Amazon is offering 200 free full-length MP3′s for download from their web site. As far as I can tell they are free of any DRM stuff, and they played without any problems in iTunes on my Mac. The list of songs is updated every six hours, and you can choose to listen to a 30 second preview of each song, or download the entire thing. There are quite a few well known artists like Moby and The Strokes and Jimmy Eat World on the list, rather than indie bands that no one has ever heard of. There are rare and unreleased tracks available as well. Read more »

Mac OSX 10.8 “Liger”. Via Read more »

I thought we were supposed to be getting smarter and more advanced as time goes on? Getting a high school diploma or GED isn’t even this hard, and they are all multiple choice questions so you have a chance of just guessing to get them right anyway. Doh – I’ve really gotta start reading the comments on digg before I post stuff! Haha. Via Read more »

One of the most infuriating things about Windows for me is when you get one of those damn “Couldn’t find *.dll” error messages and you have no idea where to find them either. Well now you can, even if Windows is too stupid to do it for you. Head over to DLL-Files.com the next time you need to find a DLL, and download some of the most common ones that mysteriously go missing. Read more »

Bitmap or “pixel fonts” were all the rage a few years ago, and still pop up every now and then today. There are already some great sets out there, much of which you can find at “DaFont.com”:http://www.dafont.com/, but if you don’t see anything you like there, you can always create one yourself. Normally that would involved using a difficult program like Illustrator plus some sort of font creation program, but with this little Flash app, it’s as easy as tic-tac-toe. Just click in the white squares to fill in the pixels, and preview your font with real text whenever you like. When you’re finished, save the font and it will Read more »

My wife doesn’t do much on the computer other than email, but she occasionally sells a dog online or something and wants to use my PayPal account to get the money. But she always wants to charge the buyer extra so that if she asks for $100, she’ll actually get $100, not $96.80, after PayPal takes their fees. So anyway, guess who she asks to handle that and figure up all of that information for her… So anyway, after doing that more than a few times for her, myself, and other people, I decided to make a site that would do it for me. So here it is. “The Fee Read more »

Hooray! I have received my “free Nintendo DS”:http://www.ds4free.com/default.aspx?r=91871. After OfferCentric worked out some supply issues, it was promptly shipped via USPS Priority Mail and was waiting for me at my work address on Monday. I didn’t get a tracking number, but the USPS doesn’t really give tracking numbers for priority mail packages anyway, more of a delivery confirmation number for the shipper. Anyway, opened it up and it’s a brand new DS just as if I’d bought it from the store! Hooray for free sites! And thanks to the people that signed up under me. High-fives to all of you. Click on to see some pics of the machine in Read more »

A lot of sites have a “Get Firefox” banner on their site these days, but Dan Ostermeyer has a way to target IE users specifically by using IE’s own technology against itself. Apparently there is some sort of proprietary comment code built-in to IE, and since only IE recognizes it, you can put your promotion wording in there and only IE users will see it. Of course there are dozens of other ways to do this like CSS, server side code, javascript, etc. But this isn’t a bad method either. One major problem is that it doesn’t allow your site to validate, so if you are really into seeing that Read more »

A lot of hacking techniques are really simple, like guessing a commonly used password or using “social engineering” to get a password and other sensitive info out of a user. Another simple way to “hack” is to use Google to find misconfigured servers and scripts that are run by ignorant or lazy system administrators, and use the information from those pages to your own advantage or entertainment. “This”:http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews&func=showcontent&id=179 site happens to have a running database of these hacks. There are hundreds of queries to use to find any number of vulnerabilities. Most won’t actually give you access to anything sensitive or confidential, but they are interesting and some are even Read more »

Apple has been on a roll lately, but every company has its failures and bad ideas, and this site lists a few of Apple’s. Like… The Apple Pippin, a game console / multimedia center; their opendoc file format; the Mac TV (Yes, Apple was the first to put a TV tuner card in a PC, imagine that); and the Puck mouse, which was a perfectly round mouse that made it impossible to tell where it was “pointing” which led to all kinds of frustration. Strangely absent from the list is the Newton, though maybe they just figured it was “ahead of its time” so it wasn’t really a failure. Read more »