March 2011
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December 2010
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Skype Adds Video Calling To iPhone App →
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“I know that a lot of what I’m listing here seems like it’s outside of the “nerd...”
– Patton Oswalt (via soupsoup)
October 2010
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July 2010
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Watchspytap:
drintelmann:
Olympus Pen Augmented Reality Demo Very nice use of augmented reality. One of the first that I’ve seen that is actually useful.
Well this is fucking rad.
Also, please file under “things your parents couldn’t have dreamed of” or “we live in the future.”
My head just exploded all over my desk.
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Watchnewsweek:
This is pretty great. (h/t Lindsay)
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June 2010
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2000 iMac vs. 2010 iPhone
2000
iMac
Operating System - Mac OS 9.0.4
Processor - 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB Memory
Graphics - ATI Rage 128 Pro, 8MB of memory (8 million triangles)
Screen - 786K pixels
Data Transfer Speeds - 1.3-12.5 MB/s (DVD-ROM-1/100 Ethernet)
Storage - 30GB Hard Drive
Dimensions - 15.0 x 15.0 x 17.1 inches
Weight - 34.7 pounds
2010
iPhone 4
Operating System - iOS 4.0
Processor - 1 Ghz ARM...
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May 2010
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Facebook Calls All Hands Meeting On Privacy →
soupsoup:
Facing increasing pressure from the media and users, Facebook has called an all hands meeting tomorrow afternoon, at 4 PM Pacific, to discuss the company’s overall privacy strategy according to sources inside the company.
Facebook: an admittedly lazy attempt at...
Lately I’ve been taking a break from this blog to work on my musician stuff. I’ve been sort of living under a rock as far as tech news goes. Normally, I would be reading into just about anything that even remotely interests me in the tech world, but lately I’ve just been too busy living in my own head to really find out what is going on beyond the twitter posts. That was until I...
April 2010
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Damn, Gizmodo.
newsweek:
marco:
Did you really need to publicly shame the poor guy with his full name and photo?
Don’t you think he feels bad enough already?
Did that really add anything to the story?
You just took a dark time in this man’s life — caused only by his negligence, not malice — and made it much worse. For what reason? Did you make anyone’s lives better by having done that?
Agreed. This poor...
Shameless Self Promotion
Hey guys-
Obviously it’s been a while since I posted anything. Thought I’d let you know that I’ve sort of put this blog on hold until I’m done making this record I started working on last week. It’s one of those “I have to do this now and I’m not going to stop until it’s done” things. I do intend to get back to reblogging and posting...
March 2010
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Bicycling directions now available in google maps →
Hell yes.(via ideasareawesome)
Click the “More” button at the top of the map and check the “Bicycling” checkbox. Very cool.
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#Piracy Friday: The DRM Effect
(click here for the full size image)
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#Music Monday: iTunes Sprucing
I highly recommend these applications that I’ve been using for organizing my iTunes library.
CoverSutra
This is a pretty great way to get control over your iTunes library with your keyboard. You can rate songs, change songs, change playlist, search songs and even scrobble to Last.fm. Snoop around with the preferences to get your keyboard shortcuts where you want them.
Get Lyrical
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Anonymous asked: dear diary, ~50% of the time (yes, really) i use the generic snow leopard option to burn a disc, it fails during verification, creating more coasters and wasting my time. when i use iTunes or the Toast Titanium 10 Special Pirated Edition, everything is cool. what the hell, generic burn folder!
February 2010
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#WTF Wednesday iPad COLOCATION?!
Go here to sign up! Seriously!
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My Website Sounds Weird →
Put in a URL and this website will translate whatever is the content into music.
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#Flip 'The Man' the Bird Friday
(via LifeHacker)
Ripit - Simple DVD ripper for Mac
HandBrake - encode DVDs and VIDEO_TS folders to .mov,.mpeg etc.
TVShows.app - The ultimate TV torrent tool. Automagically download your favorite shows in the best quality available
Transmission - A solid Torrent app.
Vuze - a bulkier but useful torrent app. I use this to share my videos to my xbox over the network. Take that Micro$oft! I...
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#Thirsty Thursday: Beer Geekery
Don’t Lose Your Head.
