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iPage Rant

I have used iPage for a couple months now and I have to say they are not as good as they say they are. Yes, they do offer unlimited disk space, emails, mysql databases, bandwidth etc. But, there is one catch, they are constantly down. Not too long ago my blog was down more than it was up but, I realized that the only database that was crashing was my Wordpress database, the forum has never crashed and has been very fast. I have created a new database and exported all my files the new one...

MyCast Weather: Advanced Weather On your iPhone

I love tracking the weather. I'm also a huge fan of severe weather, so I always look at the radar for future forecasts. Up until a few days ago, I used Weather Channel Max to keep track of my weather on my iPhone. The UI is great, but sometimes it lacks some features. Yesterday, I found a neat iPhone weather app called MyCast Weather. This app has everything, including Radars, temperatures, forecasts, shake to update data, and much more. This app is an all in one weather app, and definitely a mu...

Pixelmator for Mac Review

Pixelmator is a great alternative to Photoshop. It is only $50 but is stuffed with advanced features; those include layers, eye dropper, gradient, and effects tools. Also it comes with basic brushes, but you can download other brushes at the Pixelmator website; you can even design your own brushes with customizable shape, size, and spacing. Another key factor is the rulers and guides that help you align everything perfectly. There are also grabber, scaling, and zooming tools. This app comes out ...

Customizing WicketPixie

Ah WicketPixie, what a great wordpress theme! I have received emails and tweets asking how to make wicketpixie get to its full potential. Email me at Mail@BillyMcGovern.com if you would like me to record a video for you! Of course the first thing we want to do is install WicketPixie, I have made a blog post and video on how to do that. Next we want to enable some plugins, I recommend enabling everything. If you don't like what a certain plugin does go back and disable it later. After ...

Nintendo World Summit Overview

On Wednesday, February 24th, Nintendo had their World Summit conference where they announced and talked about all kinds of new stuff. From what I have seen, this is going to be a pretty good year for Nintendo. All kinds of juicy news came from the World Summit, such as release dates, gameplay videos, and even a new DS. First off, Nintendo introduced a new DS, the DSi XL which is basically an oversized DSi. Personally, I think they are making way to many versions of the DS and this is just gettin...

SpyCam Lighter Review

For the fourth and final product of ThinkGeek Week, I give you the SpyCam Lighter. It’s an actual camera hidden inside a lighter! How amazing is that? This is the true future of video. It’s going to get smaller and better. Your looking at the future, now! To be honest, the video isn’t too bad, although the frame rates aren’t that great. The audio is on the lower quality side, as well. But you need to remember, we’re not talking about a couple hundred dollar professional camera. Or even ju...

Digg Digg Brings All Social Media Buttons Into One Plugin

Most blogs these days have Social media buttons which allow you to retweet the post via TweetMeme or Topsy. Blogs also add Facebook and Digg buttons for users to post via Facebook or Digg the post. This makes retweeting/posting easy for the user, but sometimes it gets aggravating for the blog owner. They need to install 4 or 5 different plugins, each for the different social networks they want to support, and sometimes the buttons don't look very well together. They also can overlap each other, ...

Epoch Clock from ThinkGeek Review

For the third product sent to me by ThinkGeek it’s an Epoch clock! A clock that displays the time in just about every format known to man. It specializes though, in the fact that it also tells time in Epoch, or Unix time, which is something we tech geeks invented. And then of course, ThinkGeek invented their own Epoch Clock to go along with it. It not only tells time, obvioucly, in Epoch, but in many other formats as well. It’s also got an alarm built in, with a nice speaker. Multiple set...

Squeeze Available for Free on Macheist

MacHeist is giving away free copies of the Mac program, Squeeze. Now, normally Squeeze is available for a price of $9.95, but thanks to MacHeist, it's free! This is quite a neat and handy program to have on your Mac. Here's what it looks like: Now as you can see, it's pretty simple looking. If you have a certain folder that's quite large, let's say your movies folder. You would simply drag or add that folder in, and that's it! It will decrease the size of that folder. Now, your Mac will re...

5 Tips for a New Twitter User

I've decided to come up with a few tips for any new Twitter user that needs some help or would like to know some tips on what to do and not do on Twitter. This also applies for current twitter users that don't know whether something is right or not. 1) Twitter isn't about followers. Probably one of the most annoying things I've ever seen is someone gloating to someone else that they have 10, 20, 30 thousand followers on Twitter, while at the same time they're following 40,000. Congrats, you f...