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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Building your own web server is cool - but oftentimes it requires you spend weeks checking out tutorials and how-tos.  What ends up happening is you find something that looks like it’ll work, get half way through it, and then see it isn’t what you need!
This tutorial is going to show you how to set [...]

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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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YourFonts is a free font generator using your own handwriting for the letters and numbers!  All you do is print out the template, complete it, scan and upload it!
Here are some of the features:

Your own handwriting turned into your very own font for free
Optionally include your signature and digitally sign your contracts
You’ll have your very [...]

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For this last christmas, I got a Popcorn Hour to stream movies and podcasts from my media server.  I love it, I really do.  In fact, I have been thinking about dropping cable because most of the time I am watching Internet programming on Hulu or podcasts.
Recently, I started playing with Boxee.  Boxee is a [...]

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I spend most of the day sitting behind a computer.  Even though gas prices are down, who knows when they will go back up…  I used to use GoToMeeting software - which was really nice.  It’s just that $50 a month gets a little expensive when you go through a couple months in a row [...]

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Over the holidays, I decided I needed a break.  After starting various businesses and websites, I hadn’t had a ‘vacation’ in probably three years.  Some people get excited about going to Disney World or the Swiss Alps - but I was just excited that I could turn my Blackberry off for more than a weekend…
On [...]

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If you are reading this post, one thing gets clear without a doubt. You love using the internet or even if you don’t, you are quite a frequent user. Period. There are new developments taking place in the virtual world everyday and as it attracts more and more users, the need to simplify things arises [...]

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This is a pretty neat service! As usual on my quest to find something out of the ordinary and useful I came across this site mosio which lets you text a question using your mobile phone and you can get upto four answers. Yes, you do have friends and families to help you out with [...]

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