Tag: Tech

First Geocities. Eight years later MySpace. What will come next? I’m guessing around 2012 we’ll have another attack of extremely poor design online. But you still have to hand it to Geocities and MySpace. Despite their total ignorance of design,…

Etymology. There’s no app for that. Dear iPhone developers, Please give the world an app for etymology. Much love, matt

(that is not me in the photo, but that is my Bluetooth headset I won) I won! I won! Here’s how it happened. Pre-game I’m sitting at work in the Tribune Tower. Outside my window at 11 am, I could…

Twitter has some funny quips about balloon boy, you can read the best ones selected at twitter.com/balloonboytweet. Here’s my ten favorite jokes about balloon boy, Falcon Heene: Is Balloon Boy the new King Of Pop? The Balloon itself was cool…

The crowd at the Oprah taping in Chicago did a special dance to the Black-Eyed Peas live performance of the song, “I Gotta Feeling.” Here’s my video of the choreographed dance recorded from the Tribune Tower’s 14th floor. As the…

My brother and I have commented so much on a particular photo on the Art Institute’s Flickr account, that it is now their #1 most commented photo. I encourage you to leave a fun comment on this photo of people…

My top five favorite tweets I made in August 2009 with @spudart: Wanna see something really exciting? Put an Airborne tablet into near-boiling water. August 27 RT @jburno “The sin of self-preservation is keeping us from intimacy in our families…

My brother owns a blue and white PowerMac G3. I own the same computer. This model is basically useless now. Mine sits in my closet. Erik’s sits in his basement (which is basically a big closet). It would be great…

Here’s a funny domain swiping technique. I was wondering if faceback.com was taken (a play on facebook). But it is. What about other domains where you take the second word and keep the first and last letter? Available: facebask.com facebaulk.com…

A new social media bar appears on spudart.org featuring many of the social media places that I participate in. Please feel free to connect with me via any of these social media: Blogs Spudart blog Spudart’s image clippings and notes…

A friend recently posted on her facebook status, “Goodnight moon… please children, scootch closer.” That’s really neat. I like thoughtful, short, simple poetic quotes. It would be cool if there was a twitter account that posted just one interesting poetic…

Every time a new capacity hard drive comes out, the prices drop. In January 2008 a 1 TB drive was introduced, prices drop. In August 2008 1.5 TB drives came out, prices went down. When 2 TB drives got their…

Here’s a funny story that happened to me yesterday. I live tweeted a cookie run to Walgreens. Making a cookie run to the walgreens. Chips Ahoy cookies are 4 boxes for $5. #walgreens #deal Okay, so I bought FOUR boxes…

Here’s a growing collection of the funniest Facebook status messages I have seen. Feel free to add to this list by leaving a comment with hilarious facebook status messages you have read. — Erik M. Transformers 2 comes out Wednesday.…

I copied 161gb of files from one external USB drive to another. The process took three hours. I figured that once it was done copying, my computer should behave normally, right? No. The computer actually went slower AFTER the copying…

if you got a goodreads invite from me, you can ignore it. That was a total mistake on my part. I thought I was adding friends that were on goodreads already. I didn’t mean to send it out to my…

It’s so much fun to type the website address as ALL CAPS into a browser. I’m going to TWITTER.COM. By typing it in ALL CAPS it tells my browser that I’m totally serious about going to twitter. Give me the…

Pilcrow Lit Fest has a lot going on this Saturday May 23. Matilda‚Äôs: 3101 N. Sheffield and Trader Todd‚Äôs: 3216 N. Sheffield, Chicago There‚Äôs a ton of free panels and workshops. http://pilcrowlitfest.com/panels.html For every time slot there are three different…

Here are my notes from the Society of News Design meetup on May 16, 2009. (Pictured above is Theresa Carter, Audarshia Townsend, Whet Moser, Brad Flora, and Jeff Daugherty on the Social Media Roundtable) ———————— Matt Mansfield (president of SND)…

I’m spudart on twitter. Here are the following people that I’m following, but are not following me. http://friendorfollow.com/spudart/following/ If you appear on this list, then hop on over to http://twitter.com/spudart and follow me. Maybe it was just an oversight that…

I have a backlog of videos to post to YouTube. About once a week, I’ll post a new video. Here’s one showing the big collection of Hot Wheels cars available at a Shelbyville, Indiana flea market. The end of the…

I have trouble memorizing long verses, but when they are six words long, it’s much easier. Not only is six words shorter, but you can break them up into a structure of 3×3. Or 2x2x2. They are handy little phrases…

On twitter, you are limited to 140 characters per tweet. If your message is too long, there should be a site where you can paste in your text and it will shorten the text down by changing “to” to “2”…

Is it just me or does it seem lately that Google docs goes BONKERS on the auto-save? It auto-saves after every sentence. And seemingly every 30 seconds. And I can’t type while it auto-saves. It’s like Google docs is very…

I’ve posted 22 tr.im URLs on twitter (I’m user spudart). What gets the most clicks? Drama and iphones! 41 clicks It’s kinda funny that the Chicago trolley service is ELIMINATED! http://tr.im/chicagotrolly Note: People love drama. Oh no! Service ELIMINATED! Maybe…

It would be nice to have a setting on Twitter to get only @replies sent as a text message to my phone. Getting tweets from all my friends would be crazy. But getting just the @replies would be really nice.…

Outside Tribune Tower in Chicago today is a promotion by Cricket Wireless and Samsung. I know this because I work on the 14th floor of the Tribune Tower and all I hear today is the guy on the loud speaker,…

“Mountain Dew Monkey” recently added me as a contact on Flickr. What a great name! Can you imagine a monkey drinking Mountain Dew!?

It’s great that Comcast’s Customer Support are on Twitter. They respond right away to your problems and guide you in the right direction. However, in the middle of helping you, the support team is also twittering to each other about…

Delicious.com is a great online bookmarking service. Use it to bookmark all the cool sites you find, and then in the future when you are trying to remember the name of a site, BADDA-BING BADDA-BANG! You can find it easily.…

Funny combinations result in the dock of the Mac’s newest operating system, 10.5. When a folder is put into the dock on a Mac, it will layer all the icons in the folder. Here is the Adium icon on top…