Tag: Tech

Users of cell phones should be able to program their phone to go into silent mode depending on the location of the phone. When I enter work, my phone should go silent. When I enter church, it should go silent.…

There should be some utility that can look through all your bookmarks to see if any of those sites have a RSS feed. Or at the very least there should be some site where you can submit like 100 different…

Google has now released their own instant messaging service called Google Talk. It’s available for PC and Mac. There is a program for the PC users to download, while there is none for the Macintosh. However, Google Talk does work…

I’m trying to come up with a shorter name for this phenonmenon: That’s-not-my-cellphone-ringing-although-it-reminded-me- that-I-still-have-mine-on-but-I’m-waiting-an-extra-miniute- to-turn-it-off-so-you-don’t-think-that-ringing-was-from-me.

In the past three months (April 21, 2005 to July 21, 2005), I have made 1,643 searches on google. That’s about 18 searches a day. You can tell google to save all your past searches. It comes in quite handy,…

There are a lot of members on ebay that have a VERY similiar name to spudart. So similiar, it’s rather eery. sp.dart, spudat, spudhart, spudrt, scudart, spudar, spudark. A bunch of the names are from Germany. Which is where J‚Äìrg…

I love getting emails from people. It’s so nice. There’s just a couple things that would make it even more pleasant… 1) use http:// in links When emailing a link to someone, please PLEASE PLEASE include the “http://” in the…

The Mac OS X calculator is so huge compared to the old classic mac calculator. I miss you old school calculator. The new one looks like it’s for senior citizens. The old one just oozes out techno geekness. 8-F

Podcasts are the hot new thing on the internet, so I grabbed chicagocast.com. Will I do anything with it? I dunno. Maybe I’ll sell it. Maybe I’ll do a weekly or monthly chicago podcast. Some ideas for the Chicago podcast:…

Sometimes I wonder if people can hear my headphones, they are the bud kind that get embedded into my ears. I take them out of my ears and I can’t hear them, so I’m assuming that nobody else can hear…

Who’s gonna stay: GoLive or Dreamweaver? Adobe buys Macromedia: what will happen to GoLive and Dreamweaver? Here’s a boring stories on it: Marketwatch, Silicon Republic, Mac Daily News. They all say the same thing. “blah blah blah.” We want real…

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There’s a group of people that want to make “jigga” be the 11th letter in the alphabet. Not a word, but an actual letter. ======================= To: [email protected] Subject: jigga in the dictionary I want jiggabuns to the a letter in…

As Gapers Block pointed out, the Democratic National Party still has not updated their website to reflect that Barak Obama is one of Illinois’s senators, not Peter Fitzgerald. It’s been four months since Obama was elected in. Gapers Block is…

Here’s an example: Hi there Bob, I hope all is well. When do you think I could get my yellow matter transmuter back? -matt It’s kinda funny when people put hypens before their name when signing an email. Why is…

Here’s an email I sent to Quark: Subject: Quark’s events hey yo I’ma lookin at yo events page at: http://www.quark.com/about/events/ How come you don’t have no events for Quark in Chicago? Shy Town wants Quark conferences. Adobe InDesign is totally…

I’m wondering if anyone out there receives any sort of extra information/games/content on their cell phones. I have Verizon, and once I downloaded PacMan.

Tribune Media Services, an innovative and entrepreneurial business unit of Tribune company, is the No. 1 supplier of television and movie information, reaching millions of consumers through thousands of customers. I did the information architecture/sitemap on this site along with…

Does anyone know of any places that link to well-designed websites? Here’s a starting list: http://www.designinteract.com/sow http://www.howdesign.com/links/designfirms.asp http://www.linkdup.com http://www.coolhomepages.com http://www.moluv.com Please post any additional links in the comments below. Thanks.

I’m looking for a program or plug-in that will let me combine several print jobs into one print job. i.e. Let’s say I have four different articles on different webpages I want to print. Why waste paper printing them out…

Craigslist has been around for quite awhile, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized its power as a online classifieds bulletin board. I’m a member of a book club and we regularly get one or two new members every…

I’m looking for some software or service that would notify me via email (or RSS feed) whenever there is a new site linking to my site. And that’s just it, i only want new sites. I don’t want to be…

I’ve had plenty of problems with my current hosting company olm.net and am considering changing hosts. I need a plan with: Size 600mb storage or more 15 gigs traffic or more MySQL stuff MySQL version 3.23.32 or newer. PHPmyAdmin MySQL…

There’s some great auctions up by now featuring the duel turtle artist Georgie and Nikki. Yeah, those are the actual artist’s–a couple of turtles walking on a canvas. Auction 1: Spring, auction 2: Dreamscape, auction 3: Blue Dragon, auction 4:…

I’m shocked at how many more double dog dares there are vs. the triple dog dare. And what is up with the non-existent Pentuple Dog Dare!!! 7: Single Dog Dare 218,000: Double Dog Dare 6,740: Triple Dog Dare 63: Quadruple…

A directory of cell phone numbers will be published soon. This opens the door to solicitors calling your cell phones using up your minutes. The Federal Trade Commission has set up a do not call list. You must call FROM…

With HTML, you can make a numbered list by doing the following: < OL > < LI >apples < LI >bananas < LI >cranberries < LI >oranges < /OL > Which appears like this:applesbananascranberriesorangesBut is there a numbered list in…

Here’s another wrist idea. Got some old headphones that only one ear works? Or how about when you have to twist the plug around until the sound comes out? What a pain. Turn that headphone annoyance into some accessories!—a headphone…

Cerulean Studios makes the wildy popular instant message program called Trillian. However they do not have a version for Mac OS X. Here is my email requesting it. ——————- Subject: Trillian for Mac OS X and ewoks! Dear Cerulean Studios,…

There’s this fantastic croquet sweater on ebay. It’s so hilarious. Check out the back of the sweater. The guy is in a very interesting position behind the girl. Oh yeah! I would wear it to one of our croquet matches…

Here are domains that were previously registered, but their owners recently have not renewed their license, making them available for anyone to pick up. absolutchicago.com (deleted on 05-06-04) chicagocontest.com (deleted on 06-04-04) chicagobox.com (deleted on 04-27-04) chicagoportrait.com (deleted on 06-07-04)…