Max Beatty

About six weeks ago, my room­mate got some take­out from a bar and noticed that the web­site adver­tised on their menu wasn’t actu­ally owned by them or any­one for that mat­ter. I used a coupon code on GoDaddy to buy the adver­tised domain for $0.99, spent an hour or so edit­ing a free web­site template, […]

AIM was dead to me until a few weeks ago when they intro­duced Face­book Chat inte­gra­tion. Now it looks like I’m always on Face­book which prob­a­bly has some of my friends and fam­ily ques­tion­ing what exactly I do with my free time (like they didn’t already). Let me show you the quick and easy way that […]

I recently dis­abled com­ments on an old post called “Bid­Fire: Decep­tively Easy To Get Burned” because all of the com­ments were sense­less pos­i­tive reviews for Bid­Fire and didn’t con­tribute to the dis­cus­sion about the ser­vice in my opin­ion. To put it in per­spec­tive, the 70 com­ments on that one arti­cle accounts for close to 25% […]

Social net­works are great except you can’t always be there to see every­thing that’s going on. Peo­ple are always friend­ing, fol­low­ing, com­ment­ing, and direct mes­sag­ing. The default from the begin­ning has been to email you about this. Then came the SMS updates from AIM, Twit­ter, Face­book, and Brightkite even MySpace ::cringe::. Finally, push noti­fi­ca­tions came […]

I love find­ing new desk­top wall­pa­pers that I can hide in the back­ground behind the dozens of win­dows I typ­i­cally have open. Every so often I’ll catch a glimpse of one of the nearly 150 I’ve col­lected over the years. Know­ing that I’ll be get­ting a new work com­puter in a few weeks, I wondered […]