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The “Official” Geek “Must Do Before You Die” Checklist:
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The list can be summed up as follows:
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iPhone coming to The Shack: Friggin Finally!
November 7th, 2009
Well it’s about damn time RadioShack got their heads out of their rears and did SOMETHING right. Anything right. I won’t discuss the shack’s recent stupidity, but FINALLY! They will carry the beloved iPhone.
I wonder if this means I can stop having to use an alternative APN on my at&t ANR line…
iPhone coming to The Shack: Dallas and NYC this month, nationwide in 2010?.
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Official Google Blog: Street View: We can trike wherever you like
October 16th, 2009Official Google Blog: Street View: We can trike wherever you like.
With Street View on Google Maps, you can take a virtual drive over the Golden Gate Bridge or see the bustle of Times Square from the comfort of your own home. But some of the country’s most interesting and fun places aren’t accessible with our Street View car. What if you want to tour the campuses of prospective universities, scout a new running trial, or plan the most efficient route to your favorite roller coasters in a theme park?
I first started thinking about this question around two years ago. My day job is working as a mechanical engineer on the Street View team, but I do a lot of mountain biking in my spare time. One day, while exploring some roads less traveled, I realized that I could combine these two pursuits and build a bicycle-based camera system for Street View. The result? The Street View trike:
I’ve already had a chance to take the Street View trike out to photograph some hard-to-reach places for Google Maps, like the Arastradero Open Preserve and LEGOLAND California. When I’m out riding — and once people understand what exactly I’m up to — I’m often asked if we can come to their alma mater, local bike trail or favorite beach boardwalk. Now, we’re giving everyone a chance to tell us exactly where in the U.S. they’d like the trike to go next.
At www.google.com/trike, you can suggest interesting and unique spots in six categories:
- Parks & Trails
- University Campuses
- Pedestrian Malls (e.g., outdoor shopping areas, boardwalks)
- Theme Parks & Zoos
- Landmarks
- Sports Venues (e.g., golf courses, racing tracks, stadium grounds)
Nominations will be open until October 28. We’ll then comb through all of the suggestions and let all of you cast your final votes on a winner from each category for the Street View trike to visit. For any privately-owned or operated location, like a campus or theme park, we’ll work directly with the relevant organization prior to collecting the imagery.
When we unveiled the Street View trike in the U.K., we received more than 10,000 nominations and 35,000 votes; Stonehenge and Warwick Castle were two of the top vote-getters. We can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with in the U.S. — head to www.google.com/trike to submit your most inspired ideas.
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Home | FloH Club
October 16th, 2009
Here’s how it works:
When you have a computer concern or question, call The FloH Club’s support number. You’ll speak with one of our trustworthy and highly trained technicians, located in the United States or Canada. With your permission, this person can access your computer safely and securely, resolving the issue right before your eyes.
Editors Note: If you could only teach them, keep your computer up to date, use a router to protect your computer, every email is NOT true and does NOT need to forwarded to every soul on the plant, and DO NOT open email attachments!!!!!!!
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NeighborGoods: Craigslist for Your Neighborhood
October 14th, 2009NeighborGoods: Craigslist for Your Neighborhood.
NeighborGoods, a web site that lets you share stuff with people in your neighborhood, today is launching publicly in its first city, Los Angeles. It’s somewhat of a cross between Facebook and Craigslist. For example, if you need to borrow a power drill for a home improvement project, you can search for someone in the NeighborGoods community who’s willing to lend one. L.A.-based founder and CEO Micki Krimmel said she was inspired by sites like Craigslist and Freecycle. She hopes NeighborGoods will help people connect with others in their area and encourage them to borrow — rather than buy — things they plan to use once.
The site lets people charge for the use of their stuff or offer it for free. However, if you plan on earning money from the site, you have to upgrade to a Pro account. For now, people who sign up for an account get one year free. Krimmel will start charging for it once she decides on a price point. If you’re a Pro account member, you’ll receive a “verified” stamp on your profile, which shows that the NeighborGoods team has confirmed you’re a real person who lives in the area you say you do.
When you’re putting an item up for rent on the site, you can choose whether your friends, neighbors or anyone on the site can see the listing. If someone doesn’t return an item you loaned out or returns it in poor condition, you can click on a “panic button” that notifies NeighborGoods of the problem and puts an unresolved transaction alert on the person’s profile.
Krimmel has received $100,000 in funding from a former client and will be looking for more investors as she rolls the site out to other cities. It’s too early to say whether the site will be a hit, but it touches on the social-networking trend and could piggyback off the success of Craigslist. Krimmel will be profiled in next month’s Oprah Magazine.
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Apps of the Week: Spice up your mobile photos – CNN.com
October 14th, 2009Apps of the Week: Spice up your mobile photos – CNN.com.
(CNN) — Smartphone cameras are pretty basic. Often they won’t zoom. They don’t have aperture settings. Usually there’s no flash.
