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Archive for the ‘Software & Online Apps’ Category

July 7th, 2008

Snopes - The Online Mythbusters

I recently received an email from my mom that had what appeared to be some interesting tips and features available on your cell phone to help you in some “emergency” situations. I decided it was probably a good post but did a quick search to see who to give the original credit for if […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

June 30th, 2008

Photrade

I’m always on the look-out for new places to find some stock photography and other images to potentially use on some website for clients or just  get some inspiration for creating a completely new graphical element for design.
Photrade is a new website that’s currently available by invite only so I haven’t been able to really […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 30th, 2008

New E-mail Domains from Yahoo!

One of the earliest e-mail addresses I had was a Yahoo! Mail address and it’s been the one I’ve used almost exclusively for friends and family to contact me and stay in touch.
You can now add a couple more free e-mail domains to those that you can manage from the familiar Yahoo! Mail interface:  @ymail.com […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 28th, 2008

GMX File Storage Available

One thing I’ve done from the beginning of my days on the Internet has been to take advantage of free e-mail addresses from places like Juno, Yahoo!, Hotmail and Gmail. One of the newest providers I’ve come across is GMX and I’ve been happy with them so far, even though I still don’t use […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

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 -- 7 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 -- 1 comment

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