Sep 26, 2007

With the popularity of online video there has been a rise in the need for royalty free music to use in videos. Using music from your favorite band or artists can lead to your video being removed from video sharing sites, such as YouTube, for copywrite infringment. While I have

Sep 25, 2007

Problogger was running a poll last week to see if people preferred full or partial RSS feeds. The results are in with 75% of the respondents liking full feeds better than partial feeds. I personally have to agree with the poll results. I prefer full RSS feeds, especially now that I

Sep 25, 2007

BlogRush came out with a frenzy, and it did not take long to be realized that it is a huge target for spammers and people who want to game the system. From all forms of cheating like hiding the widget on pages, creating custom RSS feeds just to display on

Sep 24, 2007

I like to make my CSS menus from scratch, but if you want to save yourself some time here are a couple of resources you should know about. First, is the classic Listamatic and Listamatic 2. Those two resources alone will give you enough to start building all types of menus.

Sep 21, 2007

I was looking for a free plugin for Photoshop yesterday and came across this list of free plugins and filters over at Brown Thoughts. There were some on the list I had never heard of, like the Virtual Photographer. I really liked that one. I got so caught up in playing

Sep 21, 2007

This made me laugh tonight. I don't spend much time on Digg or Reddit mainly because I have other things that need to be done. When I do surf I am much more of a Stumbleupon user, who just likes to channel surf. This is a great explanation about why I

Sep 21, 2007

I have been resistant to using another program for reading RSS feeds, but I have been collecting a large number of subscriptions using Firefox's Live bookmarking feature. Not a great way to keep up with all of the feeds, so I wanted to make the jump to using Google Reader.

Sep 20, 2007

If you have never heard of Woot I would be surprised. It is an interesting site where they sell one item a day until it is sold out. Usually it is some type of gadget or computer item, but not always. It is a unique concept that gets people coming

Sep 20, 2007

I, like most people, love contests for free stuff. They sucker draw me in every time. If you are running a tech website or blog it can be very easy to come up with ideas for prizes to give away, simply look for the latest computer gadget or addon that

Sep 19, 2007

I have two beautiful children, Matthew who is almost four and Erica who is going to be two in December. I rejoiced when my son was finally potty trained, and if things go like we expect my little girl will be out of diapers sooner than my son. It meant