But thanks to a growing slate of photography apps, simple mobile-phone photos can be transformed into interesting pieces of art. They’re the new Polaroids — far from high-end but offering a sort of irreverent charm.
Here are three fun photo apps to help you transform dull iPhone or Android photos into something your friends will want to check out.
ShakeItPhoto: $0.99, iPhone
Miss the days when you could “shake it like a Polaroid picture?” Well they’re back with the ShakeItPhoto app for the iPhone.
On ShakeIt, the photos you snap appear to slide onto the screen of your camera without having been developed. Then — just like in the days of Polaroid — you shake your phone to develop the images.
Bonus: The apps color scheme gives a nice ’70s tint to your photos.
Extra bonus: If you get sick of shaking your camera, or you start developing carpal tunnel, then you can set the app to develop your images more quickly.
Bummer: It only has one color filter, so you can’t make adjustments. But that’s how real Polaroids work, so deal with it.
Photoshop.com Mobile: Free, iPhone
Photoshop debuted this free app at the beginning of October, and it has rocketed to the top of Apple’s list of free apps. It helps you crop and color-correct your photos on the go and then uploads them to Flickr, the photo-sharing site.
Bonus: The app has fine-grained controls for adjusting tint or saturation when you’re out and about. It also offers a few custom filters, including “vignette blur,” “pop” and “warm vintage,” that provide a nice alternative if you’re in a hurry.
Bummer: The crop and rotate functions — two of the app’s most useful attributes — are tricky to use. And some professional users complain that many of Photoshop’s features, such as levels adjustments, aren’t available.
Green Screen Lite: Free, iPhone
Never been to the Kremlin? No problem. You can fake it! With this app, you can black out the backgrounds on your photos and paste yourself in front of famous landmarks instead.
Bonus: It’s free. The free version comes with a limited number of backgrounds. You can use photos from your library as green screens if you buy the paid version, which costs $2.99.
Bummer: It’s clunky. There’s an auto feature that tries to read your photos and put the people in them on new backgrounds. But it doesn’t always work, which means you have to block out the background yourself using a few tools the app provides. It’s a cool idea, but the execution is somewhat lacking.
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New Gigantic, Glowing Saturn Ring Discovered – Saturn infrared ring – Gizmodo
October 7th, 2009New Gigantic, Glowing Saturn Ring Discovered – Saturn infrared ring – Gizmodo.
See that tiny dot in the middle of that ring? That’s Saturn. And the newly-discovered glowing ring is 13.4 million miles in diameter. The proverbial 800-pound gorilla has been discovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope, leaving every single astronomer speechless.
The ring hasn’t been discovered till now for because it’s so diffuse that it reflects very little sunlight. That makes it undetectable by optical telescopes. The particles in it, however, glow with heat radiation, which was captured by the Spitzer’s infrared instruments.
This image is an artist representation of what Spitzer’s discovered, showing us, once again, that we are still bloody clueless when it comes to almost everything around us. I can’t wait to see the actual image. [NASA]
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HTC Tilt 2 and HTC Pure get AT&T officialized, Windows Mobile 6.5 style
October 5th, 2009
FINALLY!
I’ve had all of these phones’ predecessors, and I’m pretty damn happy that they’ve announced these. I had a Tilt, Fuze, and a Touch Pro on Sprint. I love these phones, and I’m happy to see them finally getting an official WinMo 6.5 treatment. And see them being official.
Every other carrier has announced their Touch Pro2, and now at&t has joined the ship of Touch Pro2-ness with their remake of it, the Tilt 2.
Oh. And for you non-QWERTY, touch lovers, they announced the HTC Pure as well, at&t’s spin on the Touch Diamond 2.
HTC Tilt 2 and HTC Pure get AT&T officialized, Windows Mobile 6.5 style : Boy Genius Report.
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Remember The AT&T Ads About the Future? You Will – At&t future you will tom selleck – Gizmodo
September 19th, 2009
Remember The AT&T Ads About the Future? You Will – At&t future you will Tom Selleck – Gizmodo.
Narrated by Tom Selleck, and directed by Fight Club’s David Fincher, the ads began in 1993 and were (mostly) remarkably accurate, predicting: E-Books, in-car GPS, tablet PCs, E-ZPass, video conferencing, and video on demand. Take a look:
Also interesting is that the montage comes from a 1993 Newsweek CD-ROM. The theme: That one day, magazines would be sent to you as a CD-ROM sponsored by ads. Uh, no. Crazy to think that was only 16 years ago.
It’s ironic that the main two things the ads get wrong are now core AT&T businesses: We don’t fax from the beach (we email; but close enough), and we don’t video chat from public telephones (or with our iPhones—where’s my forward-facing camera damn it).
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How to Enable MMS in iPhone 3.0 Right Now!
September 18th, 2009
If you can’t wait until the 25th for your gloriuos MMS to be activated, below is a link on how to do it.
Works FANTASTIC!
How to Enable MMS in iPhone 3.0 Right Now – MotoX Forum: Motorola Modding & Beyond….
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