Overestimating What Can Be Done in a Day
How can we be more realistic with our daily planning.
Starting a New Project is Simple and Hard
Why does the “new project” excitement fade and why do we find it so hard to keep the momentum going?
FreshStore – The Affiliate Store Builder
How I created the affiliate store builder, FreshStore.
What is a Thin Affiliate Site?
Being labeled a “thin affiliate” site will mean very little to no traffic from Google – how can you prevent this happening to you?
Opportunity is Stealing our Time, Focus and Energy
In this article we look at why people are overwhelmed by opportunity, hide behind it and most importantly how we can deal with this.
Backing up on DVDs and CDs? Think Again
Find out why DVDs and CDs are not suitable for long term back ups.
Online Banking Usability and The Dreaded Card Reader
Banks are passing the burden of security onto the user and making online banking less convenient.
Dunbar's Number and The Monkeysphere
For many years, one way or another, I have been stumbling back to an interesting and funny article: What is the Monkeyspehere by David Wong on cracked.com. Essentially the article explores the limit of people we can care about. This “Monkeysphere”, cited as about 150, is the rough maximum number of people we can have…
CAPTCHA – Passing the Problem to the User
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a method of preventing spam commonly used in web forms. The user is shown a distorted image of numbers, letters or words and is asked to type them out. This ensures that the form is not filled out automatically by a bot…
Understanding Google Gears – The Basics
Some people are unsure exactly what Google Gears is, what it does and how you can use it. Read on for a quick and dirty guide that will give you an understanding of this technology by Google so you can benefit from it and even use it in your websites/applications.