Everyone Has One

If you are reading this you are probably one of the 20 million (and counting) people that have watched the video of Susan Boyle singing on Britain’s Got Talent. She’s got a nice voice but is not the kind of singer I would normally listen to. I much more enjoyed seeing the reactions of the [...]

Okay, this is really silly but it’s also really funny and captures all the main plot points of the movie Kill Bill. Kill Bill in One Minute has the main character (the Bride) moving across a football field meeting (and mainly killing) all the characters in the movie. I give it 2 thumbs up.

I hate printing web pages because of all the miscellaneous junk on them. I usually do a lot of cut and paste to pick out just what I want. Well, no more thanks to Print What You Like. This very innovative and useful website allows you to easily manipulate web pages to get just the [...]

The Periodic Table of Videos is a great website with videos for each of the elements in the periodic table.
Besides being educational it is very entertaining.

Evernote is a note-taking application. It works both on the desktop (Mac and PC) and the web and syncs between the different versions so that you have access anywhere (including smart phones).
It has nice features both for creating and finding notes. Notes can be created through the application, via an email message (to the appropriate [...]

Woopra is an application for tracking website access. It involves both a webserver and local client applications. The client interface is really spectacular.
First off, it is in beta release. I had to wait several weeks to get my website approved. I have since applied for two additional websites and am awaiting approval on them. So [...]

I read an interesting article in Wired magazine about a service call Twine. However, when I went to the site I discovered that I couldn’t try it out because it is in closed beta. I have no interest in giving them my name and other information and then wait some unknown length of time to [...]

I have been using Google Reader as my RSS reader for a few months now. It has the main requirements that I have for reading blogs:

is a web service not a separate application
lets me easily place a blog article into a new tab to read
lets me quickly scan articles from a blog so I can [...]

Jungle Disk is a software package and service for offline storage of data. It is particularly useful for backing up data and storing it at a different facility so that if something were to happen to your computer and its environment (e.g. a fire) then you would still have your backups.
It is also great for [...]

Who is Hosting This? is a simple but useful website that will tell you which hosting company hosts the site whose URL/address you enter. It seems pretty accurate.
I am constantly looking for new, better hosts and find it useful to see what popular, fast websites are using.