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I was playing Desktop Tower Defense when I happened to look at my wife’s computer and saw she was playing a game called Boomshine. It looked fun so I tried it out. Boomshine is even simpler than the tower defense game but is equally as addicting. The objective is to get the biggest chain reaction […]

Well the weekend’s here and you know what that means. It’s time for my weekend list of interesting posts by other blogs.
Here we go:

Connected Internet - List of Search Engine Ranking Factors
A Virtual Exit - How to Backup Your Firefox Settings
UgoTrade - Encyclopedia Humanica and the Internet’s Destiny
Underground Revolt - How to Search the Most […]

Google has finally resolved issues with its Personalized Home Page service 32 hours after angry users hit the discussion forums to report that their Google home pages reverted to the default settings or returned to older versions. Most of the complaints were about lost productivity and missing data.
The personalized page is a free service that […]

The Smart Digg Button for Firefox is a new extension that was created using Digg’s recently released API. This addon will place a notification in your browser’s lower right corner of how many Diggs the site you’re looking at has. Clicking on the notification area will let you Digg the page.
There’s a slight catch. […]

Recently I noticed that my friend Mark had a post about a feed train and was kind enough to include mine. It’s basically a link train with the focus on feeds. Here’s a suggestion for those who don’t want their feed readers to get cluttered. Use a different reader to subscribe to the list.
This should […]

AOL has just launched its beta page and the first thing you’ll notice is that it seems familiar. So familiar in fact that you’ll think you were at a different site. Take a look at the two images below to see what I mean.

Just like looking at twins right? Thanks to Josh Lowensohn for finding […]

For those of you who feel the need to monitor your children’s online activities, or feel that their spouse is being naughty online, this application will help you find out for sure. PC Pandora is essentially a monitoring program designed to record computer usage. This includes keystrokes, visited websites, email and password retrieval, p2p downloads, […]

I just noticed that I was included in the DoFollow train over at Digital Hub Tips. It seems the community is rapidly growing and that’s a good thing. Since I already listed some DoFollow blogs in my post about the community, my new additions to the train won’t be that many.
Below are the rules:
Begin to […]