I've joined Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Orkut, Digg, Flickr, Twitter and a bunch of others. The verdict... Social network sites are pretty useless for socializing. Don't get me w...

I broke down last weekend and got the iphone. Apple Computer Inc has created a design that is great with UI that was lovingly hand polished. Of course no matter how good it is you always want ...

If you're a web developer you may need to test on IE6, Firefox and IE7 while running Vista. The last two are easy the first one is a little trickier. Here are the steps needed: Download Virt...

For years I was using a 3rd party service to accept credit cards for software purchases. This was a good idea at first because it allowed me to get off and running quickly in creating the soft...

I recently read a post that whines about the fact that Internet Explorer isn't standards compliant. Boo hoo. Of course it isn't standards compliant and if people understood how business works ...

There is an obscene amount of social networks and there seems to be no-end to new social networks that are being developed. This is great because it means that developers are thinking about co...

Today the Netflix user experience of movies is 80% movie and 20% PC. The movie experience is all fun. The PC experience is somewhat fun if you're a technologist but rating movies and building ...

In Boston we recently got a new way to pay for the metro (called the T around here). Previously you would either use cash or buy a token. The previous system was really simple. Buy a token for...

SSL security is supposed to give a 'secure' connection to a website but there's an inherent problem with the way that SSL is done. There are two parts to security. A secure connection - when ...

The range in quality of web service API's is huge. Some web services have great and well documented API's while other websites and services have either no API or worse have a terrible API. Wha...