Firefox with Greasemonkey: If you’ve ever searched for your website content on Google (and chances are you have), you’ll agree with me that it can be difficult to find your material amongst the results. Sometimes I search for my posts and see where they rank in specific queries to Google. Usually it takes me a [...]
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Noise Filtering on Google Search Results
August 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
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Chuck, the SEO Rapper
August 20th, 2008 · Comments Off
A few months back I saw a video on College Humor by this guy who rapped about how to design a website. It was actually pretty good. Today, Valleywag had another video by the same guy. After doing some research, I found the man in front of the camera. His name is Charles Lewis of [...]
OpenID and Why You Should Use It
August 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
What is OpenID? OpenID is a decentralized, free, open standard that lets users control the amount of personal information they provide to a website. Simply put, it’s a way to control what personal information you allow sites access to and the ability to control it more easily. When using an OpenID, users authenticate themselves to [...]
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TrustyPig Hogs Design From SmartyPig
August 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
There’s much buzz around the Des Moines Twitter community about the brand hijacking of our beloved SmartyPig. SmartyPig is a web startup based in Des Moines, IA that helps users build a savings account for various goals. This article isn’t about what SmartyPig is, it’s about what TrustyPig isn’t. This is another classic instance of [...]
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Showdown: Vimeo vs. Viddler
August 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Today’s showdown pits two video service sites against each other. Today’s combatants are Vimeo and Viddler. Storage Space Each service has their own upload limitations. Vimeo restricts users to 500MB per week, while Viddler limits individual videos to 500MB with no limit on the number of videos a user can upload. Chances are most users [...]
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5 Firefox Addons I Can’t Live Without
July 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Firefox by itself is a great piece of work. It’s the addons, however, that make it what it is. Over the years (around 5) that I’ve been using Firefox, I’ve come to love a few of these addons. Here are my top five. Tab Mix Plus: Hands down, my favorite addon. It does a fantastic [...]
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Optimize Google Reader for Wide Screens
July 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
Firefox only I recently heard (via Lifehacker) of this GreaseMonkey script that will optimize your Google Reader window to fill 100% of the available horizontal space. This works not only for wide screens, but for standard screens as well. In my experience, Reader doesn’t maximize its horizontal space by default, but this script modifies the [...]
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Fasterfox Add-On for Firefox 3.0.1
July 17th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Along the same lines of the recently reconditioned Tab Mix Plus add-on, I noticed that I was missing the FasterFox add-on after installing Firefox 3. I modified the FasterFox add-on to work with Firefox 3.0.1 and have uploaded it here for your enjoyment. As far as I can tell, it works just fine. Standard installation [...]
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.me Domain Name Shenanigans
July 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
The .me top-level domain was opened up for purchases today, and people didn’t hesitate to snatch up the names. Pricing for a .me domain is $19.99 per year, and you have to buy two years when you sign up. I’ve heard accounts on Twitter of people buying 4 or 5 domains just to have them [...]
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Tab Mix Plus Add-On for Firefox 3.0.1
July 16th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Firefox version 3.0.1 was released today, and it subsequently broke the dev build of Tab Mix Plus that I was using. For some reason, the developer of TMP has not released a version that’s compatible with Firefox 3. At any rate, I’ve taken the liberty of modifying the add-on that worked with Firefox 3 so [...]
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