I’ve been playing with a new web browser on my Mac this week called Camino. It was recommended to me by cmp101. Camino is a very, very fast Mozilla-based browser for Mac only. I was a bit skeptical at first, but Camino is seriously growing on me. It doesn’t have all the options and plugins…
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Stopping Form Spam
There’s no easy answer. You have a web site with a contact us form, and someone out there uses it for spam. If you’re using Formmail.pl or a similar script you should make sure that the recipient’s email is not passed through http. In other words, hard code the recipient email in the script. I…
Netvibes start page
This is simply the coolest start page I’ve seen to date. These new web 2.0 applications are outstanding.
ProtoPage
Here’s an interesting start page that acts more like a desktop within your browser than a simple web page.
Stumble Upon Video
Here’s an interesting site that introduces you to new videos you probably haven’t seen. They have channels setup that you can choose from. You give them your preferences and they expose you to new videos. Pretty cool! Stumble Upon Video
Pipe Dream
How do they do this?
How to send email to cell phones
Here are the email addresses for the 6 most popular cellular phone carriers: T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com phonenumber = your 10 digit phone number
BCC instead of CC
I can’t stress this enough. NEVER USE THE CC FIELD IN EMAIL!!! So many people want to CC everyone but all that does is expose everyone to each other. A simple way to send mail to multiple people is to send it to yourself. Put your own email address in the TO field, and put…
Stop Daylight Savings…Please!
I just can’t tell you how much I hate daylight savings. Okay, it’s fun during the summer when the sun sets at 9pm, but they’ve now extended it by about 3 weeks and I just can’t believe that many people like it. Daylight savings plays havoc with my sleep pattern, and it just throws everything…
How to Remove / Hide the Blogger Navbar
Need to remove the Blogger navbar from your blog? Here are some easy CSS edits. Old Blogger Copy the following code and paste it in your style sheet. #b-navbar { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none } That’s it. New Blogger Copy this code and place it in your template… #navbar-iframe { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none } No navbar!
Why I use Blogger
I’m often asked why I choose Blogger to run this blog. The truth is I run many blogs and some are managed by Blogger and others aren’t. I use WordPress as well as a custom CMS that we wrote. The advantage of Blogger is the ease of use. They make it so easy to start…
Yahoo Mail – Suggested Features
This is a short list of features that I’d like to see added to Yahoo Mail. I like Gmail’s speed and if it weren’t for their conversations, I’d be using Gmail exclusively. If Yahoo Mail would add these features they could really corner the market on email. Speed, Speed, Speed Compared to Gmail Yahoo mail…