Rainmeter A Cool and Easy Way To Spice Up Your Desktop

I’ve always despised trying to theme my Windows desktops into a sleek and sexy looking console.  It always seems like for the most part I’d have to install some software, which may or may not overwrite some system files.  In the past, when I did try to theme my desktop there was always a deal [...]

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Books versus E-books and a look at why DRM hurts literature.

There’s nothing like a book. I’m not talking about what a book teaches or imparts to a reader.  I’m talking about the book itself.  The physical binding of paper with a story or teachings written within it. There’s nothing else like it in the world. For centuries books have been written, handed down and passed [...]

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Website design change.

Ok so, many of you who visit my page are probably thinking “What the heck is this design change?” Well to be honest it was unexpected that it would need to be changed.  It would seem that the theme (Arras) I had been using had a vulnerability I was unaware of which allowed for some [...]

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Move the Web Forward. It starts with you.

The web is an amazing place.  There’s so much information available to people, and it increases exponentially.  Aside from the sheer amount of information out there, there are many people who make it their career to present that information to others in a useful way.  By useful I don’t only mean in a way that [...]

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Gaming, and why Consoles are starting to be a bad idea.

Just a note:   I’m not a lawyer or market analyst.  This article represents my opinions as a gamer. The PC gaming versus Console argument is old, really old.  There are a slew of obvious pros and cons when it comes to choosing your platform for gaming.  But when it really comes down to it, [...]

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Get Carrier IQ software off my device.

The recent statements from Carrier IQ that they are not logging keystrokes, or recording personal/private information being passed in and out my mobile devices may be true.  But that doesn’t mean I want this software on my device. Lets look at this picture for a moment.  Here, an organization (the carriers) decides to install network [...]

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Will HTML5 Kill Flash? Not Soon.

Before I start, I’d like to point out that this isn’t a post to argue if Flash is better than HTML5 or vise versa.  This post is simply my thoughts on the two technologies use on the web and how the web will transcend in their uses. Want sound or video on your website?  You [...]

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Apache Nutch, Tomcat, and Windows 7

The Apache Software Foundation, is friggin awesome. They come up with some really great things, moreso they have an excellent list of open source projects which have really had a huge impact everywhere.  Apache Web Server is one the most widely used servers out there coughing up HTML/CSS/PHP to the world wide mass. Apache Nutch [...]

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Using PhpConsole for Chrome with CodeIgniter 2

CodeIgniter is an awesome PHP Web Framework with a light footprint and just easy to use.  Despite that its easy to use, we still run into problems and errors when we get deep in the trenches of testing our applications. PhpConsole is a developer tool for Google Chrome by Barbushin Sergey which, when installed, will [...]

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Preregister users for your next project.

I recently started a project which requires a beta and invitation system to accumulate users before the application is  launched. Having users to test your system in trying to work out bugs and kinks is an essential step in any robust software development process. But where to start? Well first, you start by identifying the [...]

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