Category: General

Yahoo Answers Rocks!

31 Jul, 2006

I wasn’t to interested when I read about Yahoo Answers launching, but after trying it, I’m very impressed. Not only is Yahoo Answers easy to use, it also gives very good answers and the turn around is anywhere from a few minutes to a day. I’ve asked two questions, one on cats and one on […]

Some Like it HOT

29 Jul, 2006

Some like it hot, the rest of us think this is a little to warm. Last nigh as we were driving back from a friends house, it was 86 degrees. The time? Midnight! With temperatures reaching 100 for the next few days, it’s amazing to hear on the weather that a cool down is coming. […]

Skype – Cheap Internet Phone Service

26 Jul, 2006

A few weeks back my wife broke her ankle and I started working from home more to help her out. The main problem with that was that all we have is cell phones. A few meetings on the cell phone and we’d be over our minutes. So I checked out Skype and found it to […]

Dropping Yojimbo for VoodooPad Lite

25 Jul, 2006

I’ve been looking into getting an application to clean up my desktop mess and I researched StickyBrain, MacJournal and Yojimbo. I like MacJournal and I’ve used it before, but I wanted to try something new, so I went with Yojimbo. Yojimbo is nice, works pretty good, but VoodooPad Lite came out and I found it […]

5 Reasons To & Not To Use Flock

20 Jul, 2006

Flock is an up-and-comming web browser. Based on Firefox’s rendering engine and having quite a few of the same qualities, Flock should be a contender as it works it’s way towards 1.0. However it has some good and some not so good qualities. Five Reasons To Use Flock 1) Nice Feed Reader – Granted, there […]

Are there any OPML syncing services?

19 Jul, 2006

As I bounce back and fourth between Firefox and Flock, I realize that I really need some sort of OPML syncing service. A quick Google and Yahoo search came up with nothing. Is there really no service to sync OPML files between browsers? I have Sage in Firefox and Flock has a nice built in […]

Google Desktop Sidebar Mac

17 Jul, 2006

Google Desktop has a fun sidebar feature that can be used to show off Google widgets. However, this is only available on Windows. Erica Joy (I think she works for Google) figured out a simple work-around. Well kind of. Since Firefox can load any web page in the sidebar, she said that you just have […]

New Ajax WordPress Plugins Installed

12 Jul, 2006

I’ve installed two new plugins that are Ajax based. Ajax Comments Great plugin that takes the refresh out of adding a comment to the site. It simply accepts the comment and adds it to the list without ever changing screens. Ajax LiveSearch This replaces my default search box with a live search box. Start typing […]

Nasty Fish : Zooomr Signup

10 Jul, 2006

I heard that Zooomr was giving out free pro accounts for signing up and blogging an image so I thought I’d join up. Still not sure how it all works, but I’m waiting for my free upgrade. 😉 For my first image, I looked back though some old photos and found a picture of a […]