There are a number of link shortening services cropping up all the time thanks to the growing popularity of Twitter, texting, and other micro-blogging/short communication forms. A shortened link, like one coming from the popular service TinyURL, would look like this: http://tinyurl.com/yfa99f5 This would typically be less characters than the URL you're trying to send, so it … [Read more...]
Archives for 2009
Happy Net Loss Day – One Year Later with the Comcast Bandwidth Cap
This October 1st, 2009 marks one year since Comcast started enforcing their monthly bandwidth cap limit at 250GB. If a user were to go over the limit in one month, they would receive a warning by some means of communication. A second occurrence of going over the limit would result in a termination of services for a year. October 1st, 2008 I declared to be the first Net Loss Day … [Read more...]
An FLV Player and BBcode for Inline FLV Attachments in phpBB3
Upon request, I began looking into how to modify my previous post regarding how to embed MP3 attachments with a Flash player on a phpBB3 forum to also allow the same thing for FLV videos. After following this article, in your phpBB3 forum you'll be able to use a BBCode to play .flv files as well as upload .flv files and embed them to play with a single click on the "Place … [Read more...]
Palm Pre Case Review: Seidio Innocase
After Palm Pre ownership for a little while, I started wanting to invest in a good case. I was initially very satisfied with the little cloth pouch that came with the Pre but annoyances grew over time. I missed phone calls because getting the pouch out of my pocket and then the phone out of the pouch took too long. A case would also be nice because it would protect against any … [Read more...]
Google’s Project 10 to the 100 – Time to Vote
Google announced last year a philanthropic effort it called Project 10 to the 100. (10 to the 100 calculated out is a googol.) Now it's time to vote for the idea you'd most like to see established. The Project has been neutralized a bit from the quite ambitious plan that was announced to the more generalized one now, but Google still hopes to improve the world by dedicating … [Read more...]