October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Moving to Google+ →
If you’re still following along, you’ll know that I haven’t really been posting regularly for a while here.
All new posts tech/otherwise related will now be posted on Google+. Feel free to drop me in a pundit circle and follow along in the future! Until then, keep saving the fun!
April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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Amazon Prime: Now with Included Instant Videos! →
When you think you know what heavy hitting business models are out there, you should wait a few weeks and check back with Amazon.com.
Today, they’ve announced that all Amazon Prime members will now be able to access hundreds of movies and TV shows on Instant viewing service.
Fortunately, I still have my Amazon Prime activated from back when they gave all college students a free year. In...
“Hollywood is important to tomorrow, but not really…The biggest industry in...”
– will.i.am
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I'm in "the cloud!"
I had a bit of a paradigm shift just now.
I was telling my friend, Rob, about the Chrome notebook which I just got today. When he asked me “How do you use programs?” I joyfully exclaimed, “There are no programs! It’s the all just the internet!”
We continued to talk, then I told him that even MS Office has a web version of Office, and that I sync my OneNote...
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Apparently when you download Silverlight and stream Netflix, they ask you if you want to keep the video full screen when maximized. I’m talking multiple monitor action, with maximized video on one and me typing on the other.
For some weird reason, perhaps a change to the registry, but now not only do my Quicksilver Netflix videos stay maximized, but so do my Flash YouTube videos! This is...
December 2010
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18 Percent of College Students Who Go Online Use... →
infoneer-pulse:
College students are far more likely to use Twitter than are other segments of the U.S. population: While 8 percent of American adults who go online use the short-burst messaging service, the proportion for full-time or part-time college students who go online is 18 percent.
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)
In other news:...
November 2010
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Looks like The Beatles are coming to iTunes in about 11 minutes. Do I have the entire discography? Yes. Do I love them. Yes. Am I still excited? Yes - while this has economic repercussions for sure, I’m always happy when digital convenience is winning/
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Sorry I haven’t been posting. I’ve been trying to get through over 35 hours of How I Met Your Mother.
October 2010
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September 2010
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Have you Enhanced your (Google) Video Chat yet? →
It’s no secret I’m a lover of most things Google. Gmail chat is my preferred means of communication; from text, to voice, to video. Last week, a “Labs” feature called “Video chat enhancements” was debuted.
Last night, I used it for about an hour. I had a conference call with my old college a cappella group about an upcoming CD. Voice could have worked alone,...
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Google Health: Focused now on Wellness →
Google just updated their Google Health service, with an emphasis on wellness. I hadn’t used Google Health until about a week ago, when I signed in for the first time. I honestly have no real reason not to trust Google with my health records at this point; I trust them will my other information.
After playing with the wellness information, I don’t know if I’ll be using the...
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Fun with Maps across the Globe! →
If there’s one thing I love, it’s chocolate. But right after that, it’s cool/informative maps. World Mapper is a super neat website which has a variety of maps which grow/shrink geography to show different statistics. From population to income to age of death, it’s a new and informative way of (literally) looking at the world.
(via Dinger Digner!)
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Jewogle
NPR recently did an article mentioning the rise of custom tailored search engines. The search engines they feature are mostly religious ones. We’re not talking about typing in “site:bible ‘first commandment’ ” but rather “gay marriage” and seeing returns for “thou shalt not!”
I’m not saying that “gay marriage” should return...
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Instant Chrome
Follow up to this thought on Instant last week; apparently Chrome will start implementing Instant functionality. There goes my desire to go to www.google.com again. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.
(via Google Operating System)
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Instant: Bringing people back to Google.com
Let’s do a test. Go search for “funsaverblog” on Google. Go now. I’ll do it too.
Did you do it? Did you search on www.google.com? I didn’t. Come to think of it, I can’t even think when the last time I went straight to Google’s homepage to enter a query. I’m a Chrome user, and thus use the Chrome address bar for all my searches.
How do you search?...
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“Writers of the past had absinthe, whiskey or heroin. I have Google.”
– Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, read in The Google Story
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Group Me; Txtng Grps →
I’ve thought about this kind of thing before. It’s essentially texting groups.
Yes, there are a few places where this would be good. Mostly for the same group of 7 friends I hang out every weekend. To text “homefriends” as a single contact would be decently more convenient then adding all 7 of them each time we make plans.
Sadly, while the interface isn’t too hard...
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