I'm not referring to real life, I'm talking about the ways in which different Social Networking sites use the "friend" term. On MySpace for instance, a "friend" usually is someone you really know - at least that's the intention of their design. At least out of the people in your top friends you're more likely to actually know and be close friends with them than on any other social ...

Holy shit it must be my lucky month. First a positive encounter with Dell, now Verizon? Anyways, I had to write about it because that's how it should work - if a company goes above expectations and does something that you didn't even ask because they actually seem to care, you should tell someone else about it. How touching. So yesterday I almost started bleeding from my ears ...

This technique has been around for a long time apparently I just didn't know about it. But now I know and I'm going to tell you about it. That's just how it works folks. So, I've been using Gmail since way back when you could buy an invite on eBay in exchange for an interesting story and I've NEVER heard about this spam-finder technique. If you use Gmail to ...

Visual Twitter is an app which integrates Twitter's own microblogging service with your Twitter user account with a accent on the photosharing aspect. Mashable reported this story this afternoon and I haven't seen any other news about it since so I don't have any more information or other reviews on it. The most interesting thing to me is that they're using Twitter's logo. They're definitely located in Nova ...

This CSS technique is generally used to replace a piece of text with a graphical representation of that same text. The desired outcome is the effect that the text contained in the graphic image gets indexed by a search engine AS TEXT. It's sort of a not so white-hattish thing to do because it's usage is deceptive even though when used correctly it really serves a good purpose. My ...

...Or "How I Almost Just Had a Heart Attack because I Just Realized My Entire Blog Was in Google's Supplemental Index." Apparently in Wordpress, if you go to Options > General, you can set the "WordPress address (URL)" & the "Blog address (URL)" and this determines how the links are made to your posts throughout your site. Unfortunately, mine was set to this: http://dennisplucinik.com/blog This was causing my website to get ...

We're all familiar with captchas. Just in case you're not - they're basically web page modules used to verify if information is being submitted by a human and not a computer or a bot. There is an "official" captcha but there are also many variations of it (of which I think Google's is the best) but they basically aim to do the same thing. Honestly they have become ...

These are advanced techniques that require more than just technical knowledge of Photoshop, they require talent, Photoshop training, knowledge of design, layout, balance, color theory, etc. I hope you find these techniques inspiring and helpful. UPDATE: If you like these tutorials, you might love this:60+ (more) Advanced Photoshop & GIMP Tutorials ADVERTISEMENT: If you're interested in graphic design, pursue your dream with a distance learning degree from an accredited graphic design ...

Strange I've never seen this happen before. Digg.com went down right after I opened the story about the Starbucks nipple vandal. I'll try and remember to post a link once Digg comes back up. And I was just about to dig the full collection of every Calvin & Hobbes comic. weak. Update: Digg has a new design! (Read about it here)

Good lord, why are all my services going down? I have been trying to create a sandbox account with a fake buyer and seller account for a particular project I am working on so as to test the PayPal Payments Pro API integration. I have been trying to create this sandbox account for several days now and it's basically not working. Here's what happens: 1) From within the PayPal Sandbox ...