Open Menu Format - A new standard for restaurant menus

Providing a single format for restaurant menus so they can be easily shared, searched and used. Finally, a standard for restaurant menus.
Link:
http://www.openmenuformat.com/
Veign's Blog - Unhandled PerceptionThursday, December 31, 2009Open Menu Format - A new standard for restaurant menus![]() Providing a single format for restaurant menus so they can be easily shared, searched and used. Finally, a standard for restaurant menus. Link: http://www.openmenuformat.com/ Tuesday, December 15, 2009Monday, November 09, 2009Two new software releases from Veign
Note-It: Enhanced desktop notes that; persist windows sessions, give you control of the look and feel, allow you to save and open notes, provides special notes that provide updated information, drag text to and from any application, and even email the notes or just a selection of the note. Notes on your desktop have never been easier and with Note-It you get all the power you will ever need in note application.
Cfont Pro: Cfont Pro was developed as a way to manage fonts; to include system, printer, and currently uninstalled fonts. Cfont Pro lets you view installed system fonts, printer fonts, and a special mode where you select a directory, CD, or network drive and preview the fonts. Preview All mode will let you view all of your installed fonts in a single view with printing capabilites. Also, be sure to check out the SlideShow mode where the application will cycle thorugh each font at an interval determined by you. Enjoy! Monday, November 02, 2009Listhings places sticky notes in your browser![]() Interesting but not sure how useful it would be - have to keep a browser window open. Personally I think using Note-It makes more sense where the notes can be on top of all open applications is much more useful. Link: http://listhings.com/ Tuesday, October 27, 2009Google Voice Frees Your Voicemail, and Your NumberUntil yesterday, signing up for a Google Voice account required you to pick a new phone number -- not a pleasant option for those who have kept the same digits for years. Now Google has enabled users to keep their existing phone numbers and get (most of) the features Google Voice offers, including Google's excellent voicemail service. I have been using Google Voice for a couple of months now and now its powerful but I just haven't switched to the phone number yet. Still trying to decide exactly what to use my Google Voice number for. Veign's business number? Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/... Monday, October 19, 2009Plarker on DonationCoder.com DonationCoder has taken steps to allow its members the ability to highlight their Plarker maps. Each member can add their Plarker username to their profile, which provides a quick link to their Plarker map through an icon under their member username on the forum.This a big step for Plarker as DonationCoder is a very popular tech forum. This forum is unlike most. The civility for an online forum is amazing at DC. Stop by and let them know that Veign recommended it. DonationCoder Forum: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php Plarker: http://www.plarker.com/ Monday, October 12, 2009Plarker gets many new features
Some new things that have been added to Plarker:
Check out my map: http://www.plarker.com/map/chris Get your own: http://www.plarker.com/ Wednesday, October 07, 2009Follow Veign on Facebook for exclusive news
Veign often posts news and information on Facebook that will not appear in the blog. Follow Veign and get access to even more things - in the future we will be offering giveaways only through Facebook and follower will get advanced notice.
Veign on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbia-SC/Veign/5980723881 Labels: veign Wednesday, September 30, 2009Discover new places with Plarker![]() Plarker™ is a way discover new places to visit. You add places to your map. Your friends add places to theirs. Then share your maps. The places on your map and your friends map are overlayed onto a single map. This is a personal project of mine that I am excited to release. Link: http://plarker.com Sunday, August 02, 2009This blog is being updated
We are in the process of moving this blog to a template that better matches the branding of Veign. During this time, while we publish the new template, you may see some things out of whack.
