How To: Getting a Caricature For Your Blog

February 12th, 2008

Blogging

Have you ever gone to a website and found that something really stood out to you? Some blogs might have an incredible logo that you really like. Others might have a well designed theme. For me, one of the most impressionable things I’ve ever come across was my first visit to [...]

Best of: Firefox Greasemonkey Scripts

February 11th, 2008

Web Browsers

Have you ever noticed that sometimes websites don’t behave in an ideal way, don’t look the way you want them to, or maybe there are a few features you would like to see added?
What if I told you that there is a way to manipulate those websites to look and work the way you want [...]

Ultimate Collection of Linux-Unix Cheat Sheets

February 9th, 2008

Free Software

Are you a Linux user?  Switching to Linux, the free open source operating system alternative, has become a popular decision lately among geeks.  Dell has even started offering the operating system pre-installed on computers in place of Windows Vista or XP.
If you’ve recently made the switch, it can require quite a period of adjustment, especially [...]

Slickmania Gets New Logo

February 8th, 2008

Miscellaneous

It has been close to a month now since I completed the re-branding of this website under the new domain name Slickmania. While most of the background work was done by me before making the change, the one area I knew that I needed to improve upon was to get a professional logo,  instead of [...]

Dot Com Boom: Where Are They Now?

February 7th, 2008

Miscellaneous

Back in the late 1990’s, there was a much pretty significant dot com boom that took place, spawning all sorts of early business that would be later known as Web 1.0.   In the decade since, a lot has changed and many of the dominant online businesses are no more.   If you’re wondering who has survived [...]

The Importance of Natural Traffic

February 6th, 2008

Blogging

In the domaining industry, we have a commonly used term called natural traffic, which is basically defined as traffic to the domain from people typing the address directly into their web browser.  Bloggers will often refer to this direct traffic. 
I think that as bloggers and veterans of the internet, we often forget that not everyone uses a feed [...]