February 27, 2007

Blog Homepage as a Graph

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Check out this nifty Java applet which converts HTML tags of a web page into a colorful graph.

October 2, 2006

Life on a Flash Drive

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As a college student I do a lot of work in computer labs between classes. It’s handy to have preferences from applications saved so I don’t have to adjust settings everytime I want to use a particular program. With a 2GB flash drive (you can get one for around $30 after rebates from [...]

September 10, 2006

A Look at Google Analytics

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I recently setup Google Analytics on this blog. This was my first experience with Analytics and I was impressed. The Executive Overview (seen below) is the first page you see when logging in to your Analytics account. You can see your visits, page views, visitor stats, referrers and more.

One of my favorite [...]

August 12, 2006

Backup Those Files

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I admit - I’ve lost important files multiples times. Worse yet, failure to backup this data rendered it irrecoverable. Life goes on, but at this point there really isn’t any excuse not to backup your data.
Recently I discovered Mozy, a free online backup service with 2GB of storage. It’s perfect for [...]