Tag: Tech

Professional voiceover artist, Larry Simon gave a talk on voice technique for the Chicago Area Podcasters Network at the Apple Store on November 7, 2006. Here’s some of my notes that I jotted down: Imagine your voice as an instrument.…

They say you should take 10,000 steps a day to be healthy. You can even count non-walking activities as steps. For instance, universalhealthcare.com says sawing firewood is the equivalent to taking 113 steps a minute. Here’s the top ten activities:…

When composing a text message on a cell phone, the easiest letters to use are the first ones for each number: 2: a 3: d 4: g 5: j 6: m 7: p 8: t 9: w Using just these…

The Chicago podcast meetup group is having their first meeting at the Michigan Avenue Apple Store on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 7:00pm. So far, 19 people have RSVP’ed “Yes.” You can sign-up at: http://podcasting.meetup.com/72/events/5061382/ (or you could just show…

It’s rather sneaky that claw vending machines take dollar bills. If they only took quarters, then I wouldn’t be as likely to play them, because I don’t always have change on me–let alone two quarters. Plus the dollar enables the…

Is there anybody out there that Rock’n’Roll actually means Rock in Roll? I accidentally typed it that way in an IM the other day. Google’s index for the different spellings of rock’n’roll: –40,000: “rock-n-roll“ –25,700,000 “rock-n-roll”“ –46,100,000 “rock-n-roll“ So 1…

It’s rather comical how many screws are required to be removed in order to take a hard drive out of a Macintosh 12-inch G4 Powerbook: 2 screws on the outside right 4 screws on the outside back 2 screws on…

Does anyone know of any data recovery programs for Macintosh? My computer recently has been giving me the blinking question mark system folder. I have done the following: Booted up my computer on the Apple Hardware Test CD (everything passed,…

When printing in Firefox you can add stuff to the headers and footers. Right now it only lets you choose from: –Title –Document URL –Date/Time –Page Number –Page number “of” Page Total It would be great if Firefox allowed custom…

Here’s my away message for my email today at work: I’m out of the office Friday July 13. Did you know that it’s National Embrace Your Geekness Day. It’s true! I’m not just a geek telling you this! Well, I…

There should be a website where it will do the following: I want to get a phone with 2 or 3 megapixels, but it needs to come as part of a package deal when I sign up for a new…

I finally signed up for skype. It’s a free service that lets you voice talk with people online–just like a real phone call–but on your computer. If you want to know my username, just ask me (that is, if i…

I know of about five people who went to a Montessori school–and all of them are very creative. Is it true that most people who attended a Montessori school end up being creative? I made a Montessori group on Friendster…

The highlights from my croquet photo collection are now featured on flickr. Right now there are 24 photos up. To learn more about the Chicago Croquet of Squirearchy, go to our site at: www.chicagocroquet.com.

I’ve uploaded eight videos to YouTube, including this one named “Bear Left Flat Behind in Chicago“ You can see all my videos on my YouTube page.

This graph shows the Alexa traffic report for MySpace in the last two years. My girlfriend and I met through MySpace in May 2004. It’s funny how MySpace was so unknown back then. People would ask us how we met.…

When you go to Google Maps and look up the Chicago White Sox ballpark (U.S. Cellular Field), it looks like a toilet. How appropriate.

I’m thinking of making website called “i don’t know how to cook” and it will follow through my progress as a bachelor cooking, cuz I’m like REALLY bad at cooking. My big ah-ha moment today was putting a can of…

Website for Tribune Media Services properties including Dick Tracy, Annie, Jumble, Boggle Brainbusters, and Brewster Rockit. I did the site architecture and graphic design. Homepage: %%2715_licensing_home_full.jpg” width=”735″ height=”583] Sample Subpage: %%2715_licensing_sub_full.jpg” width=”756″ height=”671]

Try searching your first name on google and see what is the number one result. Here’s some fun ones: #1 google result for matt is: Photo Matt, the founding developer of WordPress. #1 google result for chris is: Chris Pirillo,…

Many people post funny instant message conversations online, but it can get quite difficult to follow the conversation when it’s just all the same weight text. I made a little form that will put one of the usernames into bold…

| | two skaters starting out | | moving closer | | and closer || now they skate as a couple || skating around || around || around || picking up speed! || look at them go! |- now he…

I want a Firefox extension that can do the following. Let’s say you are leaving a comment on someone’s site, and you want to make one of the words into a link, you have to manually type in the a…

Have you ever noticed how vector shapes in a pdf file tend to look bitmappy? This makes no sense, because vector shapes should be super smooth. Here we will get to the bottom of this problem. Here are the things…

You can now export your Yahoo Address Book into a vCard format that can be used for the Address Book in Mac OS X. Some people suggest that you export the Yahoo Address Book as LDIF format, but the thing…

The website for the book “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life,” an Amazon Top 10 book in 2005. This site was designed using PHP and MySQL, so the author could easily make updates to the site without knowing html. Readers can…

I often get asked by people where is a good place to host their site. I’ll tell them not to go with olm.net (i’ve had major problems with them), or nomonthly (their basic plans do not include MySQL). Generally $10-$12…

I’ve had my eye on the Sony Librie before it was released in Japan in March 2004. But it only had a Japanese operating system. Back in July 2005 a hacked English OS version was released, and now I’m tempted…

Ever print out an article because it’s too hard to read the entire thing on screen? Would you like to be able to read your articles on one piece of paper that can just magically change its ink? This does…

The ultimate collection of links for importing bookmarks from firefox into del.icio.us: Does anyone know of any programs/scripts/sites that can import firefox bookmarks into the del.icio.us bookmark system? There are a few, but none of them are very easy to…

Yahoo auctions have RSS feeds… …but only in the japan version. WHAT! Gimme some of that RSS action on the USA version of yahoo auctions. OK, I gotta hand it to yahoo. It’s free to post auctions for 10 days.…