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. Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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 Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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 Continue Reading »

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 Continue Reading »

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 Continue Reading »

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, Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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 Continue Reading »

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 and goes through dozens of movie clips where Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

I’ve got 5 beta invites for Virb, the up and coming social network that I am actually interested in. It’s being developed by Unborn Media - the same people that made PureVolume. First five comments with valid email addresses get them. If you don’t think you’ll actually use it, please say so in your comment. I’d like to only give invites out to people that really want to try it out. Thanks. Continue Reading »

I don’t often post YouTube videos, but I am willing to make this exception. I discovered a hilarious animated video of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates fighting [via digg]. By far the best part of the video is when Steve says Continue Reading »

In case you didn’t snag a free year of Pingdom server monitoring back in December, Pingdom is offering a similar deal for Valentine’s day. All you have to do is head over to this special link and sign up. Offer expires at the end of Valentine’s Day in your time zone. For more info on Pingdom check out my review.

9rules just underwent a massive redesign and feature addition. Codenamed “Ali“, the new site’s most interesting feature for me is called my.9rules. Users can have custom profile pages that aggregate their flickr photos, last.fm plays, blog posts Continue Reading »

Lots of things are going on today so I’ll point you to them individually. First and foremost, Steve Jobs released a compelling letter on Apple.com entitled Thoughts on Music. In it, the Apple CEO discusses the music industry’s unremitting use of digital rights management for legally distributing music online. Mr. Jobs goes on to say that Continue Reading »

My good friends at ACS have finally begun to divulge information about their upcoming web service, Serph. I have used Serph since its infancy and can tell you it’s a powerful service. What kind of service you ask? I’d better leave that Continue Reading »

PC users are well aware of Cerulean Studios’ excellent Trillian instant messaging client. To the Mac users that haven’t heard of Trillian before, it’s pretty much the Adium of the PC world. Cerulean has begun development on their next generation client named Trillian Astra. The best part is that it will be available on both PC and Mac. Continue Reading »

I frequently receive emails from developers or PR people looking to inform me and you guys about new websites, services or products. From time to time I’ll find a really interesting one and write up an entire article on it. As of recently I’ve been flooded with work (and emails) so I’ll just point you guys to these websites before I run to the College of Computing to get some homework done. Continue Reading »

Shaun Inman has released the next version of Mint, the ever popular web stats tracking software. I’ve been using it since 2005 and this is the first substantial upgrade. If you purchased Mint before January 1st, 2007 it’ll cost you $19 to upgrade but it’s worth it. I just upgraded tonight. Continue Reading »

Web design and development gurus Dan Rubin, Jonathan Snook, Bryan Veloso and Steve Smith have combined forces. They created Sidebar Creative - a powerful web development collective. Bryan tells me they’re glad to work with any size client - big or small. I like how their contact form has a slider for budget, with the default value set at $100,000.