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PositivePress™ helps you track and understand your online presence. Track your brand, competitor, industry or any other topic. Monitor your progress. Understand trends. Send branded reports to your clients, colleagues and executives. - Scott Granneman

A storage service which allows synchronization, backup and sharing of files. - Scott Granneman

Searching for products on Google™ can be annoying: nothing but Kelkoo, Pricerunner et al clogging up your search results. Now don't get me wrong, these sites have their uses, but sometimes you really don't want them in your search results. So I wrote GiveMeBackMyGoogle. - Scott Granneman

Movies in the public domain from the National Archives - Scott Granneman

Videos from the vault of the National Archives. - Scott Granneman

This is a quick run down of where my head typically goes when trying to debug something with ExpressionEngine. Some of these thoughts apply to things other than EE as well. - Scott Granneman

The purchaser will click standard Paypal Buy Now, Add to Cart or Donation buttons and checkout through Paypal as normal. Linkok will then immediately verify the payment with Paypal and return the user securely to the download page. Linklok also sends a download email out as well. The download links included in the download page and email do not show the location of your files on the server and will expire after a predefined time (you can even IP lock them if you wish). Both the download page and the email are customizable so they can match exactly the style of your site providing a seamless delivery process. Linklok supports any number of products in the cart and also products that have multiple files (bundles). Linklok Paypal makes use of Paypal IPN, PDT and Auto Return features to provide security, reliability and ease of use. Used by Jans for people who subscribe to D20SRD so they can download the site. - Scott Granneman

Discover graphic designers, programmers, flash developers, business consultants, and ExpressionEngine experts who can help you with your web development needs. We provide the directory as a service to the ExpressionEngine Community. - Scott Granneman

Twitter favorite tracking and ranking site. Neat that it offers a view showing tweets favorited by those you follow. - Scott Granneman

What is ip2nation? There is currently a number of companies on the internet charging for databases or files containing information about where an IP is allocated (as in which country). This information is in fact available for free at ARIN, APNIC, RIPE etcetera. Though, those files are not in any way optimized for queries and are indeed very slow. This is where ip2nation.com comes in. We utilitize these files to create a MySQL database table with the appropriate indexes. We've also optimized the table and removed unneccesary information in order to make queries lightning fast. In order to utilitize the table you may find help in the PHP examples under "Sample scripts". - Scott Granneman

A guide to setting up Google Public DNS - Scott Granneman

Songs & the samples they used - Scott Granneman

Dig deeper into music by discovering direct links between over 17,000 songs and 7,500 artists, from Hip-Hop, R&B, Funk and Soul via Electronic Music and through to Rock, Pop and beyond. Watch the videos, contribute new content, discuss and vote! - Scott Granneman

a simple service that tracks the use of brand names on Twitter. It provides a list of brands ranked according to the frequency with which they appear in tweets over the day. As it stands and despite the frequencies being shown TweetedBrands is also more qualitative then quantitative (and again, no API … come on people!). Even so, if you're a major brand manager this service is worth keeping on your radar. - Scott Granneman

A very interesting near real-time visualization of tweets that have been geolocated. This service is an experiment in contexturalizing Twitter activity. They use Google's geoip service and the location data that many users provide in their account details to geolocate but tweets appear to clump around the major ISP's points of presence. Of course what Trendsmap is doing is displaying a relatively small sampling of Twitter activity but their samples are enough for them to be able to identify trending topics (shown at the bottom of the display). Click on a topic and you can drill down to see what's currently being tweeted and the number of related tweets plotted over the last week. Most of the Trendsmap analyses are qualitative so they are mainly useful as indicators of trends rather than something you can derive statistics from. There's also no API, which is a pity as the data sets Trendsmap generates look like they could be really valuable in mashups. - Scott Granneman

One cannot go online today without eventually being asked to accept a set of so-called Terms of Service (or TOS) agreements. These "terms" are actually purported legal contracts between the user and the online service provider (websites, MMORPGs, communication services, etc.), despite the fact that users never get a chance to negotiate their contents and can often be entirely unaware of their existence. Using a TOS, online service providers can dictate their legal relationship with users through private contracts, rather than rely on the law as written. In the unregulated and unpredictable world of the Internet, such arrangements often provide the necessary ground rules for how various online services should be used. The time has come to shed light on what these Terms of Service agreements actually say, and what it means to users. In conjunction with our TOSBack project, EFF is working to make the contents of these TOS more transparent for the average user. - Scott Granneman

At the end of each year, critics & readers of music publications select their favourite albums and singles of the year. Lists from publications including: New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Select, Q, Mojo, Rolling Stone, Spin, & Village Voice, various European publications and several independent fanzines from around the globe plus the complete John Peel Festive 50's are included on this site. There are critic single and album lists from 1974 to 2009, pop poll results from 1952 to 2009, personal lists from critics including Dave Marsh and Robert Christgau plus All Time Best Film Soundtrack and Banned recordings. - Scott Granneman

