Author Archive for T.J. Mininday
Hi, my name is T.J. and I am a writer for not only ConnectedInternet, but also www.thewindowsfix.com. I work in the IT Field, in consulting and IT management, but also thoroughly enjoy reading, researching and listening to Technology news. I hope I can bring loads of good information and discussion worthy topics to the great blog that Everton has put together here.Click here to contact me
Spread Your Books Content with WoBook
Having troubles getting articles, documents and PDFs spread throughout the world wide web. Want a simple place to upload these same documents to allow for easy embedding? Well, WoBook is the place to go.
WoBook is another in a long line of content distribution networks, that allows for easy upload of Docs, Spreadsheets, Powerpoint [...]
Create Amazing ‘Miniature Models’ With TiltShiftMaker
One of the amazing things being accomplished with today’s technology, is an incredible amount of photo manipulation software. Whether it be through photo editing, conversion tools or the endless amount of photo galleries, digital cameras have taken this world by storm, and has made everyone a photographer. Everyday, it something new with [...]
Three Great Directories for Finding New Web 2.0 Sites
I originally wrote about an awesome Web 2.0 directory back in 2006 called GoWeb20. It essentially gave you just about every new and up and coming Web 2.0 site that the world was to behold. I’ve recently become increasingly annoyed with the site, as it has become extremely bloated and almost brings my [...]
Determine When A Site Comes Back Online With Mr. Uptime
One of the most annoying parts of social network sites, such as Delicious, Digg and Reddit, are their ability to take down many sites or blogs on a moments notice. The sudden rush of traffic to a site, can bring it to it’s knees and take it down for an indefinite amount of time.
There [...]
3 Technology Related Items to Look Forward to in 2009
As 2008 is coming to a close, we look back and should be proud of what we witnessed. In the end, I think it was once again the year of the cell phone, particularly the iPhone. With the release of their 3G phone, GPS and their App Store, the iPhone took the Blue [...]
SocialBrowse is StumbleUpon on Steroids
One of the most popular methods of finding random websites, is StumbleUpon. You simply install a small toolbar that adds on to Firefox or IE, and you simply click ‘Stumble’ to find your next great website. The service is so popular, that Ebay decided to acquire them in 2007 for $75 Million. [...]
5 Must Have iPhone Apps for Bloggers
Within the past couple of weeks, I finally sold out and purchased my first product from Apple. And why would I go with anything else besides the iPhone. The previous month or so I was doing research on MP3 players that all had these features, but they were all on separate devices. [...]
Create PDFs Online With CloudPrint
So, we know that there are plenty of options out there for creating PDFs. Many include a PDF virtual printer, that sits in your Windows printer folder and generates the compressed, secure PDF file on your desktop. Most are incredibly simple, and most come at an incredibly reduced cost, as compared to Adobe [...]
7 Incredibly Awesome Adobe Air Apps
Air has become one of the most innovative applications that Adobe has come up with, in the past couple of years, and it continues to grow on a daily basis. It’s incredible capability of bringing online data to your desktop, with ease of construction and what is usually an awesome GUI, has taken the [...]
Popacular – The Way Del.icio.us Should Be Organized
One of the few lacking features that Del.icio.us doesn’t have is a better organization/sort ability. Viewing by tags and viewing only the most current popular items. What Delicious needs to do is organize only the most popular items in the past hour, 8 hours, 24 hours, week, month, or even all time. [...]
Add Digg Labs Products as a Screensaver
I still love Digg. Although not as much as I used to, when it was almost strictly technology based, I probably still frequent it, much more then any other website on the net. It still has the ability to bring almost each and every top story of the day, and do it before [...]
MTV Puts the ‘M’ Back In Music
So, without any real indication that they were going to do so, MTV re-launched themselves not only into the Web 2.0 world, but into what they used to be involved in, the ‘Music’ world. They opened up MTVMusic.com to the world and with it, just about every music video ever created.
It’s much higher quality [...]
What’s coming with Wordpress 2.7?
After my long hiatus from blogging, one of the most exciting items I was looking forward to seeing was the upgrade of Wordpress from the lower versions of 2.0, up to the substantially different 2.6.2. Competely revamped interface, tag additions, theme preview, plug-in upgrades, on and on. They really have come a long [...]
Getting BACK in Shape – Part 2 – SparkPeople.com
Amongst many of the several motivational items to get me back into shape, many of the dozens of Web 2.0 fitness sites have been included. Prior to this Web 2.0 boom, I was forced to rely on many of the lackluster fitness sites, that even included subscription fees. Presently with the boom, here [...]
Getting BACK in Shape – Part 1 – Garmin Forerunner 305
First and foremost, those of you who have been regular readers of ConnectedInternet, you all know me as TimmyJ, or Listikal from www.listikal.com. I stopped blogging last fall, because I was in the process of switching my day job and moving, all at the same time. A year has passed, and I have finally [...]
GoWeb20 Directory: Find The Best Of Web 2.0
The ever expanding World Wide Web is growing much to fast for any of us to keep up. So incredibly fast in fact, that we must rely on sites such as Del.icio.us or Digg to supply us the best of the best.
The vast majority of today’s sites are simply and almost always labeled Web [...]
PlentyOfFish.com – One Man + One Language + Three Servers = Multi-Millionaire
Everyday, thousands of new bloggers fire up new blogs with aspirations of millions of dollars and little work at home.
They’ve read the latest from our good friend Everton Blair, the 17 year old .COM millionaire, or the out of work ASP programmer with a simple idea and a lot of time.
What did Ben Affleck say [...]
