Sony has responded to complaints that they’re lacking in the online support area by introducing Playstation Home. The virtual world which reminds me a lot of Second Life will allow users to have virtual avatars, virtual homes, and live together in different environments, both private and public.

According to Gizmodo who got a demo of it, there’s tons of customization. You can customize nearly everything about your surroundings from your face

Yesterday, Google’s Picasa Web Albums pushed out a few needed improvements/features. December was the last time they added new features, so it was about time for an update. They’ve got a whole list of all of the recently launched features which you can check-out, I’ll just point out some of the ones that stood out:

One of the biggest new changes is that they’re now allowing 1GB of free storage.  Just like Gmail, it

I have always been a big fan of using the FeedBurner Headline Animator as a signature in your emails, forum posts, and just about anywhere else that you’re trying to attract new readers. A post that I did several months ago regarding email signatures mentioned the Headline Animator and its usefulness, and then about a month ago someone created a Greasemonkey script to allow HTML signatures to be inserted into emails created

11 years after introducing the feedback system, eBay has decided to take a look at it, and make improvements. It is one of the most important elements which drives sales and helps to give sellers their credibility. Currently, their system includes positive, negative, and neutral feedback. It’s pretty cut and dry and doesn’t leave much room for some of the smaller things that potential buyers might want to know, like was

Yesterday Google Blogoscoped pointed out a hack for your Google Maps that would allow you to zoom much farther that you might think in just a few steps.

1. Select the location you’d like to zoom in on and switch to satellite view.
2. Zoom in as far as it will let you, and then click on the “link to this page” which is found in the top right corner.
3. Replace the “z” parameter in the URL with
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I just saw a post over at the Hive mentioning that the Windows Vista Ultimate site posted some new desktop backgrounds freely available to everyone. The two new backgrounds are definitely the best ones that I have seen for Vista up to now, and should have undoubtedly been included with the operating system:

What really impressed me is that

Tutorial Thursday

I’m sure all of you are probably getting sick of me raving about Vista’s incredible integrated search, but it really is that good. When you get your computer all setup the first thing you might want to do is choose what locations and filetypes Vista is allowed to index. Remember, you really want to keep your index as slim as possible because that will mean that the