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Turning Twitter.com into a nice standalone app with inline images.

  • 20 Mar, 2013

Twitter’s website has a lot of nice features but it’s not really a Twitter app that most people think of. However, with some CSS and JavaScript you can take all the features of Twitter.com, add in some additional ones, and make a pretty nice app. The first thing I did was create a Fluid app […]

Does the end of Google Reader kill my productivity? Probably not.

  • 14 Mar, 2013

When I heard that Google was killing Reader, I was shocked. It’s one of my most used services. I’m a power user. I check Reader at least twice a day, if not more. I use it to track 84 different website with hundreds of stories a day; over 5,000 stories in the past 30 days […]

Quick fix for iOS 6’s internet connection issue.

  • 28 Feb, 2013

When we returned home from vacation, our iPhones connected right up to our wireless, but they couldn’t load any websites. I was quite confused as nothing had changed with our wireless, but it failed to work; yet the computer worked just fine. Turns out, the issue was with the DNS. A quick update to the […]

Why is finding books so hard in iOS book apps?

  • 20 Feb, 2013

I can’t quite figure out why the three leading eBook companies make it so hard to find books on the iPad. The other day my daughter wanted a princess book so I opened up iBooks on the iPad and searched. I could search for books in the store, but, much to my surprise, I could not […]

Props to Microsoft for making a sweet Internet Explorer Ad

  • 25 Jan, 2013

Microsoft seems to have hired a good advertising company for Internet Explorer. The recent ads have been pretty good and their recent ad is kinda awesome. How do you reach your target audience? Well with sweet 90s references of course. Sadly, after this pretty sweet ad, I remember than IE for Mac died in 2003. Oh […]

Making Facebook application tabs mobile friendly. Kind of.

  • 18 Oct, 2012

Facebook and mobile don’t go hand in hand when it comes to creating page tab applications. Facebook actually doesn’t show app tabs on mobile at all. Facebook does work with mobile when it comes to creating Facebook applications. To clarify: Page Tab Apps have URLs that look like this: https://www.facebook.com/pagename/app_0123456789 Facebook Apps have URLs that […]

Jetpack is a free and easy way to block spam on your WordPress site.

  • 2 Oct, 2012

If you’ve got a WordPress site, then you have spam. It’s auto generated and hits everyone. A free and easy way to block most of that spam is to get the Jetpack plugin and enable comments. Jetpack will then take over your comments. It’s like using a third-party service where the service is WordPress. When […]