From the monthly archives:

April 2007

If you have ever searched for that new song you can’t get enough of on Google, you’ll have noticed that often times imeem, a social music community, will be among the first results. You can generally find full-length songs on imeem, which is great for hearing an entire track before purchasing it somewhere like iTunes that has paltry 30-second song previews. However, [click to continue…]

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The NY Times has an in-depth article detailing an until now secretive 41-person startup in California with big plans. Vudu Inc will go head-to-head with other set-top boxes, such as the Apple TV, with their media device that instantly plays movies over the Internet, on TVs. [click to continue…]

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For the past 2 months, I have been visiting a new social bookmarking site called Startup News, a product of Paul Graham’s Y Combinator. Startup News is exemplary proof that small-scale, niche social bookmarking sites can work exceedingly well. As you might expect, Startup News is limited to [click to continue…]

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Earlier this week while working on a group project with a server we all shared, a relatively large CSS file was accidentally overwritten. We had been coding non-stop for a few days and hadn’t backed anything up. It would have been a major setback considering our project was due soon. Fortunately after a few minutes of ferocious searching, I came up [click to continue…]

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Every year, TIME magazine creates a list that showcases the most influential people who shape our world. Only 100 people can make the cut and TIME recently unveiled a list of 200 people from which the top 100 will be narrowed down. Go out and vote for people you deem worthy. As of this writing, the top 10 people are [click to continue…]

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Sponsored Review: Misk Domain Essentials

April 24, 2007

As I mentioned a few days ago, the best way to get your name out there is by having an online presence and setting up a website for yourself. So you’ve bought a domain for yourself, now what? Now you need to go on a quest to find reliable web hosting. If it’s your first [...]

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An Open Letter to the Google Docs Team

April 24, 2007

Dear Google Docs & Spreadsheets Team,
I am an active Google Docs user. I have been around since the Writely days and know everything there is to know about using Google Docs. For me, the collaborative writing feature is top-notch and I have given you many new users due to this feature alone. Whenever I have [...]

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New OpenDNS Feature Revolutionizes the Net

April 22, 2007

OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch just let me know about a new OpenDNS feature launching tomorrow simply called shortcuts. Similar to how your browser has bookmarks, OpenDNS shortcuts let you pair a word with a URL so that when you type that word in your address bar, you’re taken to that website. These shortcuts work

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New OS X App From Panic Tomorrow?

April 22, 2007

The blog MacApper has posted an “exclusive” review of an OS X application by Panic Inc. called Coda that is purported to be released Monday. I do think that something will be released, especially since Cabel from Panic was looking for beta testers a while back. From what I read,

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Review: Agnitum Spam Terrier

April 21, 2007

Spam is a daily hassle for anyone that relies on sifting through their inbox to keep track of things. I know that when I was at Yahoo, my inbox received probably a hundred emails a day, from mailing lists to emails from others in my group. Fortunately, Yahoo had some strong spam

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Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2

April 19, 2007

Thunderbird version 2.0 has been released today. As MacWorld reports, Thunderbird 2 adds message tagging, improved searching, as well as enhanced spam and phishing protection.

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World’s Largest iTunes Collection: 849GB

April 19, 2007

Glenn Wolsey published an interesting interview with the owner of the largest iTunes music collection. The owner of that collection, Will Friedwald, maintains a massive archive of 849 GB of music equating to 172,150 tracks. It would take roughly

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How To: Parse XML with PHP5

April 17, 2007

One of the most common things web coders run into is the need to parse some type of XML file. Many web services return API calls in XML format, so it’s just handy to know how to parse these results quickly. With PHP4 you usually have to rely on some large parsing library to get [...]

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Netvibes Announces Netvibes Universe

April 17, 2007

Netvibes, the extremely popular web service that allows users to have customizable news aggregation startpages, announced a new service at their Web 2.0 Expo afterparty in San Francisco. Netvibes Universe is the name of this new service and there will be two forms of it – personal and branded. Personal Universes

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Thoughts on Netflix “Watch Now”

April 15, 2007

Late last night I got rather bored and decided to investigate Netflix and their “Watch Now” feature that was announced in January. Netflix says they are slowly rolling this service out until June 2007 when every account should have it. I had a Netflix account back in 2005 but I reinstated my

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