Geek Shout

Online file conversion tools are fairly popular, but a surprisingly small number of online tools will allow you to convert a PDF file to a graphic format such as PNG, JPEG, GIF or BMP. One of these free online tools is zamzar.com, and it will take in for conversion a PDF file, or nearly any [...]

Why you might want to surf the web anonymously, it’s not for me to question… In the old days, you had to find a good proxy list and try and try and try until you found a good anonymous proxy that didn’t take half an hour to load a web page. Today most anonymous surfing [...]

In case you haven’t discovered it yet, there’s an online photo editor the likes of Photoshop and it’s completely free. While not a replacement of Photoshop for graphic designers, it’s an easily accessible online tool that can allow you to quickly made adjustments to a photo, when in places where all you have is Paint.
It [...]

Designers and developers alike are in constant need of more Lorem Ipsum, and most are familiar with lipsum.com. If you don’t know what Lorem Ipsum is, you must be really new to the scene, but all is not lost, there is a wikipedia article for you.
There’s a more advanced alternative to lipsum.com that you can [...]

If you find yourself in a constant pursuit for a software or service that’s better, or free but accomplishes most of what your current one does, they have a website for that, now! Bluntly named alternativeTo.net, this is a community driven website  with alternatives to popular software and services. This includes software for Windows, Mac, [...]

Recently Google researched the effect that an increase in a page’s loading time has over its visitors. They concluded that even an increase as little as 300ms has a significant impact on the user’s browsing behavior. In the 6-week experiment, 0.2 to 0.6% less searches were performed as a result of the .3 second increase [...]

Browse around the web for a couple of hours and you’ll end up on a site that requires you to log in before you get to see some of their content. Many times registering is free but by the time you know it, they’re asking you of diseases in your family history, then they send [...]