Blog: Stuff Your Brain

Social Networking with Drupal

May 7th, 2009 || Read More

There is an interesting article over at Web Jackalope, "16 Different Clones You Can Build with Drupal". I love drupal and have used it with various projects and this article lists several very popular sites that can easily recreated with Drupal, including Twitter, Flickr, Blogger and more.

Vimeo: HD Video Sharing

December 1st, 2008 || Read More

Recently I made some videos that I wanted to share, so I decided to finally try out some of the different sites out there, namely youtube and vimeo. For my purposes the quality of youtube videos just wasn't cutting it. So next comes Vimeo. I was amazed by its features. For free you could upload videos up to 500mb a week and 1 hd (720p). For a little extra you can get more hd uploads and higher limits. Even the non hd uploads look really good.

Blurb: Make Your Own Book

November 14th, 2008 || Read More

Blurb.com is a site where you can make your own book. So if you like me you have like a billion pictures and rarely print them. This is an awesome way to get them off your hard drive and printed. They have several differentt book combinations. You can get varying sizes of books with hard or soft covers. For a little extra you can even use a picture for the cover. So the way it works is you download some software. Load your pictures and use their layouts or create your own.

How to Write a Good Password

October 29th, 2008 || Read More

Making passwords is something everybody on the web does. The art is in making good, secure passwords that you can also remember easily. There are two methods I have found really effective. There are tons of passwords I use that I have to be able to recall at any time. Most people would resort to making short passwords, writing passwords down, or using the same password for multiple things, these methods are horribly insecure.

reCAPTCHA

October 27th, 2008 || Read More

So I was on a site the other day and was prompted with a not so uncommon captcha prompt. A major 3rd party supplier of these (including on the comments here) is reCAPTCHA. They actually have an interesting twist of it. reCAPTCHA's motto is "Stop Spam, Read Books". So apparently what they do is use the millions of captchas served daily to convert scanned books into text. Computers don't always do the greatest translating scanned images into text. So they use feedback from all the different captchas to translate these captchas into text.

Plasma Pong

December 20th, 2007 || Read More

Plasma Pong is awesome. It is really fun to play and looks beautiful. So here are some screen shots. It's free, but to find it you'll have to do some googling.

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