Tag: Tech

i like how when i google image “Matt” the three results for me are a Brewster Rockit comic, my bulletin board of baseball cards at work, and some iPad painting that I never knew I posted anywhere online.

Don’t call it Willis Don’t call it Macy’s Don’t call it U.S. Cellular But why? Gapers Block sells a five-pack of “Don’t call it that” buttons. The tagline is “Buttons for true Chicagoans.” To complement this pack, I would like…

If you are voting for president using the new touch-screen computers, give yourself some extra time. The computers use a six-step process that take about three times as long to vote. 1) Registration via pen and paper 2) Confirmation via…

A group called “Chicago the Beautiful” is producing thousands of of free art to distribute for the public. The name of the project is called “The Free Art Machine.” There are plenty of ways to participate. 1) Be a part…

Can Myspace get people to come back and rejoin their network? Check out their video: Josh Burns blogged, “The New Myspace“, and this is my comment I left on his post: I will personally always join any social media network…

Using a pen or a pencil feels weird to me now. I use a stylus on my iPad now more than I use pens and pencils. Will our children start to feel the same way? How do people use their…

Apple purposely creates long lines for the iPhone. No duh. They’ve been doing this for years. Just now people are starting to realize this? Just look at any day in the Apple store on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. They always underman…

Chinese for “face book” is: 臉書 (according to google translate). If you go to 臉書.com, Chrome brings you to xn--rovv01d.com, which is an available domain. “Amazon” in Chinese is: 亞馬遜. The 亞馬遜.com brings you to: xn--nlqs61nl3f.com (also available). “Linked in”…

Oh the print publishing world, often they just don’t understand the digital world. Lovers of paper and ink. I come from that world. From 1997-2007 half my job was designing for print and working with printing companies. The other half…

You rarely see a book cover on the Kindle. Every time you open a new book on the Kindle, it brings you to the first page, bypassing the cover. Does the cover serve a new fuction with eBooks? Find out…

Social Media Week is in Chicago (and 13 other cities worldwide) on September 24-28, 2012. It’s full of great talks. Here’s the ones I’m signed up for: Tue, Sep 25 8am-10am

How do should “parathases” be corrected? Chrome’s spellcheck gave one suggestion: protheses. That is not the correct spelling. Google.com correctly suggested: parentheses. Chrome is is made by Google. Shouldn’t Chrome and google.com have the same spellcheck?

Imagine displaying your entire physical baseball card collection online. But how? Manually searching and typing each baseball card? Too much work. Scanning in each baseball card? That’s even more work! Googling each card to find an image? There needs to…

Twitter is currently down. Here’s what is on their homepage: Twitter is currently down for . We expect to be back in . I want to write my work emails like that. I plan to have this report done by…

I love the Goodreader app. I use it read PDFs and to take notes on PDFs. I’ve tried other PDF reader apps, and this is by far the best one. You can hand-write notes directly onto the PDF. You can…

Looking for interesting podcasts? My girlfriend was asking for podcast recommendations. Here’s my list of podcasts that I listen to regularly. They are sorted by which ones I listen to first. ChicagoScope Podcast My friend Leigh’s podcast. iTunes description: Audio…

Three funny fictional characters to follow on twitter are @darthvader @cobracommander @god_damn_batman I have a twitter list of funny fictional characters at twitter.com/#!/mattmaldre/funny-fictionals/members. Do you have any suggestions for other funny fictional characters to follow?

Someone follows you on twitter, and if they look like a normal real person, you might follow them back. That’s what I generally do. Who knows? You might develop some sort of connection with that person. They offer the opportunity…

Over on my blog about publishing and syndication, read about my adventures trying to get the free Banana Man graphic novel onto my Kindle app.

A friend posted this picture of someone with a “murse.” Murses get made fun of, because they they remind people of purses. But let’s try to get some respectable man bags out there. Stand behind your man bag. Be proud…

It would be cool if there was a public way for people to read books at the windows of these unused storefronts. Books would probably be too long, so perhaps one-page articles or stories. Maybe even a short news story…

Replaced incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents. Put all my computer equipment on two surge protectors. Put the computer surge protectors in a desk drawer that is easy to access. Every morning before I leave for work, I turn off the…

Where do you keep your blog drafts? I have a single Google doc for blog drafts. It has 41,558 words. It takes about 30 seconds to save. I’m gonna try Evernote again. I’m gonna take that huge blog drafts doc…

There needs to be an easier way of selling on etsy. Their posting form is way too long. There’s a total of 14 fields to fill out. — Who made it? — Categories — Photos — Item Title — Description…

Do you tell any online services where you are currently are? Foursquare, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook Places? What happens when a service aggregates all the locations of your friends into one service? Find out at “Where are your friends?” on…

Base stealers in baseball are the best. Sports highlights should show ballplayers stealing bases instead of hitting home runs. The greatest base-stealer of all time, Rickey Henderson has his own autobiography from 1993, “Off Base: Confessions of a Thief.” Given…

I’ve been thinking a lot about how much I consume and how much I actually produce. I think my consuming-to-creating ratio is leaning too much on the consuming side and not enough on the creating side. Over on my blog…

Walgreens writes some unrelevant posts on their wall. I am starting a project where I write silly responses on their wall. What sort of silly stuff am I writing? Find out on my Google Plus post, “Unrelevant Facebook posts?” (if…

Did you know your friends can pin stuff to your boards? Yeah! You can add contributors to specific boards on your pinterest. Ideas on how to use collaborative boards on pinterest: 1) Research at work Does your company want to…

Artsy.net has 15,000 works of art from over 3,000 artists represented by over 200 of the world’s most respected galleries and museums. (AUG 4, 2016 UPDATE: now 350,000 images by 50,000 artists). They describe their site: The people behind art.sy…

word: pinbombed definition: When someone pins many many pins of the same topic/theme to Pinterest, so it takes over the screen when someone looks through their feed. example: I just pinbombed 30 different photos of potatoes! All my followers will…