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CSS Zen Garden of Dreams

A reader, Josh Weinberg, wrote in to comment on my CSS Sucks article. The article gets a ton of traffic mostly from people typing: "CSS Sucks" into google. I think I'm onto something. Josh put...

Photoshop can't Copy Paste into Word

If you make a selection in Adobe Photoshop and try to paste it into Microsoft Word it won't work well (and sometimes won't work at all). Microsoft and Adobe are trying to use OLE (object linki...

Using Excell as a Call List

A while back I wrote a freeware Vonage call dialer that would work with the Vonage API and allow you to place calls. I created a small tool that would recognize callto: links and place phone c...

Photo Printing Prices Compared

Online printing prices for many online providers: 4x6 5x7 8x10 CVS $0.15 $1.49 $3.99 FujiFilm $0.21 $1.29 $2.99 Kodak $0.15 $0.99 $3.99 Shutterfly $0.19 $0.99 $3.99 Walgreens $0....

Boston Web Innovations Group this Wednesday

Anyone interested in new technologies and web-innovations in the Boston area should register and come see some demos this Wednesday. I'll be showing off a new version of PicMe Photo Sharing. I...

The future of desktop Linux

The current dogma is that Linux can't become a popular desktop operating system while the worlds most popular applications are written for Windows. But that's just not true anymore. My grandf...

Getting Things Done Desktop Wallpaper

The desktop of a computer is often a wasteland of unused icons, application shortcuts and all sorts of junk that never gets filed or deleted.  What if the desktop wallpaper could help you get ...

Review - Remote Support with Crossloop

A new product I've been using recently to provide remote support is called Crossloop. It's a bare-bones simple remote assistance application that allows you to see and help users remotly. The ...

Augmented Reality GPS

Imagine that instead of having a poorly rendered 3D map on your GPS you're able to see the world as it exists with your GPS data overlay on your reality. I call this augmented reality. The co...

Context Insensativity Training

Context menus or right click menus can provide valuable tools for experience users but abusing context can get you into trouble. Assume that experienced users will find context menus more oft...