Too close for missiles; switching to guns….
You can see the preview of a slick new app called Torrent Droid over at androidandme.com. The first winner of Android Bounty, allows you to walk up, garb a DVD (say, in Wal-Mart), snap a picture of the UPC code, and choose to have that movie downloaded via torrent to your home machine. With minimal … Read more
The interwebs is indeed all aflutter about the new Skittles website, or lack thereof. If you haven’t seen it or heard about it, go there and go there now. I’ll wait…. Good. It’s actually really freakin’ cool what Agency.com did for Mars and Skittles – albeit it’s nothing more than a stunt and doesn’t really … Read more
I started working in my spare time a week or so ago on building my first iPod/iPhone app using Apples Xcode and App Builder tools, and right off the bat I noticed something unique about these applications; they are intuitive and well developed. The interface for both applications is clean, and uncluttered, cut down to … Read more
I've been spending a lot of time working with SharePoint lately – or maybe still… I have been setting up a new portal, and several sites trying to get everything configured to be useful to the folks I work with. I came across the Application Templates supplied by Microsoft a few months ago and began … Read more
I have been talking quite a bit about Facebook and social networking with folks and the topic of how best to incorporate your personal life into your professional personae has come up quite a bit. While the least complicated solution is to not mix them at all, and leave Facebook as a personal friend portal and direct any colleagues to a LinkedIn profile, however, that may not always be the preferred solution. For a large number of folks in the business world over the age of 30, social networking is something that is not as simple as it is for younger folks. Many people are a lot more cautious and consider who they add as a friend in their network, while also being concerned about what information they divulge online.
If I use myself for a minute, it’s pretty easy to find information about me online. Within the top 20 results you can see the top 10 social networks I use, where I work, some of the stuff I have done at work, and find out about my Liver Transplant just over 2 years ago; without spending more than 5 minutes looking. That’s all pretty superficial sure, but other things you could find online if you happened to be connected to me somehow on facebook could reveal a lot more once you consider what can be revealed by friends who might tag me in a photo or note. Just take a look at what’s happening to Michael Phelps right now, all because someone took a picture of him at a party and sold it. This could just have easily been launched by a photo uploaded to Flickr or a Facebook profile. Granted this would be a non-issue for the vast majority of people, but it’s a great example of how other people can affect your life in a big way with a single act.
Okay, so the folks over at Trek Bikes have just got to be going nuts over this clip. Watch first – yap later. So Travis Pastrana does a back flip on a Trek Mod. A $200 kids bike that I have never seen a kid riding, but I have seen plenty of reviews by Dads … Read more
I ran across this movie on Quicktime some months ago and I have been fairly obsessed with it ever since. From the trailer and what I have read about its origins and Shane Acker – 9 seems to be an amazing movie. I've been a fan of animated movies from way back in the day. … Read more
Just tonight I ran across the moblin project that the good folks over at Intel are working on and it sounds too good to be true. Boot times are insanely fast – like 5 seconds, and the download is impossibly small at 264mb. Well from what I have seen so far, this thing is pretty … Read more
Reading over at engadget it looks like we might be getting a reprieve from the raging cluster-$%^! that would be the transition to Digital TV next month. I would have to say that isn't a real surprise and if you're surprised I would have to ask about the planet you've been living on for the … Read more
The Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama was the first inauguration I have watched in over a decade, and I am glad I watched it. Around 10 am or so yesterday we decided at work we would setup a projector in the office lunch room, get Pizza and as a group watch the inauguration; and it … Read more
I have been living with my virtual desktops for a little more than week or so, at least consistently, and I have found that my initial infatuation with DeskSpace was blinded by lust. After running it for around 36 hours at two locations I discovered what a freakin' unbridled RAM pig this application really is. … Read more
Ever since I started playing around with Ubuntu and was introduced to the awesomeness that is Beryl, I became addicted to having virtual desktops. I love the fact that I can do that on my Mac lappy and have multiple apps running and be able to quickly switch from one to the other. Sadly – … Read more
First: if you haven't turned on your Zune today… Don't! Now read on. Leap years happen only once every four years, and many Zune owners this morning I bet are wishing it was a bit more rare than that. Around zero dark hundred (midnight) today owners of the 1st Gen. 30 gb Zune started experiencing … Read more
I recently received my copy of Wild Beauty which is a book that has an accompanying show at the Portland Art Museum. I came to know this wonderful book because of my friend Terry Toedtemeier, who unfortunately recently passed. Terry was an amazing person, photographer and historian – without whom this book would not be … Read more
The last week has been one of the craziest weeks of the year, culminating with a weekend of far more work than sleep. I've been doing a fair amount of freelance work of late so most of my actual down-time has been spent staring off into space, in the shower or asleep. I am really … Read more