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Automating screen captures?
I need a screen capture tool that only grabs the diffs.
October 17, 2006 - 80 words, 3 comments

ITunes, Laptops, and networks
I want to sync some music to my laptop as if it were an iPod.
January 20, 2006 - 204 words, 15 comments

Growl
I left something very important off my OSX apps list
January 5, 2006 - 57 words, 2 comments

My Essential OSX apps list
The apps on OSX I can’t live without.
December 30, 2005 - 419 words, 1 comment

iPod accessories
Mini review of two iPod accessories, the Klipsch iGroove and the Griffin iTrip.
December 28, 2005 - 243 words, 4 comments

Blackberry 7100 problems
Does the Cingular Blackberry 7100 have quality problems?
December 9, 2005 - 142 words, 25 comments

Web 2.0 Bingo
A bingo board for Web 2.0 terms.
November 23, 2005 - 38 words,

Camera phone price checking service
An idea for a service that can grab prices and reviews for products using only your camera phone.
September 1, 2004 - 117 words, 3 comments

Thunderbird notifier wish
I’d like to see an extension that improves Thunderbird’s mail notification.
August 22, 2004 - 128 words, 24 comments

Firewire or USB NAS
How about a device that lets my external drive become a NAS box?
August 5, 2004 - 193 words, 20 comments

Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible coffee
The coffee from this machine is vile. It tastes bad and smells worse.
July 30, 2004 - 115 words, 98 comments

Bloglines and Firefox fix
Fixing an error with Firefox and Bloglines
July 20, 2004 - 112 words, 28 comments

Mac testing
A free Web service that provides Safari screenshots of any URL.
February 20, 2004 - 226 words, 6 comments

Yahoo Aggregator
Yahoo launches an RSS aggregator. Maybe.
January 7, 2004 - 202 words, 12 comments

Amazon Reactivated
Amazon did activate my new phone, it just took them a week to do it. Now I have two accounts.
December 4, 2003 - 349 words, 6 comments

Motorola MPx200 Review
The first Windows Smartphone to be sold in the US is a winner.
December 1, 2003 - 627 words, 42 comments

Zempt competitor?
What the SocialDynamX MT application is and how it affects Zempt.
July 25, 2003 - 233 words,

FTP filters
I need is an FTP program that will let me filter the files that get uploaded.
July 7, 2003 - 226 words, 7 comments

Zempt 0.3
Zempt 0.3 is out and ready for download. If you’ve tried it before and didn’t...
July 1, 2003 - 200 words, 12 comments

Simple Amazon wishlist display
Insert your Amazon.com wishlist into any Web page by simply including a bit of JavaScript code.
June 27, 2003 - 140 words, 19 comments

ActiveWords
If you are a Windows user, you need to try ActiveWords. If you are a marketer, you need to try marketing by blog like Buzz does.
June 16, 2003 - 564 words, 4 comments

Button Maker
Bill Zeller created a very cool web application that creates blog stickers with any text and colors you want, so I put together a user interface to it.
May 20, 2003 - 28 words, 27 comments

Nokia Screen Defect
My phone’s screen has gone loopy, and I’m not the only one according to this class-action lawsuit.
May 6, 2003 - 126 words, 4 comments

Zempt
Introducing Zempt, a multi-platform offline publishing tool for Movable Type.
May 5, 2003 - 518 words, 18 comments

CDMax
Good software does one thing well and stays out of your way. CDMax fits the bill perfectly.
April 30, 2003 - 134 words, 2 comments

Extending Wireless through the powerline
A Siemens product that ties your wireless network into your wired network through the powerlines.
February 8, 2003 - 115 words, 2 comments

Yummy
Blackberry software in a Nokia phone.
November 13, 2002 - 25 words,

Palm Word
Perhaps we’ve finally found handheld nirvana. Software for editing Office documents without losing the formatting.
November 13, 2002 - 105 words,

SpamAssassin plugin for Eudora
Users of Eudora can de-spam their mailbox with this free plugin.
September 3, 2002 - 49 words, 3 comments

Block Outlook receipts
A tool for blocking read receipts in MS Outlook.
August 23, 2002 - 47 words, 6 comments

