Tag: Tech

Apple used to produce a weekly podcast called “New Music Tuesday.” It was a nice 15-minute show that gave a quick overview of new music coming out. They played song clips and gave brief commentary about each clip. It was…

Share your entire iphone app list with others. I’d like an app that can do that. And share the folders you use to organize your apps. While, yes, many would argue they don’t want people to know ALL their apps.…

Get your cherry-flavored H1N1 shots! Would you like your H1N1 shot to be flavored as blue raspberry, Coke or wild cherry? Walgreens has a bright yellow sign posted on their ICEE machine stating that people can get their H1N1 shots…

Do a search for coolest place on earth in Google Maps and it brings you to Earth, TX. Somehow I don’t think Texas is the coolest place on earth. Sorry, Texas. But you are just too hot to be considered…

Here’s my favorite six tweets from June 2010 tweeted from spudart. Why aren’t there more politicians with the last name Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson?

I’m going to start a new project. I was looking at all the stamps I have and how they are unused. So I want to do a mail project. When looking at Facebook, instead of liking something on someone’s wall,…

I’ve reached one million views on all my flickr photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/spudart. Thank you to everyone who has viewed my photos. Here’s my top three most viewed photos: Chicago’s Moving Bridges over the Chicago River Viewed 41,256 times The Chicago…

People can now sync their flickr photos with their Facebook wall. Anytime you post something to flickr, it’ll also post to your Facebook account. Sounds great, right? But what if I already look at people’s photos on flickr? Now i’m…

I work in a company where everyone in meetings takes notes on paper. Whenever I go back to my desk, I have to type the notes for action items on my to-do list. Or for further conversation in email. It…

It would be nice if ebay would archive the auction page of the auctions you win. I’ve started doing that now. I save both a screenshot PNG and a printable PDF. The PNG file is so I can see exactly…

Yelp is a great site to review restaurants, museums, and other destinations. They also allow you to bookmark places, so you can have a handy list of places you’d like to visit (here’s my to-do list). As your to-do list…

The May 17, 2010 #journchat twitter discussion covered such topics as: SEO vs. clever headlines, iPad readers, hiring someone who uses social media, emailing your resume. Here’s my responses to four of the questions. —————————————– Q6) Has SEO influenced a…

Want to give something extra impact that upper case bold letters just won’t do? Try putting a smiley face emoticon between each letter. It’ll give your instant messages that super-duper-incredible impact you were looking for. Oh and if you want,…

The Apple Store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago has a 42-inch Panasonic display to show off their Apple TV product. Being curious how flickr photos show up on the Apple TV, I pulled up my Chicago HDR set. I stood…

These are my top ten favorite tweets from April 2010.

The number of searches on google for puzzles have been steadily declining since 2004. Are people just not interested in simple puzzles anymore? My first thought was maybe people are playing more online games. But I think the decline in…

Someone should steal the letter “m” from Myspace to name it Yspace, cuz y would anyone still use yspace?

Since March 3, 2010 spudart.org was unreachable for people who use Comcast cable internet. The nice support people at the company that hosts spudart.org found that there was a loop in the DNS setup. Huh? Good news is that spudart.org…

I love how appshopper.com has a wish list feature. It makes me be more wise with my app purchashing decisions. Here’s what I have in my wish list now. What apps should I get? ToonPAINT $1.99: ToonPAINT allows you to…

It’s the Wednesday after St. Patricks day weekend, and I’m walking down Michigan Avenue to work and I see someone wearing green. I immediately thought, “wow, that person has been wearing that shirt since Saturday!” So I tweeted about how…

Quiet Metra train The platform is completely empty at the 103rd street Metra station at 10:17pm on a Tuesday night. As the train arrives, I’m the only one to board the only open car on the train. While looking for…

Let’s say you have an event one week from today that you really want to be at. Now you can jump to the future and be at that event! The only catch. This time machine is kinda slow. To attend…

Quiznos emailed me a coupon today. I was happy. Thus I emailed Quiznos with my thanks. Here’s the email: ============== My dear quiznos rock star, Perfect timing. My friend and I were just talking about expanding our lunch horizons. Quiznos…

I got so excited when Facebook showed an ad for the 2010 Olympic mascots. Especially since it showcases my favorite mascot, QUATCHI! When I clicked on the ad, I was totally expecting to go to an Olympic mascot page. Instead…

I would love an iPhone Atari 2600 emulator app. Right now an iTunes search for “atari” results in the following games: — Centipede — Missile Command — Super Breakout — Atari Football — Backyard Hockey — Backyard Baseball — Backyard…

With Apple naming their new tablet the iPad, it makes me think someone is saying iPod with a Chicago accent. In honor of the spirit of replacing the “o” with an “a,” I present to you the new lol… lal…

The number in parenthesis is the number of hits the post got in 2009. Oprah group dance on Michigan Avenue has inspiration in previous YouTube viral video (42,302) I shot a video of this performance and put it up on…

What do you think this emoticon is? ~([-_-])~ (props to Noel for tweeting his creation. That’s how i found it)

The Chicago Tribune and other top content providers are participating in Google’s new online reader, the Google Fast Flip. Take a look at http://fastflip.googlelabs.com. Here’s my review: I was leery as I read bout Fast Flip on Google’s blog. But…

Check out this super-cool hi-tech community in a cabin. Leo Laporte talks about: * Keeping our open internet * Net neutrality * Starting your own business * Bootstrapping * Niche marketing * Broadcasting * Podcasts If you like ANY of…

My top five favorite tweets I made in October and November 2009 via @spudart: For one week I’d like each car on CTA trains to play a different genre of music. Just to see if people pick a particular car…