Sites and Services

Tumblr Updated to Version 5

I know there are some of you out there that already use Tumblr. For those that don’t Tumblr gave you all a good reason to take a second or first look. The service was updated the other day to version 5 and this time it looks like they have concentrated on athetics, it has paid [...]

Make Your Photos Look Like Miniatures

I know there are a number of our listeners that are into photography so when I found this site I thought of you guys. But that said this is a really fun online web tool/application to play with. It is called TiltShift maker.
What the site does is manipulates an image so that iot looks like [...]

Google has another new favicon… again?

Well it looks like Google are at it again, first their change of the classic favicon to the solitary G now this, personally I’m a little hesitant about the way it looks.
I know its supposed to match the colours present in the Chrome logo:

But its almost looking a little too much like this:

Tell us what [...]

Twitter Acquires Sandy and Stikkit

Twitter has snapped up the IP behind a couple of popular Web 2.0 services. I Want Sandy and Stikkit were both acquired by Twitter a few weeks ago. The services were originally scheduled to go offline last week, but this window has been extended until the end of business (17:00 PT) this Friday, December 19th.
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So Much for that “Strong” Password

These days the average PC is pretty powerful and capable of amazing things. But with great power comes great responsibility (sorry had to use that…). What I am getting at is the fact that for a while now the average PC is a lot more powerful than most users will ever utilize. Sure us geeks [...]