Zac Garrett

Last night I started to notice the site running quite slow. After some investigation I figured out the issue was in the adsense video player I added a few days back. The player itself was taking up to a minute to load. After removing the player from the site the page load times for me were back under a second. Continue Reading »

Ever since Google bought YouTube people have been wondering how they would monetize their purchase. As of late they’ve been talking about google ads in videos. They’ve now released the system and it’s time to play around with it. Continue Reading »

This has to be one of the best stories I’ve read in a long time.

After repeated attempts to change her phone service from Verizon to Comcast’s Triple Play during a week in August, the 75-year-old Bristow resident with a heart condition took out her frustrations at the Manassas payment center on Center Street.

Shaw was arrested for disorderly conduct after she took a hammer to several items in the office - all the while saying, “Have I got your attention now?”

There have been many times when I’ve wanted to hurt the tech support on the other end of the phone. It took a 75 year old lady to actually follow through. With the way tech support is going today I will not be surprised to see more and more stories of this sort. Companies need to realize that good support will bring in more customers.

Note to self: Grow Beard.

I recently posted on the issues with DRM. Now amazon.com has released amazonmp3 which provides DRM free mp3s. Not only are they pure mp3s, but a better quality than available in iTunes. Continue Reading »

Having fun with this weeks headlines.*

Microsoft Office finally faces real challenges

Yeah, if you consider horrible web based apps a challenge.

Steve Wozniak engaged to Kathy Griffin?

And nobody cared.

MIT student charged with wearing fake bomb she says was only art

Who in their right mind would wear a breadboard to an airport today?

Apple blacklisting hacked iPhones?

Urm, last time I checked hacking a device voids the warranty.

Adobe says CS3 not fully tested with Apple’s Leopard

There is only one company who is slower at keeping up to date than Apple and thats Adobe.

AMD triple-core rumors surface

Triple core? C’mon, just skip triple and go to quad or even better octi-core.

Halo 3 torrent floods the net

What new game didn’t hit the net prior to its release?

Porn Industry Gloats Over Hollow Win vs BitTorrent

The porn industry is always good for laugh.

A Baffling Phenomenon: Customized Ringtones

The only thing new here is that Pouge is just realizing the issues with ringtones.

*Concept from Paul Thurott.

I recently had the urge to create an forum signature from my RSS feed. My first step was to find a open source RSS parser that is done in PHP. I found a little application called MagpieRSS. This little script parses any RSS feed and puts them into an array that you can use. Continue Reading »

I have been asked several times by people how many bookmarks/favorites I have in my browser. To answer this question I most often have to explain my reasoning. I do not bookmark anything unless I am working on a tutorial that requires a restart of the computer. Continue Reading »

Now that I’ve covered how to setup a web site, the next major step is to start designing your site. There are several different ways you can start; hard code the pages, use a WYSIWYG program, pay someone else, use a prebuilt script, or a combination of them all. Continue Reading »

Web hosting can be a scary thing to get started with. There are so many different aspects of setting up a web site that it can seem daunting at first. Quite often people will pay more money than they have to just to not have to deal with all of this stuff. That is an option, but far from the only option.

There are two many aspects of setting up a web site; a domain and web hosting. Each part can be a challenge at first, but once you know how they work its very easy. Continue Reading »