I have gotten a lot of feedback for my Christmas Gift Guides. It seems to fall into three categories: People selling their own books/gadgets/junk who are link baiting. People accusing me of selling out to rampant commercialism. People who are happy for the ideas. Let me explain the context that they are created in. Wendy [...]
Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Wife (and mother of your kids)
Update: The 2010 editions of the Christmas Gift Guides for Your Wife / Girlfriend is now online. Follow the link for more 2010 Christmas Gift Guides. Wendy is the world’s hardest women to shop for and the suggestions from Amazon Gift Central just inspired sarcastic mocking comments. Wendy asked me to put together a short [...]
Fixing Picasa 3’s Sharpen Tool
From the Digital Photography Review’s forums Recently (beginning of may) there has been an update and since that moment the slider function of sharpening and focus has changed. It took me a while to find out what happened and I want to share it with you. The slider is working much slower, but in the [...]
Blogger needs a template design competition
I have come to love Blogger’s simplicity and stability but it’s templates are looking horrible and dated. Most of it’s templates come from their relaunch with Google and since then, there has not been a single new template offered up. If Typepad can give out new templates, you would think that Google could managed to [...]
How Google Pulls the Plug
The New York Times on how Google decides which projects live or die. All of the shuttered projects failed several of Google’s key tests for continued incubation: They were not especially popular with customers; they had difficulty attracting Google employees to develop them; they didn’t solve a big enough problem; or they failed to achieve [...]
Google Apps
At work we have had a nightmare with our e-mail server because of some corrupted data with the domain name registrar. We changed some e-mail addresses and decided to use Google Apps for e-mail. It was pretty painless with Dreamhost setting up everything with one click. Basically it is free if you are using under [...]
