The long awaited official beta release of the popular windows only torrent application has been released. I am a big fan of Transmission. It is so lightweight and so simple. After hearing such good things though about uTorrent, I have to give it a shot. Click here to download the beta

All be it rather old news, I recently began to use bookmarklets on the iPhone much more frequently so I wanted to share the wealth. In case you didn't know, the iPhone supports JavaScript and thus supports JavaScript based bookmarks that add all sorts of functionality to Mobile Safari. How to In order to use these scripts you simple need to drag the bookmarklet into a folder in Safari on ...

In this article by Kottke.org, instructions for setting up, linking, embedding and saving high quality YouTube videos can be found. I must say that the high quality is actually very impressive. YouTube videos are generally painful to watch due to the fact that it is basically compiled of 24 square blocks of compressed images. Check out the full article here

Microsoft's new 'cloud computing' solution has launched its beta version for the Mac. They are calling it Live Mesh. After hearing mention, and recommendation from Leo Laporte on MacBreak Weekly I thought I would check it out. I was most excited about having the ability to sync a folder, have uploading be automatic, and have 5 GB of available storage that I could access from anywhere. Things went according to plan, ...

In a recent update to the most versatile chat client on the Mac, Adium began to support the newly implemented Facebook Chat. As much as I cannot stand Facebook (and yes, I do use it), primarily for its 'creep factor' I do enjoy Facebook Chat. Instant messaging seemed to decline greatly for most of my friends and peers when MySpace became popular. I have remained a fan of instant ...

I've been playing a lot lately with Fluid; using it with several Google web applications(Docs, Mail, Calendar). I wanted to try Google Reader and while configuring things I came across a very cool theme that makes it actually look good. What is Fluid? ...(Fluid is a) Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) provide a great solution for your WebApp woes. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite ...

Amazon has launched their new "Video On Demand" service in their effort to expand their online media library to go along with their Amazon MP3 service. "Much like iTunes, they're selling TV shows as well as offering movies for purchase and rent. Unlike iTunes, it's a streaming rather than a download service. Fortunately, they've got a number of free videos which will give you a sense of the quality ...

Have you heard of Net Neutrality? Tech-Crunch has an excellent article outlining multiple views on the cituation. "Net neutrality is the principle that says all information flowing across the Internet should be treated equally. But with more people streaming data-rich video and playing online games, the Internet faces congestion concerns. Should carriers be able to sell multi-tiered access to heavy users? Should sites that generate massive traffic — like ...

Netvibes is a personalized and customizable homepage that is much more resourceful than most conventional homepages. Netvibes allows you to add an RSS feed straight to your own private page. This is perfect for staying up to the minute with everything you care about on the web. Not only that but everytime you hit the web, you can save tons of time by quickly being about to see ...

The three-finger swipe (controls back page and forward page in Safari) is one of those things Apple does that makes me go "Ohhh, good idea." Now, it is a burden to browse the web any other way. A problem arose upon the release of Firefox 3. I had been an exclusive Safari user but, like everyone, I had to see what all the fuss was over. I must ...

I briefly wanted to mention that the 'Coming Soon..." text has been removed from my links page and I have added my most recently added bookmarks on Del.icio.us. This way it will be easy to see what I've been into straight from my site. For anyone who does not know, Del.icio.us is an excellent, and very versatile bookmarking service that allows for web based bookmarking that can be ...

I was searching for a solution to a problem and very quickly came across one. I wanted to have direct access to my del.icio.us bookmarks both in Safari and with Quicksilver. Fortunately there is del.icio.us2safari; a free and very simple application based on the del.icio.us API. delicious2safari allows your bookmarks to be pulled down straight from delicious and organized in the Bookmark Menu, or in the Bookmark Bar. ...

claycarson.net is now available in a mobile version for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch. In order to navigate to that site simply direct mobile Safari to my site and it will take care of the rest. Along with the mobile version comes a new icon that looks a little better than just the white one with text that would appear prior. Throw it up on your ...

Drop.io is one of the most functional new websites on the web. It was launched in the fall of 2007 and is the perfect utility to sharing, storing, and accessing files and other information. Functions FTP Server - Just like an ftp server, you can toss up any file; images, text documents, videos, anything. This is so useful for me since not too many of my friends know how to ...

Everyone loves web apps but not everyone loves going into their browser to use them. For those people there is Fluid. Fluid is very similar to the latest iPhone update (1.1.3) only for your Mac. Fluid allows you to add a web app as an application, assign it an icon, and even place it in your dock. It becomes very useful I would image when working in Google ...

Frenzic, for those of you who do not know, is a highly addictive puzzle game built for Mac OS X. Last month a web based version of the game became available for iPhone/iPod Touch users and in my opinion, surpasses any iPhone game, web-based or jailbroken in both fun and design. The overall point of the game is to fill the outer circles with the given pieces from the ...

A couple of weeks ago I began to use a fairly new service called 8apps. After several minutes I found my way to an application that they call Orchestrate. Moments later I was in Safari's preferences changing my home page. Orchestrate is beautiful, simple, and more importantly, incredibility useful. So, what is it you ask? Orchestrate is a task management tool which you can add tasks, check them off ...

Let me throw out a little tip to those of you who do your web browsing in Safari. Now, maybe I just am out of the loop or it could be that I am just starting to use Safari more and more but this is a great feature that I did not know about until today. While in Safari go to 'View' in the menu bar and you will ...

 For those of you who do not know, allow me to introduce Inquisitor. Inquisitor,  like it's developer claims,"a spotlight for the web". Inquisitor cuts out the step of going  to Google for your search. It simply drops down and shows common results for the  word or words you have typed into the search. However, it does not end there,  Inquisitor will also show you if you have had a recent visit ...