Tag: Tech

I’d love a facebook app that shows which of my friends has the most friends in common. For instance, my brother has 59 mutual friends with me. Tom Saaristo and I have 27 friends in common. Jeff Millies and I…

These are the verbs that Apple’s Mail program shows when it checks for email: checking connecting opening fetching evaluating synchronizing performing That’s a lot of verbs to use when it just checks for mail. Sheesh.

There are two great websites to post your book library and reviews, librarything.com and goodreads.com. Which service is better? The following is a feature-by-feature comparison between librarything and goodreads. Exporting Librarything allows you to export your data. Goodreads does not.…

Often the cords on surge protectors are too short to reach the wall outlet. We bend the cord around the corner of a shelf creating a tight turn and causing a hazard. You might think, “Oh, it’s only a slight…

1) Warranty Every good surge protector should have a limited lifetime warranty. Some surge protectors only have a one-year warranty. What? Like who changes their surge protectors every year?! Check them once a year, yes. But buy a new one…

You find that your power cord got caught under a shelf, what do you do? Option 1: Throw the power cord away. Once an electrical cord has been pinched or bent, it won’t repair itself, the electricity will always have…

I hereby declare every November 11 to be National Check your Surge Protectors Day. While organizing my computer cords, BOTH of my surge protectors’ cords were pinched underneath my file cabinet! I’m very glad to find these pinched cords before…

Looking for some good podcasts? I have a bunch for you. How about 89 podcasts‽ 1) Download the list Right-click on this link: Spudart’s Favorite Podcasts and save as an OPML file. 2) Import the list into iTunes In iTunes…

What is the next facebook app that will grab attention? Here’s eight apps that have gotten me addicted for periods of time in the past year: (fluff) Friends: pick a cutesy pet, and feed other cutesy pets Friends for Sale:…

Someone on reddit linked over to my Biden-Palin word cloud and gave me 4,400 visitors. Interesting that out of the 5,406 views (an addition 1,000 came from places other than reddit), this image has gotten only one favorite. I wonder…

Everyone loves Trader Joes–the grocery store with fun food and delightful employees. Trader Joes even has a location request form on their website. Here’s my location request that I sent to them today: =================== Want to know the best new…

Let’s say you want to know which of your friends are fans of the tv show “Lost.” Just search for “lost” and hit the “people” tab, and it will bring up all your friends who are fans of Lost. Recently…

When posting a status update on MySpace, there 132 options for what your emotion is. ONE HUNDRED THIRTY TWO! That’s just insane. Even more insane is myspace cramping them all into one drop-down menu that only allows you to view…

Facebook retooled their website and totally changed the user experience. Now users have to click through to several pages to read what used to be on one page. You know why? To increase pageviews. The formula for why facebook did…

I’d love to see all the words that have origins in the 20th century. All the entries would be sorted by year. Random House’s little online section is cute, New Words: Sixty years of new words. It lists a handful…

A schoolyard classic. Someone calls you a dork. Standard schoolyard protocol is to respond with, “yeah, i know i’m a D.O.R.K.: Dynamite Out of sight Radical Kid!” Now how is it that the internet does not have this phrase anywhere…

Gamasutra Podcast on GDC Radio by Tom Pubcast from The Brit and Yankee by Phil Clark and Lingo “I’m USBrit, and my co-host Lingo, are producing a magazine-style pubcast, creating a ‘virtual’ pub called The Brit and Yankee. At present,…

About Call to God I write a prayer on a sticky note and place it on a public pay phone. By placing the sticky note on a phone, I hope to make the connection to the viewer that saying a…

I have added over one thousand photos of other flickr users to my favorites on flickr. You can see all 1,038 in one big image file. Or if you would like to see the individual images, download this zip file…

It would be really cool if people could leave public comments on ebay auctions. I’d love to leave a comment on a goofy auction. Or better yet, I could release my angst when someone outbids me. I recently I was…

It would be great if there was some way to easily export the information for your flickr photos. I want to back up all my captions and tags. I’m alright with doing it manually since I only have about 100…

Give your smiley faces a number hat! It’s great fun. 1:-) flattop or a confederate hat 2:-) 3:-) viking horns 4:-) 5:-) flattop with bangs 6:-) comb-over 7:-) parted 8:-) princess leia buns 9:-) I couldn’t think of names for…

Are you on a PC and have problems when Mac people send you fonts? One of my co-workers on Windows was having problems with Macintosh fonts that would get sent to her for ad layouts. Here’s part of an email…

There’s a cool application on facebook called Baseball Trading Cards where you can collect and sell virtual cards for free. If you collect an entire team, you get a special Hall of Fame/Fan Favorite card. There are several of these…

Dude, if you use Yahoo messenger, you can totally blast your friend with ALL the yahoo emoticons at once. Just copy and paste this into an IM: 🙂 🙁 😉 😀 ;;) >:D< :-/ :x :"> 😛 :-* =(( :-O…

Here are my four favorite baseball websites: baseball-reference.com My favorite source for quick stats. Plus, it’s just fun to tool around on the site, looking at random stats. hardballtimes.com Great writing on baseball desipio.com Hilarious coverage of the Cubs cubscast.com…

There’s some funny smack talk on the Facebook Wrestler application. This blog post will be an archive of all the funny ones. Feel free to submit any to the comments. KEEP IT CLEAN. (I will delete anything that I don’t…

photo by Phil Cawley Can you believe that nobody sells curly straws on Google shopping?

A columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Eric Zorn, doesn’t understand Facebook. People’s expectations are too high. They think it’s some sort of savior or fix-it-all website. It’s not. But it does enable you to keep in touch with your larger…

Print out cute photos from the internet and include them with your mail. Paying your credit card? Stick a hedgehog in with it. Submitting your student load payment? Slide a squirrel in the envelope. Sending in a rebate? That certainly…

Let’s say you are sitting at home and you buy an mp3 off the iTunes music store. Then you go into work and you want to listen to that same mp3. It would be nice if you could pull up…