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Not too long ago I mentioned how I moved to a new apartment but was very disappointed to learn that I now live in an AT&T dead zone. A bit of testing has proved that I do not live in an AT&T dead zone (5 bars on the sidewalk outside), but the building’s stucco and concrete with rebar construction dampens reception considerably, to the point where I get no service closer to the middle of the building and just 1, maybe 2, bars next to the window. I did a bit of Google and Twitter querying and found a local Atlanta company called Wi-Ex that manufactures a set of cell phone signal boosters. [click to continue…]

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Those of you that have been following me online for the past few years might know that I maintain a healthy interest in cars in addiction addition to my tech obsession. It wasn’t too long ago that I was in Detroit attending the North American Intl Auto Show, and it was just a year ago that I was on a roadtrip through New York to Washington, D.C. following 17 college teams that re-engineered SUVs to be more sustainable (I even got to drive a fuel cell powered SUV). I could go on and mention how I was at the SCCA Nationals last weekend at Road Atlanta or talk about my involvement with the Fiesta Movement, but I think you get the point. I’m a car nut. So when [click to continue…]

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From time to time, I have confessed my love for the Vudu set-top box that instantly streams up to 720p quality HD movies (or 1080p quality non-instant) over the Internet to your TV. The Vudu player is not subscription-based, so in addition to ponying up for the hardware, you have to pay an average of $3-5 each time you want to rent SD or HD quality movies. After a while of spending over $50 a month with the Vudu box, I decided check out the instant streaming landscape and take a look at the popular subscription-based Roku player. While the Roku player is often called the Netflix player, that is starting to change as it supports more services, most recently with the addition of Amazon Video on Demand. [click to continue…]

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The year was 2004 and I was 17. I was on a Boeing 747 jumbo jet headed from Houston to Amsterdam on my way to Athens. It was a rather empty flight so I had 4 seats in the middle section all to myself, and naturally I spread out my stuff a bit as I made it a makeshift bed. Unfortunately, when the [click to continue…]

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Before I left for SXSWi I created and sent Skribit’s first email campaign to a subset of our users. There are quite a few email marketing solutions on the market but I went with MailChimp. I didn’t really research any competitors or look elsewhere; MailChimp has a cool logo (great logos go a long way for marketing) and they’re also a local Atlanta startup, so I figured why not. [click to continue…]

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Thoughts on SXSWi 2009 from a First Timer

March 20, 2009

I just got back from Austin, Texas the other day and I’m still recovering. I was in Austin for the famed South By Southwest Interactive Festival. This was my first time. You can describe it as “where San Franciscans go to meet other San Franciscans” or “spring break for web developers” but either way it [...]

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Review: Boxee Media Center (or Going HD: Part 4)

March 9, 2009

When I wrote that I couldn’t live without my Vudu box, I already had a Linux HTPC hooked up to my TV and still thought Vudu rocked. Why was that? There was no easy interface for me to work with all of the media files I had on the HTPC. Using a keyboard and mouse [...]

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First Impressions: Safari 4 Beta

February 25, 2009

Those of you that have been following this blog for a while know that I have been in a cycle of switching between Firefox and Safari as my primary browser almost regularly. I’ve even gone way of Flock back in the day. However, I have always ended up coming back to Firefox. Firefox is like [...]

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Review: Iconfactory xScope

February 15, 2009

I may be rather late to the party but I recently discovered Iconfactory’s xScope last week while graphic designer Justin Ruckman was in town working on the next version of Skribit. I saw him using xScope’s Dimensions tool to painlessly measure distances between on-screen elements. I was hooked from then and started using the xScope [...]

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Review: Kingmax Super Stick 8GB USB Flash Drive

January 13, 2009

Over the last few months I have spotted more and more people toting diminutive USB flash drives, similar to 2005’s oddly failed SD Plus form factor memory cards. The flash drives I am talking about are literally one chip with no additional USB adapter. They fit inside the actual USB port. Around two months ago [...]

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Review: GrabUp – Automatic Screengrab Uploader

December 21, 2008

It is not very often I find a software application that saves me time, doesn’t require much work on my end and actually gets used often. GrabUp (free, or $20 paid account) is one of those applications that I value enough to purchase. The OS X-only application intercepts your screenshot command (Command+Shift+3 or 4, etc) [...]

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Review: The Pownce.FM You’ll Never See

December 18, 2008

Note: I wrote this post 7 months ago while the recently acquired and shutdown Pownce was working on a music service. As a big web-based music service user (listening to The Hype Machine right now), I was interested in what Pownce had up their sleeve with this small project called Pownce.FM. Unfortunately, the public will [...]

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Review: 2.53GHz Apple MacBook Pro

November 8, 2008

I’ve been using the new MacBook Pro as my primary computer for the last two weeks now. Equipped with an already outdated Intel X25-M SSD (SanDisk is working on something “100 times” faster) I put in myself, this is easily the best computer I have owned to date – despite a few issues I have [...]

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Review: Intel X25-M 80GB SSD

October 29, 2008

It has almost been a year since I wrote about the future of computing and how I thought that it was all about Solid State Drives (this was before I became infatuated with the cloud). Well I finally got my hands on one. It’s Intel’s new X25-M 80GB SSD and it is among the fastest [...]

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Review: Nikon D90 DSLR Camera

September 30, 2008

Last week I made the upgrade from the Nikon D80 to the new Nikon D90. The D90’s claim to fame is that it is first DSLR camera to feature video recording. This lets me consolidate my gadgets as I just gave back my loaned Samsung SC-HMX10C HD camcorder. The D90 bundle comes with the new [...]

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