Inexpensive Replacement Parts
posted by Bob on April 22, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I happen to be in the habit of breaking the lens cover (the plastic piece over the blackberry screen) on my phone.
I found a company in Hong Kong that shipped me a replacement for $2.29 including shipping. I think I paid around $10 for the last one. It took about a month to arrive, but the price can not be beat. It really shows the scale of the global internet economy and how easy it is to do business internationally.
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Google Voice is sweet!
posted by Bob on September 24, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I signed up for Google Voice a few months ago and they finally let me join. If you visit the contact page you can press a button, enter your telephone number and it will connect us.
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List of Security Tools
posted by Bob on May 12, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I came across this great directory of security tools. People in the industry should be familiar with many of these.
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Search Engine Optimization
posted by Bob on April 28, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Check out this article about some basic techniques to help improve the search ranking of your web site.
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Interview with a Spyware Developer
posted by Bob on January 13, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Here is an interesting interview with a guy who used to write evil software (spyware, adware or whatever you want to call it).
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Browser Security Handboook
posted by Bob on December 11, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I came across this interesting link today. It is a Web Browser Security Handbook written by someone at Google. If you haven't noticed, many of the must read resources out there all come from the land of Google.
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Does anyone remember HyperCard?
posted by Bob on August 06, 2008 at 12:21 am
HyperCard was some fantastic software that people used in the good old days to write Macintosh applications. You can think of it similar to Visual Basic. The language, HyperTalk (or you could have used AppleScript), is very similar to English.
Anyways, the people at TileStack created a site that basically reimplements HyperCard, old stacks and all. You can use it to make "widgets" and other kinds of fancy things. I signed up for the beta a few months ago and I got in yesterday. Most of my old "stacks" will not run without errors, but it is still cool to relive them.
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Google Trifecta
posted by Bob on August 03, 2008 at 11:54 am
Here is an interesting hour long video about Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools and Google Website Optimizer.
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Google and the Deep Web
posted by Bob on May 14, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I have recently read some articles talking about how Google is penetrating the "deep web". I noticed that they automatically took words from the page content of this site and automatically ran search queries on those terms via posting the search form.
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JavaScript 2.0
posted by Bob on March 21, 2008 at 7:01 pm
JavaScript 2.0 should be helpful to all of those AJAX and Web 2.0 Developers
This link will give you a nice preview.
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News from Apple and Adobe
posted by Bob on February 26, 2008 at 10:08 am
Apple released new MacBook Pro's today. I might have to buy one of these soon.
Adobe released Adobe AIR, it looks like a cool tool for building cross platform applications. I am looking into it right now.
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Java Logic Gate Simulator
posted by Bob on February 11, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I have added a version of my Java based boolean logic simulator I created in 2001. Very useful for anyone learning about logic and gates.
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