So excuse the mess, if you see one. Labels: veign Sunday, July 26, 2009Veign's PAD Database Admin tool gets a makeover After a complete overhaul, the PAD Database manager makes it even easier to interface with the PAD Database.Still haven't released this to the wild. If I get enough interest I may consider releasing it. Friday, July 24, 2009Veign Giveaway: 1 free license of Expression Web 3Give away is now closed - the winner has been selected (Jeff) ![]() Whether you're an expert or just getting started, building standards-based Web sites is faster and easier with Microsoft® Expression® Web 3. Expression Web contains flexible support for a wide range of essential technologies: PHP, HTML/XHTML, XML/XSLT, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Flash, Photoshop files, and video/audio for webcasting. This is a great opportunity to get a free license for an up-coming-player in the web design application market. EW is hot the heals of Dreamweaver and is already converting many users. I have been using and testing EW since the first releases and each one moves it closer to a serious player in the web design game - still needs better support for PHP for my liking but I'm sure that's coming. Just download the trial to check it out. To enter leave a comment that either contains your email address or a link to your profile which contains your email address and say something that lets me know you want it. Thats it. Winner will be choosen at random in 24 hours. Link to Expression Web: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Web_Overview.aspx Give away is now closed - the winner has been selected (Jeff) (disclosure: Microsoft has not requested or asked me to do this. I contacted them to see if I could give a license away)
Sunday, July 12, 2009CSS 3 Reference Guide Veign releases a CSS3 reference guide. The CSS3 reference guide is meant to compliment the HTML5 reference guide that I just released. This gives you a quick and handy reference on the standards that will be the foundation for all websites.Enjoy! Link: http://www.veign.com/reference/css3-guide.php Monday, July 06, 2009HTML 5 Reference Guide featured on Smashing Magazine Veign's HTML5 reference Guide was featured on Smashing Magazine today. The guide is a work in progress (as the spec is changing) reference guide for the up-coming HTML 5 specification that someday will become the standard for the development of websites.Smashing Magazine is the top website design and development blog around and its a honor to have something of Veign's featured. Smashing Magazine: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/... HTML 5 Reference Guide: http://www.veign.com/reference/html5-guide.php Labels: bigtime, design, development, veign Sunday, June 21, 2009Easy online image cropping application at Quick Thumbnail
I recently expanded the functionality of Quick Thumbnail to include a Quick Image Cropping tool. This tool lets you crop an image by uploading a file or by entering a URL to the image file. Once uploaded, Quick Cropping allows you to select the cropped area and each time you press the Crop button a new output is generated. No need to reload the image, simply adjust the selection area and press crop again.
Active Cropping Window: ![]() Cropped Results: ![]() Link: http://quickthumbnail.com/crop/ Monday, June 15, 2009Quickthumbnail adds Watermark featureYou can now add watermarks to any image while your resizing it at Quick Thumbnail. The text is rendered as part of the image. Like everything else I develop for free this was done to play around with a code technique, in this case rendering text onto an image. For now I only give basic control over the text: The phrase, color (either light or dark) and a choice of three sizes. Comments? Link: http://www.quickthumbnail.com/ Friday, June 12, 2009Saturday, June 06, 2009Veign releases two new online tools
Keeping in with the spirit of Veign, I have released two new free tools. This adds to Veign's collection of 18+ free online tools and applications.
Site Check: Site Check saves you time by compiling a list of websites, with your URL pre-filled in, to check your website in. No need to fill in your website multiple times. This makes manually checking your website a much easier process. Domain Age Check: Return the age of domain. As always, if you have any idea for a tool feel free to contact Veign. Labels: development, veign Tuesday, June 02, 2009Get a detailed website check from Veign
Veign is now providing a service where we do a complete website check / analysis. From identifying website problems before your visitors do to search engine optimization guideline checks to ensure your site is ready for the major search engines, our report will give you the knowledge to fix those pesky problems that are often difficult to track down.
Link: http://www.veign.com/website-check.php Labels: design, development, veign Saturday, April 04, 2009Latest website from Veign![]() Very happy to release a new website called Primal Management. I really like the way this website came out and think it will do the book justice. Check out the website and check out the book, Primal Management. Labels: veign Monday, December 22, 2008Monday, October 27, 2008Cfont Pro on LifeHackerFor typography junkies with large font collections, Cfont Pro will help you manage your addiction. With support for all the major font file types, including Postscript and TrueType, this free application will let you preview fonts from disk before installing... Link: http://lifehacker.com/5069461/... Cfont Pro: http://www.cfontpro.com/ Friday, September 05, 2008Cfont Pro makes a Smashing Magazine blog post
Cfont Pro made smashing magazine's 25 Font Management Tools Reviewed blog post. Its near the bottom of the blog post.
