Have a website? Using Shaun Inman’s wildly popular (and awesome) Shortstat script to watch your traffic climb each day? Upgrading to Tiger soon?
Then this is just the thing for you. Keegan Jones, Jeremy Boles, and Ryan Sims have released a Dashboard widget that shows you your Shortstat numbers right on your desktop. How much more […]

I’m such a geek. I just burned a fair amount of time at the A Gentle Introduction to SQL website testing my SQL skills. Because there are tests. And I can create a sql statement answer and get a congratulatory “You are correct!” message. Obviously, I’m easily amused.

My geekiness aside, the […]

There’s not much to say about Antiword that isn’t in the post title. Antiword is a free Word document reader that converts the binary files of Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003 to text and PostScript files. There are versions available for most operating systems popular and obscure.

According to the […]

Dave Hyatt, one of the engineers responsible for developing Safari, has been blogging about his progress in getting Safari to correctly render the Acid2 test issued by the Web Standards Project a few weeks ago. Dave also released the hacks needed to make your Safari render it properly.
Mozilla also appears to be working on it […]

With Episode III just around the corner it’s easy to understand why so many geeks are getting excited. I can only imagine the number of Star Wars sites that are going crazy at this moment, but none of them hold a candle to The Darth Side. It’s a blog written by “Darth Vader” and it […]

UPDATE: Stupid ass me forgot to enable comments…
FG is looking to add some forums to our already kickass community so that the cool geeks can have a place to hangout. However, I am not too familiar with the forum software that is out there today. Internally we have been using phpBB, but I am not […]

Tiger Direct, Inc., computer sales company, is suing Apple Computer, Inc. based on a copyright infringement trademark dispute by using the name Tiger for Apple’s latest Operating System. Tiger Direct claims that they hold trandmarks for ‘Tiger’, ‘TigerDirect’, and ‘TigerSoftware’ and have used these terms in their marketing campaigns since 1987.
Among the complaints that […]

On the heels of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger going Gold, Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.90 is now available for the Power-PC chipset. Terra Soft Solutions Inc. announced this build as an “interim” build stating that it “gave way to peer pressure”.
With Windows releasing x64 builds, and Tiger due out tomorrow, Terra Soft felt that […]

Take a rail shooter and subtract everything but the bosses. That is the basis for “Warning Forever.” When I first heard that as a discription of the game, I thought it sounded different, but unexciting. Then I found out the bit of genius that makes this game so worthwhile. The bosses […]

Google, Linux, and Firefox are on the way up. Microsoft is on the way down.

A survey of 168,000 surfers hitting business web sites has found Internet Explorer has lost nearly two percentage points of market share. IE’s open source nemesis Firefox, meanwhile, doubled its presence.
Janco Associates found IE had 83.7 per cent of the market […]

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No matter how skilled of a programmer you are there are times when you have to return to the manual to recall how to implement the date function in PHP. That usually means taking a trip to the PHP Manual online and going through its pages. Well now, thanks to I Love Jack Daniels things […]

Only 2 days left for your chance at a Sony PSP. Unfortunately I have nothing else to add to this entry.

Grant Robinson has created an addictive little game related to Google’s image search, on which you try to guess what the keyword was for the images displayed.
(Must have been hard for him to find a bunch of keywords that didn’t show nude women on the first page, regardless of how unrelated the keyword could be)

Not sure if your Netflix subscription is really worth it? Then maybe the Netflix Fee Calculator can help. You select the number of shipping days for the month you want to calculate, your membership plan, transit time, and turnaround time. It’ll spit back your average DVD rental cost, the daily late fee, […]

I must apologize as it seems I’ve been asleep at the wheel in reporting Flickr-related applications. I nearly missed new kid on the block Lickr. What is Lickr exactly?

Lickr removes the need for Flash. It runs within the web browser Firefox, stripping the Flash before the user can even see it, and replacing […]