This is a guest-post from my friend Andre Israel. What can I say – the guy is thorough!!

I'm sure most of you have seen the infomercials for this product before, and if you were sceptical about it, let me tell you:
I was too! But you know what? All I can say now is that, based on MY experience, since I got it two days ago, I am VERY happy with it!

The sound quality seems to be as good as a regular home phone! (more…)

We were in NYC two weekends ago, and wanted to make sure that we got in one solid New York steakhouse experience. So my wife read all over for reviews, and we settled on Bobby Van's on Broad St. There were six of us that went, and if you don't want to take the time to read this post, I'll just sum it all up by saying it was an amazing culinary experience!

First of all, our server was very accommodating. We were a little late for our reservation, but there was no hassle. We conveniently booked on a Saturday evening, and were quite happy to hear that there's a promotion running – half-price bottles of wine on Friday and Saturday nights! So, this got us a nice Chianti with the appetizers and a tasty Shiraz with the entrees. (more…)

For almost any webapp, it's critical to be able to enter dates. But how do you ensure that people enter them in the right format? How do you make it look good?

The easiest answer to both of these questions is to use a calendar object of some sort. This not only can look great and restrict user input, but at the same time it makes your webapp far more usable, as now users can select the date in a quick-click, instead of having to type anything in manually. (more…)

Basically, in this version of the old Tank Wars game, you're a baby who has found some gold and diamonds on the beach, and now you have to defend against pirates. Somehow this chubby little baby has figured out to fire a cannon – you just have to help him aim and power it.

Drop a comment and let us know what level you get to!
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I noticed today that Google has made a serious change in their effort to stop spam, particularly that of phishing emails. I use a hosted application that generates emails every time a specific action occurs. But all of a sudden today there were no emails. I checked my spam folder, and there they were.

I noticed something new about these emails: (more…)