Joker Racer is a service by a Tokyo based company called Joker Works that allows users to control RC cars and  model trains over the web. I have been follwing the progress of Joker Racer and should have made a post a long time go. All the function of the vehicle is controllable from a simple easy to...

Today (September 22, 2009) is One Web Day. The day that internet lovers worldwide can express their love for the interwebs. Being a blogger and user of net services like Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Youtube and many others  it is obvious that I love the internet and if you are reading this more than likely...

Firefox 3.5 was released with a long list of new features, functions, updates and tweaks. I’ve been taking the new version for a spin for the past day and I love it so far. The upgrade process was nice and easy but a few plugins were not supported yet. While checking the stats for this blog recently...

Gmail themes are one of the newer features of Google’s online mail client. The first couple themes that were released though didn’t appeal to me until I checked again this morning and say a brand new theme called Ninja. Now I can Japanize (not a word) my email related tasks. Gmail Ninja...

Clicky is a powerful web tool that I have been using since late last year and other than my flickr account it is probably the only other web based service I have paid for. Why did did I pay for a web statistics tool when the internet is overrun with so many? It’s simple really, Clicky is the best...

Do you have a blog? If the answer is yes my next question will be, are you using entrecard? If you answer is no then you are missing out on a great opportunity to drive visitors to your blog. Which blog owner doesn’t like their page to be viewed by as much people as possible? Entrecard is a program...

DriverTV – If there ever was a full featured site on the internet that could be described as a “car enthusiast’s heaven” this would be it. Driver TV provides information of most of the popular consumer car models currently available and although a couple models are missing the...

Thoof combines various features of many popular so called web 2.0 sites such as digg, reddit, del.icio.us and even Wikipedia while adding its own ingredients to the web 2.0 mix. Signing up is a simple process, users enter their email address and then are instantly signed in, they can then create their...

I’m slowly getting used to my 4mb connection at home but it seems my connection is chicken feed compared to huge pipes connecting residential internet users in Japan where the median real-time download speed is a whopping 61mbps (thats sixty one megabits per second, I repeat per second). For me...

Today Tuesday May 1st, 2007 is the day Joost goes live. My inbox has been overflowing with news stories from morning about Joost going commercial today. I am still waiting on the official update that should allow existing to users to send unlimited invites. When that update is released which I am hoping...