My friend recently pointed me in the direction of an interesting web application called Venmo. Venmo is unique in that it allows you to send your friends money using your cell phone account. That’s right; just text Venmo your friend’s number and how much money you want to pay them / they owe you and it will [...]

One of the beauties of Creative Commons is that it promotes the idea of open source software. What is open source software, you ask? Open source software is software where the creators provide the community with the source code and allow anybody to edit or add something to the software. Obviously, Creative Common’s mantra of “Share, [...]

[/caption] If you’re a fan of the Mozilla Firefox engine and absolutely despise using iTunes to organize your music, I urge you to check Songbird out. Songbird has a ton of perks. Look at all this cool stuff you can do! Customize. Hate iTunes’s color? Download a theme for Songbird just like you would [...]

Digg is a social media site where popular web pages, flash games, images, YouTube videos, and news is shared online. Digg works because users submit online material they think is interesting or funny. If others agree with them, it rises in importance in the area it is pertaining to. Several Digg users are “power users”. A [...]

If you like to code HTML websites, you should read this blog post! The World Wide Web Consortium was created to provide a ruleset for writing HTML. This is important in order to ensure that web content will be largely synonymous across web browsers. HTML is a certain type of markup language. It has a few different [...]

Kiva is a go-between website that allows people to donate cash to entrepreneurs who need a jump start. How does it work? This picture shows how Kiva uses funds to help entrepreneurs So what’s the point? How can you help an up-start entrepreneur? If you have a Pay-Pal account, it’s very simple to transfer funds to an entrepreneur. [...]

Check out these cool Google Lab applications! Want to search for images in an interactive way? Want to search for something by taking a picture of it? Lost and looking for a business close to you? You don’t have to use the Yellow Pages! I hope you like these cool applications I found?

YouTube suffers from video duplication. Video duplication occurs when a YouTube video user uploads a video that already exists, or copies a video already on the site but changes the video slightly to make it different. Let’s search for a popular song we like to listen to! In this case, let’s look up Metallica’s “One” because [...]

Earlier this week I made a post detailing ChromeBird, a really handy Twitter app for Google Chrome. Since then, I’ve found some other cool applications that I’d like to share! Google Similar Pages: this little app will point you to similar webpages! I’ve used it to find websites that are largely similar. Be wary though; sometimes [...]

For everyone who wishes to have an easy way to access files across computers, watch this video!