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 Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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 Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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 I don’t spend time thinking about services, web apps, tools or projects I could build (or startups I could establish) Continue Reading »

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 file type for you. At the moment, videos are limited to 70MB.

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 years PC offerings have been rather stale. With few attractive yet functional PC notebook solutions it’s no Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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 Continue Reading »

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 and sweet interview. Enjoy! Continue Reading »

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 participated in Sprint’s first phase of their Ambassador program Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

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 extremely interesting that a “mere” blog can have such a powerful effect on the real world. Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

Last December there was a bit of ruckus regarding Office for Mac’s inability to work with Office 2007’s new XML-based document formats. While the promised Office for Mac-integrated converters have yet to arrive (6-8 more weeks), Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has released a standalone converter application that provides read-only access to Office Open XML files and converts Word documents to RTF.

San Jose Mercury News recently launched a new weekly podcast called Inside Silicon Valley. Their first podcast caught my attention with an interview of Bradley Horowitz about Yahoo’s idea incubator, Brickhouse, in San Francisco. Continue Reading »

For as long as I can remember I have been using simple point-and-shoot digital cameras. They didn’t have the greatest picture quality or zoom capabilities and were generally slow when taking consecutive pictures/charging up the flash. I had heard about DSLR cameras for years and took care Continue Reading »

I’m not one to talk much about speculation and things yet to be released but AppleInsider has some compelling information regarding the ultra-portable MacBook we have all been hearing about. It won’t feature a 12.1-inch LCD but will use a larger ultra-thin 13-inch LED-backlit display. Like other ultra-portable notebooks, it won’t have an optical drive Continue Reading »

Today I’ll be taking a look at a service called XHTML Slicer that takes the hard work out of web development by doing all the coding for you. XHTML Slicer is ideal for busy web designers who want to be productive and outsource the tedious XHTML/CSS work as well as the casual Photoshop tinkerer that Continue Reading »

Nothing gets me more giddy than learning about new Internet technologies that may wind up in my household one day and today’s AP article about Comcast’s demo of DOCSIS 3.0 is no exception. Currently, cable modems use a coaxial cable line to shoot data down a TV channel. The fastest throughput this Continue Reading »

Similar to Best Buy’s ill-fated Geek Squad (just search for Geek Squad on digg and you’ll see what I mean), Circuit City has Firedog, although Firedog won’t charge you $415 to replace a hard drive. Getting to the point, Circuit City held a “firedog Across America” contest this past winter to donate Continue Reading »

For the past month I have been rigorously enjoying testing Sonos’ high-end digital music system. Today I hope to share with you my experience with the system and help you determine whether it is worth your money. Taking a different route than usual, I am going to start with the price point. Continue Reading »

Looking for a streamlined and simple way to monitor traffic on your WordPress blog? Look no further - WordPress has released their stats tool that is used on WordPress.com, as a plugin. That means you don’t have to leave your WordPress admin panel to see how your blog is doing traffic-wise. Everything is taken care of by the WordPress servers so you don’t have to worry about taxing your server. Continue Reading »

Search forms on most sites lack any styling at all, leaving for the browser’s default appearance which can be ugly at times. By simply adding a border to the form in CSS you can easily improve the look. Of course, this also applies to any text input form, not just search boxes. Continue Reading »

Spring semester 2007 has finally come to an end. After two weeks of completing final projects and studying for my computer science final, I’m glad to say that it’s finished and I can finally get some sleep. For some reason I thought I was borderline D in my CS class, but now that the final has been graded I might get away with Continue Reading »

As I’ve hinted elsewhere, it is indeed dreaded finals week at Georgia Tech but rather than leave you high and dry while I am consumed by computer science PowerPoints, I’ll point you to what I’ve been reading this week. Continue Reading »

It’s May 1st meaning you will be seeing many redesigned sites today thanks to CSS Reboot, which I participated in last year. I would have liked to reboot this year but school has been overwhelming this semester. I just noticed that Noah Kagan redesigned and his site is looking slick. I might have to take some inspiration from his design in my next design, where I will be showcasing a new logo (in the works). Feel free to post your favorite reboots in the comments.