For those of us who maintain several blogs, crossposting - or the ability to write one blog and then publish it to multiple blogs - is a very handy function!
MySpace has traditionally been one of the hardest to crosspost to, but if you are a WordPress user, then enter some funky php courtesy of Roderick [...]

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From time to time I find I want to actually download a video from sites like Youtube or GoogleVideo so that I have access to them offline.
There are several ways to do this, and if you are windows user, by far the easiest is to use a Firefox plugin. There are several, but the two [...]

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Everyone is talking about it! But do we actually know what Web 2.0 means? Even when looking at jobs advertised in the UK one finds that companies require web developers to have “experience in Web 2.0″, which I find quite interesting.
So what’s Web 2.0? (extracted from Wikipedia)
Web 2.0 is a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media [...]

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- a tutorial on backups
I dont think you can ever realise how important it is to backup your files until the first time you lose them… I have had many people ask for me to recover data from a crashed computer because they have never backed up their computer. Products are being produced all the [...]

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You can apply to get a free Microsoft Office 2007 Tips and Tricks CD from the Microsoft Small Business Centre web-site. Even though I am in Australia they let my application go through, which is a rare thing, so I suspect that it should be available from anywhere in the world.
You will need to sign [...]

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MIT is currently offering a good size chunk of their course material for free on-line. Although the free on-line training material will not grant you a degree, or any sort of certificate, if you are after gaining the knowledge alone, it looks like a fantastic resource.
As of November 1, 2006 there are 1,550 courses published [...]

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