Twitter is a service which really baffles me. It is an absolute killer idea, but I am still astounded by the volume of traffic it has. I find it very useful for a number of things. It can automate some tasks, you can keep a personal log of things you’ve done, you can use itto [...]
Load your advertisements after your content
I didn’t have much use for loading ads after my content, since on most of my sites and those I worked on, they were near the end of the code anyway, but while working on a site today I ran into a problem. There is an ad at the top of the design which tends [...]
Billy a simple but awesome music player
We had a look at how you use your medial player not long ago and I’ve taken a look at some of the ones you mentioned I particularly liked Billy (thanks for the tip Xaro), a no-frills (but also no complications) music player, which does exactly what I want it to do. Play my music [...]
Create an automated XP install with nlite
In today’s world of internet connections and everything readily available at the push of a button, do we really need 1Gb of printer drivers? Ok, that goes for Vista, not XP, but XP still has a bunch of camera drivers, printer drivers, scanning devices and a whole lot of things we don’t ever need, since [...]
Schedule future tweets with Twuffer
If you use Twitter personally or as an organization, you might want the ability to post tweets for the future, or schedule a number of them. You might not be able to sleep without twittering once an hour, you might be doing an important marketing campaign, whatever the reason, Twuffer is great at what it [...]
How do you read your email?
We’ve been learning a lot about you guys in the past weeks, and I think this will be one of my favorite questions, since productive emailing can reward you with a huge time advantage, perhaps you guys have some secret email management skills out there! Basically what I am asking this time, is do you [...]
Count your keystrokes every day
If you do any work on your computer, especially if you do some sort of writing, a keystroke counter isn’t just a fun tool for stats, it can be a serious output measurement device. I’ve taken a look at some tools available to do this, and surprisingly there is not too much out there. Two [...]
WordPress template tags you should know
If you run a WordPress blog, you will eventually want to make some modifications to your theme. Perhaps you want to show your tags, not just categories, perhaps you want the date in a different format, you might want to add the URL of the author to each post, there are a lot of things [...]
How do you use instant messaging?
First we had a look at how you all use your browser, then how you listen to music and watch videos, now it’s time to find out about instant messaging! With all the IM apps out there you could be using any one, or any combination, from web based, to desktop based, from one service, [...]