchkeeler/webhosts, give them the keyword, “coupon” , and then hand over your e-mail address you wish to be notified at. 

For the people who create the lists, they also provide badges for you to use to promote the lists you have created.  Overall, Listiti brings a few beneficial features to this new Twitter feature, that the Twitter team does not provide by default. 

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Happy 5th Birthday to Mitchelaneous.com

Nov/11 in Personal

Firefox isn’t the only thing celebrating it’s fifth birthday this year.  This very blog, Mitchelaneous.com, is also now half a decade old.  As one of my oldest web sites still in existence, I have much love for the web site that really inspired me to write more.

Mitchelaneous back in 2004

Thanks to the powers of the Wayback Machine, here is the earliest layout I can find for Mitchelaneous (then hosted as a part of the lockergnome.net blogs). Actually, you could probably say that Chris Pirillo (and the old Lockergnome team of writers) played a big part in this web site’s existence.

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Have You Simply Failed?

Nov/10 in Hot Web Topics, Online Apps

Funny Failures Think you have it tough?  You ain’t got it tough.  The people who have it tough are on SimplyFailed.com.  This is an entire web site dedicated to the idea of not succeeding.  You can become a fan of them via Facebook, Follow them via Twitter, read through the stories or post your own.

Here are just a few of my favorite “fails” from the web site:

  • Fail is when you dress up as gangster and think you run the streets. The sad part is that you live in the suburbs in a nice house and your dads an engineer & mom’s a doctor.
  • Fail is when your sitting in a class room and your teacher talks to you for 5 minutes , showing you the linux operating system….after 5 mins you up your hand and ask “Is that windows vista?”
  • Fail is when an employee writes how much she hates work on Twitter and fails to notice that anyone can read those tweets and her boss (Me) is following her.

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Sticky Post Help in WordPress

Nov/09 in Web Development Tutorials

Sticky Posts in WordPress

Sticky posts, will let you bump a story to the top of the homepage – without the need of editing the time stamp over and over again.  This is handy for me, because with the Web Hosting Show’s site, I wanted to keep the most recent podcast pinned to the top of WebHostingShow.com – with new content following bellow it.  With a little template editing, WordPress interface knowledge and some hard work – you can do the same.

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Share Your Feed on Multiple Social Networks

Nov/06 in Hot Web Topics, Online Apps

Want to learn how to instantly plug new posts from your RSS feed into all the social networks you are a member of?  Follow these simple steps and you can share your new blog posts on Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, MySpace and many more services instantly, without having to lift a single finger.

Ok, first you are going to have to register and setup some accounts.  Do so at Ping.fm and TwitterFeed.com.   TwitterFeed.com will allow you to plug your RSS feeds into it to automatic sharing, and then you can plug your TwitterFeed.com account into Ping.fm – so it take your RSS posts, and shares them on the dozens of social network sites out there.

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Tweetin’ Twitter Radio

Nov/05 in Online Apps

Twitter Radio?

This has to be the trippiest use of Twitter I have seen yet.  TweetRad.io will let you listen to what others are tweeting about, using what they call “tweet-to-speech” technology.  Pick one of the options they have featured across the top of the page, tech, news, sports, funny, featured or search for any phrase then wait a few seconds.  Soon, your browser will be displaying and reading tweets out to you.

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Mario and Yoshi Desktop Icon

Nov/04 in Custom Icons, Desktop

While checking out some of the press art for  New Super Mario Bros Wii, I saw this classic picture of Mario and Yoshi that I just couldn’t pass up.  I thought to myself, that would make one heck of a nice desktop icon to add to my collection… and the rest, my friends – is history.

Download the Mario and Yoshi Desktop Icon!

Download the Mario and Yoshi Desktop Icon! (.zip)

The icon is compatible with the following sizes:  256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16.  It is also in both .ico and .png format.

More Free Icons – Enjoy this icon? Be sure to check out my archive of custom icons I have created to share with all the citizens of Mitchelaneous-land.  Feel free to download, share, and use any of them.  The only thing I ask for in return is a cheap and shameless plug or two thrown back my way.

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