From the archive

November 2010

59 posts

A Review of GetGlue

GetGlue is a social sharing service that is available through the web, Iphone, Ipad and Android. It allows you to share not only what your watching or listening too, but also what your reading, thinking about, eating. The first thing you do when you join GetGlue is you have the opportunity to rate various categories including movies, music, actor, artist, books. Based on how you rate things Glue offers you suggestions of things that you might like. Getting suggestion from Getglue is especially useful when you first join and you don't have many followers. As you get more followers the suggestions get better and more accurate. Also when you rate and review things you can win actual physical badges.

Sony Reader Pocket Edition (PRS-350) Review

There's no doubt that ebook readers are very much du jour, and Sony are keen to be part of that trend with the recent additions of the Touch and Pocket Editions to the Sony Reader line-up. Reviewed here is the Pocket Edition (PRS-350), which is the smaller of the two models, with a 5" touch screen.  Overall, it's about 14.5 cm tall, 10.5

GNC-2010-11-30 #630 Back in Paradise

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, things have been a little crazy with trying to help the family back in Michigan with the missing kids (see below article). In amidst the chaos put out two pieces of media for you over the weekend. My presentation from Blogword and the Saturday Morning Tech show which has yet to be posted. I

Comcast vs Net Neutrality

link: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast’s Actions | Business Wire

How to Save Money Over the Holidays

For the last five or six days, we've all been inundated with advertising and news stories surrounding the holiday shopping season.  In the United States, the shopping season gets into full swing on "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving, to be followed up by "Cyber Monday" the Monday after.  We are a TV-fied household (despite the fact that I watch

Giant Pinball Machine Office

For the Interieur 2010 Exhibition in Kortrijk, Belgium last month, lighting company Modular Lighting Instruments created an office designed like a giant pinball machine.  Check out the pictures - it's absolutely amazing.  Not sure it's terribly practical but looks great. The purpose of the stand was to show off the latest range of LED light fittings and this giant pinball machine used

Wikileaks Under DDOS Attack – Let The Conspiracy Theories Begin

Wikileaks announced via Twitter that it is under a massive denial of service attack.  The attack coincides with the planned publication of 250,000 documents later today.  The documents are apparently confidential diplomatic cables. As it turns out, there may not be much of interest in this release.  Leaked copies of the German publication Der Spiegel appeared early on newsstands and

Special Edition Blog World 2010 Presentation!

I have decided to post the presentation I made at Blogworld to my entire audience. I hope you find it educational and gives you some back ground on why I am so excited about the over the top TV space.

Amber Alert: I Need Your Help

I was informed a short time ago, that my cousins kids are missing and are in extreme danger. Here is what is being reported. Re-Posetd Without Permission from www.wtol.com MORENCI, MI (WTOL) - Law Enforcement officers in Michigan are looking for three boys reported missing Friday. Five-year-old Tanner Lucas Skelton, seven-year-old Alexander William Skelton, and nine-year-old Andrew Ryan Skelton have

Printopia

Printopia is an application that you download from Ecamm and it allows you to print from either your Ipad or Iphone 4 even if that your printer is not Air print capable. One of the reasons that Iphone and Ipads owners were looking forward the ios 4.2.1 update was the ability to print directly from their Iphone or Ipad. However, unfortunately only a limited number of printers are Air print capable. Printopia allows you to print to any printer as long as it is on the same network as your Iphone or Ipad.

Black Friday Deal For A Great Media Center Keyboard

Just a quick heads-up for anyone looking for a great Media Center (HTPC) keyboard.  Vidabox is offering their keyboard today for US $55.  I reviewed this keyboard a while back.  I have been using it for over a year now and still love it.  It has small trackball at the top right and the left/right click mouse buttons are on

Get Your 4th Amendment On

If you've been following Todd and the general back scatter x-ray scanner debacle, then you might be interested in this range of underwear from the Cargo Collective.  The undergarments have the 4th Amendment printed in metallic letters so that the text is revealed by the scanner and displayed on the monitor. Genius. Choose from T-shirts, underwear, socks and children's clothes, with both plain "4th Amendment" and

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