Something happened today that has forever changed the way I think about communication. I picked up the new iPhone4 today and then this evening my friend Ragan and I tested out the video conferencing feature, Facetime. Neither of us had used it yet. A call came in from Ragan and it said [...]
Archive for the ‘Technology / Science’ Category
Image Resizer for Windows 7
April 19th, 2010
This is one of those little things that’s been super handy for packaging up images and emailing them. I’m constantly in need of resizing large high resolution sets of images so that they are smaller and more email and web friendly. If you need to quickly resize a whole bunch of images at [...]
Using Google Wave for the First Time
June 4th, 2009
Oh Yeah, This Replaces Email:I didn’t even think about an email address for the first 30 minutes. Maybe this slipped my mind because I was so enticed by its cool features. Nevertheless, all Google Wave users are associated to an email address, as you would think. I couldn’t find where to add [...]
Siftables: Toy Blocks that think
February 13th, 2009
Toy blocks that are aware of each other, communicate, change, and manipulate digital media like pouring colors into other blocks and doing math. Found this on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) site. This is extraordinary!
Shazam!
July 14th, 2008
I think this is one of the best new applications for the iPhone 2.0 software so far. Twitteriffic is extremely useful for us Twitter users, but not everyone uses Twitter. The technology behind this application has been around for years, but this is about the coolest implementation of it and the first of its kind [...]
3G iPhone Can Wait
July 9th, 2008
Nah, not yet. For an existing iPhone user like myself, I’m just not going to take the plunge for the next generation iPhone yet. Cell phone users who don’t have a first generation model: there’s never been a better time to switch. It’s going to cost you half the price than [...]
FolderShare: Sync Data on Multiple Computers
May 17th, 2008
There are a lot of techie, geeky, nerdy, computerie blogs out there that post about all kinds of tools, websites, and so on. Their authors are likely into these sorts of things much more than me and therefore do a better job at discussing these topics. However, on occasion a geek-tool comes along that is [...]
The Twitter-Sphere
April 23rd, 2008
If you don’t know what Twitter is, this video from Common Craft is the best explanation I’ve seen (thanks Ragan for showing me!). At first I thought Twitter was stupid: You post the random activities you’re doing throughout the day and those that are “following” you can read your updates. You are also exposed [...]
Humanity is Doomed Either Way
February 7th, 2008
From Engadget: permalink.
While we’ve been spending our days padding our Xbox 360 Achievements and building castles out of Popsicle sticks, here come some science jerks all making us look bad. Researchers in the UK and Germany have managed to assemble tetrahedrons out of DNA “struts” with some chemical trickery, and then fed the shape DNA [...]
Facebook Spam
February 1st, 2008
I’d choose facebook over Myspace any day. Let’s just be clear about that. Whenever I consider my frustrations with Facebook, all it takes is a single thought about Myspace and I am thankful for an alternative.
But still, Facebook Applications are really getting in the way. Facebook was intended to connect people. [...]
Snagit Owns
January 25th, 2008
Almost daily I am sending screen shots of systems and what-nots to colleagues at work. Every week I am asked how I am able to take “such cool screen shots”. I am able to because I snagged them using Snagit! There are plenty of “Cool Utilities” out there that can be so [...]
Pwn those SATs in true gaming form
August 6th, 2007
How about a high school that uses the video game platform to educate in a serious manner? I’m really excited to find out how they build their curriculum.
Click here to read the article.
Task Trouble
July 31st, 2007
I’ve personally tested between 15 and 20 different task management websites, to-do list websites, and a number of variants in between. I’ve been looking for a “to-do” list feature of some kind that was capable of balancing simplicity, low resistance (few clicks as possible), free, with adequate features, ability to add notes, and so [...]
We now have "Impulse" drives
June 15th, 2007
Artificial Gravity Plasma Rocket engines…sounds straight out of Star Trek, but it’s for real. This is about the coolest space technology I’ve heard of ever. One of it’s secondary uses will be to generate low level gravity for astronauts…ZOMG, so cool!
Read it here.
