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Tiny Icons: A Free Icon Set

We've created a set of 25 tiny but high-quality icons, just for you. And the best part is, they're free! All icons in the set are are 10px square and are in png format. Grab the download link after the preview and check back soon as we'll be adding to the set periodically!

Markup with Markdown!

For quite a while I've been looking for a simple web-based text editor for use with general web forms (comments, contact etc.) and a CMS I'm currently working on. There are a few good full-featured editors out there: CKEditor.com, freerichtexteditor.com to name a couple, but I was not able to find a simple, light-weight editor. Then I stumbled upon Markdown.

Brand New Logo

I finally took the time and redesigned my logo. In this post I'll go over what brought me to choose the new logo.

6 Must-Have Free Applications

It's safe to say that almost all of the applications I use on a daily basis are offered free of charge and many are even open source. That being said, not all free/open source apps are everything they're made out to be. Below I've listed a few applications that I've deemed worthy, and use each and every day.

CodeIgniter vs. CakePHP

CodeIgniter and CakePHP are two of the top PHP frameworks. Both have a large following and offer many features and code separation via MVC. In this post I'll take a brief look at the two frameworks, and which one I chose to begin using.

Wireless Card Instruction Manual?

Remember when laptops didn't come with wireless networking built-in? Well I was going through some old junk and came across a PCMCIA wireless 802.11b card I bought for my old HP Pavilion laptop. Opening the box brought back some horrific memories of the hours I lost trying to get it connected and keep it connected. Before I tossed it into the garbage I decided I had better see why the box was so heavy. Digging a little deeper I came across this ...