On the eve of Palin's latest version of reality, the Dish offers a recap of all the demonstrable lies she has told in the public record. We reprint the list as a public service and invite readers to run the new "book" through exactly the same empirical wringer, so we can compile an up-to-date and comprehensive list of the fantasies, delusions, lies and non-facts that Palin is so pathologically and unalterably attached to. Remember: we are not including contested stories that we cannot prove definitively one way or another or the usual spin that politicians use, or even hypocrisy or shading of facts. We are merely including things she has said or written that can be definitively proven as untrue, by incontestable evidence in the public record. - Scott Granneman

Foodbuzz is a network of foodbloggers (more than 10,000). They offer a set of services for "featured publishers," including ad management and other perks, as well as several social networking-type features for individual users. Foodbuzz is one of the few sites I've found that actually aggregates recipes from across the web. You can submit links to recipes to be indexed, and you can also submit recipes for direct publication at the site. It displays some characteristics of a curated site in as much as it highlights recipes from members of its featured publishers network, but overall it's quite open since anyone can submit a recipe or recipe link. - Scott Granneman

Serious Eats is another curated food community with some social features, including a set of forums, and original video content in addition to a large collection of recipes. Recipes come largely from featured cookbook writers and chefs, but also the wider community base (in the forums). It's more inclusive than Food52, because of its forums, and it's more polyphonous because its cast of contributors is quite long and revolving. However, it's less inclusive in the sense that the Recipes section of the site is limited to those curated by contributors (mostly recipes from featured books and chefs). - Scott Granneman

I learned about Food52 when the New York Times ran a round-up of new, crowd-sourced food sites. The hook of this site, founded by two food writers, is that every week there's a theme-based competition; after a year of these contests, the winning recipes will be collected in a book. Any registered user can compete in the competitions, the founders select finalists and post slideshows of them testing the recipes, and then users vote for a winner. The focus of the site is the contests, and all recipes submitted for the contests are accessible, but registered users can upload any type of recipe. Although there is a pretty sizable diversity of recipes on the site, I most often use it when I'm looking for inspiration to try something new, not when I have a few keystone ingredients I'm trying to hang together. - Scott Granneman

Cookstr publishes recipes by professional chefs, including Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, Alice Waters, Jacques Pepin, Michael Recchiuti, Mark Bittman, and on and on. In addition to recipes, the site also provides informative profiles for each chef. Features are fairly minimal, with a video section still under development, but I do like the simplicity of the site. Site registration allows you to save and comment on recipes. Although Cookstr only has a few recipes from each chef, it's the closest thing to a massively cross-cook[book] database I've found. I hope it grows. - Scott Granneman

Epicurious is my go-to recipe site; I've used it for four years. Because the site is older, most recipes have at least a handful of comments, and I've found that most users leave really helpful feedback (usually suggestions for how to scale or tweak recipes). Epicurious offers several options for the size of the printed page, whether or not images are included, and even the option to print a separate shopping list. Most recipes come from Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines (the site is owned by Conde Nast). Some come from cookbooks published by Random House, with whom Epicurious has some kind of republication agreement, it seems. Some have also been reprinted from other cookbooks, with permission. In addition to the 25,000 recipes from these professional resources, they also boast 50,000 member-submitted recipes. Epicurious is the online food site to beat. - Scott Granneman

Structure is a different way to build ExpressionEngine sites. It forgoes the current template_group/template setup and creates “static” and “listing” pages that are all editable through a tree sitemap view. Now, traditional page style content and multiple entry pages can live within the same area. Your clients & authors will rejoice. - Scott Granneman

This test checks that the browser is sending an Accept-Encoding header that contains "gzip" or "deflate". - Scott Granneman

This guide serves to provide information for users who are new to or want to know more about the Mac platform. If you are interested in learning about software, media players, shortcuts and would like to find out some useful tips, tricks and hints then this guide should prove valuable. It is by no means exhaustive, but is rather intended to give you a head start and a better insight into the world of Mac. - Scott Granneman

Here’s a complete guide to some of the best tools that will help you track what other people are saying about you, your business or your products on other websites, forums and social media sites. You can secretly "listen" to conversations happening on the web in almost real-time and can then respond if you think a "negative" comment posted on another site may harm your own reputation or that of your brand. All the "buzz monitoring" services mentioned in this guide are available for free and they can help you monitor almost every part of the "public" web including blogs, forums, websites, video sites, user comments and even some social networks. - Scott Granneman

A whole universe of ways to enhance your Expression Engine development, all in one place: The Devot:ee Add-on Library - Scott Granneman

For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. In 2009, we began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data. The Data The New York Times has published 5,000 people subject headings as linked open data under a CC BY license. We provide both RDF documents and a human-friendly HTML versions. - Scott Granneman

So you've just installed Ubuntu 9.10, the cute and cuddly Karmic Koala, but now you're confronted with a most pertinent question, "What do i do now?" Ubuntu is a very complete and full-featured Linux distribution, but no operating system can come with everything you want. There's much more fun to be had in what comes after installing the OS on your machine: now you get to set it up with all the best software it didn't already come with! This list of the top things to do immediately after installing your newly acquired copy of Ubuntu doubles as a general list of great software to try out and use, complete with links to any special instructions on how to set them up, Terminal commands for those who prefer a command-line interface (CLI), and when available, personal package archives (PPA), repositories to keep the applications at their newest version, not just the security updates provided for you by default - Scott Granneman