Research Web Pages Smarter with Scrible

May 5, 2011 | One Comment

If you’re a fan of Evernote, you’re going to love Scrible. This simple-to-use bookmarklet will make your research SO much easier. It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to find something for school or work… Scrible will be able to help you mark what you need in a way that makes sense to you. It may [...]

Block Your Ex From the Internet

Jul 9, 2010 | No Comments

Sometimes, breaking up is hard to do. In the age of sharing our lives online, breaking up is even harder. Quite often, our ex is shoved in our faces via the computer screen every time we log into our favorite websites. If you were connected in several different places, it may be difficult (emotionally, as [...]

It’s Time to Use a Different Browser When…

Jun 18, 2010 | 8 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Over on Lockergnome.net, Michael asked people which web browser they prefer, and why. This is something I am asked constantly. It certainly seems as though everyone has a definite preference: there are over a thousand views on that question alone, and [...]

How to Share URLs

Jun 18, 2010 | 2 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Dylan recorded this screencast for the community to pass along his favorite method of sharing website URLs quickly and easily. Shareaholic is a plugin that works with nearly every browser, and makes sharing simple. You’ll be able to share your link [...]

Block Ads in Safari

Feb 11, 2010 | No Comments

Many people prefer to enhance their browsing experience by adding features such as AdBlocking. With Safari, that is more difficult to do than it is with other browsers. Several of you also choose to block Flash applications, using plugins such as NoScript. However, Alex wrote in to tell all of you about a much easier-to-use [...]

How to Improve Internet Explorer

Sep 26, 2009 | 4 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Back in the day, I used to love Internet Explorer. It was awesome… up until version 4 and above. A lot of people out there still use IE, and will continue to do so. You can install a new plugin that [...]

How to Create Art from Digital Photos

May 26, 2009 | 4 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Someone decided to print a digital photo, and then turn it into a work of art by placing it on canvas. They also applied styles to it to make it look as though it had been painted. If you look at [...]

Do You Need a Better Blog Search Tool?

Dec 17, 2008 | One Comment

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed You know my name, and you know how to find me. If you look at my blog, you know that I run WordPress as my blogging platform. I host my blog myself, and it works quite well for the most part. [...]

An Essential Firefox Add-on

Jun 17, 2008 | 17 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed What page do you use in your default Web browser as your “start” page? Have you bothered to change it from the browser’s start page? As you know, Firefox 3 was officially released on the day this video is being posted. [...]

How to Make an iPhone Web Site and Icon

Jun 11, 2008 | 15 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Yes, I have an iPhone. If you look closely, you can see my little Chris icon on there. It’s also on my home screen. When I tap it, it opens my blog. When you open my blog on your iPhone, it’s [...]

Over 300 Tag Searches in One Spot

Jun 15, 2006 | 3 Comments

Don’t expect every one of these searches to yeild results, though. The output was generated by a single OPML file and the Optimal OPML WordPress Plugin. Looking for other easy ways to display the OPML from Gada.be right now. Hell, entirely new sites could be built on top of the OPML we produce – much [...]

From BlogWare to WordPress – Part Deux

May 19, 2006 | 4 Comments

Getting the code out of BlogWare and into WordPress was one thing. Getting everything else to work well has been something of a task. All my old URLs didn’t have any helpful keywords in them, so the 404 redirect script I found wasn’t working as effectively as it might have. Shayne pointed out that both [...]

Cleaning Up Old Posts

May 16, 2006 | 2 Comments

Here’s what I need: a WordPress plugin that will go through old posts and comments, detect where there’s no blank lines between paragraphs, then insert a blank line for me. I’m sure there’s a complicated way to do it through MySQL, but Shayne and I have been trying to figure out how to do it [...]