http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/12/11/playstation-home-is-now-live/
now we can all move ourcouches and crap on top of chairs for no reason.
home live!
December 11th, 2008Tasks and Texting on Gmail
December 11th, 2008
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html
Tasks
Keep track of what you need to do with a lightweight task list right inside of Gmail. Just click and type to add new tasks, convert emails into tasks, and (most satisfyingly) check them off as you’re done. Once you turn on this Labs feature, look for the Tasks link to the left of your inbox under Contacts.Text Messaging in Chat
Send SMS text messages right from Gmail. You chat from your comfy computer and reach your friends on the go; they get your messages as texts and can peck out replies on their little keyboards.To get started with these Labs features and more, click Settings and go to the Labs tab. Then select “Enable” next to the features you want to turn on and click “Save Changes.” Learn more
Google Friend Connect
December 9th, 2008
Fans of OpenID will be excited to read about this:
We’re pleased to share that Google Friend Connect is now available in beta to any webmaster looking to add a “dash of social” to his or her site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by simply copying and pasting a few snippets of code — no advanced coding or technical background required.
We know that people want to be social on the web, and Friend Connect makes it easy for anyone to sign in to a website, share a little bit about themselves through a personal profile, discover other people with similar interests, invite their contacts, and interact with friends. Even better, you don’t have to deal with the hassle of creating yet another username and password — Friend Connect lets you log in using an existing account from Google, Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID. Similarly, you can choose to either establish a new profile or use profiles and friend sources from other social networks that have opened up their services, like Plaxo and orkut.
Read the full artical here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-friend-connect-now-available.html
Password Unmask
December 9th, 2008Very cool. Also a reminder that you’re never safe and some hacker somewhere will rob your entire bank account!
http://www.pendriveapps.com/2008/12/09/password-unmask-unmask-hidden-passwords/
Password Unmask enables a user to Unmask Hidden Passwords (Passwords shadowed by asterisks etc) on almost any Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP program. Use it to reveal any passwords you may have lost or forgotten. More importantly, this Portable Password Unmasking tool can be stored and run from a portable device such as a USB Flash Drive. Please note that this Password Revealer will not work on most applications in Windows Vista.
black friday purchases
December 2nd, 2008Black Friday (the day after thanksgiving) is known for outrageous sales, long lines, and insane parents buying a bunch of crap at 5 am “door busters”. I have participated in these events in the past, though my recent experience as a circuit city sales engineer 
has opened my eyes to the level of crap they shovel through the doors on this truly awful shopping day.
this year I decided to to something different, I shopped online. Newegg was my store of choice and had the best offers, as usual.
I am not a person of seasonal gift giving as I believe that a gift can be given any time and the holidays are hardly a real reason to give. so I purchased these for myself.
Here is what I got:
- OCZ Fatal1ty Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2F10664GK - Retail
- Item #: N82E16820227364
- * Canon VIXIA HF100 2.7″ LCD 12X Optical Zoom High Definition Camcorder
- Item #: N82E16830120239
- Transcend 16GB Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) Flash Card w/Compact Card Reader S5 Model TS16GSDHC6- S5W - Retail
- Item #: N82E16820208377
- Canon SC-2000 Black Camcorder Soft Case
- Item #: N82E16830999162
- Proline by Dolica AX620 Aluminum Professional Tripod
- Item #: N82E16830997652
- ERGOTRON 33-299-195 LX Dual Display Lift Stand black - Retail
- Item #: N82E16824994003
The total after warranty for the camera, tax, and shipping was just about 1200. I needed it to be above 1000 for no interest/no payments for 1 year.
I am interested in the rest of you, what did you guys purchase (you might not want to mention gifts, though I am pretty sure whoever you bought them for isn’t reading this…)
-Shegs
Google’s SearchWiki
November 20th, 2008A tool that lets you re-order, note, and add to your own search results. This doesn’t effect how other people see their search results, but you can at least customize your own (while you’re logged in). Hmmm, how useful will this really be? It might be useful if they categorize people to give certain groups better results for what they’re most likely searching for. Thoughts?
Identify books/cd/dvd with picture, iPhone
November 20th, 2008This program’s called Snaptell. You take a picture of an item on your iPhone, it finds a book/cd/dvd/game with cover art that looks similar. Pretty quickly, too. Gives you useful information like Barnes & Noble, Wiki, Google, Yahoo.
http://lifehacker.com/5094700/snaptell-explorer-instantly-looks-up-any-product-via-photograph
Fun fun…
site redesign…
November 18th, 2008looking for new colors for the site… forgive the messiness
p.s. this is a temp theme to ease the eyes
p.s.s. this is what I am thinking thus far… click for a full size image
Site redesign - 11/24/2008
Site Design w/ txt and quote - 11/29/2008
W/ Color - 11/30/2008
rev 3 - 12/3/2008
w/ comments - 12/9/2008
Flash on Andoird/iPhone
November 17th, 2008An interesting article posted by androidguys.com relating to Flash, Andoid and the iPhone.
http://androidguys.com/?p=2824
“Alongside Adobe’s Kevin Lynch, Andy showed Flash running within a web browser, signaling to the world that Android is ready to handle the technology.”
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“Speaking of, here’s what Wired has to say today. In an article called “Why Apple Will Never Permit Adobe Flash on the iPhone“, Brian X. Chen posits that Flash is so rich and full featured that it could ultimately create apps that take run through the internet, in turn, take away from Apple’s bread and butter, the App Store.”
Twilight imperium!
November 15th, 2008A pretty fun game… watch out it takes your entire day!
http://www.thoughthammer.com/twilight-imperium-3rd-edition-p-196.html
