Twitter is providing a service that replaces the need to take screenshots of tweets in order to cite a source. It calls this service Blackbird Pie and offer it through Twitter Media. From the site that's made famous the term 'fail whale', will Blackbird Pie be reliable enough for journalists and bloggers to switch to a styled embed method from simple screenshots? Using … [Read more...]
Bit.ly’s New Features
Bit.ly has revamped its simple URL shortening service and the changes have made it one slick site. Dubbed the Fugu release, bit.ly is now a pretty seamless process with extra attention being paid to sharing via Twitter and link analytics. Having a bit.ly account and linking it to your Twitter account is starting to give some real advantages to websites and bloggers. Instead of … [Read more...]
SparkChess – Quality, Free Chess Online
SparkChess is a chess game perfect for the coffee break and for showing off the capabilities of Flash. You can play against the computer at different levels of difficulty while SparkChess looks impressive, including a simple animated slide of the pieces in its isometric 3-d view. You can choose a difficulty ranging from beginner on up to casual and then to advanced. A higher … [Read more...]
Fiverr – A Marketplace of $5 Exchanges
Put your money where your mouth is. If you're looking for something particular and you're on a limited budget (say $5), you can find almost anything at Fiverr. Fiverr is a marketplace that is fueled by $5 exchanges. You can find all sorts of different services available for $5 including palm readings, logo designs, link exchanges, resume' proof-readings, SEO reviews of your … [Read more...]
Download the Latest Adobe Flash for Firefox and IE Without Any Extras
Previously I've provided a (fairly obvious) method of how to download the installers for the latest version of Adobe Flash for Internet Explorer and for Mozilla Firefox without having to install the Adobe Download Manager, GetPlus, GetPlus+, or whatever other name they're calling that junk. Since then Adobe's updated their site and the work-around is no longer an option. … [Read more...]