Category: Online

  • Site of the Week: GlobalGiving

    Site of the Week (4/10/07)GlobalGiving Rating: With Christmas not that far away, here’s a website you might find useful. GlobalGiving connects users to over 450 independent charity projects around the world to make donations that can help to change and shape a community. You can help fund projects from orphanages and schools to health programs…

  • Mac or PC?

    You are a PC You’re practical, thrifty, and able to do almost anything.Appearances and trends aren’t important to you. You just like to get the job done. Are You a Mac or a PC? Damn it! It’s done it to me again. I know I’m not a PC; sure, I have a beard and like…

  • Stand up for what you believe in

    Today is Blogging Against Abuse Day. It’s an initiative created by BlogCatalog asking bloggers on Thursday, September 27th to write about putting an end to an abuse they feel passionately about. The goal is to try to form the largest group of bloggers to write about an important cause on the same day, and by…

  • An update on WordPress and Turkey

    It was my birthday yesterday. I don’t like my birthday much; it just feels like a reminder of another year gone and what I’ve got to look forward to for another year. Still, it was nice to spend a few hours with my family, and I’m putting some money together with savings to get a…

  • Indy 4 title revealed

    Just been looking over at IndianaJones.com and was admiring their new look (and John Williams’ theme) when I saw that the title of the new Indy movie has been revealed. Shia LaBeouf announced it during the MTV Video Music Awards last night, which the official site has now confirmed. The title is Indiana Jones and…

  • Podcast of the Week: Best of YouTube

    Podcast of the Week (29/8/07)Best of YouTubeRating: Best of YouTube is probably a podcast a lot of people know about, but I thought it would be a good one to feature. It’s updated daily and features some of the best and more original clips on YouTube, making it easier to find content without shifting through…

  • 5 fun Facebook apps for your profile

    Facebook’s really taken off over the last year. It now has more than 34 million users and Yahoo supposedly offered $1 billion for the site last year. Part of its success is how simple Facebook makes it to stay in touch with friends, but the applications you add to your profile are a large part…

  • Support Turkish Bloggers

    Today is Support Turkish Bloggers Day. It’s an initiative being organised by members of the WordPress forums and others who feel strongly about censorship and freedom of speech. If you believe in the rights of bloggers everywhere, please join us! I’ve written about the reasons behind this before, but I’ll give you a quick recap…

  • Site of the Week: DropJack

    Site of the Week (25/8/07)DropJack Rating: DropJack is a new social content site in the style of Digg; users submit and comment on a story, the number of votes it receives determining its rank on the site. DropJack is also meant to serve as an archive of articles, with the aim of eventually acting as…

  • A strange couple of days

    Let me ask you something. Have you ever had one of those weeks where no matter what you try, everything just seems to go wrong? Well, that’s what it’s been like for me for the last few days. You know the saying, ‘everything that can go wrong, will go wrong’? I hate that saying. It…