Archive for January, 2009
iPhone App: Boombox
In: Geek Finds
18 Jan 2009Powered by Blip.fm, a social-networking meets music-discovery service, Boombox lets you look up any song (seriously, ANY song – I’ve yet to search for one it didn’t find) and stream it free to your iPhone. You can even build playlists, and if you’re so inclined, follow the link to buy the songs in iTunes. It’s [...]
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- Tags: apple, iphone app
Windows Update Hates Me
In: Geek Finds
16 Jan 2009I haven’t been able to install any Windows XP updates on my Parallels virtual machine since mid-November. I have no idea why. I continue to get the bubble notifying me that updates are ready to be installed, but installation always fails. Futhermore, we run WSUS so I shouldn’t have to do anything but be online [...]
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- Tags: microsoft, windows xp
Food Experience: Dragon Fruit
In: Food
13 Jan 2009Also known as Pitaya, this fruit grows on several tropical species of cactus native to Central & South America. I found dried Dragon Fruit at Trader Joe’s. Dried Dragon Fruit is kind of like a fruit rollup – similar consistentency, but a more gorgeous color, milder flavor, and enhanced texture because of the many small [...]
Creating our world by compelling advertising
In: Food
9 Jan 2009Over on BlogLess they ask, If we advertise a world that’s desirable enough, can we actually get consumers to go out and make it? While they are coming at it from a design angle I’m left thinking about the implications in the healthy food movement, aka slow food, aka artisanal and local, etc, in the [...]
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- Tags: Food
Skype – is it useful?
In: Geek Finds|Review
9 Jan 2009I think of Skype in the business arena akin to the first fax. The first fax users had few others to fax to and the inherent value in their adoption of the technology was questionable. I try to keep my Skype session up and running but others I’ve strong armed into getting accounts can’t seem [...]
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Food Predictions for 2009
In: Good Stuff
9 Jan 20092007 was the year of the cupcake. 2008 was the year of bacon. I predict that in 2009, it’s going to be all about the egg. Elph thinks it’s going to be rice. What’s your forecast?
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- Tags: Food
White Macbook just fine with us
In: Review
8 Jan 2009Folks have asked us whether we recommend the new aluminum Macbooks vs the good ol’ white MacBook that we’ve purchased regularly now for the last couple of years. At this point we still lean towards the white MacBook. The specs are good. The price is right. We recently bought a replacement laptop for the Roadhouse [...]
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- Tags: Amazon, apple
Make on the TV
In: News
6 Jan 2009Make magazine debuted its new TV show on PBS stations and online this week. It was awesome, I look forward to next week’s episode. The series encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular Make magazine, each half-hour episode hopes to inspire viewers to think, create, and, well, make. [...]
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- Tags: make, pbs, tv
Thaw Your Zune
In: News
3 Jan 2009On New Year’s Eve many users of Microsoft’s Zune started reporting their devices became frozen and unresponsive. This was quickly dubbed a mass suicide and the haters lined up to the left to poke fun of all the Microsoft users, who lined up to the right waiting for a fix. No fix yet, but MS [...]
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Server Room Rewired
In: Improvements
2 Jan 2009Elph spent time over the holidays running new patch cables in our server room at Mail Order. It used to look like a technicolor octopus of CAT5 with 10-20 ft. tentacles. Now it’s uniformly purple and decidedly better. Al the Octopus
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