Votridea Contest Platform Launches
Votridea is an easy-to-use online Contest Platform that fosters innovation by building communities around ideas and challenges. Votridea is an all-in-one, customizable suite of contest and community management tools that makes the complex process of building online multimedia contests simple. It's also the project that I've been working on for many months now, so I'm very pleased that we've just launched this dynamic product.

Playing With Microsoft Surface
Microsoft Surface is a new, horizontally-positioned multi-touch computer first introduced in 2007. Through a combination of software and hardware, it features gesture recognition capabilities that allow multiple people to use it at the same time. I had a chance to play with a Microsoft Surface at work, and I have to admit that it was pretty cool.

Social Networking With Jive's Social Business Software
Jive's Social Business Software (SBS) platform provides an integrated suite of social networking tools that can be applied effectively within a business environment. Learn more about this highly functional software platform.

Maven Introductory Presentation Available Online
My presentation, Maven: Managing Software Projects for Repeatable Results, is now available online. Find out how to leverage this sophisticated build tool to automate key tasks for your next Java project.

About the Site Meter Widget
Site Meter is a company that provides a web site widget that tracks visitors and page views for web sites. I've used their widget on KeenerTech.com and a few other web sites now. I think I've used it enough to provide a solid review of their widget.

VMWare Fusion
I've become a fan of VMWare, particularly VMWare Fusion for the Mac. I was a little skeptical of the idea of virtual machines at first, but not anymore. Let me show you how virtual machines have made my life easier.

Mac Office 2008 Product Key Issue Solved
There have been numerous reports on the web of installation issues with Office 2008 for the Mac. Most of the issues seemed to center around Office 2008 not recognizing the proper product key during a re-installation. As far as I can tell from my Internet research, nobody had come up with a solution for the problem. However, I was able to solve the problem when I encountered it.

Principles of OpenID
OpenID is an open-source digital identity technology that allows web users to use a single sign-in for all OpenID-enabled web sites. Find out about the underlying principles behind this up-and-coming technology.

Implementing OpenID for Your Social Networking Site
There are thousands of social networking sites, each with their own unique sign-on systems. How many user names and passwords do you really want to remember? Wouldn't it be nice if you could have a single sign-on that you could use on all of the sites that you frequent? OpenID is an open-source, decentralized sign-on technology that promises this and more. My PDF presentation on OpenID is now available online.

Downloads With Tivo
Find out how to download shows from your Tivo box so you can watch them when ... and where ... you want.

DOM Popup Kit
The DOM Popup Kit is a nice JavaScript utility for adding in-page popup elements to your web pages. Find out more about this simple, but useful, JavaScript utility, including how to use it in a Ruby on Rails application.

Reverse Searches with Google
Find out which sites are linking to your web site by using Google''s reverse search feature. Even better, use this technique to discover who''s linking to your competitors, so you can get them to link to your site.

Using Cron to Schedule UNIX Activities
The freely available cron program is an extremely useful utility for scheduling the automatic execution of tasks. Find out how to use this useful UNIX utility.