It looks impressive. With Dropbox you will be able to store, share and synchronize files between different computers and platforms. This comes at a time when we are increasingly needing quick access to important files at anytime and anywhere. Dropbox has the potential to become a big hit once it is released, mainly for it’s [...]

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PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen slideshow experience. With just one click, PicLens makes photos come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. PicLens suports a number of sites: Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, Fotki, FotoTime, deviantART, Smugmug, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, Google [...]

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The chinese company Lenovo bought the struggling giant IBM in 2005 and is now close to releasing the new ThinkPad X300 which is set to rival the so talked about MACBook Air. I know if you are a MAC user you will just say “pff another attempt to compete with a MAC” but this is [...]

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Crisis normally create a great environment for quick learning. Some would say that it also exposes lack of planing, which in my experience both are equally true. Last week I had a server’s HD die on me and I suddenly had to rescue some of the newer data that for some stupid reason I had [...]

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the get_excerpt function on WordPress shows the first 55 words of your post, striped out of any special formatting eg: links, bold, etc.  I wanted to change it for a blog I was developing so I traced it back to the function wp_trim_excerpt in the file \wp-includes\formatting.php. In this file you can change the value [...]

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On my previous post I wrote about e-comerce tutorials. As part of the system I’m buiding I was looking for a pre-coded shopping cart in PHP (the cart only with nothing else attached to it).  I was getting very fustrated with the ammount of stuff that came with every single shopping cart I found out [...]

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