Archive for April, 2009

Tune Library goes AJAX

I have always loved working on my Wordpress plugins to learn about new technologies. While I am getting quite comfortable with PHP over time, something that I had never dabbled in is AJAX. Thanks to Gary Traffanstedt, who was considering to use Tune Library but found it was lacking some functionality, Tune Library 1.3.1 now [...]

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A great pre-order incentive

I am usually not a fan of pre-ordering music CDs. While I am usually a fairly faithful listener and CD buyer when I like a band, I still don’t like the idea of blindly buying an album when I have no clue if it’s going to be good or bad. For example, there is a [...]

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A look at all of the games that I am watching

The next year look like it will be great in terms of new games coming to the PS3. I have put together a page listing off  the main titles that I am looking for in this new year. Let me know if you think that I have missed anything.

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Get the first single off the upcoming DMB CD for free

After there years of waiting, and after the tragic events of last summer which led to the demise of saxophonist LeRoi Moore, the Dave Matthews Band is going to be releasing a new CD in June. For one week only, you get request a free download for the new single from the album, “Funny the [...]

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Get your own picture book printed

When visiting my sister a few weeks ago, she showed me a very nice book that contained all of the pictures of a trip that she did to Portugal last year. The quality of the paper was very nice. She explained to me that she used a service called PhotoInPress.ca to do the work. Starting [...]

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Go back through the Stargate

After 10 years of Stargate SG-1 and 5 years of Stargate Atlantis, the producers behind both hit science-fiction series are going back to the drawing board for a third series entitled Stargate Universe. Not much is known about this series so far, other than the fact that a group of humans from Earth end up [...]

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A great April Fool’s joke

I know, I know… April’s Fool was a week ago. I’ve been meaning to write about this hilarious video that Microsoft made to advertise one of their “new” upcoming games called Alpine Legends. The video that they made has very good production values and could definitely fool someone at a quick glance. Check it out [...]

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Now on Twitter

Everybody, from radio announcers to podcast hosts to bloggers seem to be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon these days, so I decided to give it a shot as well. You can see my latest tweets on my personal site sidebar or obviously by following me on Twitter.

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Search the web in a cool way

I was recently introduced to a very interesting web tool called CoolIris. Available as a Firefox plugin, CoolIris lets you search through images or videos on sites such as Google Images and Youtube in a more quicker and interactive fashion.

The plugin adds an icon to sites that it is compatible with to let you easily [...]

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Changing my site theme (again)

During a web search for cool themes for my wife’s photography site, I stumbled upon this gorgeous new theme that I just had to try. Well, I loved it and updated my site to use it. I hope you will find it as legible as the old one.

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