Category Archives: Technology

GoodBye GoDaddy

By zacharyc | Published: January 4, 2012

After the whole SOPA debacle, I decided I was done with GoDaddy. Their site has always been crap. It’s hard to use and figuring stuff out sometimes takes a call to their tech support. On top of that, they had been starting to raise their prices. They used to be one of the cheapest registrars [...]

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Initial Kindle Experience

By zacharyc | Published: April 27, 2011

My family gave me a Kindle for my birthday, and while I haven’t used it too much, it is starting to become a device I use more and more. The big problem for me is the cost of digital books. I have a huge library. I’ve spent lots of money on books over the years. [...]

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Kathy Sierra At Business of Software 2009

By zacharyc | Published: July 1, 2010

This is a great presentation about how to get users excited about your product. I saw it on Ignore The Code and it really is worth the hour to watch.

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Suggestions for Building a Successful Business Website

By zacharyc | Published: March 29, 2010

Per usual, I’ve been surfing the web. Here are some frustrations I have with some business sites: Items Are Out of Date. Sometimes when browsing a site I will see information about events that have long since expired. This information is not pertinent, and tells the user that you don’t keep your information up to [...]

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Facebook Is Losing It’s Fun

By zacharyc | Published: April 3, 2009

Today I decided to create a Facebook account as woodside’s cheerleading coach. The benefit of this account is that it keeps its distance from my personal Facebook network, but still allows me to create events and groups for Woodside cheerleading. Anyway, I wanted my name to “Coach Zack”. Facebook rejected the name. So I tried [...]

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Apple’s iLife is TOO Good

By zacharyc | Published: March 3, 2009

In an amazing post on Daring Fireball John Gruber quotes the technology directory for a public school in Massachusetts: However, even iLife has its drawbacks in an educational setting. It simply hands so much to the students that they struggle with software (whether Windows, Linux, or even pro-level software on the Mac) that isn’t so [...]

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How is Palm Going to Mess up the Palm Pre?

By zacharyc | Published: January 26, 2009

Palm has recently announced its first really new product in years, the Palm Pre. To be fair, the product is actually quite compelling. It runs a on its webOS, a cool new operating system that allows you to use a bunch of different applications at once. [... the history ...] My father is a business [...]

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Support Pastie

By zacharyc | Published: January 2, 2009

One of the best web apps I’ve ever used: Pastie is doing a casual donation. I’m going into the new year and am trying to really conserve my spending, but if you can afford to toss a few bucks this way, it’s a great cause

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Yahoo’s Not Dead Yet: Start Wearing Purple

By zacharyc | Published: November 25, 2008

Yahoo! just launched a new advertising campaign, Start Wearing Purple. I have to admit that, while I’m not normally swayed by “go visit this web page” advertising, I was very eager to check it out, and I wasn’t disappointed. Its a flash based web page that talks about the color that has been with Yahoo [...]

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Sun Fishworks vs. Apple iPhone

By zacharyc | Published: November 14, 2008

I’m a big apple fan. Everyone knows that. What everyone might not know is that I’m also a Sun fan. When I was younger I worked for an ISP that used Sun boxes. I worked on a few of them in college. I’m not an expert on a Sun box, but I always liked the [...]

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