Another article about how to protect your blog from hackers? Technically yes, but protecting your blog (if you’re a blogger) is extremely important and therefore I am recommending another article on this topic for all bloggers.

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File this one under the category of “incredibly fun way to waste lots of time”: CD cover design meme at Flickr. I have to admit, I don’t have a Flickr account so I don’t know all the ins and outs of Flickr but this meme might just be a better way to waste time than remixing music at JamGlue.

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Starbucks used to be an official T-Mobile Hotspot. Whatever agreement Starbucks and T-Mobile once had, it’s now over and Starbucks has turned to AT&T to provide in store Wi-Fi access. The new offering is more affordable, but it’s NOT free as some news sources are reporting. For a nice write up on the [...]

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Lots of people are running various types of web sites today in an attempt to earn a little extra cash. Some individuals are highly successful with their sites and earn enough to make running their site a full time job. Others earn nice “curtain money” (as the old saying goes). And others, [...]

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In some respects, the Internet is the “wild west” of bits and bytes. Anyone that steps into this digital frontier runs the risk of becoming a victim of some type of personal scam, malicious computer virus, or insidious malware undermining their computer. And with an individual’s increased involvement in the “digital wild west” comes an increased risk of falling victim to some cyber annoyance/crime. Blogging is one of the ways of increasing your risk to becoming a cyber victim; however, there are some steps bloggers can do to “beef-up” their security.

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For another great example of “decision makers” from big business making all the wrong moves, you’ve got to check out Don MacAskill’s (SmugBlog) post about why traditional print media is doomed. It’s an entertain well written commentary on the mistakes of traditional print media.

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Ever want to dabble with music remixing but didn’t want to lay out the cash to be the necessary software? If so, then you should really check out JamGlue.
JamGlue is a free online music remixing application built using Amazon Web Services. The feature set is somewhat limited when compared to traditional music mixing software; however, [...]

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I was doing some automated web page retrieval work and needed to look inside the javascript on the page I was trying to retrieve. Since the javascript was referenced in an external file, it wasn’t easily seen when I examined the HTML page source. I installed an extension for FireFox but it started to make my browser hang. I disabled the extension and looked for a different option. What I found was simply amazing: Web Development Bookmarks.

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First, I must admit that I am a member of the Snapfish affiliate program, and if you click on the ad banner at the bottom of this post and sign up, I will get something from Snapfish. That being said, I decided to make this offer from Snapfish a Friday Find because it does seem [...]

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Christmas brings gifts and some of those gifts just might be a new iPod for someone. That’s great for the person getting the new iPod but what happens if that person lives in a house where there is a single “family PC” and someone else in the house already has an iPod? Can two iPods happily co-exist on the same computer? According to this support document from Apple, the answer is yes.

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