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I'm building a video game (2d/mobile) and am finding out how labor-intensive art asset creation can be. I know I'm not efficient yet and am making rookie mistakes, but even so, I'm looking for alternatives. Does anyone…

I'm pulling together a fairly large dataset that I am using for some side projects and I believe it could be valuable to other businesses. Any advice out there on the following? 1. best way to test whether a market for…

I have an idea for a site that I suspect would be useful to members of a niche online community. I would like to float my idea around to gauge interest. The problem is that the idea is somewhat easy to implement and the…

What software do you use to monitor your servers and the services running on them? I'm looking for Nagios competitors that are better and easier to set up. Right now, I've got a few Perl scripts that send emails if the…

I was pondering over the Amazon/California Sales Tax story and wondered why more eCommerce sites don't collect sales tax. If you don't collect sales tax from your customers, why not?

I'm looking for something to do illustration and animation on for web design, 2d games, etc. I want to draw on the screen, but it can't be tied to another computer, so the Wacom Cintiq is out. I've heard of people using…

I'm a long-time Gmail user and love the slick web interface. I love the searchability, threading of emails, intuitive reply mechanism, built-in chat, etc. However, I don't have full control over it. I would like to run…