Archive for the ‘General’ Category

RIP Dell Quietkey

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I've been a big fan of the Dell Quietkey line of keyboards for the last decade. Of course I hold a special place in my heart for my old IBM Model M or my IBM PC-XT 83-key keyboard before it. Realistically I need the Windows Key for my mad shortcut-fu ...

Facebook Friend Wheel

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

For some reason I feel like I had seen this as a default feature on Facebook way before apps hit the scene. Regardless, here it is. The Friend Wheel. Reminds me of a Katamari Domacy ball. Whats up with the black sheep on the top right?Anyway you can get your very ...

TubeMogul is to video sharing sites as Ping.fm is to social networks

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

For years the bane of my podcasting existence has been that dreaded time at the end of post-production...Distribution. Yet today I am happy to say I've put a few new tools in my arsenal that will alleviate the wretched headache.TubeMogul is to video sharing sites as Ping.fm is to social ...

Rebroadcasting tweets with Ping.fm using Yahoo Pipes and RSSFWD

Monday, June 30th, 2008

So the premise is pretty simple. Ping.fm is a service that allows you to send status updates to multiple services like facebook, myspace, twitter, plurk and pownce by emailing a secret address. I really like the service but I'm also having trouble completely adopting the usage in my day to ...

Esquire blue box replica

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

A working replica of the bluebox featured in the 1971 Esquire article "Secrets of the Little Blue Box". It uses my 12F683 PIC design. How awesome is that?

SocialBrowse, like a passive twitter / stumbleupon mashup!

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

This new service SocialBrowse seems really neat. I know I've seen similar sites like this in the past but this one, with its Twitter-like friends and followers features looks pretty promising. The Firefox addon allows you to share links you find around the web with your friends. A sidebar in ...