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//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/1013466274”>engtech: <3 perforce. so much. See all updates for engtech »

Nov 20th

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/929348522”>engtech: ok, possibly one of the best geeky product videos I’ve seen: http://www.analtech.com/adventuresofana.html See all updates for engtech »

Sep 22nd

Sep 11th

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/915450716”>engtech: I’m glad the ipod shuffle didn’t get update.. just bought one a week ago. See all updates for engtech »

Sep 10th

Sep 9th

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/913896135”>engtech: I should have switched to uTorrent a loooong time ago. engtech: more of the “dude, your photography portfolio sucks” front: watermarks so stinking big that I can’t tell if it’s a good photo or not. engtech: Nice, last.fm actually scrobbles my iPod shuffle. It never works properly with my old 3G iPod. engtech:...

Sep 9th

Sep 8th

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//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/911175337”>engtech: @y0mbo I definitely recommend blogs as a way of showing off portfolios for photographers. It loads all at once, searchable, taggable… engtech: @londonblue apparently you can do profiles in chrome via command line args: http://tinyurl.com/chrome-profile See all updates for engtech »

Sep 6th

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/909716241”>engtech: flash == fail. I’ve never understood why so many photographers use flash for their galleries. engtech: I’m not going to spend five minutes waiting for your gallery to load, when your competition is using a blog and I can start browsing NOW. engtech: @londonblue - the way I do that with Firefox is with Profiles. Matt Cutts...

Sep 5th

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/908086932”>engtech: @skellie: which RPG are you sucked into? engtech: getting familiar with github + lighthouse. going to make the switch from Google Code project repository. See all updates for engtech »

Sep 4th

[FRIENDFEED] Twitter Client v0.44 →

Version 0.44 Fixes bug where the ampersand would cut off the rest of the tweek Doesn’t display “characters left” for reply-to-tweet anymore because that’s a Friend Feed feature now Click here to…

Sep 3rd

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/906514961”>engtech: excited about google chrome, but annoyed at having another web browser to test for. also, will crack heads if no greasemonkey support. engtech: wow, google chrome downloads and installs crazy fast… and it has drag-and-increase size on any textarea… cool engtech: I’m getting a lot of “resolving proxy” slow...

Sep 3rd

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/905947982”>engtech: testing & testing & testing engtech: @codinghorror mucho agreement on 3rd party libs being timesinks. Lots of timesavers as well, but you never know which is which up front. See all updates for engtech »

Sep 2nd

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/905025277”>engtech: testing possible bug with tweet from friendfeed. See all updates for engtech »

Sep 1st

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/904301604”>engtech: It’s really scary how often scripts break because websites change. Sigh. See all updates for engtech »

Aug 31st

[JOBS] Job Search: Rebuild Your Resume with Five... →

Start with a big, big list, Kill the fluff for more powerful stuff, Use a good template (or grab a friend’s), Make your resume “one page,” add more if needed, Skip the resume entirely (or write from…

Aug 28th

[INTERVIEW] Ask BE: What should I say in a job... →

Humorous take on how to handle job interviews.

Aug 28th

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/898237680”>engtech: found a todo list from 2006. Always scary realizing some stuff on your todo list has been there for years. See all updates for engtech »

Aug 26th

Link →

Version 0.21 Adds “Search Rotten Tomatoes” links to TPB search results Adds “Search Pirate Bay” links to Rotten Tomatoes movie pages Adds RT/IMDB links to info box Please also install this script…

Aug 23rd

[MOVIES] DivXLand Media Subtitler Embeds Subtitles... →

Software for getting around the fact that the Xbox 360 doesn’t play subtitles.

Aug 23rd

[FIREFOX] Announcing the Extend Firefox 3 Winners →

Not a lot I was interested in. Pencil looks cool.

Aug 22nd

[JAVASCRIPT] Secrets of the JavaScript Ninjas →

If you do web programming and haven’t tried jQuery… get off your butt.

Aug 19th

[CODE] Explaining REST to Damien Katz →

Succinct explanation of why REST APIs are important vs SOAP.

Aug 17th

[PIRACY] When The Music Labels Die, Piracy Will... →

What happens to industries when no one wants to pay anymore?

Aug 17th

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[GMAIL] Interact with Websites via Easy to... →

Neat trick for renaming your “blog by email”, “photo by email” addresses to something you can remember.

Aug 15th

[DIGITAL] The scourge of tape mould and laser rot →

We’re living in the dark ages, but we don’t know it. Magnetic tapes and CDs rot and information is lost.

Aug 9th

[INTERNET] Malwebolence - The World of Web... →

A look at the dark side of internet culture.

Aug 3rd

[WORKHACKS] Morale: Boost Morale with "Inbox... →

Whenever you get positive emails at work, save them for the bad times.

Aug 1st

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/867680422”>engtech: @gilesgoatboy our postal rates in Canada aren’t good enough for something like paperbackbookswap to work well here. So public libraries ftw See all updates for engtech »

Jul 26th

[RUBY] 7/11 & 7/25 ShoesFests with Why The Lucky... →

Shoes hack fest for creating tiny GUI apps with the Ruby toolkit

Jul 25th

[SEARCH] facesaerch - find people with this... →

Interesting UI for a search engine — looks like iTunes coverflow

Jul 25th

[BLOGGING] Tacky. →

Rant against the blogging about blogging industry

Jul 24th

[EMAIL] On Peanut Shells and Email Archiving →

Never organize what you can simply discard; and if you canât discard it, throw it onto one big pile.

Jul 24th

[LIBRARY] 7 Ways Your Public Library Can Help You... →

Reasons to develop a library habit

Jul 24th

[STARTUPS] Tips →

Collection of tips for starting a new company

Jul 24th

[STARTUPS] Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like... →

Some interesting ideas that could become companies

Jul 24th

//twitter.com/engtech/statuses/864529997”>engtech: apparently I’m still alive. who knew? See all updates for engtech »

Jul 22nd

[FRIENDFEED] Frienderati →

Neat, I’m one of the Frienderati on alltop.com

Jul 21st

[WORDPRESS] Moving from WordPress.com to WordPress →

Linked of things to know when leaving WordPress.com

Jul 21st

[CODE] The fallacy of choice →

Why open source software sucks — too many choices

Jul 21st

[FRIENDFEED] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed... →

I’m on there as #132

Jul 21st

[JOBHUNT] How to Hack a Technical Job Interview →

Using NPL and psychology to do well in job interviews.

Jul 21st

[XBOX360] Turn Your Xbox 360 into a Streaming... →

Stream Netflix to your computer and then to your Xbox 360 if you have Windows Vista

Jul 17th

[TECH] Bug Shooting →

Screenshot tool for bug reports

Jul 17th

[EXERCISE] one hundred push ups →

Train to do 100 pushups in 6 weeks

Jul 17th

[ITUNES] TuneUp Automatically Updates and Fixes... →

Fixes metadata in 50 iTunes songs per month, $20 for unlimited usage or $12 annually

Jul 17th

Jul 15th

[CODE] Neal Stephenson on programming →

What programming and writing have in common

Jul 11th

[IPHONE] 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G →

The Free Software Foundation lists what’s wrong with the iPhone developer model

Jul 11th