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RefactorMyCode Rocks

October 2, 2007 · 27 comments

I recently discovered RefactorMyCode, a developer-oriented site aimed at letting others critique, or refactor, your code snippets. Up until now, it seemed that the only communities based around helping others with their code were mundane programming forums. [click to continue…]

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In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, SysAdmin Day on July 27th of course, OpenDNS is holding a contest. The first of four challenges ends later today and they’re looking for a funny SysAdmin story. You don’t even have to use OpenDNS to win, they only ask that you are an actual System Administrator. [click to continue…]

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From the that-is-pretty-damn-interesting department comes an article explaining how TiVo CEO Tom Rogers flies back and forth from California and New York every week. Rogers’ family lives in New York and his job resides in California, so he makes the 6 hour flight twice a week. [click to continue…]

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As of recently I have been more and more interested in reading about branding, image and recognition – things to better promote my site. My logo work and subtle redesign were part of that effort to come off as [click to continue…]

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Back in 2005 I wrote an article detailing how to embed flickr slideshows within your blog or website. Since then, that post has received over 200 comments, a crazy amount of links and numerous mentions on popular blogs. I finally got the message that embeddable flickr slideshows were a hot item. [click to continue…]

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Briefly: Green Apples, Dell Goes Ubuntu, Finals…

May 2, 2007

As I’ve hinted elsewhere, it is indeed dreaded finals week at Georgia Tech but rather than leave you high and dry while I am consumed by computer science PowerPoints, I’ll point you to what I’ve been reading this week.

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Why I Enjoy Startup News

April 27, 2007

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

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TIME Wants Your Vote: 100 Most Influential People

April 25, 2007

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, [...]

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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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Using Ecto Blogging Software

March 31, 2007

Reader Shawn Blanc pointed me to a great post of his covering ecto, a popular desktop blog publishing client for OS X. Shawn goes step by step through using ecto and explains the features. Personally,

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Show Off Your Social Media Accounts

March 12, 2007

Having trouble keeping track of the 37 social media services you use daily? Having an even harder time recalling your profile URL for those 12 social networks you use when a friend asks for it? Don’t worry, now there is Show Yourself.

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Virb.com Goes Public

March 7, 2007

Remember that hip new social network I gave out invites for a few weeks ago? Well, it launched and went public today. Virb is geared more towards the arts-oriented crowd (music, etc), or so it seems. Similar to MySpace, bands seem to be taking over Virb, as exemplified by this Fall Out Boy page.

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Scribd – Social PDF Sharing, Oh Joy!

March 7, 2007

Okay, I’ll admit that the idea of a socially-driven site built around sharing documents doesn’t sound terribly enticing, but I have fallen in love with Scribd. Scribd has a great design and a surprisingly simple and low-key method of embedding document files (support for .doc, .lit, .pdf, .ppt, .ps, .txt, .xls) within websites

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Oscars iPhone Ad, Pimp My Blog Feedback

February 26, 2007

For those of you that decided, like me, a long nap was a better way to spend 6 hours rather than watching the Oscars, you’ve missed out on the first Apple iPhone commercial. Fortunately, Dan at UNEASYsilence was able to find an HD version of the commercial for your consumption. The ad is rather simple [...]

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Briefly: Digg, Firefox, Million Dollar Avatar

February 23, 2007

Lots of things going on today so I’ll just briefly cover them. First off, Digg has had a change of heart and unbanned many domains, including mine. Next time you feel that something is digg-worthy, fire away.

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