Tag: Tech

If I ever threw my office computer out the window, I would attach a parachute to it, so it wouldn’t get damaged. 11:53 AM Jan 25th tweeted by @mattmaldre (my twitter account for design, marketing, web and tech things) I…

An instant message conversation between me (spudart) and my brother (unlikelymoose) today: Spudart: Adium has been giving me the beach ball frequently the past two days. Unlikelymoose: when life gives you a beach ball, go to the beach.

It’s funny whenever you do a search for something and your own site comes up. I’m searching for a tool that will tell me the twitterversaries of all the people i follow. I googled: following twitterversary, and the fourth result…

Alex Garcia wrote a very thought-provoking blog post about the new forms of story telling on Youtube, “YouTube Doesn’t Care About Your Beginning, Middle, End.” He reveals the Youtube secrets to viral success. — It resembles a daily experience. In…

You have the chance to talk with an intergalactic space captain! Every day Brewster Rockit tweets hilarious stuff about his journeys and observations on life. One day he gave insight into how life is like a vending machine. Here’s a…

Do you know what would make for a great music-listening service? If they allowed you to embed playable clips on your own website. So if I blog about a song, people can play it right on my site. If someone…

A big thanks to all the people who commented and faved my photos on flickr in the past year. In 2010, I posted 373 photos to flickr. 154 people wrote 613 comments. 533 people made 1,706 faves. Here’s the top…

MidVentures asks in a blog post if Youtube has hit their Tipping Point. The author of this post heard a couple teenage girls in an airport say, “i’m so over youtube.” The teenage girl’s reasoning was mostly because it was…

Three hand-picked November tweets from @spudart It would be fun to trade a USA state with another country’s state for a few years. Nov 4 If elevators did not exist, how tall would the tallest building be? Nov 16 When…

The top 500 websites according to seomoz: [Updated on September 21, 2017. If the favicons are not loading, view a screenshot of all 500]

Two questions: 1) Do I know you? (in real life or from online) 2) Do you administer a Facebook Fan Page? If the answer to both questions are “yes” then I want to follow your Page, and actually read it…

Facebook Pages. Do you read them? I like Pages, but I never read them. It’s kinda sad, because I have friends who administer Pages. To solve that problem, I’m making a list in Facebook of all the Pages that my…

Do a Google image search for my name, Matt Maldre, and the results show a photo of me that I use everywhere. I’m wearing a tan plaid shirt. But then just a few results after that, there is a guy…

In honor of 11/11/10, I bring you the tweets at significant numbers. Tweet #100. Twitter was really exciting at the start. Tweet #1,000. The first people on twitter were party animals! Tweet #10,000. Curbing your wheels? The one billionth tweet.…

The plaza outside the new Apple Store in Chicago is aluminumly fantastic. It actually outshines the Apple Store itself. The store is essentially one long hallway. The simplicity inside the store is nice, but was very crowded. Perhaps I should…

For an extra touch of fun, use people’s middle names in emails. Whenever I find someone’s middle name, I like to put it in my address book. Then whenever I email that person, the “to” field shows their full name.…

Crain’s Small Business Forum had a panel of four social media experts for “Mapping Social Marketing Strategies” today on the 80th floor of the AON Center in Chicago. It was an excellent forum, I walked away with a good list…

Faving photos on flickr is fun. Giving appreciation to other people’s photos. Making a collection of your favorite photos. I recently faved my 3,000th photo on flickr. In 2008, I made an image of my first 1,000 favorites. Here’s the…

For September’s top tweets, three hand-picked tweets from @spudart. Imagine elevators as the tubes in Super Mario Brothers. They warp you to another level. 28-Sep IDEA: they should make liquor jelly bellys and call them “Jelly Oh Nelly Bellys” 9-Sep…

If you send a message with the subject line as a smiley face, then in the browser tab it looks like the smiley face is wearing a gmail hat. Gmail – 🙂

My setup I have nine hard drives running. Three are main external hard drives: Each of these drives has a backup drive sitting next to it. And I have a second backup sitting at another location just in case something…

Yesterday, we covered my recommendations for external hard drives, Vantec NexStar CX NST-300S2-BK for the case. And a good hard drive is a Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Green WD20EARS. Now let’s cover the details of why I picked these…

If you are looking for more hard drive space, buy an external case and the hard drive separately. Many times when a hard drive fails, it’s just the case that fails. You want to be able to easily take the…

Japanese airport officials would not allow Steve Jobs to bring ninja stars onto his private airplane. In turn Steve Jobs vows to never return to Japan. According to iPhone App Review: “Jobs said it wouldn‚Äôt make sense for a person…

It’s rather amazing how many of the single-letter domains have no websites behind them. The only ones with domains are q.com which goes to qwest.com, and x.com Paypal’s Developer Network. a.com nothing b.com nothing c.com nothing d.com nothing e.com nothing…

50cent recently tweeted this nonsense: Tweetin with my gunnar glasses on trick! u aint got these suckas. get ur money right ima get like 50 new hoes wit Mon Aug 30 21:38:50 via Twitpic

🙂 the smiley emoticon. It’s fun to think that it takes the simultaneous effort of both your pinky fingers to type a smiley face. The left pinky holds down the shift key, while the right pinky finger presses the colon…

It would be cool to see a gallery of every official country website. I’m thinking of every year I’ll take a screenshot of these websites. Ten, twenty years from now it would be interesting to see how they evolve. Can…

A shop named “sexoffender” has been on Etsy since 2009. It’s clearly wrong to have a store with this name. Etsy is not taking the store down. Please please please report this store to Etsy. If enough people complain, then…

What is your first photo posted to flickr? Here’s all the first flickr photos of my flickr contacts: And my first photo on flickr: I like that it’s a set of stairs that I climb every day. To think those…

Curious about what your first tweet is? Just head over to mytweet16.com and they’ll show your first 16 tweets. (However, if you have over 3,200 tweets, they won’t be able to retrieve your first 16 tweets.) Signing up for twitter,…