Yearly Archives: 2008

Tabeze – The AJAX Domain Availability Checker

Looking for a domain? It sure can get frustrating when you enter 375 different ideas into a WhoIs service, only to find that they’re all registered.

While Tabeze can’t help you come-up with more ideas, it can help you check their availability easier.

Tabeze is a domain availability checker that allows you to, with the press of a key, open as many search boxes as you want. Type a domain (including the TLD) into a box and press enter, and Tabeze does the rest. You can open more search boxes so you can check more domains at once, or you can do it so you can leave positive results onscreen for later reference. There are many ways to use this innovative feature.

My biggest complaint is that, unlike normal WhoIs services, it doesn’t show alternate TLDs that are available. If I search superwebmegasite.com on WhoIs.net, it will let me know if it’s available, and mention whether superwebmegasite.net and superwebmegasite.us are available. Tabeze doesn’t do that.

BlogBuzz January 26, 2008

How to Feature Your Best Posts in Your Sidebar

Looking for a way to feature some of your better posts? Here’s a method I’ve been using for a few months (visible on the index and the screencap to the right). The five most recent posts that I’ve marked as “Featured” will appear in…

Use Your Domain as Your OpenID

Well, it looks like OpenID may be catching on. (I’m still not sure if that’s a good thing, though.) Now, wouldn’t it be cool if you could use your website’s domain as your OpenID URL? It’s easy to do. I’ll use my ID as…

OpenID is Catching On: Yahoo and Google Onboard

Well, it looks like OpenID is catching on. Two major companies (Google and Yahoo) are slowly launching support for the “single sign-in” standard. On a related note, I voiced some concerns last April about OpenID. They seem very relevant nowadays. Yahoo is implementing OpenID…

FeedDemon vs. MyNT

As you probably know by now, the popular RSS reader FeedDemon is now free. The maker, NewsGator, has decided to start making money solely off their enterprise customers. So they decided to make FeedDemon available to anyone who wants it (don’t worry, it’s still…

Get Photoshop For $300

Don’t have Photoshop, but don’t want to pay $650 for the latest version? Luckily you have some alternatives. Amazon currently has several copies of Photoshop CS2 (the previous version) for around $300. Here’s a little secret: You can buy a very old copy of…

Zenphoto – Lightweight Web Gallery Script

Tired of the bloated Coppermine Photo Gallery? The much lighter Zenphoto gallery script may be a good alternative. The compressed download is under one megabyte, and the installation looks fairly simple. Just upload via FTP, and run the installation script. The installed gallery is…

BlogBuzz January 19, 2008

Personal Blog

My new personal blog is up now, if you want to check it out. Intro post.