The latest data on browser trends from Sitepoint show that more people browse the Web on smartphones than use Internet Explorer 6 and 7 combined. Those two old clunkers have been the bugbears of Web developers for years, requiring sites to degrade as nicely as possible to that least common denominator of browsers. But it’s a new world now; 6.95% of Web activity in November 2011 was on mobile browsers, and only 6.49% was on IE 6 or 7. More People Browse…

Terms of Service are something you have to agree to anytime you register for an online service. These are mostly long, confusing legal documents we skip through as quickly as the website allows, trusting in the rest of the users to let us know if there’s anything wrong. Several times in the last few months trusted services have changed their Terms of Service without notification leading to uproars from the users. This article is a blessing because it gives pointers…

Google+ is the search company’s latest foray into social networking. They’ve learned from mistakes in previous offerings and it shows every indication of becoming a hit.

The blogosphere has been spending a lot of time lately talking about the upcoming release of WordPress 3.0. It includes many new features like a new default theme, the ability to manage multiple blogs from a single code installation and an easier method of creating custom menus. I’m personally looking forward to the multi-site ability as I have several different blogs using WordPress. Keeping up with blog and plugin updates on all of them can be a little tiring. I…

Why Evernote is my favorite web/phone/desktop app.

How to easily adapt a Wordpress theme for widgets.

My first thoughts on playing with Delicious Library 2.1 and the new iPhone app.

I try to explain to casual Internet users what Twitter is and how they can use it for personal and business gain.

Thanksgiving and I finally have a break from school and time to work on other projects. Evernote is my external brain. There is a desktop app for Mac or PC, an iPhone app and a web app that all sync automatically. There’s even a Thunderbird extension that sends things to your account. Text, audio, or photo. It’s searchable, taggable and has categories. Bookshelf is an e-book reader specifically for iPhone and the iPod Touch. It supports a lot of file…

Newsgator has released all of it’s individual products for free. This was quite a surprise as they were/are among the leading desktop applications for reading RSS feeds for both Macs and Windows computers. However, they explained clearly that most of their money is being made from business licenses, so the more individual desktops they can control, the likelier their products will be chosen when the corporation starts looking for an overall solution. Also, they’ll be collecting “attention data.” If there…