Although this has already been written about on TC, this is my own slant on it. Yesterday I’m over at Dave’s place for the weekly meeting, he loads up Google on the Mac and the Google home page shows this disgustingly huge background image, and the image itself was disgusting. It was some type of multi-colored beach ball thing. Dave’s exact...

If you visit the Google homepage regularly, a few weeks ago you probably noticed they published a Javascript version of Pacman as their Google logo. Much to the dismay of some employers (I’m sure), Google has made their Pacman tribute available indefinitely. If nothing else this is just a time killer and a fun way to pay homage to the iconic game. Just...

Office Live is the free (yes, free) version of Microsoft Office for the web. It is located at office.live.com. The only thing required to use it is a Windows Live account, which for most people means "Hotmail account". This is what it looks like once logged in:   You see your current documents, plus the ability to create new ones on the right. You...

When it comes to self hosted blog packages, WordPress is probably the most well known and widely used. While WordPress can be run on any web server, it is specifically developed to be deployed on Apache web servers. So for those of you who use Windows hosts and want a fully featured blog platform, take a look at BlogEngine.NET. BlogEngine.NET is an open source...

Giving the 10% of you out there who use the Safari browser a bit of love, today Apple released Safari 5 for download. I am a Firefox user, so I was curious about the new features offered by Safari and a few of them are actually pretty interesting:Safari Reader – this is a pretty good idea as it brings the content you are reading to the forefront while...

Whenever a new major version is released for one of the big browsers, there are typically several articles posted which pit them against each other to measure relative performance. So right on cue with the initial releases of Internet Explorer 9, here is a fairly objective comparison of the new browser to Firefox, Chrome and Safari (sorry no Opera). The...

When it comes to TLDs (top level domains, i.e. COM, NET, ORG, etc.) on the internet, several attempts have been made to generate the popularity of COM. All have failed, but that doesn’t mean the people who give us alternatives to COM stop trying. One of the weirder TLDs out there is TEL. This is billed as a mobile calling card of sorts.. I think. Right off...

A type of information that’s not the easiest to come across is finding where postal, i.e. ZIP code boundaries actually are. You would think that as vast as the internet is, that information would be readily available. True, you can use sites like this one to get ZIP boundary information, but what it lacks is the ability to mark spots on the map. Google...

If you follow tech news at all, for the past month you have probably seen plenty of the Apple vs. Adobe Flash battle royale. While Apple is standing behind it’s claim of choosing exclude Flash on their iDevices for stability reasons, an innovative group of developers appear to have come up with a solution which runs Flash via JavaScript: Smokescreen. While...

Due to it’s popularity, Facebook has become a breeding ground for widespread malware and phishing attacks. One such vehicle for these attacks is the use of Facebook Apps. Apps can be particularly dangerous because they can tap into your personal information and hand it over to the app’s developer to use for who knows what. For a good tip on how to...