This Friday night (Sept 3, 2010) I’m riding a bicycle 100 kilometers across the southern Arizona desert from Tucson to Casa Grand – that’s around 63 miles for the metric-ally challenged First Question When I tell my friends this, their first question is… “Why in the world is this 260lb fat boy going to get [...]

It’s available! You can Download Google Chrome right now! I announced late last night that Google had prematurely leaked their announcement of the new Google Chrome open source web browser, and now it’s available again for download. Download it, install it, and get started exploring one of the hottest products Google has ever developed. Featuring [...]

In case you’ve been under a rock all week-end, and haven’t heard – Google ‘leaked’ some material outlining a lot of detail about their yet-to-be-unveiled open source web browser dubbed Chrome. The official Google Blog post about Chrome indicates that the early release of the material was accidental and not intentional, but either way the [...]

Patterns, patterns everywhere. Useful in all kinds of design projects from web page development, to logo design, repeating patterns offer tremendous coverage for large areas, flavor to smaller elements and character to any design medium. I’ve collected 500 of my favorite & most frequently used background patterns in this post, along with a scores of [...]

Pixlr “has it going on”! I’ve checked out a lot of online image editors, and I’ve not found one I like better than Pixlr. Simply put – Pixlr is the most visually stunning & practically effective online image editor available today. Pixlr is the most visually stunning & practically effective online image editor available -AzAkers [...]

Based on the amount of interest I’ve had in my Lorem Ipsum Generator post & Dummy Text Generator Firefox add-on review, I’ve discovered that there is a lot more interest in filler text or dummy text generators than I originally understood. That being the case I set about to research, review and share some alternatives [...]

Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a Makeover Way back in September of 2005 Yahoo introduced Site Explorer to us happy little webmasters. Over the years Yahoo has made little improvements including Dynamic URL Rewriting back in 2007. Today Yahoo introduced a new look & feel for Site Explorer. They mention that it is much more than [...]

Free ShoeMoney T-Shirt I commented. I know right, not really much to the strategy. But then again, that’s the beautiful simplicity of a comment contest. It’s a great way to promote activity on your blog, and reward not only frequent visitors, but new visitors as well. Each day ShoeMoney.com is selecting a random visitor who [...]

X-Ray Firefox Plugin Did you ever wish you had X-Ray vision? I remember seeing the ads in comic books when I was a kid. Those evil advertisers – Cashing in on keyed up adolescent boys by suggesting that for a mere $1 they could sneak a peak at a shapely silhouette. Oddly enough, I was [...]

First introduced in May, Idée announced yesterday that TinEye, the revolutionary new image recognition & visual search engine is now in open beta. If you haven’t had a chance to mess around with TinEye yet, you owe it to yourself to head on over there and check it out. First impressions of the TinEye visual [...]