Did you notice that Google changed their favicon (that little icon that shows up in your address bar) from a big “G” to a little “g”? I think someone in Google marketing thinks more people associate the little “g” with Google than the big version. They may be right. For a long time both of [...]

So, that app I wrote, Writer (“The Internet Typewriter”), was published today by the CNET staff at Download.com. Very cool. I’m now one step closer to taking over the world: Create awesome web app. Get published at Download.com. ? Profit! If only I could figure out step three.

I’ve been itching for this for a long time but never got up the steam to actually go find out how to do it until today. You can type special characters (accented characters, special punctuation, etc.) directly from the keyboard by following this handy guide. (Shift+AltGr means press the Left Shift and Right Alt key [...]

Demo Girl put together a most excellent screencast yesterday of a free service I created last year called Writer: the internet typewriter. The screencast is a great intro to Writer and its features. Thanks, Demo Girl!

I just released a new plugin for WordPress for adding footnotes (well, endnotes really) to posts. You can check it out and download it from here: Footnotes Plugin. Also, I’ve written a couple of other plugins you may be interested in.

I’m just Mr. Software lately. Every morning my kids ask me about the weather so they can get dressed. This is my first attempt at building a simplified weather forecast page for them. It’s the weather report for today and tomorrow in a kid-friendly format. Once you’ve got it bookmarked, your kids are just one-click [...]

I’ve been searching for the “perfect” Flickr photo uploader for a long time so I finally broke down and decided to write it. Of course, my idea of perfect may be different than yours. (I am but a simple caveman programmer.) A video demonstration of version 1.0 along with downloads in various formats are available. [...]

What do you think of when you hear “kidoop.com”? Say it out loud. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

Update: Thanks for your help, everybody. No more testers needed. I’ll be releasing it soon. Over the weekend I created a photo uploader for Linux, specifically for Gnome desktop users: I’m looking for some people who can install and try the package out before I release it publicly. Ideally I’d like several people to run [...]