PYD.ca – A Canadian URL Shortener
March 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As the web grows more massive and popular individual websites become bigger and bigger, the average URL – that is, the addresses with which we visit web pages – is simply too long to handle. Whether it’s simply a pain to remember, or it cramps your Twitter style by taking up better than half of [...]
Free Domain Name Generation Software
March 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
While digging through some of the older material that has come and gone on this website over the years, I came across a simple piece of software that served to save me many hours when buying and selling domains made up a large part of what I did, and I’m releasing it here in the [...]
First 100 Domains Ever Registered
March 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
With the modern web playing host to more than 200 millions domain names doing business worth billions of dollars each year, there isn’t a single web developer among us who doesn’t wish that we could have jumped on the bandwagon just a little earlier. No these guys, though! Here are the first 100 domains ever [...]
Cheap, Yet Premium, VPS Hosting
February 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
When it comes to launching a long list of websites, a reliable hosting situation is the first step that needs to be covered. That entails judging your needs, balancing your budget, and coming up with a solution that fits nicely into your overall plans. Sounds simple enough, right? Unfortunately, there are more hosts out there [...]
The Effect of Affect
February 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The more you learn about the English language, the more you see words and grammatical rules that simply don’t make sense. We write but know not to pronounce the letter “K” in some situations, we use synonyms for no reason other than to be wordy and we use homonyms despite how confusing they can be. [...]
An Open Letter to BlackBerry
September 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Dear Research in Motion, Salutations! I’m writing to you because I wanted to offer my thoughts on BlackBerry 10 and what, I’m sure you hope, will be a resurgence of the BlackBerry brand in 2013. You’ve got a lot of haters out there, each of them wet in the mouth with thoughts of your demise [...]
Overcoming Working Writer’s Block
September 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Sometimes I just don’t want to write. I wake up in the morning, sit at my desk and fire up my computer to get started on whatever writing projects await me and my fingers simply won’t get going. Given that I typically write for clients with deadlines, this lack of professionalism from my fingers just [...]
Is “Verklempt” an English Word?
August 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Once in a while, during casual reading or conversation, a word will be offered up by one party that confounds even the wordiest of writers. For me, such an occasion inevitably leads to a mental note to Google that word at my earliest opportunity, leading me, from time to time, to fantastic new additions to [...]
Microsoft Surface: The End of the PC?
August 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As a writer and web developer by profession, I spend a good chunk of every day sitting in front of a computer. Since making a switch from PC to laptop about five years ago, I’ve worked hard to further mobilize my work in order to allow myself more freedom. Unfortunately, a string of smartphones, BlackBerry [...]
