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Archive for May 2008

May 16th, 2008

COMPLETE! Custom Icons on Google Toolbar

In my previous post I was wondering how in the world to change the icons on my Google Toolbar. Then Greg gave me exactly what I was looking for in the comments!
Before he gave me the solution my Google Toolbar looked like this:

After the solution, it looks like this:

EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

May 16th, 2008

Making Custom Icons for Google Toolbar

I’m a big fan of Google and one of the products of theirs that I use regularly is the Google Toolbar. I’ve started customizing it more than just accepting the standard set of icons that they recommend, but I’ve run into a bit of a snag.
As you can see from the image above, I’ve […]

By Jason Bean -- 6 comments

May 14th, 2008

How to Spot Fishing Messages and Spoofs

This may be a little basic for some of our readers, but I thought I’d take a minute and talk about some Internet security for a minute. As this site is dedicated to uncovering great stuff on the Internet, we’re also aware that there’s plenty of opportunities to uncover some less than stellar sites and […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 14th, 2008

Win A Trip to Australia Zoo for Bindi Irwin’s Birthday

One of the places I dream of going one of these days is Australia. For some reason I’ve always loved what I knew about the continent. I was also a big fan of Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, and here’s a chance to win a free trip to his home zoo down under.
Do you […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

May 13th, 2008

Emoticons Are So Passe

If you’ve been around the Internet and Tubes for long you probably recognize emoticons when you see them. ;)
I use one in my design and communications company ” =) Bnpositive Design”. But they’re getting so old now don’t you think?
Let’s move to a new way to describe, not your emotions, but your fellow social media […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 9th, 2008

Facebook in the Real World

What would happen if what we’ve come to expect as normal when using social media apps like Facebook actually happened in the real world?
Uncovered by Mark Evans via twitter
Tags: BBC, Facebook, real world, reality, The WallShare This

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 7th, 2008

What Have You Been Doing? Rescue Time Tells You

Do you ever get to the end of your day and wonder where all those minutes and hours went in your day?
What were you doing? Did you really spend that long on Facebook? eBay? Solitaire?
Maybe you’re being really productive and you need to know exactly how much time you were spending on developing that […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 7th, 2008

Mobile Edge for the Mobile Professional

When I bought my wife her laptop I wanted to make sure she had a good bag to go with it. I wanted a bag that gave her plenty of room for cords and accessories, while remaining stylish as well.
It’s too bad at that point I hadn’t heard of Mobile Edge.
They have bags and […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 6th, 2008

My New Favorite iGoogle Theme

Google has added quite a few new themes to their options for their personalized iGoogle homepage. Including a number of great looking ones from some famous artists.
My favorite though is this new sunlight earth calendar. I just like the idea of seeing how the available sunlight changes depending on the time locally and what […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 6th, 2008

I Actually Agree with Dvorak on the "Green" Issue

I’m an on-again-off-again fan of John C. Dvorak. I regularly listen to TWiT and CrankyGeeks and Tech5 podcasts that he’s on regularly. Sometimes he offends me, but every time he at least makes me think a little harder about a topic.
I came across this recent column, Turn Off the Lights! of his in PC […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments