January 2012
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We put a HID kit in...
…so that means I know all there is to know about doing after market upgrades.
j/k
I do want to share a few of my observations and tips.
My friend has an 07 Ford Focus (laugh track), so he bought a 8000K HID conversion kit for 9007 style lights. If you do decided to buy your own kit, Google what type of light bulb your vehicle takes.
Installing the kits are very easy. All of the wiring...
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"What kind of bird are you?"
Wes Anderson films are always visual treats. You could have removed all mention of Wes Anderson from this trailer, and I would still be able to tell that this is his film just by the second scene.
Some fun facts.
1) This is the sixth Wes Anderson feature film that Bill Murray has appeared in. He did not appear in Anderson’s first film, Bottle Rocket, or his short film, Hotel Chevalier.
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Corporate Trolling. →
This week’s brought us the most curious dig at Apple yet, though: it seems that Samsung has hired the same child actress that promoted the iPhone 4S camera for a Galaxy Tab 8.9 TV commercial in its native Korea.
At first, I figured that her casting was just a coincidence. I’ve seen people star in different commercials for different companies before.
But then I watched the...
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Sometimes it pays to be small. →
A Go-bot at CNN made a list of the biggest tech fails of 2011. The iPhone 4S’ battery problem was listed.
Despite not being the mythical iPhone 5, the 4S flew out of Apple stores when it was released October 14. But within hours, users started flocking to Apple’s support forum to complain their batteries were running out of juice faster than Herman Cain’s presidential...
December 2011
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Isn't that convenient? →
Verizon has decided to add an extra $2 per month fee to users who pay their monthly bill online or by telephone. The fee is applicable when making a payment via the website, but will be waived if a customer enrolls in automatic bill pay or uses an electronic check
This is ridiculous.
It makes me glad I don’t have my service through Verizon. Let the record show that I’m currently...
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I wonder if Greyhound being the sponsor of this clip is just coincidental, or if it’s metadata magic summoned by Alec Baldwin ticking off Greyhound’s CEO.
November 2011
8 posts
Link : Microsoft: We did Siri first with Windows... →
True, but the interaction and display of the information is way different. On my Windows Phone, I have to say commands. If I want to know what the weather will be like today, I have to say, “Find weather.” Then it will launch its built in search and display the current weather, or it will launch the Weather Channel app. Sometimes it shows me search results for weather.
With Siri, you...
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Art : Star Wars - Minimalism (via Keith Bogan) →
A series of minimalist Star Wars posters that look great on t-shirts.
I like the background textures.
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Link : Doctor Who film being planned (via The... →
David Yates, the director of the last four Harry Potter films and TV drama State of Play, told US entertainment industry trade magazine Variety that he has started work on a feature film adaptation of the sci-fi drama withBBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm.
Daniel Radcliffe as The Doctor
Emma Watson as The Companion
Alan Rickman as The Master
Rupert Grint as The TARDIS
Link : The Death Of The Spec (via Techcrunch) →
MG is on a roll. This is like the third thing he’s declared dead this year. (RSS and the newspaper)
Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is...
Link : Alt/1977 We Are Not Time Travelers (via... →
A very wonderful art project by Alex Varanese.
I’ve explored that idea in this series by re-imagining four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system. I then created a series of fictitious but stylistically accurate print ads to market them, as well as a handful of abstract posters (you know, just for...
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Link : Why the Mac App Sandbox makes me sad →
A pretty compelling case.
There’s speculation that Apple plans to combine iOS and Mac OS X, and make the App Store the only way you can download and install apps. I want to stress that this is pure speculation.
I can see Apple morphing the two operating systems together if they planned on killing the Mac, the tradition computers, and instead start going the route of the iPad/iPhone/iPod....
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Doctor Who iPhone Wallpaper!
I took the thingy I made for, “The God Complex,” and I cropped it for the iPhone. I also made a blurred version of it so that you can add to the home screen to simulate Mac OS X Lion’s launchpad. That’s if you have the non-blurred version as the wallpaper for you lock screen.
Examples :
Click here to download!
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Link : OS X Trojan infects Macs to make virtual... →
It’s tickles me when I read the comments and the age old flame war starts.
“The only reason Windows is targeted by viruses and malware is because of its large marketshare.”
