Tag: Tech

What are your interests? Would you like to be notified of events in your city that matches your interests? Eventful.com has a TON of events. And you can create custom calendars based on a keyword. You can create custom calendars…

As Antartica experiences its summer season, Chicago gets hit with winter. Often it gets super cold in Chicago, and it makes me wonder if we ever get colder temperatures than Antartica. And I’m talking South Pole, Antartica. On January 18,…

There are no Verizon phones that can record video over 320×240. Instead 640×480 video would be very nice. Click the comments to view all the photo and video resolutions of Verizon phones. Samsung SCH-A990 Photo: 2,048×1,536 Video: 320×240 LG Venus…

I bought a winter jacket at the Water Tower Macy’s and had to carry it back to work down Michigan Avenue. I have to admit I felt pretty self-conscious about it, since most Chicagoans hate Macy’s for killing off Marshall…

You want a president that will keep communication lines open. Of all the 2008 Presidential candidates, Dennis Kucinich and John McCain both sent out the most emails in October 2007. They sent out 16 emails each. The most secretive candidates…

Let’s say you want your new phone number to spell something specific. For instance, I want mine to be 778-3278 which spells SPUDART. Now I would need an area code where that phone number is available through a cellular provider.…

There are so many great lists of places to go, and things to see. ‚Ä¢ 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World ‚Ä¢ 100 Places To See Before You Die ‚Ä¢ Top 10 Most Peculiar Places in the World ‚Ä¢…

According to CNN, Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman was the first to use the 🙂 in a computer message. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982,…

Public calendars: Upcoming.org planyp.us eventful.com Social sites: 43things.com Facebook MySpace bulletins MySpace events Friendster Bulletin Board Local papers/websites: Metromix.com (must be three weeks in advance) Craigslist Centerstage Chicago (only music or theatre events) Gapersblock eventful.com Eventful.com will also post to…

Google Trends on: ron paul, rudy giuliani, mitt romney, john mccain Google Trends on: hillary clinton, barack obama, john edwards, dennis kucinich Let’s try to get Dennis Kucinich to achieve a break out in searches!

I’m helping to organize this event at the Apple store. Anyone that wants to come is very welcome! Stan Lawrence and Terry Armour of WCKG-FM (105.9) will be guests of honor at September‚Äôs Chicago Area Podcasters Network Meetup. The podcasters…

I will be incorporating these acronyms into my chat vocabulary. Learn them and know what I’m saying when I IM you. * GI — Google it * IIOYT — is it on YouTube? * CMOS — call me on Skype…

Whenever you computer starts acting strange, check to see if any of your keys on your keyboard are stuck. Just now I thought that my computer was wiggin out. In Quark i could only get the hand tool. In all…

In the Transformers movie, Optimus Prime says that he used earth’s “eBay” to find the glasses imprinted with the Allspark’s coordinates. So I’m thinkin, there’s gotta be a user on eBay with the name Optimusprime. Sure enough there is: http://myworld.ebay.com/optimusprime.…

Please people! Do not put periods in your phone number. I know you are trying to be cool, but phone numbers have DASHES, not dots. It’s not an IP address. I know you want to look all cool, but it’s…

*BOOOOM!* Lightning strikes literally right outside my living room window. The edges of my computer monitor change colors. Landline phone is dead. A couple days later the phone is still dead, so I called AT&T to set up a service…

The friends’ blogs list on the left column of the homepage has been updated. Here’s a little explanation about each blog. Angie O’Neal Fellow designer’s blog with neat links, ideas, rants and life. Updated every week or so. California, formerly…

Those toy vending machines with a joystick-controlled claw are just too much fun (as I’ve blogged earlier.) Recently I defeated the claw machine twice in one day at two locations to win these two stuffed animals. I rule the claw…

Creativepro.com reports “Adobe has officially announced that it won’t release new versions of FreeHand — not even maintenance updates.” Heh. Good ol’ Freehand. Does anyone out there have any memories of this program they would like to share? Here are…

Projectplaylist.com allows you to create a playlist of your favorite songs and listen to your friend’s playlist. Check out my project playlist. You can post your playlist on your MySpace profile. I have mine posted on my MySpace profile. You…

Here’s the photo I submitted to “24 Hours of Flickr.” Please view the image on flickr and add it to your favs. I would like to get a high interestingness ranking, so you clicks and favs will help! Thank you!

Flickr.com wants you to chronicle your day on 05/05/2007, and then you can submit one photo to: http://www.flickr.com/groups/24flickr. And you might just get published in the book! Oh yeah! From the 24 hour flickr page: The event will be commemorated…

You’ve heard of website addresses with “.com”, “.org”, “.edu”, “.net”. But now get ready for “.snap” I can’t wait to say, “Hey check out my website at spudart dot SNAP” Of course, this is not real. When visitors to my…

I want to do video tape a series called “Feats of Amazement in Chicago.” Somersault the length of Tribune Tower If I had me a video camera, I would have someone tape me doing somersaults across the entire length of…

It’s fun to look back at all the different Macintosh models you have used. Here’s my list: Mac Classic (1993-1997) This was the first Mac that I learned Photoshop on at an Art Institute class. Also used at college to…

Recently I gave 13 recommended design links to a graphic design student: Advertising: A must for anyone interested in advertising. www.adrants.com Publications and newspapers: A must for anyone interested in publications and newspapers. www.newsdesigner.com/blog Illustration: The essential illustration blog. www.drawn.ca…

What would be the top photo on Flickr for a search on “very“? Would it be something very extreme? Nope. It’s a quiet photo that is very interesting. Photo by ChristinaLutze. UPDATE, 1/19/2017 Ten years later, what is the top photo on…

If you had to choose five podcasts to recommend to a person with a brand new interest in listening to podcasts, what would you recommend? Here’s my top five (in no order): ============ Slate Magazine Daily Podcast Politics, popular culture,…

Take your cell phone number. Enter it into a calculator as a set of digits as numbers, and the dashes as a minus sign. At the end of the phone number, hit the enter/equals button. Let’s take Empire carpet’s old…

(Photo courtesy of Jurica) If i had a dog, i would give him an email address. People could email my dog and then i would read the email to him. I’m thinking about giving my pet rock an email address.…

ways to indicate laughter online acronyms: lol (laughing out loud) lawl (pronounciation of lol) lolol (adds emphasis of lol) llol (literally laughing out loud) lolz (gangsta lol) rofl (rolling on the floor laughing) roffle (pronounciation of rofl) lmao (laughing my…