Archive for December, 2009

4 Ways to Maximize Your WordPress.com Blog

Before I started my own self-hosted WordPress blog, I used a WordPress.com blog. All the articles claiming WordPress as being the best blogging platform available were indeed true. WordPress is the King. Even running a freely-hosted domain, I was blown away by all the things that I could do to customize and spice up my [...]

WordPress

2009′s Top Ten Box Office Movies

2009 was a great year in movies. The top ten box office movies alone amassed over $2.6 billion dollars in the United States. So, which movie made the most domestically? Which one took the number one spot worldwide?

Movies

Tweeting Without Typing

The world depicted by Pixar’s hit movie Wall-E in which humans have become morbidly obese due to the level of sophistication achieved by technology may soon be reality. On April 15, 2009, University of Wisconsin doctoral student Adam Wilson sent out the tweet, “GO BADGERS.” Soon afterwards, his second tweet followed with the sentence, “SPELLING [...]

Technology, Twitter

Two Dreadful Days Later…

It was the night before Christmas. What started as a carefree attempt to fix an annoying problem culminated into something truly devastating. Having noticed the occurrence of several of these error messages, “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1853353 bytes) in ….,” I decided to act brave by attempting [...]

LonePlacebo Updates

The Best of 2009: Blog Posts, Videos, and Tweets

2009 was an awesome year, right? That is assuming you didn’t lose your home to foreclosure, get caught cheating with over a dozen women, or get sent to jail. But all is pretty swell right? Although the level of optimism has been lower than normal this year, the future can only get better. Let us [...]

Social Media, Technology

Cats Who Blog- Blogging Resource Blog That Would Make ProBlogger Blush

Web designer-know-it-all Jean-Baptiste Jung, the creator of Cats Who Code and WPRecipes, is one helluva web designer/programmer/blogger/photoshopper and … French speaker? (I wish I could speak French) When visiting any of his blogs, you can tell that the man knows what he’s talking about. Or…he’s just one helluva an actor. Any blogger familiar with Jung’s coding [...]

Blogging, WordPress

“Hey, where’s my refund?” The Nine Worst iPhone Applications Ever Made

Have you ever purchased a fart app? I have. Let me tell you…that’s not how a fart is supposed to sound like. Apple recently released a version of its Genius technology for applications that applies the same recommendation system for songs to applications. Other attempts to help buyers decide which applications to purchase have come [...]

iPod Touch & iPhone

The Funniest Facebook Groups Everyone Should Join

Who knew that a group called, “I hate it when mechanical pencils refuse to use that last half inch of lead” existed? Among the millions of groups that we come across everyday, there exists thousands of incredibly hilarious and funny Facebook groups that we join simply because it’s so ridiculous. So, here now are the [...]

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