Don’t get me wrong - I love Freshbooks.com.  But, I always have an internal argument whenever I sign up for a web app because I never really know where the data is!
That data, if you run an online business, is your absolute most valuable asset.
The other day, I found a free, online invoice [...]

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If you’ve ever thought about operating your own microblogging service, I’ve got an app for you.  Obviously, dethroning Twitter isn’t really a possbility, but you might do one for your office or your family!
I found this cool open source server script for you to play with.  It’s called Laconica, pronounced “luh-KAWN-ih-kuh,” and is a Free [...]

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I love open source software.  Truly I do.
About a month ago, in the quest of looking for good affiliate software to run campaigns for some of my sites from, I found an interesting little app called Affiliates For All.
Here’s a bit of a sneak peak:
If you are running an e-commerce site, you almost certainly have [...]

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A week or so ago, I posted about a web app, Are My Sites Up.  While that service is good, I found a better one :0)
The script: PHPwatch.
PHPwatch is a service monitor that’s able to send notifications of outages via email or text message.  Here’s a bit from the site:
The purpose of this system is [...]

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URL shorteners are awesome.  The less characters, the better!  But what happens when that server goes down or some network issue prevents people from getting to your links?
Nothing.  Blank pages.
Better yet, why would you want to brand someone elses domain name?  Think about all the traffic and notoriety you’re giving tinyurl and is.gd?  Can you [...]

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Project management software is big money.  For you to have something custom developed, it would run well into the thousands of dollars.  If you decide to go the hosted route, expect to pay about $50 a month for decent stuff.
In this how-to podcast, we’re going to show you how to build your very own project [...]

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Servers are sexy.  They let you do all kinds of crazy things that most ‘normal’ rigs can’t.  That includes data mining and serving web apps and being an email dump for all your random gmail accounts.
But what happens if something goes wrong?  Where is all your data?  Will it rise out of the ashes of [...]

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Most generally, the money you make with your website is from advertisers.  The most recent trend, aside from text link ads, is 125 x 125 pixel banners.
Today, I am going to show you how to install and deploy your own private ad server using OpenX.  That means you can sell your own ad and keep [...]

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Team collaboration software is something we are going to see more and more of in the future.  With businesses struggling to survive in these economic conditions, they’re going to start waking up and realizing that technology exists that will let their people work from home!
I could get into all the ‘business’ reasons why it’s more [...]

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RSS readers are a dime a dozen.  My personal favorite is Google Reader.  It’s got great integration and support which makes keeping up on news all the more easy.  But to me, that’s a whole lot of data that I could use more efficiently if it was on my own server!
Today, we’re going to show [...]

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