If you haven’t noticed it already (by the badge sitting atop the sidebar to the right), EndofWeb is now on Alltop. If you’re ever cruising through the Tech section over there, look me up — I’ll likely be somewhere at the very bottom, but a listing’s a listing, right?

I’ve been listed on Technorati for quite some time now, though I’ve never actually cared for the place much. They’ve got a very… Well, let’s just say that if we were in the world of Dr. Zhivago, they’d probably be fleeing Russia right about now. That’s how I view the folks at Technorati — but that’s neither here nor there. Alltop is growing at a pretty steady pace, and I think it’s a better place for readers (and potential readers) to seek out and find new blogs.

This is how it’s done in Japan.

Image: Pixiv.

It’s something like that.

Image: My Apokalips.

A while ago (sometime last year that I don’t remember anymore) I came across a quick blurb in a now long-forgotten Google blog entry telling users exactly how to get their names verified for their Google Profile pages.

It’s really simple, and free — the whole thing’s furnished by Knol, which has itself become somewhat forgotten when compared to Google’s many other ventures. I hadn’t given it much thought since, but with the recent advent of Google Buzz, our Google Profiles have taken on a whole new responsibility.

I also feel like I should have told more people about it when I got my own name verified, but that’s neither here nor there.

As I said before, it’s pretty easy to do, and should only take a couple of minutes to complete if you’ve got the right information on hand.

Disclaimer: This only works for Americans. Sorry (whole rest of the world), but the company is based here and the data they need to reference for verification is the kind that they can’t go looking for elsewhere.

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"Left5" – A new WordPress theme geared towards images.

I’ve been working for quite a while now to piece together an imageblog WordPress theme that I like, and it hasn’t been easy. A while back, I lucked my way across a theme built entirely in simplified HTML 5, called H5. H5 is an extremely minimalistic theme, partly because the author’s goal was to keep it clean. Nothing extra, nothing frivolous. That’s exactly the way I like things, and H5 provided a wonderful platform for the themes I’ve used up until now on both EndofWeb and Loupe. Now Loupe has a new face — Left5. Read more on “New WordPress Imageblog Theme” »

I don’t generally have cause to praise LG for anything; they’re not a bad company, and they make some great stuff, they just don’t usually come through with anything I particularly need or want. That’s changed now, because they’ve put together a retro styled CRT television that makes all the snazzy flat-screens in the world look just plain drab. Read more on “Retro Hot” »

The Snow Leopard Login Screen

Apple is good at designing things simply and beautifully enough that users generally make little to no changes to their UI — but let’s face it, that space background gets pretty old after the first thousand logins, and they really should have included the login screen aesthetics in the system prefs.

You do not need any of the dozens of trashy apps floating around to tweak this. The methods for tweaking the login screen change with every major inception of OS X, as do the apps for changing hidden system prefs, but those apps all work by changing the system’s instructions themselves, rather than simply going to the source image and leaving the system alone. I’ve always preferred the safer, cleaner way of doing things, which is simply replacing the default images. Read more on “Because Space Gets Old” »

You’re doing it wrong.

Image: kiske.

Egg Watchers isn’t just useful as an egg timer, but it’s damn cute in doing it. When you hit the site, you’re given the option of choosing the size of your egg — medium, large, or extra large — and whether or not the egg is fresh from the fridge or sitting at room temperature. It asks if you’d like the egg runny, squidgy, or firm, and gives the time needed to boil the egg properly. Then comes the part that makes it special. Read more on “Greatest Egg Timer Ever” »

LOL.

Image: imgur.