Greasemonkey is a powerful Firefox extension that allows users to change the layout and functionality of web pages. Every month hundreds of people write and release Greasemonkey "scripts" that anyone Continue reading »

According to the New York Times, a basic privacy measure that is often overlooked is the proper destruction of data on hard drives. An ongoing study by British Telecom says Continue reading »

Popular social bookmarking service Delicious says today is its 5th birthday. While this author was disappointing several years ago that it was Yahoo and not the Library of Congress that Continue reading »

Google's been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and Continue reading »

It's all about the web apps these days, right? Everything important's in the clouds? Not so fast! Spend some time separated from your physical computer and you'll likely be reminded Continue reading »

Digg for programming questions? Joel on Software and Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror start letting users into their well built site. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/StackOverlow_A_Teeming_Beehive_of_Programming_Q_A';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';The highly anticipated Continue reading »

Yahoo's wildly popular photo sharing site Flickr is a lot of fun to use, but it really helps to take some time and learn how to use it well. We've Continue reading »

Greasemonkey is a powerful Firefox add-on that lets you change the appearance and functionality of almost any page on the web. Most people don't know how to write Javascript, though, Continue reading »

Tagging content online is something that doesn't seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to. Is it too complicated for widespread adoption? Is it too arbitrary Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/How_To_Create_a_Web_App'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This is the second post in our series on how to run a startup and develop a product. In part Continue reading »