I’ve always been a do-it-on-your own kind of guy, preferring to solve my own problems rather than weigh down others. That said, there are times when it really helps to have great people on your side, ready to bail you out when it matters.
Natasha’s uncle Glen is the kind of guy that (and if [...]

Ok – this post may have been a bit hasty. While the concept is fine and has great potential, I found this software buggy at best. After a problematic install, it crashed repeatedly, and could not fire up IE7. Much to my chagrin – I have gone back to Parallels and a [...]

As I write this post, I sit in a coffeehouse/bar on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side. It has been a long time coming, but after 3 major apartment moves in almost as many months, I can honestly say that I’m starting to feel at home in New York. This apartment is [...]

When I first switched to Mac some 5 years ago, I was hesitant to install software that wasn’t released by big known companies. Coming from the constant burn that is Windows, the risk of a faulty program crashing my system or much worse, infecting my system vastly outweighed the possible benefits of the new [...]

After roughly 46 days (give or take), I have re-surfaced. Some of you may have wondered if I was rubbed out by an angry gang of Flash ninjas, and despite the persistent rumors, that is simply not the case. While I managed to irk some fellow ‘netizens,’ what kept me from posting is [...]

I’m probably going to get flamed over this, but what the hell. Here I present in no particular order my top 10 ways to spot a Flash designer. (Disclaimer: Hey, I started with flash too. It’s just, some of us decide to grow up eventually.)

Thinks tiny unreadable text is a bonus. [...]

Prior to this past week, my impression of OpenID was that it saved time as long as you took the extra time to use it. Some of my developer friends have talked about how difficult it is (or at least was) to implement, but that all seems to have changed.
One of the main advantages [...]

Disclosure: I’m a huge Google fanboy. I use all their betas on a daily basis, and feel like they can do no wrong. I have no qualms with their data rentention policies, and will continue to trust them until the day the government successfully subpoenas account information, at which point I will [...]

I’m sure a true web2.0 historian will argue with me over who really started the trend, but as far as I’m concerned, the success of 37signals and their products really jump started this industry of simple, to-the-point, productivity apps. Whether you are talking about Harvest, Freshbooks, Blinksale, or [insert new invoicing/project management/brightly colored whatever], [...]

I’ve been in and out of Streamy for the past couple weeks, not being able to devote sufficient time to really explore it. Today I set aside a couple hours and decided to pour through its feature set.
Although I mentioned its positioning to Digg in my last post, it’s nice to get confirmation from [...]