Written by Darrell Etherington. Lately I’ve been on a bit of a streamlining kick. That is, I’ve been trying to find simple, elegant solutions to multiple problems in one convenient package. Easier said than done, unfortunately. The problem is getting everything you need in one place, in ...

Written by Simon Mackie. Last week, Darrell Etherington wrote about how hard it is to measure the value of Twitter. One way to measure the impact that you’re having on the Twitter-sphere would be to see how many people link to your service, product or blog. Unfortunately, due to Twitter’...

Within this article I’m going to show you how you can upload images to your Photobucket account without having to visit the main site.  This allows you to save time and quickly host images without having to navigate away from important pages you might be working on, especially if you’re a busy ...

Written by Celine Roque. The first thing I look at when looking at a new application is the feature list. Many of those feature lists tend to be really long, and most of the time I find myself using an app without taking advantage of its lesser-known features. A program’s usefulness isn’...

I have always found that one of the toughest parts about working in Photoshop is selecting parts of an image for deletion or enhancement. When I first started using Photoshop many years ago, I thought the only way to accurately make complicated selections, ones that aren’t simple rectangles or...

Recently, I bought a new USB flash drive and wanted to know whether the specs matched up to what it can actually do. Usually these days most USB flash drives are advertised as USB 2.0, but the brands among the bunch come with differing price tags. Some of it can be put on the shoulders of brand mark...

As a blogger I take so many damn screenshots it almost hurts. As a network administrator I take even more screenshots. Sometimes I have to take a screenie of a website but you can only capture what is actually displayed on the screen hence the name “screenshot”. So what do you do when a ...

Written by Darrell Etherington. There is very little reason to depend on a hard drive-based application for your word processing needs these days. Google Docs provides everything most users will ever need; you already have it if you have a Gmail account, and it works offline, thanks to Google Gears....

Written by Eric Berlin. Something that web workers deal with throughout the day but don’t spend a lot of time talking about is the deluge of e-mail alerts, updates, and notifications that batter us like a cacophonous rain of data throughout the day, much of it due to the social media web sites tha...

Written by Darrell Etherington. It can be hard convincing anyone that Twitter is a worthwhile business tool, even yourself. This is especially true if you’re business-minded and like to attach numbers to something in order to ascertain its value. It’s hard to get solid figures on the val...