Syndicated Weather
A syndicated weather feed in JavaScript.
June 14, 2002 - 145 words, 15 comments

Why Treo Mail?
Using a Treo to check your email has hidden costs attached.
May 14, 2002 - 150 words, 3 comments

Zope Intro
CMSWatch has an introduction to Zope’s Content Management Framework. That’s good, since the Zope site...
May 7, 2002 - 29 words,

Dreamweaver and Frontpage
I occasionally have to publish to Web sites that don’t support FTP or WebDAV and...
April 17, 2002 - 39 words, 3 comments

Windows iPod
EphPod is free software that you can use to connect an iPod to Windows. You’ll...
April 9, 2002 - 40 words,

Mod_rewrite for IIS
One of the most useful features of Apache is mod_rewrite, a module that allows Apache...
March 20, 2002 - 167 words, 7 comments

Blackberry phone
If RIM starts making one of these in the pager-size formfactor, I’ll replace my Palm...
March 4, 2002 - 63 words, 2 comments

Radio Scraper
RssDistiller is an easy to use tool for creating scraped feeds from any web site...
February 22, 2002 - 21 words,

New Trillian
Trillian 0.725 is out. This restores AIM compatibility and fixes some bugs....
February 21, 2002 - 12 words, 2 comments

Unintroduction to Web Services
webreference.com | What Web Services Are NOT: "While most people are in alignment regarding the...
February 19, 2002 - 56 words,

Thumboard
Maximum PDA has a review of the Seiko Thumboard. I loved the thumb keyboard on...
February 18, 2002 - 25 words,

Home fileserver
A few weeks ago I read an article on kcgeek about creating a terabyte storage...
February 15, 2002 - 64 words,

Microad Exchange
Join my free Textad Exchange and promote your site.
January 30, 2002 - 89 words,

Blogger Pro
Details on the upcoming Blogger Pro.
January 22, 2002 - 17 words,

Tight VNC
Remote system administration on a diet.
January 22, 2002 - 75 words,

Retractable Network
A CAT 5 network cable on a retractable reel for travelers.
January 19, 2002 - 58 words,

ASP Image creator
Image generation in ASP without COM objects.
January 18, 2002 - 57 words,

Movable Type
I’ve moved from Blogger to Movable Type. Blogger was great, but Movable Type (MT) is...
January 16, 2002 - 171 words,

Blogging with Radio
Radio has released the beta of the Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool. "In a nutshell, it lets you...
January 15, 2002 - 46 words,

Radio Blogger
Dave apparently is planning a feature to allow Radio to post items via the Blogger...
January 14, 2002 - 26 words,

Inside iPod
AnandTech has a very detailed review of the Apple iPod. They disassemble it, provide specs...
January 12, 2002 - 70 words,

Radio 8
I’ve been playing with Radio 8 and so far I like it. The news aggregator...
January 12, 2002 - 472 words,

IE Favorites to XML
Over at Aaronland there is a great Perl module and a script to convert IE...
November 28, 2001 - 79 words, 1 comment

RSSBlog 0.92
RSSBlog 0.92 RSSBlog has been updated to version 0.92. One new feature is that it...
November 23, 2001 - 54 words,

Wayback Bookmarklets renamed
New names for the Wayback Machine Bookmarklets: Latest Wayback Archive and Go Wayback....
November 19, 2001 - 14 words,

RSSBlog update
RSSBlog has been updated. The HTML tags that are used to configure your newsfeed are...
November 11, 2001 - 19 words,

Quick Search Deskbar updated
Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar has been updated to also search for software ta download.com. It...
October 31, 2001 - 31 words,

Deskbar problems
I’m having some problems with my machine that I think may be related to the...
October 30, 2001 - 144 words, 1 comment

Dave's Deskbar
Users of Internet Explorer and Windows that do a lot of searching on the Web...
October 30, 2001 - 110 words,

BlogBuddy
I’m posting this with BlogBuddy. If you use Blogger and Windows, check this out. You...
October 26, 2001 - 31 words,

Wayback Bookmarklets
Here’s another Internet Archive trick. I’ve created some Bookmarklets that work with the Wayback Machine....
October 25, 2001 - 226 words,