Looking Back Over The Internet in 1996

January 29th, 2008

Technology

Oh my, look how far we’ve come!   Back in 1996 I was a junior in high school and about the only time I spent online was in America Online chat rooms or running my Wu Tang Clan eClub.  I also remember trying to find ways to download games for my Texas Instrument calculator.  We all [...]

Best of: iGoogle Greasemonkey Scripts

January 27th, 2008

Web Browsers

As more things begin to move online, it has become more important to have a centralized homepage of sorts to access all your information from one spot.  There are a variety of great options out there today, but so far I’ve found that iGoogle, Google’s homepage, has done the best job of filling my needs in [...]

Technology Talk – 01/27/2008

January 27th, 2008

Technology

It has been a little while since I did a technology talk, so I figured now was as good of time as any!   Here are some recent posts that I’ve really enjoyed: Firefox Extension Guru wishes Mozilla a happy 10th birthday.   It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years since Netscape [...]

Best of: Amazon Greasemonkey Scripts

January 20th, 2008

Web Browsers

Whenever I think of great websites, one of the first websites that comes to mind is Amazon.   Amazon does a great job of offering products at competitive prices, and they do a great job of cross-selling other products they have available.   While there isn’t a whole lot that they need to improve on, there are [...]

Best of: Google AdSense Greasemonkey Scripts

January 18th, 2008

Web Browsers

There are all sorts of great uses for the Greasemonkey extension, but one of my all time favorites is using it to prevent advertisements.  The first thing most people think of when they think of advertisements is Google AdSense, and there are a large number of scripts available that can influence the behavior of Google [...]

Flock Announces Features Scheduled For 1.1 Beta

January 17th, 2008

Web Browsers

I’m primarily a Firefox user, but I’ve made no secret that I’m a big fan of the Flock Web Browser.  I love the social aspect of the browser and would probably use it as my primary browser if I used social websites more often. Today it looks like Flock announced 3 major new features are [...]