Category Archives: My Sites

CloudFlare Rocks!

I recently got invited to try out CloudFlare, a new free service in closed beta. I checked out the homepage and was greeted with a “Wouldn’t it be cool if your website were protected by ninjas?” header. Why, yes, that would be cool. So, not really understanding exactly what it was, I signed up and [...]
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My First Firefox Add-on

Update (7/16/2010): The add-on got reviewed and approved! Yay! I’ve been wanting to make a Firefox add-on FOREVER, but have never found something worth making that hasn’t already been made (or isn’t way beyond my abilities to make). So I decided I’d start simple and make a search provider add-on for ABA Number Lookup. I [...]
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Accessing the Android Market in the Emulator

Update (7/14/2010): The developer of the Fake Name Generator app has gotten in touch with me and we have settled our differences. He didn’t mean any harm, and I’m quite a bit excited about having an Android app that uses my website. Expect awesome app goodness in the next few days! Google has this awesome [...]
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Word Unscrambler

If you haven’t heard, I’m moving to Connecticut next Thursday. We haven’t finished packing, but I still found the time to make a new webpage: WordUnscrambler.info. Here is how it works: I loaded several popular Scrabble dictionaries into a table. I loaded Wiktionary into a table. I created a form that lets a user entered [...]
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Lossless image optimization — even for JPG!

As you may know, I run an arcade site. It is doing fairly well, but I’m always looking for ways to gain an edge that will put me ahead of the competition. The most recent thing I am trying is image optimization. With the announcement by Google that they are adding site speed to their [...]
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