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Microsoft’s European browser ballot goes live — check it out!

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Browsers

How about this: the much talked-about browser ballot is a website! BrowserChoice.eu, to be precise — check it out.

Hit F5 and watch the order randomize. Scroll right and check out the lesser-known browsers such as Sleipnir or Flock.

Finally, hit the Install or Tell me more buttons and be whisked off to [...]

CodeOrgan plays your website’s tune, and it sounds better than you’d expect

Filed under: Audio, Fun, Web

What does your website sound like? Now there’s a new way to find out. I’m not talking about GeoCities-style autoplaying midis, here, I’m talking about CodeOrgan. CodeOrgan is a new web-based toy that turns the source code of your page into a synthesized jam. I expected it to do grievous damage [...]

Please Rob Me uses Twitter and Foursquare to tell you who’s not home

Filed under: Security, Social Software, web 2.0, Microblogging

If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen people who automatically post their Foursquare checkins. The constant stream of auto-posted “I’m at someplace you don’t care about!” messages can be annoying, definitely, but some people also think it’s dangerous. That’s why Please Rob Me was started. It’s a cute [...]

How To Make Money While Being A College Student?

Im currently a college student and I’ve been looking for ways to make money. I have made a website and been trying to promote it at the same time I been trying to make money.
Is there any way for a student like me to make money because there no openings in my area?

Cc:Betty email threading tool axes cutesy name, becomes Threadbox

Filed under: E-mail, web 2.0, Humor

With the tagline ‘work outside the inbox’, and customary all-lower-case branding, Cc:Betty has just been relaunched and rebranded as Threadbox. Citing ‘branding issues’ and the need to ‘reel in the cute’, Threadbox is still the same software — it just has a different name.

If you haven’t heard of Cc:Betty, it’s [...]

Best Way To Make Money Online As Good As Google Adsense Or Amazon Affiliates?

My wife and I are aware of Amazon Affiliates and Google Adsense as the best ways to make money from a website. Do you know of another ads, product selling, or affiliate program that does as well or better than these two?

ScribbleSquid tries to help new writers — with one glaring omission

Filed under: Text, Productivity, Op-Ed

Creative writing is not an easy task, but the web gives us great opportunities to collaborate and get some help. For our own book, my friend and I set up a custom DokuWiki which does the trick quite nicely. But not everyone likes to tinker; some people simply want to get [...]

WooRank summarizes your website in a few seconds

Filed under: Business, Internet, Search

Competitive? Run a website? Curious to see how your favorite sites rank? I have just the thing.

WooRank is a new service that summarizes your entire website in one decidedly useful shot. Highlights include:

Traffic estimation numbers using Google data, Alexa & Compete rankings
An internal site SEO analysis with a Text/HTML [...]

Rainy Mood helps you relax with the sound of RAIN!

Filed under: Audio, Productivity, Freeware

One of my favorite hacks involves using audio to set a mood. I’ve created an “anger playlist” to calm myself down when I’m angry, and I often listen to binaural beat tracks to help wake myself up without the use of caffeine, or to help me focus on what I’m working [...]

A tool using a tool…ha ha…

Here’s an example of a tool using a tool…not that there aren’t other ways to do this but…:

I just {found|discovered} the website who {writes|discuss|reviews} about {Several|many} {home based business opportunity|home business opportunity|home business ideas|home business reviews|home based business reviews|home based business} If you want to kn | wootwoot51@ymail.com | yourothersite.com | IP: 95.68.75.30

I just found [...]