I’ve used photographs from iStockphoto for websites. For less than $50 (often less than $10!) you can get incredible photography from amateur photographers around the world. The selection is huge, and you can search by keyword. And the photos are royalty-free, meaning that you pay just once upfront ...
Favorite Handmade Tech Items
Etsy is the great place to shop for handmade items that are the perfect mix of craft and tech. The combo of the two is a special interest of mine. Here are five favorite categories. 1. Flash drives (also known as USB drives). They range from old Pez dispensers to old keyboard keys to handmade cases ...
Managing Your Facebook and Twitter All at Once with Seesmic
I wanted a way to be able to update my Facebook profile, my Facebook IvanExpert fan page, and my Twitter feed all at once--and to be able to choose, on a post-by-post basis, where I wanted the posts to display. Twitter doesn't have any built-in functionality to allow Facebook updates from its ...
Follow Lots of Blogs Easily with RSS
If you're not aware of what RSS is, or how it can be used, I'll let you know how I find it useful. I follow a lot of blogs each day: The majority are tech- and Mac-related, and then there are some written by friends of mine, and a few craft-related blogs, and then of course the funny dumb ones ...
Squarespace for easy, gorgeous websites–and you don’t have to be an HTML geek
I recently met Erica Reitman, the marketing director of Squarespace, and I'm very impressed with what the company is doing. Based on their info page, Squarespace has been around since 2003, but it’s only recently that I’ve been reading about them and hearing their sponsorship of various podcasts I ...
Personalized travel guides, thanks to the wonder of the internet
I’ve been playing around with Offbeat Guides, an online travel site that aggregates data from a number of websites to create your own personalized guide to a specific city. They say they can make a custom travel guide for over 30,000 travel destinations. You put in the following info: • The city ...