July 19, 2007
My mom recently encountered an issue with her computer, and as these things go, she called me for help.
Her problem was simple: The text of desktop icons had background colors that didn’t match the background image on her desktop. She simply wanted to get rid of the background colors on the desktop icons.
It [...]
July 7, 2007
It’s been awhile since I did any web development, so last night I built a little website, urlKiss.com.
It’s another url-shortening service, like tinyURL. It turns long URLS like this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox
-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=zlW&q=scooters
&btnG=Search
into smaller ones like this:
http://urlkiss.com/l
Here’s how you might use such a service:
in lieu of long URLs, which sometimes break (e.g. in emails)
as a [...]
