If you’ve been following the micro-blogging service Twitter and it’s 140 character limit isn’t quite what you want, you might consider Tumblr. Tumblr equates themselves with a “scrapbook”, provided you consider weblogs to be “journals”.
However you can’t really call Tumblr a precise alternative for a number of reasons. One is that you can give the [...]

Ever wanted to know how to do something software-related and wished there was a tutorial? Better yet, a video tutorial, and free at that? Well Tubetorial, which has been known for some great tutorials when Chris Pearson and Brian Clark created and ran it, is currently under the banner of SplashPress, who also own Performancing, [...]

Even though I love the Web 2.0 movement and applications, there is by far a shortcoming on this movement that keeps it from being adopted by many. That issue is one of interoperability.
Current Solutions
Let’s say I have a set up of Office 2.0 applications. I love all of them for specific reasons; [...]

Text messaging, instant messaging, and VoIP are all pretty hot ways to communicate these days. So a few weeks back, Technopedia’s editor, Abhinav, asked me to review the Gaim and Trillian IM (Instant Messaging) clients. Both are pretty cool, are skinnable, and support a number of other clients including MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, [...]

Every web designer has a top 10 list of things that piss them off in web design. I helped teach a class on introductory web design, and I constructed the following list to hopefully keep those students from making the same mistakes I did.

1. Be cognizant of other viewers and demographic.
When we design for [...]

Recently, I had to spend a great deal of time configuring a number of PDAs, and soon came to loathe them wholeheartedly. A PDA’s screen combines all the fun of tiny print with the thrill of a harshly-glowing screen. A stylus is great for menu navigation, but pecking a long URL into the pop-up keyboard [...]

At the dawn of time, during the early days of the Internet, those of us who are old enough to have been there used to spend a lot of time on IRC. In the multiple-IM (Instant Messenger) world of today, IRC might seem a little passé but boy did we enjoy hooking up with people [...]

Everybody and their grandmother today knows that two of the key players to watch out for new stuff (I hesitate to say innovations since some might disagree :p) are Google and Microsoft. But the question usually is, how do you know what they’ve each got brewing at their respective camps? Sure, you know about the [...]

If you’re using the public beta 2 of Office 2007, the Send a Smile software is something you have to install :) Don’t take my word for it – just try it out. It basically allows you to click on a smile (or a frown) icon on your system tray area to send instant [...]

By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Office 2007 beta 2 is publicly available for download. (If you hadn’t heard the news, then you can download it from here). Unless you’d been living under a rock for the past year or so, you have also probably heard about all the new UI [...]