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Archive for the ‘Software & Online Apps’ Category

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 -- 0 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 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 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

April 25th, 2008

Embedded Chat Now in Facebook

 
Facebook is one of those websites I’ve been trying to manage my time on lately. Between Facebook and Twitter, there’s a battle for which one will remain open the longest on my screen.
Now Facebook has added a new feature that may make it even more difficult to turn it off. They now have embedded […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 18th, 2008

Arrrghhh - Is My iPod Mini Out of Commission?

The last few times I’ve tried to update my iPod with iTunes I’ve gotten the following error.

Is it dead? I’ve done a few restores and resets and can’t get it to sync. Although on one hand I’d welcome the need to buy a new 160GB version. On the other hand, I don’t have the […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

April 14th, 2008

Subscribing to a Non-iTunes Podcast

Does anyone know if there’s any way to subscribe to a podcast with iTunes when the podcast doesn’t exist in the iTunes store?
Can I manually subscribe to a URL of the XML feed somehow?
If anyone out there knows the answer to this question, please let me know quick before I forget what podcast I’m trying […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

April 13th, 2008

Skitch.com: Capture and Share Screen Shots

I’ve been a die-hard fan of the software SnagIt for a couple of years now. I use it so much I’m at the point now where I’d probably go crazy if I didn’t have it available. However, after hearing about feedback from people who have used Skitch.com to grab screen capture, it might push me […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 3rd, 2008

EventBrite - Online Event Management

A website that I uncovered awhile back while working with a client is Eventbrite. The site let’s you setup an online event management application. Included in the available features are the ability to sell registrations for events as well. You can even sell sponsorships to people for the event as well.
My experience with using […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

April 1st, 2008

101 Fantastic Freebies from PC World

PC World has a great list of applications and services that they’ve put together as a list of 101 Fantastic Freebies.
I can personally recommend a few different ones from personal experience:

Foxit Reader for Windows
CCleaner
Zillow
30Boxes.com
Winamp
Audacity
iTunes Library Updater
FeedDemon

Go read the article for yourself […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

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