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The Google Ad Experiment

Maybe I’m a little late to jump on this ship but I’ve never had ads on any of my sites. Finally (with server expenses being what they are) I decided to try Google ads. I put them on Silverfish Longboarding, a site I created a few years back that now gets about half a million […]

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Unsanity WindowShade X 3.1 Frustrations

Despite the title of this article, I love WindowShade X. It’s software for Mac OS X that brings back the functionality of rolling up windows to just the title bar that OS 9 had. Not only does it do that, but it also lets you shrink windows down to small boxes you can place anywhere […]

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Effective Management – Four Simple Rules

Work has been interesting lately. If I ever become a manager, I hope I remember the following things: 1. Don?t mention changes to employees unless you have a firm plan, and more importantly, a date for implementing them. No matter what the plans may be. 2. Talk to your employees. Especially if they have shown […]

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The Best Pocket PC Freeware

The best Pocket PC Freeware (and non-free software where there’s no good free alternative) available. I’ve sorted through dozens of programs, weeded out the buggy, useless software and this is what remains. If you’ve just purchased a Pocket PC, this list could save you hours. This is a continuation of a page that I created […]

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Firefox Extensions

Extensions are nothing new, but lately it seems like they’ve been becoming a lot more useful. These are a couple I’ve found that you might find useful as well. Bookmarks Sync – Simply uploads your bookmarks to your website when you quit Firefox and downloads them when you start. I use it to keep my […]

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Macromedia Usergroup Meeting

Tonight was the Worldwide Macromedia Usergroup meeting. This was only the second Macromedia Usergrop meeting I’ve been to. My local group meets in Williamsburg, Virginia at The College of William and Mary. Overall it was pretty good. The format for our meeting was first, a presentation by a semi-local Flash Developer – David Vogeleer – […]

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Linux Desktop – Not looking so bad…

One of the reasons I have always shied away from Linux is that the desktop has always felt unpolished to me. No matter what theme I used or what font settings I used, it just didn’t feel finished. This time around, I’ve found that much seems to have changed — at least using the Gnome […]

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Bloglines, Ximian, Modest Mouse and Apple

Bloglines is down. That means instead of reading blogs, I’m writing one. A few interesting things I”ve been thinking about and coming across. Ximian is releasing their Outlook Exchange connector for Evolution as open source. Hopefully it gets ported to OSX soon. At work I use Microsoft Entourage to check my Exchange email but for […]

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LPhoto, LSongs on Mepis

Last night I was able to install Lphoto (from Linspire on Mepis. It wasn’t the easiest process (I had to install a number of Python addons) but I have to say it was worth it. In case you’re up to it, here are basic instructions on Debian: apt-get install python2.3-dev python2.3-qt3 python2.3-id3lib python2.3-pyxine (I think […]

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PearPC – OSX on Linux

This is something I never thought I’d see: OS X Running under Linux. Sebastian Biallas has created the beginnings of what could prove to become a very, very popular and interesting project.