If you’re like most small to medium size companies, you have either one or a handful of “creatives”. The individuals who manage the website, make things look pretty, build things or write things. And if you’re like most executives you have absolutely no idea how they tick, why they work, or what they mean. In [...]
Do you know where I can find a pen like this? [pic]
I love my Corbinizer, but find it hard to keep the pen with it at all times. So I am hoping that one of you might know where I could order some pens that look like the following… Any ideas? Update: Getting close Thanks to Amy’s comment (see below), I bought a handful of flat [...]
The best FREE Task Management Application in the entire multi-verse
UPDATE: The Corbinizer now has its own spot on the web (now with video) http://corbinizer.com Ladies and Gentlemen, I humbly present to you the worlds easiest Task Management Application – The Corbinizer. If you have more than 30 critical tasks on your to-do list per week, you have a problem. I, myself, had this very [...]
Goodbye Aptana Cloud, hello RackSpace Cloud
Update! Not long after writing this post – Aptana announced they are killing their cloud hosting service. I just finished having a few drinks with the recruiting boys at ProfyleTracker so please forgive any loftiness within this post. A year and a half ago I raved about Aptana Cloud, an easy to use cloud server hosting [...]
Usability job board. UXJobs.org
Looking for a career in usability, user experience or heuristics analysis? UXJobs.org focuses 100% on connecting companies who are passionate about the user experience, with designers/developers and analysts who share that same passion. Are you a company looking for the best user experience guru in your state? By advertising your job on UXJobs.org, your opening [...]
Getting things done, $5 at a time. Fiverr.com
What would you do for $5? Me, I wouldn’t do much for Old Abe, so when I stumbled on Fiverr.com – I loved its uniqueness but immediately proclaimed “this, will never work!”. I couldn’t image people would do “good” work for $4 (fiverr.com keeps a $1 for each order). But then I tried it… whoa, [...]
Building a media center for less than 500 bucks
I have built personal media centers / tivo alternatives for the last 10 years, and finally the internet backbone, home internet speeds and services like Boxee.tv,Hulu and Netflix has made it possible to fully enjoy web based content from the comfort of your couch. Below is a list of my most recent media center setup [...]
ChaCha API with PHP
ChaCha has finally released an API for their Question and Answer service (documentation here). Personally, I have been waiting for years to get my hands on this data, and today I am happy to share this PHP Class for accessing both questions/answers and trending topics. You will need to register for an API, but the [...]
3 awesome small business ecommerce options.
Thanks to the open source movement, small businesses now have a gaggle of options for running an online store. However, the volume of options usually manifests a decision-overflow that results in complete paralysis. So in efforts to help make your decision easier, here are 3 e-commerce platforms that I would recommend to any small business [...]
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