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http://littlepix.co.cc/

LittlePix is a slightly attractive Coppermine-powered free image uploader. The bright orange theme and inability to register an account may hinder some users, but if you need a quick free place to upload an image under 5MB in a snap, you can use this quite well. Unfortunately, if you wish to keep your picture private, this impossible. The gallery page displays every single image ever uploaded. There's also the issue of the domain name. littlepix.co.cc doesn't exactly inspire confidence - it's free! Buy a .com or .net, it's less than a dollar per month.

So I was thinking today about how American children go to school half the calendar year and have to repeat a Pledge of Allegiance to the American government. Look, half the kids who go to public schools don't even know what they're saying. The government is just trying to steal your rights. You'll be in court one day because you refused to draft into the military, and the people will say "No no no, you pledged your allegiance to us for about twelve years!" If you're a school-age child in the United States, don't say the Pledge of Allegiance. It's dangerous.

I felt obligated to do a review of a fellow ZemHost member's site due to the review he did for PodTube. So, without further ado:

Review: http://websiteinquirer.co.cc
Overall Rating: 95% A

The Website Inquirer inquires websites the status of their being. All the time. Like, every day.

Design 9.8/10

Sexy design with an iPhone/iPod Touch version for those of us on the go. The owner includes a slightly annoying fading effect on every single page, but it does not really change the overall atmosphere of well-being produced by taking a screenshot and making it your screensaver.

Content 9.5/10

Interesting reviews of websites all across the net. I have this site on my RSS reader, so I can immediately get updated on all the cool stuff that he written recently. Although he makes (albeit sparse) use of smilies, it is very good reading material and I often discover new things that I would not have found without the site.

Content is often published once or even twice a day.

Under The Hood 8/10

Oh my fffffffffffffffffffffffff- no. If you're going to have ridiculous amounts of <p> tags inside your content, at least make sure you indent. The meta tags are automatically set by WordPress, and meta tags are a thing that WordPress does very well. I can foresee this site having problems on an old browser or a browser with JavaScript disabled, as it has some fancy tricks it performs upon loading.

The Bottom Line: The Website Inquirer is a great site to find new places to waste your day, and to an extent, is a pretty good place to waste time as well. He's keeping it simple with just a blog, too.

http://websiteinquirer.co.cc

It was a warm, perfectly sunny Feburary afternoon. A young man was basement-dwelling (is it still a basement if it has doors to the outside?) and he realized that his domain was going to expire in a few days. In the nick of time, he purchased a Visa gift card and saved the day with NameCheap!

PodTube.us works again - but for how long? Tune in next year to find out.

URL Shorteners essentially take a long url (like http://myfavoritesitethatisreallycoolandhaspicturesofcatswithcaptions.in...) and turn it into, namely, a short URL (like http://tr.im/gEmz.) This is useful. It is often believed that this all started with http://tinyurl.com, which produces URLs that are usually 25 characters long, including the essential 'http://.' Now, we have things like http://to/, http://is.gd and http://tr.im, which are much better... no offense, TinyURL, but you are crap. Here are the top two URL shorteners, in order of awesomeness.

http://tr.im is the best service. It reduces URLs into a small 17 letters including http://, which is great for including in status updates on sites such as Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Friendfeed. It also offers comprehensive tracking of these links. Included in the data it gives you is where the clickers are from, how many times it has been clicked, by what has it been clicked (Firefox, IE, some bot.) Also, you can have custom URLs, like http://tr.im/podtubewins to make your URL even more flashy.

http://is.gd comes in a close second after tr.im. It still has the really freaking short length of 17 letters, however, it offers no facilities for link tracking or custom URLs. It's interface is also ugly. http://is.gd/knMM is what your URLs turn out to look like.

http://to/ is very special to me. The Island of Tonga devoted their top level domain to URL shortening - this site makes the shortest URLs on the net. Beware, however, that their service does not always work on older software.