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I have taken about 10 months off to work on two projects, one a cloud computing book covering Amazon Web Services and pushed that out as an e-book over on Kindle. I am also working on a compilation of Google Hacks (Google Dorks) that is up to about 10,000 known Google searches for finding cool [...]

While I am a fan of Girl Genius by Phil Foglio and find the story line amazingly wonderful for my niece, something about this project is not feeling right. Generally I am a big fan of video games and fairly familiar with what the development costs for an average game is for the IOS system, [...]

This is an interesting turn of events in terms of what it could be like to be a photographer in the near future. There is already enough problems over being a photographer and trying to take pictures of the police, or other government servants in action, but now Techdirt is reporting that a blogger took [...]

This has been a very interesting week for employers and Facebook. I have been writing about this story over on Toolbox, here and here if you are interested in reading,     but on this site I want to go a little deeper into the idea of asking prospective employees for a username and password [...]

If you have ever read Failbook over at the wonderful I Can Haz Cheezeburger site then you will see a collection of grammar disasters as well as some unique spelling ideas for common words we use every day. While the Google Docs team is very proud of enhancing their spell check to incorporate new words [...]

Mining social networking sites for some downright interesting pictures of people doing things could not be easier. The bad part is that it is very easy to do, the good part is that adding pictures to your privacy settings is going to be something you want to do. There are basically five web sites that [...]

Note: This was originally published right here on Techwag in January of 2012. This is a repost due to the move of Techwag from one hosting company to another. This is one of the most difficult blog entries to write, one it is hard to tell the truth, and in some ways I think the [...]

These are not high level attacks, rather this falls more into the recon stage to identify specific software running on sites that are indexed by Google. The good part is that these work in Bing as well making them much more functional in terms of identifying the use of WordPress and Buddy Press where registration [...]