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Photoshop Quickie: Perspective Crop

May 28, 2009 · 13 comments

I take a lot of pictures for reviews on this blog, most with a Nikon D90 DSLR camera. A good chunk of my time on larger reviews is actually spent reviewing hundreds of images, then fine-tuning the best ones in Photoshop (case in point, my upcoming car review is taking forever). I’ve been using some version of Photoshop since the Mac OS 8 days. However, I mainly used it for the same basic image manipulation techniques — cutting people out of backgrounds while I was on my high school’s yearbook staff, and lots of cropping, levels tweaks [click to continue…]

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How To: Optimize Your Apache Site with Mod Deflate

April 23, 2009 · 44 comments

The title of this post might be a little cryptic to those not familiar with the Apache webserver, but this post is a sort of followup to Paul Buchheit’s recent post “Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step” as well as a response to a recent Skribit suggestion. The step he’s referring to is getting your web server to utilize gzip encoding. [click to continue…]

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The Pirate Bay Founders Headed to Jail

April 17, 2009 · 14 comments

The world’s largest and most popular BitTorrent tracker used for finding everything from music to movies and computer applications has always had its share of high-profile legal issues. Despite snags like their 2006 server raid to incessant cease and desists from media companies, The Pirate Bay has always come out fighting, recently hitting a 25 million unique peers milestone. This time, however, the four Pirate Bay founders are headed to jail in what is being called a landmark case. [click to continue…]

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First Impressions: BackType Connect WP Plugin

April 9, 2009 · 40 comments

BackType is aiming to solve a long-standing problem that reared its face when blogs met new forms social media and news sites. The problem I’m referring to is comment separation anxiety. Comments have feelings too. They don’t like being separated. BackType’s Connect WordPress plugin uses their Connect API to suck in all comments related to your blog post, whether they’re on Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, Hacker News and more. The end result is one big conversation on your blog post. [click to continue…]

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Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 12 (Scaling)

April 1, 2009 · 33 comments

My last startup update discussed Skribit’s recent redesign and entrance into the GRA/TAG Business Launch competition. Since then a few things have been keeping us busy. For one, we have had more and more server issues. While Skribit doesn’t use much in the way of CPU [click to continue…]

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Review: Boxee Media Center (or Going HD: Part 4)

March 9, 2009

When I wrote that I couldn’t live without my Vudu box, I already had a Linux HTPC hooked up to my TV and still thought Vudu rocked. Why was that? There was no easy interface for me to work with all of the media files I had on the HTPC. Using a keyboard and mouse [...]

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Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 8 (Redesign)

March 2, 2009

The last few weeks of working on Skribit have been proved to be rewarding. It’s finally gotten to a point where it’s noticeable that we are making some progress with product development. This past Friday I pushed live the new redesign of Skribit.com. A few weeks ago we hired graphic designer Justin Ruckman to pump [...]

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First Impressions: Safari 4 Beta

February 25, 2009

Those of you that have been following this blog for a while know that I have been in a cycle of switching between Firefox and Safari as my primary browser almost regularly. I’ve even gone way of Flock back in the day. However, I have always ended up coming back to Firefox. Firefox is like [...]

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Review: Iconfactory xScope

February 15, 2009

I may be rather late to the party but I recently discovered Iconfactory’s xScope last week while graphic designer Justin Ruckman was in town working on the next version of Skribit. I saw him using xScope’s Dimensions tool to painlessly measure distances between on-screen elements. I was hooked from then and started using the xScope [...]

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100 Applications and Services I Use Daily

January 29, 2009

Almost a year ago I wrote a now somewhat outdated article titled Startup 101: Tools for the Job. A suggestion on my Skribit account asked me to delve into the software I use on a regular basis, so I decided to put the two together and briefly discuss some of the tools that keep [...]

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My First Day Working Full-Time for Skribit

January 7, 2009

I’m sorry to disappoint – this post has nothing to do with the Apple keynote at Macworld 2009, iTunes going completely DRM-free, the new 17-inch MacBook Pro with an 8 hour battery life, or a myriad of CES coverage. Instead, this post is about my first day of full-time work at Skribit, a startup helping [...]

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Review: GrabUp – Automatic Screengrab Uploader

December 21, 2008

It is not very often I find a software application that saves me time, doesn’t require much work on my end and actually gets used often. GrabUp (free, or $20 paid account) is one of those applications that I value enough to purchase. The OS X-only application intercepts your screenshot command (Command+Shift+3 or 4, etc) [...]

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On Digital Organization: Things, Google Cal & iCal Syncing

December 3, 2008

Believe it or not, I have never used a calendar to keep track of events or anything in general. For one, I just didn’t have enough stuff going on in my life that couldn’t be wrangled by a simple to-do list kept on my (physical) desktop. That’s changing. I’ve moved from physical to-do [...]

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What’s Going On With Skribit?

November 10, 2008

I was going to title this post “Atlanta Startup Weekend 2 Brings New Skribit Feature” but then I went through my Skribit account and saw that there are a lot of suggestions asking me Skribit-related questions, so I’ll devote this post to it. First, Atlanta Startup Weekend 2 went down this weekend at Georgia Tech’s [...]

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PGP Disk Encryption Safe for Solid State Drives

November 3, 2008

After slapping an Intel X25-M solid state drive in my MacBook Pro I received a few inquiries from readers asking if it was safe to use PGP Whole Disk Encryption with SSDs being known for having limited lifespans. I reviewed PGP WDE for OS X two months ago and fell in love with it; utter [...]

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