There are two keystrokes related to the built-in Firefox search box that I love. Ctrl-k on Windows, Cmd-k on Mac, and Ctrl-j on Linux selects the search box. Until I found this I would do Alt-D/Cmd-L to select the Location Bar, and then Tab to the search box. Once you are ...

It's been reported today that Yahoo! is going to start offering unlimited email storage starting in May. Now, when GMail came out Yahoo! and Hotmail only offered something like 20-50MB of storage. GMail's offering of 1GB of storage blew those other limits away. As it stands now I have ...

One thing I am regularly frustrated with is the lack of ability to enter a TAB into a web form. There are times when you want to use TAB spacing, but are relegated to hitting the spacebar a bunch of times. With Tabinta -- Tab In Textarea -- ...

Most people in the tech industry are familiar with the accronym LAMP (if not, follow that link). MAMP is a variation on LAMP, but for Mac. I need to preface this post with the advice that the product I'm about to show is not for "production" type environments. The ...

I've mentioned this other places, but it's definitely worth repeating. In some applications with tabs you can cycle through the tabs with a simple keystroke: Ctrl and Page Up or Page Down. Page Up will cycle you left, and Page Down will cycle you right. I want to ...

I just recently added the Digg It buttons on here. I had to do some debugging to try to get it to work properly, so I figured I'd pass along my work for anyone else to use. There are two things that I did to make it work ...

I writing this post not from my home in Oregon, but from Boise, Idaho. Some colleagues and I are in Boise visiting our campus here for work. When we setup this trip last week I got to thinking about airport wifi, and how I was very glad that ...

A while back I was given a book to read on blogging, aptly title "Blog." In the section I was reading last night I was struck by some of the things Hugh Hewitt was saying, and how I completely overlooked "leadership blogs" in my Web 2.0 at Work series. Every ...

I was just having troubles getting into Google Reader to check my feeds, and once I was able to get in I noticed something different right away. There used to be a Refresh link at the bottom of the subscriptions section of the page, next to the Manage Subscriptions link. ...

I've been following Joe Tan's plugin development for Wordpress for quite a while. I initially checked his stuff out for his Flickr Photo Album plugin, but found my favorite plugin of all-time (behind SpamKarma2 of course): Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports. Obviously this plugin only benefits you if you ...