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New CAPTCHA Proposal & Diggless RSS Restored

xkcd has a new CAPTCHA approach that may replace all of the current CAPTCHAs that are being used.   Also, Digg blocked our feed that takes their feed and then creates a better, stronger, able to leap tall buildings feed. The Sitening Digg(less) RSS Feed … Read More

Currency Conversion for E-Commerce — Made Easy

In the past couple of years, it’s become a lot easier to set up an e-commerce website. Most e-commerce packages provide an easy installation path and greatly simplify the process of adding inventory and taking an online store live. However, the difficulty for many of … Read More

A Free Font Site That Gets It Right

When I was first asked to write a sponsored review for a new free font website, I expected to see another quickly slapped together site that had static font samples and a difficult download process. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Urban Fonts was … Read More

First Look at the PayPal Security Key for PayPal and eBay

My PayPal Security Key came in the mail today. If you’re not familiar with the PayPal Security Key, it’s a small electronic device that produces a secret code that’s designed to make PayPal and eBay access more secure. The key is an oval shaped pieced … Read More

Did “Time Machine” Used to Be Called “Time Tunnel?”

I stumbled upon a strange link on Apple’s website. While checking out the new features of Leopard’s Mail.app — http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/mail.html — I clicked on the Time Machine link at the bottom of the page. Clicking on the link took me to a 404 page. I … Read More

SEO Inc. Releases SEO Toolbar 2.0

One of the best things to happen to Internet browsers are toolbars. Until recently, most toolbars were used to enhance a user’s browsing experience. For example, the Google Toolbar offers features like inline spellchecking, autofill and keyword search highlighting. Luckily, companies like SEO Inc. are … Read More

Top 10 Code Snippets from Snipplr

Snipplr was launched in June 2006. With Snipplr you can keep all of your frequently used code snippets in one place that’s accessible from any computer. You can share your code with other visitors and use what they post, too. During the short six months … Read More

Latest Revision to sIFR 3 Supports Pixel Fonts

Mark Wubben just announced the release of sIFR 3 Revision 209. This revision includes the following new features: Support for pixel fonts through the pixelFont argument. See JavaScript Methods: replace. A way to stop the page jumps by specifying the ratios argument. (More about ratios). … Read More

The Poor Man’s AppleTV

I’ve been excited about AppleTV ever since they announced it several months ago under the code name iTV. AppleTV let’s you stream content from other computers (Macs and PCs). You can listen to music, play TV shows and movies, and flip through photo albums. The … Read More

Starting the New Year Google Free

By now most people realize that Google’s mission to be free from evil is impossible. Idealism wasn’t able to withstand the lure of hundreds of millions of potential users in China. Coupled with the fact that Google has quickly become an advertising and media giant, … Read More