I’ve always felt that was a fairy tale people told their children at night so everyone would feel better. It’s not a fact, but an opinion. Like, in my opinion, I always though that Windows was...
October 2011
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Haters are going to hate, indeed!
The number 2 free game on the iOS app store is Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds hybrid called, Cut The Birds. Calling it a hybrid is a bit too nice seeing how the birds in this game have an almost identical color scheme and shape as the famous birds from Angry Birds. This, of course, has caused a bit of an uproar from the fans of the original games. Justifiably so.
And speaking of justification,...
Reblog: the understatement: Android Orphans:... →
understatementblog:
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
A thing to note is that this is data compiled from phones that were on the...
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Link : Nokia Lumia 800 hands-on (video) →
Even though the phone builds on the design on the fifth generation iPod nano, I still think it’s wonderful looking, and it will get people to seriously consider owning a Windows Phone. It’s beautiful.
Coming from the perspective of an Apple Fanboi, Windows Phone 7.5 is a solid OS. My only complaint was that the hardware it was on was substandard even though the specs on paper were...
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Facebook Messenger will be the one that kills SMS!
I apologize for the sensational title.
*Jazz hands*
When iOS 5 launched, I posted a link to a blog post on TechCrunch that claimed iMessenger will kill SMS. I noted that I think they’re just doing the typical TechCrunch thing, and claiming that this week’s buzzword will bring down an oldschool powerhouse. You know, because they have to get those click throughs.
iMessenger is great...
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Introduction to Fanboys : Lesson #1
Hello, class!
Today we will be discussing fanboy logic.
I don’t want to get too much into the Apple vs Samsung trade dress and patent debate, but it is tough to argue that Samsung isn’t drawing any inspiration from Apple. It got me wondering. What if Apple and Samsung were competing, starving artists? What would the fanboys say to defend their favorite artist that is obviously...
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Link: Geocaching: High-tech treasure hunts are... →
They communicate to one another over the World Wide Web, substituting strange code names for their mama-given monikers.
My local paper is stuck in the year 1996.
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The Wedding of River Song : Doctor Who (2005)...
At last, the gallery is now complete. I think I had a really great idea for The God Complex graphic, and my mind was kind of stuck there for several weeks. It’s like I ran out of ideas. But I am happy with it none the less.
Link: ACTUALLY, YOU'RE THE 47% →
Apparently, the Right and the Left ran out of talking points to regurgitate to each other, so we now have this 53% (income tax payers) vs the 47% (non income tax payers, but pay other taxes but we’ll still pretend that they don’t.)
We have people in the media yelling at us about how all of our problems can be solved if we cut off and starve the people who don’t think like us.
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October 12, 2011: The Day SMS Began To Die (via... →
Another post from Techcrunch where they claim an existing technology is dead because something more buzzword compliant has come along. And it’s surprisingly not written by MG.
iMessages launching is not even a prick on the finger of the mobile world. Wait, it might be possible to die a slow, very slow death from getting a prick on the finger. So it will be dead in, what, 40 years?
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Closing Time : Doctor Who (2005) Series Six.
I finally got around to making the fan poster for the episode closing time.
For other episodes, check out the gallery
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Phone 4S Sold Out: Pre-order Record in Memory of... →
Naturally, many analysts had predicted a subdued response to iPhone 4S.
Well, those analysts need to look into another career.
Over the years, it has become apparent to me that analysts just don’t get the world. They think their fingers are on the pulse, but they’re obviously not.
Like, you can look at past data, notice a trend, and use logic to come to the conclusion that there...
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Final farewell.
Don't poke the social media bear.
I’m upset with myself because I was unable to come up with something witty to defend Mr. Dempsey. Over the years, I’ve been checking in on the Scobleizer, and I do think that he circle jerks himself a bit. How he comes off in his last comment is a bit childish and elitist.
Oh, I don’t see YOU do anything. Like, how would you know? Did you put in the time to get to know him?
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Doctor Who Helped U.S. Find Osama Bin Laden May... →
And the misleading article title of the day goes to…
At first, I thought it was a parody. When I saw that the link was taking me to ABCnews.com, I thought maybe the Pakistanis were crazy and they thought he was real. It looks like we won’t get to see a TARDIS.
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People just don't get it.
(Actual Facebook friends)
The time it took them to turn on their computer, or in the both their cases, pull out their iPhone, they could of Googled their question and found the answer for themselves instead of continuing to parade their ignorance.
