July 2008
Apple Releases Push Notification Services... →
I think it’s safe to say that iPhone OS 2.0 is far from perfect and anyone saying otherwise must be on Apple’s payroll. Other than the horrendous battery life (on the iP3G), what else do we…
Netflix Needs to Change Things if it Wants to Make... →
Everywhere I turn, Netflix is in the news lately. It all started a few months back when it announced that it would start streaming its movies online. And although I was originally excited…
HDR photo software & plugin - Tone Mapping,... →
Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom_ 2.0 Learning Center |... →
Star Wars Celebration Japan Recap →
Words and Photos: Bonnie Burton
A few weeks back I went to Star Wars Celebration Japan in Chiba outside of Tokyo. I had never been to Japan before so the elaborate toilets, immaculate train…
The 10 Best Things About the New Adobe Lightroom... →
Adobe’s Lightroom 2.0, which launched today represents a major breakthrough in the field of digital photo processing. I’ve only just begun to play with the software today, but it is clear that…
Wondering About Wonder Woman →
In this season of testosterone-fueled superhero movies (“The Dark Knight,” “Ironman,” and ”Hancock”) and strong female leads (in “Sex and the City” and “Mamma Mia!”), you’d think Hollywood…
Bye Bye Bennigan's →
First Starbucks. Now this. With out so much as a word of warning, Bennigan’s Grill & Tavern has thrown in the laminated menu. The chain filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy today and…
Penguin United's Quad Charge Station Takes Four... →
Nyko’s Wiimote charge station has been on the market for a while now, dutifully rejuvenating two Wiimotes at a time so you don’t have to. How could you improve on that concept? By introducing…
Change your driving habits for better fuel economy →
It used to be that weather was the topic of choice for small talk. But these days it’s gas and the high prices at the pump. Callers are telling Clark that some gas stations won’t let you fill up your…
Esquire: hack our e-paper magazine cover! →
In October, Esquire will publish its 75th anniversary issue with a cover made from eInk’s electronic paper. Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Joel interviews deputy editor Peter Griffin about…
Who Is Johng77536 And How Did He Game Twitter? →
One of the reasons Twitter is such a useful platform for publishing is that it is largely spam free - you only received messages from people you choose to follow. So even though a large…
Scoble Defends Blogging (Again), and He’s Right... →
Paul Glazowski via Mashable! shared by 6 people The topic of blogs and their authors and owners and what exactly defines their place on the ladder of the journalism industry never quite…
Why Google Isn't Spending $200 Million On Digg →
Howard Lindzon via Silicon Alley Insider shared by 5 people The price is wrong.
Digg is truly the most useless of the big Web 2.0 sites. It won’t make you money and it can’t…
Delicious 2.0 Imminent Again →
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch shared by 10 people Yahoo’s inability to launch Delicious 2.0, which was feature complete and in private beta back in September 2007, has become a…
Social Bookmarker Delicious Issues Another 2.0... →
This message comes from Yahoo-owned social bookmarking service Delicious this weekend: “After months of work, the new Delicious is almost ready to come out of the oven.” Are you…
DIY Floppy Disk Pen Holder [Tip Testers] →
Reader rintakumpu decided to make his own floppy disk pen holder in all black and the result is quite sleek. Add your own photos or videos of projects you’ve undertaken to the …
The only hour-long TV show we demand you watch →
We’ve made no secret of our love for AMC’s Mad Men, so we’re pleased to report that in its second season, which starts on Sunday, Don Draper and crew show no signs of the sophomore slump. The…
Designing the Clone Wars →
Starting early on Friday morning was the kick-off of Star Wars Day at Comic-Con International. Steve Sansweet introduced the key design staffers from Clone Wars: Kilian Plunkett, known to…
Zimbra Desktop: A Closer Look at Yahoo’s New... →
JR Raphael via The Inquisitr shared by 7 people Following our release day editorial on Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop, we thought we’d take a more in-depth look at the program and its…
Apple CEO Jobs' life not in danger: report
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Reuters - Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs, who has been dogged by investor concerns about his health, does not have recurrent cancer or a life-threatening health issue, The New York Times reported…
Cut Coupons, Serve Pies, Lose Respect With Pizza... →
Does the act of cutting up a pizza vex you to no end? Do you find yourself with numerous nicks and cuts on your palms because you constantly use the wrong end of a pizza cutter to slice pies?…
McCain vows to back changes to disabilities law →
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is pledging support for a proposal to expand protections for disabled people under …
The Spark: G-Men With X-Files Turn "C" Years →
Agents Mulder and Scully in The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Hollywood has always been fascinated by the FBI, which celebrates its 100th birthday today. In honor…
A Safer Gmail With Https →
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped shared by 11 people Google added a new feature to Gmail to always use a secure (https) connection. Switch to the settings/ general tab and…
Dumbbell clock forces you to exercise in the... →
Some of us have a hard time fitting in exercise into our daily routine, so for us, there is an alarm clock that just won’t shut up until you shape up a few arm curls in the morning. Sure, you…
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, an Advocate... →
LightBoxDC: Norton Schools Union Station Management on Photo Rights, Other Issues Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (Dem, Washington DC’s at large District) is currently using her position as…
Yuvi Analyzes My Camera Usage Stats Over at the... →
Statbot comes back from the Dead – Thomas Hawk’s Camera usage stats | The StatBot Yuvi’s Statbot is one of the greatest sites out there. For the stats junkie in you, Yuvi has analyzed…
AirMe.com - Easily share photos, video, and more... →
Stone Collector →
Photos from sculptress studio.
