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I am no longer a “work from home” web geek. Still a web geek, yes, but I have accepted a full-time position with a company that requires me to be in the office. Sad But True. Of course this means that I have multiple machines that I am working on and more importantly reading RSS [...]

I read a new story on Mashable today about a new bookmarking service called Youlicit. Yeah, I know… just another bookmarking service. This one looks pretty interesting though. when you arrive at the home page you have a search bar similar to the default Google search. You can perform regular searches, but you can type [...]

Do you have a Flickr account? Sure you do! Most people online do at least. Well I’m sure you’ve heard or seen when you logged in that they have printing now. That’s pretty nifty. You can set up your account to allow or disallow certain groups from printing your photos. I currently have mine set [...]

Thanks to Google Gadget Ventures you can now get paid for your hard work creating that awesome, fab Google gadget. Well, maybe you can. The page states that the program is “a new Google pilot program dedicated to helping developers create richer, more useful Google Gadgets.” Yeah, we know… they’re still trying to take over [...]

Need more Online Storage and Backup? Who doesn’t? Now you can have the same enterprise-class quality backup solution as the large corporations at a fraction of the cost. That’s great too, because we all know how important a good backup solutions is… don’t we? Of course we do! The problem with most backup solutions I’ve [...]

I just released my latest WordPress plugin, the LyricWiki Search Widget. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog or site it adds a sidebar widget to search for song lyrics on LyricWiki.org. You can see it in action on my sidebar now, right below my last.fm album listings. I thought that was a fitting place [...]

How many lists do I have to keep track of my blogging activities? Let’s see… I know! I’ll make a list of them. DOH! That’s another list. I really need a better way of keeping track of my to-do lists. I’ve tried using the Task list in MS Outlook, but I just can’t get used [...]

Especially when their website goes down for the count! GeeksAreSexy.net is a really great blog that I read on a regular basis. They keep pretty up to date on the technology scene and also post some pretty good geeky humor posts that are good for a laugh or two. Anyway, just caught them with an [...]

Do any of you remember my post titled You Need Coolin’, Baby, I’m Not Foolin’? Basically I introduced my readers to the LyricWiki.org site which is a great way for you to look up lyrics and also allows you to contribute to the effort if you find songs that are not in the database.
Well, I’ve [...]

I use Sage as my RSS news reader and so far it’s been great. This weekend I was looking at the plethora of news feeds I have subscribed and contemplated dropping some because of the huge list. I really didn’t want to get rid of any them though. What I needed was some organization! Sage [...]