So our manufacturer calls this a pilsner, but our resident beer geek monkeys say this is a glass designed for the perfect Weizen beer, aka a wheat beer glass. That tapering at the top allows for focus of the aroma that you don’t get in your traditional pilsner glass. But, of course, the most important part of this glass is the embiggening that allows for...
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#Tip Tuesday: Add Weather to iCal
Awesome tip for such a craptastic morning here in Boston. I came in sick to work this morning and I’ll be honest- I have no real work to do so I’ll probably be queuing up some post for the week. Before I do that it seemed fitting to share a little tip to collect weather updates into iCal. Here’s the step by step:
First, go to Weather Underground and type in the city state or...
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The Millenium Falcon That Flies →
$50 FOR THIS THING?! THAT’S IT?!
My first #toy tuesday.
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Anonymous asked: dear b, i heard a rumor (my anti-mac best friend told me) that evidence of cigarette smoking will void an iMac warrenty. should i start crying now? -not lisa kippon
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Anonymous asked: i switched to mac quite a while ago, but i've always missed that BIOS screen at start up. what's the mac versions of BIOS? is there even a equivalent? how would i throw a BIOS screenie in during the 4 second mac boot screen? i could look it up but you probably know off the top of your head cuz u smaht!
-lisa kippon
-lisa kippon
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OPEN IN PREVIEW, DAMMIT!
I sort of hate reading PDF in my browser window. I just wish it would download the PDF and open it in Preview.app…
…what’s that you say? You think so too? Well let’s stop whining about it and use the Terminal like big boys and girls! Quit Safari and put this into a Terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES There we go. Problem...
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My Tumblr Feature Proposal
Hey Tumblr, it’s me.
I really love you. I think thats obvious. You guys give me access to all the HTML and CSS I can handle and give beginners all the beautiful templates and ideas they can process. You truly established an awesome community of bloggers (and teenage hipster girls who have an inflated sense of relevance, but I’m ok with that. I mean, some people probably think that...
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A Possible Fix For Slow Mouse Tracking.
One thing I’ve always been annoyed by on Mac OS X and Apple mice is that I have to max out the tracking speed to get it to where I can even avoid getting carpal tunnel. I can’t figure out how people with 30” monitors deal with it this way.
A fix for this is once again hidden in the UNIX Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app).
Open Terminal and type defaults write -g...
Anonymous asked: Hmmmm... Why don't guys call when they say they will? Why are tacos so delicious? What should I have for dinner? How are you not a dr who fan? Oh wait, you meant anything about computers? I got nothing.
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Anonymous asked: Is there a way for me to get rid of the annoying "Do you want to use '[Volume Name]' as your Time Machine backup?" prompts?
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Tumblr, please don't use the word "Wonky"
staff:
We’re working on an updated version of the Tumblr Bookmarklet that should load much more quickly. To help us test it, you can follow the instructions here.
Please email us if you catch it doing anything wonky!
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Lyons Has Seen the Google Buzz. Lyons is Not...
His take:
Why, Google? Why take a perfectly wonderful email system and pollute it by adding a zillion new things to it? I’m not looking for more clutter in my life. I’m looking for less. At the launch event some Google exec claimed Buzz is a way to “find the signal in the social neworking noise,” but to me it just looks like Google is adding to the noise.
Why does Buzz even exist? Is it...
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Apple Preparing To Release A New MacBook? →
(via soupsoup)
In other news, grass is still green, water still wet and there is still an app for that
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Hey cloudapp, you're sexy. [but you're doing it...
dylanjt3 said:
“The minute I heard about cloudapp (sometime before October ‘09 I think) I followed them on twitter and eagerly awaited by invite. Did it ever come? No. Never.
I’ve been waiting and waiting and starving and thirsting for this beautiful application. And I still don’t have it.
SIDENOTE: If other outsiders are as lustful as I am for this app, cloudapp already has one heck of...
January 2010
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How To Be An 'Expert' During An Apple Event
Make fun of the way it looks and call it “unusable”. Sit back down in front of your enormous PC desktop running Windows XP with old installers and indecipherable driver filenames covering your wallpaper.
Say the name “iPad” is stupid. Hate the product based on that fact alone.
Make fun of the name again. Funnier this time. Look desperately around the room for validation...
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Anybody know where I can find a picture of this...
:)
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