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What is RSS? – A Non Technical Intro

There has been a lot of talk in the web world about RSS lately and there are lots of sites that tell you what it is, however I’m going to try and explain it in an easy to understand way. RSS, Really Simple Syndication, is a way for a web site to condense their content, […]

OS X Tiger is Ready To Pounce

With all the excitement of my car spewing gas and all, I almost missed finding out that Mac OS X 10.4 is shipping at the end of the month! With over 200 new features, I’m all excited. More details later, as I don’t have time now.

Blocking Referrer Spam Success!

I’ve been going nuts trying to find a way to stop, or block, referrer spam. And I’m having success! Referrer Karma does the trick. I had issues with it at first because I also had referrer bouncer enabled and they were not working well together. Now I just have referrer karma and the referrer spam […]

Blogs are like email, gotta try them all.

I’ve decided that blogs are becoming like email. Everyone is giving out free accounts and it seems like there is always a new feature at one that another doesn’t have. So I end up having many different blogs where I play for a while and then forget about. I’ve tried Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, some SEO […]

Google Satellite Search with Maps!!

Google just released Satellite search that goes along with Google maps! What does this mean? It means that instead of lines that represent roads, you can now see actually roads, buildings and trees. Checkout the screen shot of Hopkins Minnesota Google acquired this technology when they bought Keyhole Satellite imaging software not long ago. It’s […]

Yahoo 360

So they launched Yahoo 360 today and I got my hands on an invite and have just started playing with it. You can check out my Yahoo 360 page. So far, I’m having trouble getting the short url to work, however I did write support. Not much to talk about yet as I’ve only had […]

New Safari Firefox Theme

A new Safari like Firefox theme as surfaced and it’s absolutely beautiful. Check out Aronnax’s Firefox themes and you’ll find GrApple (Brushed). Currently it’s only version 0.5 but it’s better than any other Safari type Firefox theme I’ve seen. 😀

Pimp Out Safari with Plugins and Customizations

John Hicks decided that Firefox users shouldn’t have all the fun. There are lots of customization, theme and extension pages for Firefox but nothing really for Safari so he did something about it. Pimp My Safari is the result. A site dedicated to Apple’s Safari web browser and the plugins and customizations available for it. […]

Netgear Wireless Router WGR614

What a difference a router makes. We had a Belkin 2.4 GHz wireless router and it worked, just not the best. We often had down times and slow speeds. We blamed it on a few different sources before thinking that the router could be the issue. So I bought a Netgear 2.4 GHz wireless router […]