Deborah Ng of Freelance Writing Jobs and Writers Row fame has come up with a great idea. Why not have bloggers use Joe’s Goals to challenge each other to lose weight? The idea is pretty simple. Sign up for Joe’s Goals, create a couple of simple weight loss goals, create a badge, and place the […]
The likes of Flickr and Photobucket have produced a surge of interest in digital photography and, specifically, building online photo albums. The major thing that has been missing from the online photo experience is a way to tweak your photos without having to use a program like Photoshop. SnipShot is one of the first attempts […]
Sometimes I code best when there is total silence. Other times I need music. But what music? Pandora is a service that takes a song or artist you like and builds a radio station around it. The services uses the Music Gnome Project to map the music based on the qualities a song contains. You […]
Those poor little bugs are getting rolled under the big Joe’s Goals development machine. Fixed another batch today and just got around to the blog post. Thanks to everyone who has been submitting bug reports.
Here are the details:
Update Reporting so it now works after breaking everything as soon as 2007 started.
Added India Time Zone (GMT […]
Need to convert a file from one format to another? ZamZar is a web based system that lets you upload a file in one format and get back another file in another format. You can even convert multiple files at once and it will email links to the converted files when complete. Very useful tool […]
I remember back when Google started indexing PDFs. I thought it was very cool - for about a nano-second. The first time I searched Google and clicked on a PDF without paying attention I recalled how much I hate PDFs. Adobe’s Acrobat is a curse on a very cool document format. Acrobat is slow, doubly […]
So I just rolled out some long overdue fixes and minor enhancements to Joe’s Goals. Some of the problems were IE only and since I’m an avid FireFox fan I hadn’t quite run accross them. Thanks to everyone for sending in bug reports and keep up the good work. We are in beta for a […]
New Years hit and so did all the people looking to keep their New Years resolutions. Here are just a few of the links that Joe has gotten in the last couple of days:
Lifehacker: “You’ve decided to quit smoking, post to your blog, bring lunch to work or regulate your sleeping patterns every day. Track […]
I’m a huge fan of history, having just yesterday finished the excellent America - The Last Best Hope by William Bennett. Before that I was reading 1491, a highly speculative but excellent read on the continents of North and South America before the Europeans arrived. I can highly recommend both books. I also use the […]
Happy New Year Everyone! It’s time again to start making those resolutions for the New Year. I was curious just how many people planned on making resolutions this year and so I dug up this poll from the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. Their research shows that 44% of adults plan to […]
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