September 20, 2011 – 20:05
So you’re putting those cool mp3′s online filled with great music. But when people download them, all they get to read off their fancy smartphone, iPod or mp3 player’s display is an ugly ass file name. Bummer. Wouldn’t it be sweet as pie if you’d see an album title scroll by, maybe even an artist [...]
September 7, 2011 – 20:53
Did you know that when you search on the popular search engines these days you’re actually doing that from inside a “search bubble”? Google, Bing and Yahoo all do it, to give you more tailored and “relevant to your interest” results. Let’s take Google for example, since most people are using that one anyway. They [...]
One of the cool things emerging from the gazillion web 2.0 sites that popped up like zits on an unfortunate teens face are websites where you can publish your stuff without creating accounts or registering in any way. Anonymous so to speak. Posting a quick snapshot online? Want to share a snippet of code? A [...]
Getting a new computer is awesome. Installing all your most frequently used and essential bits of Windows software on it isn’t. So I searched the web for something that could do this boring task for me. Computers are usually good at that. I remember using something called AppSnap in the past, but that hasn’t been [...]
Ran into this annoying bugger of a problem with Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 where every time I saved a file (any file, no matter how large or small it was) the GUI started reacting extremely slow on me. Menu’s didn’t react, keystrokes didn’t appear, scrolling didn’t work. It acted like a whole bunch [...]
I have this Android phone and it rocks. It rocks because it’s slick and fast and it allows me to does all this neato geek stuff I love so much. But then I press my home button and it takes the damn thing 6 to 7 seconds to display my home screen icons. The background [...]
If you’ve ever went to the trouble of setting up WordPress on a Windows machine yourself, going through a PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin installation, then sort through all the IIS crap you run into you’ll love TurnKey Linux virtual appliances (aka pre-installed virtual machine boxes). You can for example download a WordPress appliance which has [...]
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