5ThirtyOne

Update (Apr 28, 2009): Thanks to a generous donation, and a reassessment of my contributions to the community - as well as future plans, the donations link has been removed. Today the site was updated with a new persistent "status bar" ...

Asides are back. They've been on the site before, disappeared, returned powered by Tumblr, faded away, added back in with delicious via RSS, stagnated, and are now once again reintroduced as breadcrumbs. Reason? Looking back through the archives, it is ...

Yesterday I was hoping to have some free time to visit the grocery store to pick-up a few necessities. Unfortunately, I realized all too late that hopping in a car for a trip to the grocery store was out of ...

UPDATE: According to a comment on digg, gmailupgrades.com has been taken down. Important FYI update for any Gmail users. If you receive the following email in your Gmail account, do not follow the embedded link. With the recent announcement of Google ...

Earlier this evening I caught a sneak preview of The 11th Hour (Warner Independent Pictures) at the Seattle Art Museum thanks to Yelp & TheWarrenReport. The film, produced & narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio (no joke), looks back at global changes ...

If someone were to ask you how to improve credibility and increase constructive exposure online, what would you say? Would you say things like "setup a blog" or "comment and interact with other individuals in your interest group(s)"? Better yet, ...

Last year Drew introduced me to web based service which expedited the process of sending, receiving, signing, and returning legal documents - contracts. Without the help of EchoSign, we would have lost a few days waiting for FedEx to deliver ...

Smashing Magazine recently polled 35 different individuals whose livelihood deals in some shape or form with web design. If you're not already a subscriber, I highly recommend their feed which regularly publishes some of the most detailed and exhaustive resource ...

Not too long ago I posted a review & comparison of three online collaboration applications - Basecamp, Goplan, and activeCollab. Through personal experience, as well as input from readers, I realized that the online collaboration tools niche is one of ...

For some time, I've left a small Crazy Egg <script> at the bottom of my site which provided information as to where readers were more inclined to use their mouse. My impression(s) of the service has changed little from when ...

Here are a few tips for local web development which, for the most part, are applicable for both OS X and Windows users. Simple little steps which can be implemented in order to "automate" the creation of web documents. Local development ...

Purchased a new Apple computer lately? Apple recommends supplementing your new purchase with a yearly subscription to their Dot Mac (.Mac) service. Touting such conveniences as iWeb publishing (no HTML/CSS knowledge necessary), Photocasting (think personal photo broadcasting), iDisk (access files ...

Development applications & utilities surface with announcements and updates on a regular basis promising increased productivity, time-saving innovative features, and my all-time favorite - the ability to "deliver awesome standards-based sites in no time!" If only achieving the end results ...

The website stat whore within each of us shares a similar yearning for tracking specific links to gauge popularity. The reason? We like knowing what tickles a readers interest, what keywords entice readers to click-through, or what ad campaigns work ...

Khoi Vinh recently announced an awesome utility for anyone who frequently passes long URLs out to contacts. The service, known as Shorty, is a self-hosted alternative to URL shortening services like TinyURL or URL123. Shorty is self hosted. This means ...

Blogging is very much the medium of choice for publishing personal content on to the net. From as little as free, the average internet user can be up and publishing within 5 minutes. All it takes is a little know ...