The name may sound a little dirty, but Greasemonkey is a superb Firefox extension that acts as a decorator and allows you to customize the look and feel as well as the behavior of any website you visit by means of custom Javascript files. If you know Javascript, you can write your own scripts - or you can take advantage of the large number of user submitted scripts. Some scripts are generic and act on any website, while most scripts apply to specific websites....
Ken Adams left a comment for my previous posting about my CafePress store and recommended that I check out Spreadshirt instead. After checking out their website, I am pretty impressed. Spreadshirt operates pretty much the same way as CafePress, which means that you can either create a design for yourself and order your own items, or you can open your own virtual store and sell items at a markup. They seem to have a slightly smaller selection of miscellaneous items than CafePress, but in return they offer far more colors for their T-Shirts....
I’ve been playing a little with CafePress. I have to say it’s a pretty cool concept, and very powerful. My daughter Julianna is drawing the cutest pictures these days, and I thought I’d use that opportunity to put my scanner to good use and upload some of those pictures to CafePress. Check out my CafePress store. So far I have uploaded one image called “Happy Guy” (not sure if this is supposed to be me; he certainly has a bit more hair than me ;) )....
I have not tried it yet, but according to this article, Podcasting is really taking off and supposedly already reaching 6 million adults in the US. For those of you who are not familiar with this term, here’s the Wikipedia definition for “Podcasting”. One of the original Podcasting websites, iPodder.org, has a huge list of available Podcasts, ranging from different styles of music to audio blogs and all kinds of other topics....
A little over a week ago, I switched to Gmail, and I’d like to report that I’m very happy with it so far. It is very fast and easy to use, and ideal for accessing the same email account from several different computers (such as my workstation at work, as well as my desktop and my laptop at home). Labels are very nice as well. They work pretty much like folders, but since Gmail organizes email by conversations, a label will automatically be applied to an incoming email if it represents a follow-up to a previouly labeled conversation, meaning that you can simply hit “Archive” once you’re done reading the email....