They would have been like, “Oh, this man is responsible for this iPhone device that I always have glued to my hand.” or “Oh, he...
Insecure much?
You can pay your respects for someone without disclosing that you dislike him and/or the company he works for. No one is going to automatically assume that you’re a fanboy for showing some decency.
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1955-2011
The first computer I learned to program on was an Apple IIe. I also learned how to access the super secret settings menu in Number Munchers, so I always had the highest score. When it came to computers, I cut my teeth on that thing. When I was living in St. Louis with delusions of grandeur about changing the Internet, my roommates and I use to stay up late and talk about how cool Steve Jobs is,...
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God bless you, Doctor Who fans
This post contains New Who Series 6 Spoilers!
For those unfamiliar with the series Doctor Who, it’s a long running sci-fi show that preimiered on the BBC in 1963. It’s about a humanoid space alien, named The Doctor, who travels through all of time and space in his police box.
The Doctor has the ability to regenerate. When he’s close to death, fire and light exploded from The...
September 2011
12 posts
Your efforts receive a C minus!
You see that? That’s gloating, my friends.
I do find it funny that a cog at Microsoft is taking a dig at Apple while they, “roll out,” an update to their phone OS.
I find this funny because when Apple pushes out an iOS update, I have it installed and running on my device soon after Apple makes it available. (ie later that day) But here I am, going on day three since Mango has...
About the iPhone – a Letter to T-Mobile Customers... →
Talk about link bait. I feel sorry for the T-Mobile customers who expected to have an answer about the iPhone’s availability on the network. The letter was more about Android and T-Mobile’s 4G tech.
Reffering to some of the phones Cole Brodman recently had his photo taken with.
We’re very confident that these Android smartphones rival or beat any smartphone out there in terms of...
Best Buy flyer from September 1996 →
A 180MHz PowerPC Mac is $2,399
A 16MB Ram upgrade is $130.00
Do you think they’ll price match?
The new Facebook is neat.
I bucking the trend. I like the changes made to Facebook. I created a fake Open Graph app so I could test out the new Timeline feature. I love it. As much as you can love something that isn’t real, and that doesn’t love you back. This new experience makes it easier for me to look at past updates. I can see old relationships that are still continuing, and ones that have been broken....
"Star Wars" Blu-ray Set Breaks Records (via... →
Despite the grumbles over the changes made not just before this edition but for earlier versions, reviews for the set were strong with the transfers for the classic trilogy and the final prequel ‘Revenge of the Sith’ scoring good marks. The transfer for the first prequel ‘The Phantom Menace’ however scored numerous criticisms.
The Phantom Menace could cure cancer, and...
Facebook, You're Not a Newspaper (via Read Write... →
Facebook claimed that “News Feed will act more like your own personal newspaper.” The problem is, Facebook is a social network - not a news network.
But doesn’t Read Write Web refer to Facebook as a social media site?
Our mundane updates about walking our dog are now “newsworthy,” stories to share with your friends. At one time, Facebook was a social network. A...
I’m Leaving TechCrunch. Here’s Why. (via... →
You would think that the Techcrunch cats would have seen all of this drama coming. I mean, they cover startups and what happens to them after they’re acquired. It seems rare that most of the acquired companies get to maintain the status quo, or in Techcrunch’s case, their editorial independence. Which, by the way, is still being maintained, but that depends on who you ask.
Damn...
EDITORIAL: A change in our online comments (via... →
I applaud this move.
If you’re going to be a butthole on the Internet, at least sign your name to it.
Samsung Pure Breeze - tutorial (via Youtube) →
Reading, “Samsung’s Pure Breeze,” makes me automatically think it’s something that gets rid of the gym sock smell that my feet have been having lately. Sadly, that’s not what it’s for.
I am a fan of the animations and idea.
I am not a fan of the gradient boxes at the bottom.
August 2011
14 posts
Beware of CSBESTHELP.NET PALMA DE MALL
I would like to take a moment to thank the A.I. and people in Bank of America’s Fraud Detection Department. If that’s not what it is actually called, then I send an apology along with my thank you.
An attempt was made by CSBESTHELP.NET PALMA DE MALL to withdraw $30 from my debit account, but Bank of America flagged it quickly, and swatted the attempt.
I received an e-mail warning...
