Category Archives: Misc Geek

Gazzump.com seriously rocks for youtube to MP3 conversion. Absolutely stoked at the quality. Cute name too.

I made this at Toonlet.com, where if you can click and drag, you can create your own characters and comic strips. Although limited to 1 character per frame, it’s still pretty cool. You can change expressions with just a few … Continue reading →

My site got hacked recently and used to phish user names + passwords from Citibank clients. It makes me angry. For whatever reason they do it, cheating people is very wrong. It’s good to know that there are groups like … Continue reading →

Recently I’ve been getting one or two link spams a day on my blog caught by Akismet. Not too bad considering some blogs have thousands of spam hits. And “92% of all comments are spam” (according to Akismet stats). I … Continue reading →

I found a “new” online photo editor at Pixenate.com. What I like about it is that you can upload 2MB photos without error. The auto “Enhance” effect corrects lighting issues and the Lomo and Oil Painting effects are quite interesting. … Continue reading →

Sigh. I think I enjoy testing out programs more than filling them up with words. Just upgraded my WordPress to version 2.3, released a few hours ago, and am waiting for a stable release of Joomla 1.5, which currently is … Continue reading →

I’ve decided to go with WordPress and drop my Drupal installation (for now) because WordPress has nicer blog themes. My favourites are Blue Bird by Randa Clay, Natural Essence by Victor Persson and Peaceful Rush by Small Potato. WordPress Theme … Continue reading →

I now have a zillion options and am in a quandry as to what to do. Just registered another blog with blogger.com. Google gives a free sub-domain name but no individual post privacy. Different things with different blogs. Which one … Continue reading →