From the monthly archives:

January 2006

The Self Sustaining iPod

January 31, 2006

Before I upgraded to my new iMac and Dell Demension 9150 I had a super slow frankenstein PC that I would try to run iTunes on. Boy was it pig slow. Unless you have a Mac or a super fast PC, iTunes can be a nightmare to work with. iTunes can also be a pain [...]

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Shiira: A Sweet Open Source Browser For OS X

January 30, 2006

I spent some time last night playing with Shiira, an OS X native browser built using Cocoa. Shiira feels very fast and has a very slick user interface making it very comfortable to use from the get go. Shiira has a laundry list of great features including: RSS support Page holder New application icon New [...]

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Mark Ryden

January 29, 2006

If you’ve never heard of Mark Ryden, you are in for a treat if you are a fan of Alice In Wonder Land or you like “not of this world” artwork. His works are hard to describe but they deal with all sorts of themes from the female body to red meat to bunnies to [...]

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Photoshop Contest

January 28, 2006

Here is a great Photoshop contest going on over at Worth1000.com where people have combined old time photos with modern technologies. I’m always amazed at the creative ways that people are using Photoshop.

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Record the Perfect Song With Garage Band

January 28, 2006

This is a follow up to a post I wrote a few weeks back about recording guitar with Garage Band. This article is useful no matter what type of instrument you are trying to record. Whether you are using a real instrument or a software instrument, there are many caveats to creating that perfect song [...]

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Walk Jog Run

January 27, 2006

I feel a little guilty about the previous post. It promotes eating junk food and one should never try it at home. So in an attempt redeem myself, here is a really useful application that leverages Google Maps API to help you plot courses for walking, jogging and running. You can view the length of [...]

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The Incredible In-N-Out 100×100

January 27, 2006

If you are a fan of In-N-Out burger you’ve undoubtebly heard of the double double. If not, a double double is a burger made of double meat and double cheese. Well on a weekend party excursion to Las Vegas some kids decided they must try the 100×100. Let me do the math for you, 100 [...]

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Fastr – A Flickr Game

January 27, 2006

Here is a really interesting and completely addictive game built using the Flickr api. The goal is to be the first person to guess the tag for a particular group of photos from Flickr. The game starts by displaying a single photograph and gradually adds more photos from a particular pool.

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Mysterious Flying Car Found On Google Earth

January 26, 2006

Here is an interesting investigation into an image found on Google Earth of a car that appears to be flying. The image comes from Perth, Australia where they are on the cutting edge of automotive innovation. Many have tried to explain it with various theories such as a car on a stick, a bus, two [...]

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Freecycle: Create Less Waste + Get Something Free!

January 25, 2006

Freecycle.org is an online community of people around the world that trade unwanted items for free. The way it works is that you offer up items you want to get rid of and if somebody in the community is interested they take the items off your hands for you. Simple yet elegant! What a great [...]

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