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Month: December, 2008

January 2009 Contest: Twitterlicious

Description
Every month, I do a contest of sorts for free shirts from shirt.woot.  This month I want to focus on twitter.  I will be choosing a winner the first Monday in February.  When I choose a winner, I will purchase 4 woot shirts of their choice for them.  Official rules are below.
Rules
I’m keeping in simple [...]

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Saving Bandwidth with Google Ajax Libraries API

The News
I first heard about the new Google AJAX Libraries API from Jeremy Schoemaker’s blog.  He mentions using it to reduce WordPress bandwidth, but really it can be used to reduce bandwidth in most AJAX based web development environments.
The Exciting Part
I persoanlly use prototype the most, and I’m extremely excited that I can use their [...]

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Two New Woot Shirt Submissions

I submitted some images to this week’s shirt.woot derby for your votes.  Click the images to the left or right (depending on which you’re interested in) to vote!  If you’re looking for more information about what woot.com or shirt.woot is, please check out this video from WootTV.
This week’s submission guidelines on shirt.woot are as follows:
“You’re [...]

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Contest: I’ll buy you a woot shirt.

So here’s the deal:
I’m going to buy your next woot shirt if I pick your name from the “bucket” for this contest.  You can enter once for each method.  You can enter using any or all of the following methods:

Digg, Stumble, or Sphinn this post. Yeah.  The buttons are right under the post.  That’s easy.
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Google Image Search Gets Upgraded

Google image search has always been a great tool for finding images of things, but it has never been great for really dialing down what you want based on the image composition.  They’ve recently added the ability to dial down your search by image type, which is great for finding specific things that you want.  [...]

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