TinyURL.com is probably the oldest online web address compressor around. Cut and paste whatever long-winded, email-busting URL you like and it will crush it down to a very small address instead, that will not wrap or break in an email…

The Akismet comment spam filter plugin, which runs on both Sciencetext and Sciencebase has just passed the 100,000 trapped spam mark for those two sites combined. Doesn’t that strike you as an awful lot of wasted effort on the part of…

Fed up with uploading files, like photos, you want to share. Maybe those services that allow you to send 500 Mb emails are simply not big enough for you. Welcome Izimi. You can use Izimi to share files by sending simple…

Recently, we showed you how you could use your GMail acount as a virtual hard drive for storing up to 3 Gb of files remotely. Great for backing up your digital photos so you can access them anywhere. But, what about…

As of this month, sciencetext.com and partner sites sciscoop.com and sciencebase.com feature on ComputerWorld’s TechDispenser edited blog aggregator.

We are among some rather worthy fellow blogs such as the esteemed Amit Agarwal’s Digital Inspiration, the fantastic chris.pirillo.com, which I first began reading…

Brit blogger and regular Sig Fig’s commentator Wayne Smallman of Blah! Blah! Technology turned me on to a system known as OpenDNS. Now, you may or may not know that usually your web browser and other internet applications use your ISP’s…

Want to search Google without all their sponsored results. Use this URL

www.google.com/search?output=googleabout

Simplest and possibly the best Google hack ever, thanks Amit

Are you fed up with seeing just ten results on the Google search engine results pages (SERPs) when you’re searching for stuff? What if you could display 20 results? 50? 100? Well, you can!

Does this post sound too much like…

Freelance Switch recently ran a colorful competition. In it, they asked visitors to reveal their favorite color and explain why it was this particular hue. The winning entry offered by Andy Martin vermillion, because it sounds like a small creature…

Are you running a blog or a site that serves a newsfeed? Got your RSS icon in place? Showing your Feedburner subscriber stats? Do you see the glowing orange feed button in the Internet Explorer 7 toolbar when you visit…

The Self Made Minds site recently featured the Top 100 blogs based on feed subscriber count as revealed by Feedburner. Gratifyingly, my Sciencebase.com site is in the list. Quite a bit past halfway down, but in the Top 100 nevertheless.

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Are you one of the hundreds of millions of Skype users out there? And, do you have a logical reason to record your voice calls? As a freelance journalist, I usually ask phone interviewees if they mind my recording our…

Everyone who uses Digg regularly knows all about sites that go down because of the “Digg Effect”. It is almost inevitable that limited bandwidth hosting will be overwhelmed by the sudden surge of traffic reaching the Digg front page can…

Social bookmarking sites, such as Digg, Stumbleupon, and Reddit are all the rage. They almost all flaunt their so-called Web 2.0 credentials, although that in itself can be more of a distraction than adding value to a site or making it more…

According to a report on the BBC, more than half of children in the UK who use the Internet have had an “unwanted experience”. Worrying? Possibly! Scaremongering? You betcha!

The NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Children, sorry, Prevention of…

To celebrate reaching a major milestone in terms of pagerank (now a PR5 homepage) feed subscribers (we nudged the 100 subscribers mark this week), we are going to share some link luurv with you. Check out the new Top Commentators widget…

A planet the size of Jupiter that orbits a star 60 light years from earth has the most terrible trouble with wind. Apparently, wind speeds on the so-called exoplanet far oustrip even the worst hurricane or tornado seen on earth…

Going on a journey and want to use your laptop on the way? Working in the field with no power outlet? Maybe you are sitting in backyard blogging, as I am, and don’t fancy getting out of your garden chair…

Computerworld.com has kicked up a storm this week by offering its readers a list of Firefox extensions they should not use. Some of the mentions are possibly valid and using them may have a performance hit on your computer, open…

PaulSadowski.org is an intriguing site for numerophiles with an interest in anniversaries. Tap in your chosen date, birthdays make a good start, and the site spews out all kinds of useless yet somehow fascinating information relating to that date. Ignore…

If you are not acquainted with Pandora, then you really ought to get to know her, she is a virtual radio station who provides subscribed users with the chance to hear new music they are bound to like on the…

Even if you are not yet a consumer of high definition DVDs, you cannot fail to have noticed all the fuss the public dissemination of the code that cracks the copy protection on HD DVDs has made this week.

It is,…

Ever since about mid-April, I’ve been running late. I thought the clock on my laptop was automatically updating itself via the NIST time server, but apparently not, and as the machine’s internal time always somehow runs slow (something to do…

Got a USB key? Already added your favorites file? A few photos? Your passwords list? Wondering what else to do with it besides adding the U3 version of Firefox and Thunderbird?

Lifehacker as a great list of the top ten tricks for…

iGoogle? What’s that I hear you ask? Unless you’re well ahead of me, of course, in which case you will already know all about it, let me explain. iGoogle (formerly known as “/ig”) is the new name for your Google…