Category Archives: My Sites

Image optimizing WordPress plugin

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 27, 2011

I recently stumbled on the WP Smush.it plugin. It is a neat plugin that takes your images and automatically uploads them to the Smush.it web service so that your images are always nice and optimized. The problems with it are: A) it uploads all your images to a third party, which is slow and clumsy, [...]

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8-bit Sprites

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 11, 2011

For my website-of-the-month for July, I’ve decided to turn my newly gained obsession with Perler beads into a full blown website. 8-bit Sprites, just launched, is going to feature a new Perler bead sprite every week. Each sprite post includes instructions on how to make it on your own, or you can leave a comment [...]

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Creating a temporary email service

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 6, 2011

A long time ago I created a temporary email service (Fake Mail Generator) using an open source script. Shortly after, my shared hosting provider shut me down because it was using too many resources. This weekend I finally got it up and running again, and I’d like to share the basics of how I did [...]

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Why GoDaddy lost my business

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 24, 2010

I’ve been with GoDaddy for many years. Their domains are inexpensive when you use a coupon, you can get cash back through FatWallet, and you get free DNS service. So why would I move all of my 45+ domains to non-GoDaddy registrars? Here are a few reasons (in no particular order): I hate their advertising. [...]

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Server upgrade

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 14, 2010

The company I host my sites with, The Planet, was recently purchased by another company. Although they say they are going to continue to provide the same level of service, a few chats with their customer service reps made it pretty clear that I was now considered a low-priority customer. I’ve been needing to upgrade [...]

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