I wrote about drop.io before, so I’m not going to gush about why I think it’s so awesome again. Suffice it to say that it’s one of the best online storage options on the internet right now.  It might not be the biggest, but it’s certainly the most functional by far.

Whether you’re putting together a full-featured Web site or are just maintaining your personal blog - seeing how the layout looks in different browsers is essential in assuring that all your visitors experience the same thing.

In the battle for consistent design there is no more fearsome foe than Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. Despite the browser quickly coming up on its eighth birthday, it is still in wide use - particularly in markets where software piracy is more wide-spread and…

Re-Captcha has to be one of the most ingenius ideas to ever grace the internets. What I primarily use it for is hiding my email from spam-robots. Rather than putting my email address on my blog in plain view for spam-bots to see, I use Re-Captcha to hide it.

Drop.io is kinda like tinyurl.com plus yousendit.com all rolled into one, with a few added functions to boot. Here’s why I love it.

It’s the best file sharing site that I’ve found to date. Unlike most file-sharing sites, I don’t have to sign up for a membership, nor does the person receiving my file. There’s a 100MB limit, which is ok. Not outstanding, but significant enough to be useful.

It’s rare that tips come so easily, but Speedtest.net have done their SEO work right and so when scouting for a place to test the quickness of my net connection a while back, I was relieved that such a cool tool was the first entry in the Google SERPs.

The completely free, Flash-based Internet speed test gives you a sweet graphical interface to view while testing your hook-up to the Web. Additionally, the site allows you to choose from a wide selection…

Del.icio.us online bookmarking is one of my all-time super favorite web services. Not only can I bookmark all of my favorite pages, but I can browse all the best pages for different topics that have been tagged by people all over the world.

As short as popular microblogging platform Twitter’s history is, I’ve already run the gamut. I joined the site early on, but as updating required logging into the site, I quickly lost interest and dropped it from my bookmarks - until I was introduced to Twhirl.

Twhirl is a desktop Twitter client that runs under the rather clever Adobe AIR platform on both Mac and PC operating systems. At the forefront of it’s impressive feature list is the ability to quickly…

It seems like ages ago that Mozilla Firefox, and all its mod-loveliness, replaced Internet Explorer as my net browser of choice. And when I saw the company also offered an alternative to Outlook Express, it wasn’t long before I switched all my e-mail habits to Thunderbird and bid Microsoft farewell.

The one thing that Thunderbird always lacked, however, was a slick task/event/calendar interface, a fact that very nearly caused me to dig into my dusty MS Office folder to run the…

If you love leaving little memos or sticky notes on everything from your desk to your dog, you’ll love the Firefox plugin Internote.

The browser addon lets you quickly “stick” a sticky note (Post-it®) on any Web page you visit. Write whatever you want on the sticky, and the next time you return to the page the note will be there to remind you of whatever it was you didn’t want to forget.

Once you’ve installed the plugin, you’ll have…

Mytube, Facespace, Flitter, Youbook, Twickr… it’s a full-time job just keeping these oddly-named Web 2.0 social networks straight! Thankfully a new download called 8hands is looking to help.

The free desktop client, which resembles any of a thousand messenger programs in looks, gives you quick access to MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, blogs and pretty much anything with an RSS feed. It puts the notifications of updates on any of a half-dozen social networks (with more in the works) right in…