Is Apple Manufacturing a First-Day iPhone... →
There’s nothing like scarcity to make you want something more. Apple understands this, which is why it tightly controls how many iPhones are available at any given time. Some anecdotal…
Turn Your Photos into a Small Planet [Digital... →
Blogger Tom Hole details an image editing technique for turning a digital photo landscape into a tiny planet. To start off you’ll need to create a 360-degree panoramic photo. The author uses…
How the iPhone App Store Will Kill iPhone Web Apps →
Don Reisinger via Mashable! shared by 5 people Now that the App store is up and running and the millions across the globe that have waited for chat applications and games finally have…
Stone Collector →
Photos from sculptress studio.
My Top 10 iPhone Apps: Currently Using and Desired →
I’ve had my first iPhone for less than 24 hours now and I’m already addicted. I’ve downloaded and experimented with a bunch of apps and am pretty happy with them. But, I have to admit that…
Today in really expensive automobiles →
Autoblog reports that Maybach is putting the rare Exelero sedan up for sale. Your cost? A mere $7.8 million. (Makes the Bugatti Veyron seem like a bargain, huh?) So, why the expense? The…
My Yahoo Start Page Graduates Out of Beta [Yahoo] →
The beta My Yahoo start page is going public and rolling out to all users starting today, ReadWriteWeb reports. The new version of the popular start page includes more content module…
How Every Flickr Photo Ended Up on Sale This... →
How Every Flickr Photo Ended Up on Sale This Weekend | JMG-Galleries - Jim M. Goldstein Photography: travel, landscape, and nature pictures - stock photos and fine art prints Jim Goldstein has an…
Star Wars Disney Weekend 4 →
Dave Filoni, director of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and one of the visiting celebrities for Weekend #4, poses with Ahsoka Tano, Anakin’s Padawan in the new animated film.
(Photo by Ron…
iPhone application helps you track your car, kids →
The official word is the iPhone App Store is launching on July 11, but some of us are hoping Apple will launch it at least a day early in order to give consumers a few days to preview the…
Sparklers! →
With the number of wildfires currently burning out of control in California, it was “ixnay on the ireworksfay” in many local counties this weekend. We…
Figure Out How Much Money You Need to Retire... →
What better way to wile away your workday than by calculating exactly how long you’ll have to work at all? Tutorial site wikiHow puts together a step-by-step on how to calculate exactly how…
What's Microsoft Up to With Photography? →
My pal Robert Scoble has a blog post up entitled “Is Microsoft Trying to Capture the Photography Market?” Robert’s post is in part a reaction to Microsoft’s invite only Pro Photo Summit…
Tattooed living zombie →
David Pescovitz via Boing Boing shared by 5 people Bizarre magazine interviews a Montreal gentleman named Rick who is tattooing his entire body to look like the living dead. From the…
Investing in a Quality Programming Chair →
Jeff Atwood via Coding Horror shared by 7 people
In A Developer’s Second Most Important Asset, I described how buying a quality chair may be one of the smartest investments you can make…
'Friends': The Film →
Following in the high-heeled footsteps of “Sex and the City: The Movie” comes another film that’s sure to make boyfriends around the world run for cover. Prepare thyself for “…
What are you Doing for the 4th of July? →
It’s always fun to go do a little reading at Wikipedia and other resources to learn just how relative the facts of history are. For example, the 4th was probably only the day that…
Useful Gmail Filters for Outgoing Email [Gmail... →
Gina Trapani via Lifehacker shared by 8 people One of the lesser-known useful things about Gmail’s filters is that they work on email you send as well as email you receive. So you can…
How to Photograph Fireworks Tip and Tutorial... →
We have a special edition of the Photography Soup today, a round-up of tutorials and tips from around the net on how to shoot fireworks. Those in the USA will be celebrating Independence Day, but…
Sci Fi Channel Airing 'Lost' Reruns Beginning in... →
We still have months to suffer in anticipation before the fifth season of Lost kicks off in 2009. While we all patiently wait to find out where and when the island teleported, there’s a variety of…