If you haven’t heard by now, TinyURL has gone down. The popular URL shortening service went down sometime in the night, and has yet to come back up yet. With so many services depending on the free TinyURL service, I am surprised that it has been down for so long.

Just a few points on why you shouldn’t trust a free service without making sure there are systems in place to deal with service outages.

Update: TinyURL is back up and running with no word excusing the outage.

How can a site use podcasts or online video to its advantage? Well, in a number of ways of course, these are the ones I can think of. Add to them if you will.

It approaches. The humidity takes a slight drop for a few days, and you can feel a refreshing feeling in the air. The leaves on the trees are still green, but a small portion fall to the ground and dry up. August is drawing to a close and September is coming. Another school year is [...]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the somewhat “coveted” digg-effect, it’s that it can either come in bunches, or not come at all. We had our fair share of good excellent articles that still have yet to receive the amount of traffic and recognition they deserve to have. I find it somewhat surprising, especially [...]

Adobe complains a fair bit about piracy of their software, and who can blame them? It’s a huge loss of profit. At least, that is what they would have us believe, but is that really the case?

Just having some fun today in a random Sunday post to help expand our “Commentary” section. Today, I’m taking on the tough issues – the ones that really irk the hell out of me when I see them used by a lot of the so called “design” community, many times in forums. So, do you [...]

Blogging, in the long term is all about growing and getting better. Everyone wants to be read by more people, get more comments and have a huge blog, but not everyone can do that. There are many things you can do to turn a reader away very quickly, and you should really avoid these things. [...]

It was a crisp May day when I first submitted an infant Devlounge into the mass pile of applications that was the 9rules Round 4 submission period. 24 hours of craziness, which, when it was all said and done, led to somewhere around 700 submissions of applicants just like myself hoping to nudge their way [...]

Hey All, I thought today, I would touch on the debate between Flash and CSS/Accessibility, based on my own work experiences. I would also like to announce that I will be releasing a tutorial/review of Microsoft’s new suite of Expression, as well as the accompanying Silverlight. I was fortunate enough to work on a project [...]

A topic brought up on numerous blogs over and over again – the battle of full feed vs partial ones. While some argue strongly one way or the other, we felt we couldn’t leave the topic alone without adding our own thoughts to this controversial subject.

About one hundred and forty years, if you had told General Sherman that the world would become interconnected in the next century, he would have set you on fire — and believe me on this; the man burned his way through Atlanta. You do not mess with William Sherman and come out of it alive. [...]

Would-be thieves of this era would probably benefit from branding the relatively new adage “Hell hath no fury like a designer scorned” on their monitors. The web might be for anyone, but that doesn’t mean the content of the web is suddenly free from copyright — and the watchful gaze of said content’s creator — [...]