If you use Cfont Pro cast a vote at the bottom of the smashing magazine post. Tuesday, July 15, 2008Online htpasswd CreatorOnline htpasswd Creator is an easy way to create properly encrypted passwords for use in an htpasswd file. The htpasswd file is reference from an htaccess file to protect files and folders. Link: http://www.veign.com/tools/htpasswd-creator/ Sunday, May 11, 2008Distance Check now has active city lookup![]() Distance Check gives you the approximate driving time between two zip codes. A new active city lookup feature now makes the tool even easier to use. What it will do is give you a drop-down of zip codes matching any town or city as you type in the zip code field. So now you can either type the city code or start typing a town or city and Distance Check will find the zip code for you. Tell me what you think. Link: http://distancecheck.com/ Labels: veign, web server Monday, April 28, 2008Monday, April 14, 2008Useful MySQL SQL statements
Useful MySQL SQL statements is a list of some useful and maybe tricky SQL statements for MySQL.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007Veign: My latest website design![]() See more at: http://www.veign.com/design-portfolio.php Also, check out my development portfolio Labels: veign Saturday, October 27, 2007Cfont Pro: Font Manager v3 released The next version of Cfont Pro, font manager, has been released. This version brings some new tools and makes it compatible with Windows Vista, finally.Whats New:
Cfont Pro is Free Link: http://www.cfontpro.com/ or http://www.veign.com/application.php?appid=101 Friday, October 26, 2007Make Password back online Make Password is back online after a server issue that caused it to not function properly. Thanx to a very helpful person it was brought to my attention and all is resolved.Link: http://www.maord.com/ Thursday, October 18, 2007Password strength value added to Make Password Make Password has been expanded to included a Password Strength value that can be added to the generated password list. This value is a number from 0 to 100 with 100 being a very strong password and 0 being a weak password.I think this can help when people are creating large lists of passwords as you will now know the strength of the password. Want something else added or have comments about Make Password then please feel free to drop by the Forum. Link: http://www.maord.com/ How strong are your passwords?
Microsoft has an online Password Strength Checker that will let you know. If your passwords are too weak, or you are looking for password ideas, then check out the article on How to create strong passwords.
Also, if you're looking to make a whole bunch of passwords at a single time then check out Veign's Online Password Creator. Link: http://.../protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx Monday, October 01, 2007Why so silent?![]() I am traveling for the next couple of weeks part for business and part for pleasure. The first half of the trip is to Champaign, IL to do some work with a local company. The second half is off to CT to visit family. Road trip. If you see me on the road get my attention some how - lets see if anyone can find me (car pictured above with the license plate of Veign and tinted windows). So going from Champaign, IL to near Waterbury CT on Friday Oct 5th / 6th and CT to Columbia, SC on Oct 13th/14th. Catch me if you can... Labels: veign Sunday, September 23, 2007More tools for SEO
More tools: http://.../the-top-15-free-seo-tools.html Saturday, September 22, 2007Note-it gets a needed updated Note-It is one of my most popular applications. This is a very simple, easy to use post-it type application. This update adds the ability for a new notes will be prompted to be saved if needed. This means when you start a note you won't lose what you typed if you forgot to save.It's Freeware, actually Postcardware (send me a postcard if you like the application) but same difference. Link: http://www.veign.com/application.php?appid=102 Tuesday, September 11, 2007Quick Thumbnail: Online Image Resizer: "The fastest way to resize your pictures and images." Quick Thumbnail gets even more new things:
Have an idea for an improvement then contact me or leave a post on the Quick Thumbnail Forum. Online Image Resizer Thursday, September 06, 2007Quick Thumbnail on the Kim Komando Show![]() Congratulations! Your Web site is being featured in The Kim Komando Show Cool Site of the Day on September 7, 2007. Just received this email. This will generate some great traffic for my Online Image Resizer. Very cool! Quick Thumbnail: http://quickthumbnail.com/ Kim Komando: http://www.komando.com Monday, September 03, 2007QuickThumbnail gets a filterQuick Thumbnail: Online Image Resizer: "The fastest way to resize your pictures and images." Quick Thumbnail gets a new feature and some foundation for future improvements.
