From the monthly archives:

May 2007

WordCamp, the annual meetup of WordPress users, enthusiasts and developers, will be taking place July 21-22 in San Francisco, California. I’ll be in attendance for at least one of the days (one day is designated for advanced users, one for beginners). I just bought my ticket and will be in town for an extra few days to visits friends. If you can come out, I’ll likely have [click to continue…]

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Bandwagon, the little OS X application that backs up your iTunes media online, will be relaunching this evening as a DIY version. Just give it your Amazon S3 account info and you’re good to go. I’ve been beta testing it for about a month now and am quite pleased with how it works. [click to continue…]

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Microsoft is the first major player to announce a surface computing computer. The device is dubbed simply Microsoft Surface and is comprised of a 30-inch acrylic tabletop powered by a special Vista computer, 5 cameras and a DLP projector. Surface finally brings multi-touch technology, first exhibited by Jeff Han, to the masses. [click to continue…]

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Georgia Tech was in the news today, along with other universities, regarding the national decline of students who pick computer science as their major. Georgia Tech was given $1 million by Microsoft to jump-start a new initiative to get students involved with computer science. One such way this is being done is with newer [click to continue…]

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My friend Dimitry has a post detailing the newest Google Maps feature – Street View. As the name implies, you can see an area at the street level as opposed to up above with traditional satellite views. At the moment, Street View is only for Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco. [click to continue…]

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All You Need is a Great Idea

May 28, 2007

In lieu of a better post on this Memorial Day, I’ll be discussing the current state of the web, where all you need is an idea to be set for life. Nothing has changed with me since I wrote How To: Cultivate That Killer Idea last year. There’s not a day that goes by that [...]

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WordPress Video

May 26, 2007

Matt Mullenweg et al just released a (beta) WordPress embedded video player for WordPress.com users with the paid space upgrade. It utilizes VidaVee and looks relatively better than most embedded flash players out there. All you have to do is upload a video to your WordPress.com account and WordPress.com will convert it to the appropriate [...]

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World’s Thinnest Notebook to Revive PCs

May 25, 2007

At 0.7-inches thin and 2.25 pounds light with an out of this world battery life of up to 14 hours, a prototype laptop backed by Intel dubbed the “Intel mobile Metro notebook” could change the game for PCs. I know I am biased as I write this on my Mac, but for the last few [...]

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Mobile GPS Gets Interesting

May 23, 2007

More high-end phones, particularly smartphones, are coming with built-in GPS capabilities that coalesce with powerful applications to provide unparalleled utility. Case in point, the Google blog mentioned today that the GPS-enabled Cingular/AT&T BlackBerry 8800 supports advanced features of Google Maps for mobile.

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Briefly: GMail Ups Attachment Limit, Squeezebox

May 22, 2007

In addition to Google unveiling Hot Trends, an expansion of the Trends service which displays popular search terms for each day, Google will be upping the GMail file attachment limit. Currently, GMail users are limited to attaching files totaling no more than 10MB. The

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5 Questions with Amber Mac

May 22, 2007

Those of you that are familiar with G4TechTV and the show Call for Help have no doubt heard of Amber MacArthur. You’d be hard pressed to find something online that Amber hasn’t been involved with. She’s helped me out many times in the past, so I thought I would return the favor with a short [...]

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Review: Sprint UpStage Mobile Phone

May 21, 2007

With a retail price of only $99, Sprint’s new Samsung M620 UpStage phone offers incredible value with some highly touted abilities. In this review, I’ll let you know whether the UpStage mobile phone is worth your trouble. Sprint sent me the UpStage as part of their Ambassador program. You might remember last year when I [...]

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flickrSLiDR – My Flickr Slideshow Embedding Tool

May 18, 2007

Back in 2005 I wrote an article detailing how to embed flickr slideshows within your blog or website. Since then, that post has received over 200 comments, a crazy amount of links and numerous mentions on popular blogs. I finally got the message that embeddable flickr slideshows were a hot item.

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Blog Post Causes Apple Stock to Plummet

May 16, 2007

Today, uberblog Engadget posted a story regarding Apple delaying the iPhone and Leopard, which turned out to be a false alarm. However, during the period that Engadget claimed the delays as fact, Apple’s stock plummeted – well not plummeted, but it was definitely affected by the news – as CNet reports. I just find it [...]

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Amazon Jumps on the DRM-Free Bandwagon

May 16, 2007

Everyone’s talking about Amazon’s latest press release announcement and I’m no exception. Later this year, Amazon will launch a digital music store “offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels”. It seems like the iTunes Store will have a real competitor for once.

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