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Oct 2, 2008

Optimizing images for the Internet can be a pain staking task to make the image as small as possible while still making it look as good as it can. Back in the day when everyone was on dialup web developers used to spend lots of time to make sure those ...

Oct 1, 2008

I talked about how to find out what websites are running on the same server before. There tag line is "everything about a website" and the results are impressive. The website does give you a lot of interesting information about a website. The results are broken down in to several categories: ...

Sep 2, 2008

Ever since Jott left beta I have noticed an increase in traffic here of people searching for a Jott promo code to save a few dollars on their Jott subscription. I like Jott, don't know if I will be signing up for Jott Pro quite yet. I just don't use ...

Aug 28, 2008

Many years ago in a web shop far far away I remember being shown how to create a background that tiled. It did not take me long to be able to create my own in Photoshop. Fast forward to today and you no longer need Photoshop to be able to ...

Aug 19, 2008

I have been using Google's GMail for all my email for roughly a year and a half now. It is great that I can access it from almost anywhere, including my mobile phone. I have always made sure I connected to GMail using SSL but reading Slashdot this morning I ...

Jul 20, 2008

I was Stumbling the other night and was lucky enough to Stumble onto Dipity. Dipity creates timelines from your content. It is a easy to sign up and get started. Once you are a member you can create timelines of all kinds of things. You are not limited to creating ...

Jul 10, 2008

I am still sorting through all the mail in my inbox and almost missed this one. If you are interested in checking out the WordZe keyword research tool you can save some money until July 14th. For only $4.00 you can try WordZe for the rest of July and then ...

Jun 11, 2008

I talked about VectorMagic way back in October, but I wanted to mention them again because they just saved me a couple hours of work. I had a client email me a logo and I needed to recreate it for the new website that we are working on. The copy ...

Jun 6, 2008

I was taking a look at YouTube earlier today and noticed I had another option available for my videos. You can now add annotations to your videos hosted on YouTube. There are currently three types of annotations: speech bubbles, notes and spotlights. You can add annotations to any of your ...

Jun 4, 2008

Writing for two blogs gets confusing sometimes. I post stuff over at Epiblogger that I really want to post here. This time I wrote a post about how to add Google Maps to your blog. Fortunately you can use the Google My Maps feature on any site so it is ...