Labels: veign Saturday, August 18, 2007My wish list on Amazon
I figured nobody would buy anything off the list so I picked out the most expensive things that I would want.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2IZCUAAFXJPGJ Labels: veign Tuesday, August 14, 2007Do you like Horror movies?![]() Then check out the Horror and Sci-Fi news mashup site I put together. I did it for myself because I wanted something I could quickly navigate to to see what happening in the world of horror. Pass it along to anyone who you think may be interested. Link: http://scarymind.com/ Labels: veign Friday, July 27, 2007Veign goes tribal![]() I have designed two new shirt designs for CafePress for Veign. I wanted a design that used some tribal designs to make it look a bit more interesting. Note: Even though the shirt previews aren't high quality looking the shirts and the images will be. What do you think? Link: http://www.cafepress.com/veign Sunday, July 22, 2007Cfont Pro gets a minor release![]() I released a very minor update to Cfont Pro, my Font Manager, which enhances a few things and sets the ground work for some additional features. I already have another version coming together but will wait and compile a larger release. Oh, and this application is Donationware (free). Link: http://www.cfontpro.com/ Saturday, July 14, 2007Another news mashup website
ScaryMind is a horror news mashup site that I threw together quickly to read about another one of my interests. I figured I would put it on a domain of mine that was not being used for anything else and that way if anyone else has interest they could use the service too.
Link: http://scarymind.com/ In case you're interested the other news mashup website was HorseURLs.com. Saturday, July 07, 2007Website page layout templates using CSS
Some great examples of page layouts using CSS as the primary layout method;
CSS Layouts: http://layouts.ironmyers.com/ Layout Galore: http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ Even more layouts: http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/boxes.html If you need a custom designed website then check out my website design services. Monday, July 02, 2007Veign's new development portfolio
A decided to not only display the websites I have done but also start showcasing some of the features of websites that I have done and can do for clients. I'm hoping to continue growing this new development portfolio over the next couple months as I gather more information to add.
Development Portfolio: http://www.veign.com/development-portfolio.php Design Portfolio: http://www.veign.com/design-portfolio.php Labels: veign Saturday, June 23, 2007HorseURLs just released - Another website by Veign. Latest and greatest in my suite of Horse websites. This site is very similiar to PopURLs, in fact thats where the idea came from, in the sense it pulls all the news sources together in one location. Has become one of the largest collections of the best articles on anything and everything horse. This site is a must bookmark for anyone interested in horses. A great, ever changing, collection of horse pictures from around the world. A community for horse people to hang out and get involved in discussions. This is a very friendly forum with some of the best or the best getting involved.That's it and all the above sites have been designed and developed by me. Thursday, June 21, 2007How to clean the HTML code from Word![]() I released another tool that can be used to throw together quick web pages and page elements called Easy HTML Editor. This is a really cool tool for making quick page elements and has a feature that I use and that's the ability to clean the code from MS Word (instructions provided on the page). Feel free to play around with it and make suggestions for improvements. Link: http://www.veign.com/tools/easy-html-editor/ A big thanx to FCKEditor for all their hard work on this amazing component. Labels: design, development, veign, website Monday, May 28, 2007Veign on Yahoo Local Live
Veign is now on Yahoo Local Live. Who cares, right? Correct, but posting here will get the page into Google's index faster.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007SCIway - Veign is the website of the day
SCIway - South Carolina Information Highway has chosen Veign as the "Website of the Day". SCIway is one of the best sources for information on South Carolina around and I'm proud to be selected as the website of the day.
