How to Release Software Updates Without Pissing Off Your Customers
You can please some of the people some of the time. But a poorly managed …
Is The Internet Shutting Down on Monday?
Not exactly. I’ve been slammed with questions about the Internet shutting down on Monday. Fact: …
How To Add Emoji's Graphical Emoticons to your iPhone Text Messages for FREE
Oh my god we’ve evolved! You may have heard that Emoji is now natively supported …
How to Make Your iPhone LED Light Flash to Alert You of Incoming Messages
While drinking beer and basically making nuisances of ourselves the other night I noticed my …
New Install of WordPress on 1and1 Appears as Forbidden When You Try To Access From A Browser
This has been an issue I’ve run into during the last 3 installs of WordPress …
How to Be a Better Project Manager
Economics, at its core, is the management of scarcity. Project management is exactly the same …
Mismatched Headlines and Banners
Sometimes auto-generated headlines and images for Banner Ads are complete mismatches. Here is one I …
What Kindle Needs: Unified Cloud Storage of All Notes and Highlights
Dear Amazon, I’ve been a Kindle reader since September 2010. I love it. The point …
Totalitarian Regimes and Technology a Note about North Korea's Rocket Program
If there is one thing that History has taught us…it’s that while totalitarian regimes enslave, murder …
Can You Tell Anything About A Person Based On The Domains They've Registered?
Every year Godaddy reminds me that I have a habit–a costly obsession. Some people collect …
The Best Books I Read in 2011
Your 2011 might have been BIG. Or your 2011 might have been small. Mine was …
The Folly in Believing an Expensive Website Will Save Your Business
This is a letter I wrote to a friend of mine earlier this week. Of …
How to Fix a Kindle that Won't Download Books From Your Archived Items
So you’ve got a new book in your Archived items on your Kindle. But for …
The 5 iPad Games That Are Nearly as Addicting as Angry Birds
With over 71% of iPad owners playing games, it’s no wonder the top articles on my …
How to Prototype A Website in 10 Minutes (Or Less)
Traditionally, designers have used static mockups and flow diagrams to demonstrate how a website will …
How To Use Computer Text To Speech To Proof Your Writing
Proofreading is a bitch. Typos are the bane of my existence. So how are you expected …
How To Protect Your Files On Dropbox
So cloud computing is all the rage. It has swooped in and lulled us en …
How To Use A Bluetooth Keyboard With Two Devices
This issue came up for me when I purchased an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. The reason …
How to Play Pirate's Dice
While in Germany we were introduced to this simple pub game. They call it Mäxchen, …
How To Exclude An Image From Your WordPress Gallery
If you’ve ever added the Gallery to one of your WordPress Posts, you might have …
How To Make A Paper Boat
Here is some good clean fun for your inner Napoleon. How to make a paper …
How to Create a Website For Under $100 That Doesn't Suck
So you need a website and you don’t have a bunch of money to sink …
Locate Your iPhone or iPad for FREE
Using Apple’s MobileMe to locate your iphone or ipad is now free. Has been for …
Metadata is a Beautiful Thing
I’m sitting here listening to an Underworld song. I just spent 5 minutes scanning my iTunes …
The Secret to Delivering Online Video That Doesn't Buffer
Throughout 2008 and most of 2010 I was engaged in producing dozens of online videos. …
How To Backup Your Entire Facebook Profile
Fellow Facebookers take heed. What would happen if your entire Facebook profile including friends, posts, …
Ditching Delicious for Pinboard
I was a Delicious addict until my Firefox got so junked up with plugins that …
5 Reasons Why You Should Pay for Pandora
I admit it. I’ve been sucking off the Pandora Internet music service teat for the …
Apple App Store Opens on the Mac
Any of you Apple-owning iPhone or iPad users out there will appreciate the latest Mac …
5 Adventure Games Worth Your Time on the iPad
It seems that adventure games are making a comeback due to the iPad. I once …
10 iPad Apps You Shoulda Got In 2010
It’s just 2011 but my head (and my laptop’s power supply) are still stuck in …
10 Top Books for the Modern Geek
Daemon By Daniel Suarez If you know the difference between FTP, MMORPG and FMRI, then …
How To Lose Friends and Destroy Machines: Forward Chain Emails
Warning! Your email is full of hoaxes, urban legends and scams… and you’re the one …
5 Reasons Why You Need To Plug Your iPad Into A Computer
Saying how great the iPad is, is so…September 2010. We’re well past that. However a …
Monitor Suddenly Turns Black & White
Some funny people like to play jokes on others by screwing with their computers. Personally, …
Avoid Big Phone Bills Using The iPhone Overseas (No Jailbreaking Necessary)
Traveling abroad with your iphone can be scary. Not for any other reason than you …
Parallels Vs. VMware
Ever since I scored a copy of Parallels during the MacHeist sale, I’ve been using …
If You're Not Cloning Your Drive, Your Backup Won't Save You Any Time.
I clone therefore I am. The other day a friend of mine lost his hard …
VMWare Reboot
For those times when NOTHING will restart your VMWare Win XP virtual machine. This is …
Upgrading Your Black MacBook
Are you ready to put your Mac laptop on an iceberg and send it off …
Mac Vs. Pc Fight Inspired by Transformers
This is an oldie…but I just love it.
Quotes from How We Decide
“The cacophony of reality is distilled into models of correlation that allow the brain to …
Fun About Driving in Phoenix
This is a reprint from an email I got tonight: Only someone from the Phoenix …
Giving Up Dropio for YouSendIt
Transferring large files to someone over the Internet can be a pain in the butt. …
Make your WordPress iphone Friendly
Wouldn’t it be nice if your blog could detect if it’s being visited by a …
Villains of Stickiness
In the book Made To Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath the authors do …
Why 1and1 deleted one of my domains
Let me start by saying that I like 1and1 for my hosting. It’s pretty much …
to iPad or not to iPad
The other day I was asked if I was going to buy an iPad. Here …
What is a good CMS?
Someone on Linkedin asked this question the other day. Here was my response… I’ve had …
July 21, 2012
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