Today’s column is all about the coolest new web services that you’ll be wanting to use.
• Digg
I’ve talked about Digg before. It is a social news bookmarking website.
Here is how it works: let’s say that my best friend submits a story to Digg about something… pretty much anything. And I like the story, so I [...]
Entries from February 2006
February 27, 2006
Web services you will ‘digg’
February 22, 2006
Apple’s “New Coke” Effect
Apple is a hardware company. They’ve never disputed that.
However, one of the primary reasons people buy a Macintosh computer is because of the sleek GUI of OS X. I can’t afford a decent Mac, quite honestly, so I modded my Windows XP GUI to mimick that famous interface. The price is probably the primary [...]
February 15, 2006
Make Windows look cooler
Microsoft Windows is inherently uncool.
Sorry, its the truth.
But with today’s online column, you can tweak your PC to make it look like a perfect blend of the Windows and Macintosh graphical interfaces.
First, you’ll need Neowin’s UXTheme Patcher. This patches the Windows dynamic link library file that relates to “themes,” or visual styles.
For clarification, to [...]
February 7, 2006
Using RSS
RSS is now the primary outlet for distributing news headlines over the web, but it hasn’t made much noise yet. Many people don’t know what RSS is, but practically every website is using it now in some form. In today’s online only feature, I will introduce you to the basics of using RSS to get [...]