Cool. Link: http://www.sciway.net/ Friday, May 11, 2007Calculate the distance between two zip codes![]() A fun little online application that calculates the distance between two zip codes. The distance is calculated and general information about each zip code, a map for each zip code and approximate driving time is displayed. Why? Like most stuff I do its practice. This one was practicing with Zip Codes and calculating zip codes that may fall within a certain radius of others. The best way for me to practice is to make something and usually after its made I create a website out of it in case others find some use. Link: http://distancecheck.com/ Thursday, May 10, 2007A few new tools from Veign
Labels: development, veign, website Tuesday, May 08, 2007Google PageRank and Backlinks Checker
I wasn't sure I was going to post about this but what the heck, I post about everything else. Another tool from Veign that can give you a compact report of Google Pagerank and backlinks from various search engines in a single report. The reason I wasn't going to post about it is because its more of a tool for my needs and not sure if anyone else would even care to know about it. For now its limited to a mazimum of 10 URLs but may expand if my needs exceed 10 or I hear enough comments that request more.
Link: http://www.veign.com/tools/pagerank/ Wednesday, May 02, 2007Clear the Internet Explorer Typed Address History
Did you know that in Internet Explorer the URL you type into the address bar are stored in the registry. Even if you clean your history these URL's will remain active in the IE address bar history.
How to clean:
Link to reg hack: http://www.veign.com/registry-hacks.php Monday, April 30, 2007Extract some useful information from your Jpeg images Did you know that when you take a picture with your digital camera a bunch of information is stored inside of the Jpeg file? Its called the Exif data and stores information such as camera information, camera settings, and a thumbnail of the picture taken. Even after cropping an image the thumbnail can show the original picture that was taken.I created an online application called Camera Summary that shows you whats inside of the images. It displays all the information and will even show you the stored thumbnail. Check it out (using a Jpeg taken from a digital camera) and leave a comment or digg it... Link: http://camerasummary.com/ Tuesday, April 24, 2007Veign's redesign finally released![]() I have finally completed the first stage in the redesign of Veign. More changes to come but was really excited to get this out. Have a look at the new Veign and leave a comment on your thoughts. Link: http://www.veign.com Comments? Tuesday, April 10, 2007Online Converters
Big and comprehensive list of Online Converters. Work checking out as the future is moving to online applications.
Some of mine: Have an idea for an online application? Contact me and I'll see if I can get it implemented. Labels: multimedia, veign, website Tuesday, March 27, 2007PAD Crawler makes polling my PAD Database easy I have created a database for PAD** files called PadDatabase.com. This database currently holds information on more than 48,000 applications and growing weekly. The problem that I ran into was I needed a way to poll the PAD files to check for new information, check for PAD files not longer in existence, PAD files that have been introduced into the database from blacklisted companies (I have many and maintain an active blacklist). So, like any good developer, I wrote one.![]() PAD Crawler is a PHP application that gives me all the tools I need to easily and effectively crawler and poll the entire database. Right now it includes a PAD Crawler, Duplicate Finder, Validity Checker and a Cleanup Tool. This is purely an internal tool to Veign and probably will never been seen by anyone else. ** - PAD files are small XML files that fully describe an application and are commonly used by shareware and freeware authors to distribute information about an application. Friday, March 16, 2007Online password creator needs ideas I created an online password creator to help me in setting up password lists in databases. Basically I had a need for more than 10K random passwords, with hash values, as a default password for a member database.Well, I am now looking for ideas on how to make the tool better. So, here is your time to let me know what you would like to see, features you want added, or just general ideas. If you have an idea for a new online tool please feel free to email me directly (email address in my profile) and I just might create your tool. Link: http://maord.com/ Friday, February 09, 2007Picnik, another online image editor.With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos. Unlike others, I gave Picnik a shot since I heard some good things about it. A clean, Flash design makes this one very simple and intuitive to use. Plus its fast. Faster than the other all inclusive online image editors I've reviewed, probably because of the use of Flash. Link: http://www.picnik.com Also, check out my online image applications: http://www.whatsitscolor.com/ http://quickthumbnail.com/ Tuesday, February 06, 2007Page Headers tool now supports user selected Agent
Page Headers now lets you choose the user agent that is used to request the page from the server. Why is this useful? Some websites use underhanded methods to get higher ranking in Google and using Page Headers you can see if they are pushing a different page to Googlebot (Google's spider) than what is push to a user of Firefox. I tried to include some of the more popular agents out there, like: IE, Firefox, Yahoo, Google, MSN, Opera, Askjeeves.
