Web

Pottermore Cheats: Earning more house points through failure then success in potion making

UPDATE 9/14/2011: TH_NK has updated Pottermore so that you no longer earn house points when you fail to brew a potion, this simple fix nullifies the cheating method mentioned below, Hurrah! I’m going to preface what I’m going to say below with the statement that I am not putting this post up as...

Aug 27, 2011 3 minute read.

Charity

Rachel Beckwith's Amazing Gift

For her 9th birthday, Rachel Beckwith asked people to donate to charity:water rather then give her presents. Sadly when her birthday arrived she was $80 short of her goal of raising just $300 for charity:water. A month after her birthday she died in a car crash, in the month since her death,...

Aug 19, 2011 2 minute read.

Technology

Saved Chrome Profiles Feature moves to Beta Build

Ever since the Profiles feature was first announced in the canary build I was excited, but it was limited (biggest limitation, these profiles weren’t saved) and the canary build was very unstable at the time. Eventually that early version moved into later builds, but the canary build updated...

Aug 12, 2011 1 minute read.

Technology

Want to post to lists in Facebook like you can post to a Circle in Google+? You can!

So I really like Google+ and happily post away to my Google+ Profile. Unfortunately, not everybody has access to G+ yet. Facebook still is the king of the ring, but I’ve long wanted to do what Google+ does natively, which is to say specify who should see my posts based on groupings. It turns out,...

Jul 07, 2011 2 minute read.

Wearable Technology

Fitbit Tracking

Several months ago I got a Fitbit tracker as a prize for a contest. While I generally dislike exercise (as much as I know I should), I love gadgets, and this thing is as geeky as a pedometer can get (note, the @fitbit folks are very adamant that this is not a pedometer, but it accomplishes the...

Jun 03, 2011 1 minute read.

Blogging

Migrated Back to WordPress

Over a year ago , I migrated nick.pro from WordPress over to Drupal. I did this so that I could experiment with Drupal more, thinking I could make a more robust site if I did so. Unfortunately, while Drupal is a fantastic, flexible platform for web development, it is simply not efficient as a...

May 31, 2011 1 minute read.

Life

Returning to Blogging

I revisit my blog after a busy May 2011 including going to Google I/O 2011 and what do I see as the last post on my blog, a short stinger post about Google I/O 2010. This simply won’t do. I’ve written other blog posts in the last year, they just haven’t been on my own blog. I’ve written a number...

May 28, 2011 2 minute read.

Writing

App of the Week: BlogPress

In my second blog post on Justia's Legal Marketing & Technology Blog I review the popular iOS app to make blogging simpler: BlogPress. Check out the full article to find out more about this easy app.

Apr 25, 2011 2 minute read.

Writing

A Little Help From My Friends... Announcing Justia Legal Answers

Today I published my first of hopefully many articles on Justia's Legal Marketing & Technology Blog. This announcement post was about the release of Justia's new Legal Answers service. Check out the full article to find out more about this exciting new service.

Nov 09, 2010 3 minute read.