Sidebar Widget Lovers

Nifty little Net usage toolbar indicator

2009-05-23T06:04:51Z

For those of you in Australia (or Belgium, Canada, India, NZ, or Ukraine) who use Firefox, there is a very handy little add on that sits up the top on your toolbar on the RHS and keeps track of how much of your net allowance you have used. This sa...

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Stat Counters

2009-05-13T02:08:08Z

If you look at the bottom of my left sidebar, you'll see a number of statcounters and clock that I'm trying out. I'll delete the ones I no longer want later. With the exception of Clustrmaps, you just click on the statcounter you want, and it wil...

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Britannica Says I'm a Web Publisher

2008-04-27T03:13:38Z

I Twittered this week about Encyclopedia Britannica opening up the walled garden to web publishers for free and whether or not I qualified. Now either the barrier to entry is pretty low or my blog is much better than I thought because I'm in! If...

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Adobe OnAir AIR 2008 Tour

2008-04-10T05:00:50Z

Had a fantastic day yesterday at the Adobe OnAir AIR 2008 Tour in London. Adobe AIR brings Rich Internet Applications to the desktop of all three OS's ! You can use AIR to turn HTML file(s) and JavaScript file(s) into an executable for ANY platfo...

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avoid suspicious Web sites*

2008-03-20T09:21:26Z

we may all be Internet fanatics, but do we really know which sites could be harmful or not? forgive me for posting this, but years of working as a tech support rep for an isp, dealing with spywares and viruses made me think that it will be bette...

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Drumroll please...

2007-11-02T04:12:53Z

And the Wieners are... Well, before I announce the winners, I must state that we only had 16 respondents and that some categories did not have a true winner. Anyway, without further ado, the winners are... Best Damn Blogger Ever = Redzilla with...

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Widgets, Widgets, Everywhere, and Not a Place to Put Them

2007-10-18T13:23:13Z

Based on the response I received from a recent comment I left on Crankypants' blob, I realized not everyone knows that you can successfully add more than one widget to your sidebar. It's really easy to do, and I figured I'd throw up a quick post ...

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A contest proposal...

2007-10-16T20:16:06Z

It's Tuesday and I am bored, so here you go... I propose a best VOX member contest - with categories. Why? See my first sentence. The Contest*: You will vote on your favourite HOOD member for each of several categories. You will do this by Pri...

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Another Call to Arms - Hack the Planet (New Vox Group)

2007-10-11T14:02:18Z

Hey neighbors (and/or anyone reading this), I've set up a new group here on Vox for people who like to share and read tips, tricks, hacks, guides, and how-tos of any kind. This isn't limited to computers or even techy stuff - if you've got somet...

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need widget help!!!

2007-08-04T07:44:12Z

I want to put the new AIM WIMZI widget in my sidebar but I can't get it to work in my sidebar. I already have a widget in there and just added WIMZI code to the bottom....but nothing shows up AT ALL! No WIMZI :( Any feedback? thoughts? advice? ...

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