Have one you wanted added? Just ask. Link: http://pageheaders.com/ About User Agents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent Friday, February 02, 2007Quick Thumbnail + Whats Its Color = 2 great tools
Are online applications / tools the wave of the future? Will everything be available in an online, thin client version? I think so even though in some ways I just can't seeing it work. There are a few (probably many) applications that just screem to be put online and Image Resizer is one of them.
Quick Thumbnail is a super easy, yet powerful online image resizer that allows you to resize an image from any system regardless of your skill level. Link: http://quickthumbnail.com/ ![]() Whats its Color is more in the realm of fun applications. Sure it provides useful information that can be used in any type of design but its just fun to play with. What it does is take an image and evaulate every pixel and comes up with the 'colors' of that image. It also goes one step further and displays your image on what is determined to be the best background color to show off that image. Link: http://whatsitscolor.com/ Labels: multimedia, software, veign, website Monday, January 15, 2007See the page headers of any website page
Using a tool like Page Headers you can see how a server responds when you request a page. Not only useful, especially in seeing the paths of redirects, but interesting. See a sample of the Microsoft headers.
Also, this is brought to you by Veign. More of my online tools: http://www.veign.com/download_main.asp#online Page Headers: http://pageheaders.com/ Labels: development, veign Monday, January 01, 2007Whats Its Color by Veign Whats Its Color is a fun little online application for getting the primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image. Why is this useful? Well, if you were creating a website around an image or using an image as the primary inspiration for any type is design it can be very helpful to know what its primary dominant color is or what are the unique colors that people can see when viewing the image. The final results will display your image on a background that is best suited for that image. This application is just fun to play around with.Link: http://www.whatsitscolor.com/ More downloads from me: http://www.veign.com/download_main.asp Labels: graphics, multimedia, veign Friday, December 29, 2006Sunday, December 10, 2006Large list of Online Generators
The Online Generators list seems to have everything you could every want out of an online generator.
Highlights: ASCII Art: http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/ Color Blender: http://www.colorblender.com/ Gradient Creator: http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/gradient/ Favicon Creator: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ A couple I created: Quick Thumbnail: http://quickthumbnail.com/ Make Password: http://www.maord.com/ Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/.../online-generators/ Saturday, December 09, 2006Make Password by Veign Make Password is another tool I threw togther quickly for a personal need and figured I would release in case others had a need. What this online tools does is create lists of random passwords and hash values. Its kinda of useful for individuals looking for inspiration on creating passwords and extremely useful for developers who often need to setup default passwords in a database.You control the password length, character sets, hash values, quantity to create, and even the method to display the results. And I know the domain name is weird but finding a good domain was not easy so I settled on a name that combines Make and Password. Link: http://www.maord.com/ Labels: veign Sunday, November 26, 2006Quick Thumbnail is getting some exposure
Not only has Quick Thumbnail made it to Download Squad and Shell City but it has just been listed on Lifehacker. All this exposure gets me wanting to start working on the next version.
I like how someone commented on the cheesy web 2.0 logo I put on the site. It was done as a kinda of a joke that stuck. Labels: veign Saturday, November 04, 2006Quick Thumbnail: The fastest way to resize images onlineQuick Thumbnail: Online Image Resizer: "The fastest way to resize your pictures and images." Just in case you wonder the above online application was created by me so if you have any suggestions to make it better than please drop me a line. Features:
http://quickthumbnail.com/ Labels: veign Tuesday, September 26, 2006Cfont Pro - Premium Font Manager is now Donationware![]() I decided to turn Cfont Pro into a donationware application. This is a 100% optional donationware application with no nag screens, malware, or registration process. (make sure you use the direct download link until Download.com gets the update) Enjoy! Link: http://www.cfontpro.com/ Wednesday, June 21, 2006Veign on Rocketboom! I love it. Amanda Congdon wearing a Veign shirt on Rocketboom.Link: http://www.rocketboom.com/.../rb_06_jun_20.html In case you want a shirt of your own (not like anybody would but what the hell): http://www.cafepress.com/veign Friday, February 24, 2006 |
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