Track your sleep with an iPhone app
By Elph · In: Geek Finds| Review
9 Jan 2010I have used it for two nights now and the first night it was not picking up much but the second night it produced a classic sleep histogram. Unfortunately I left my normal alarm on and so didn’t get to test the built-in alarm. Price is .99 cents.
Went to bed / woke up: 10:57 PM / 8:00 AM
Total time: 9h 02m
My sleep graph for the entire night:
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Dragon Dictation for iPhone
By JoeG · In: Geek Finds| Review
23 Dec 2009
A geek find from last week: Dragon Dictation is an iPhone app (free) that accurately captures voice and converts to text. Press the record button, speak your speak, press done, and watch the text appear. So far the only mistakes I’ve run into are with words like on, in, an being misheard, but that’s probably more an issue with my enunciation than the app. After dictating, you’ve got the options to send your text via email, SMS, or to the clipboard. It’s surprisingly handy.
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Magic Mouse
By JoeG · In: Geek Finds
8 Dec 2009Two-finger scrolling changed my life.
When Apple added multi-touch features to the (PowerBook and) MacBook trackpads several years ago it was a significant and intuitive breakthrough in human-computer interaction. The iPhone followed shortly after, improving multi-touch and introducing gestures. These improvements are now standard technology on all Apple laptops, but those of us still rocking early models are missing out on all the features. Unless you get a Magic Mouse.
Elph was kind enough to pick up a Magic Mouse for me a couple weeks back. It’s the sexiest peripheral I’ve ever owned. Read the rest of this entry »
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IT Dinner #13: Pizza
8 Dec 2009November 30, 2009
Billie’s House
Head Chef JoeG brought toppings, Whole Foods pizza dough, homemade sauce, salad and vino. Elph brought his own cauliflower crust. We made 8(?) pizzas including a calzone and a dessert pizza with cinnamon sugar and chocolate bits.
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Ok, something about Google Wave
By Elph · In: Geek Finds| Review
25 Nov 2009We’ve been playing with Google Wave here for a few weeks. We’ve used it to take minutes of meetings, float an idea and flesh it out, and collect and share information. The jury is still out on whether this is a winner but it is a thought provoking tool for real-time collaboration.
I enjoyed this post over at Daniel Tenner’s blog on understanding what problems Wave solves. If you missed it, and you have over an hour to kill, check out the original full length video from I/O introducing Google Wave. Once you are into it Gina Walker over at Lifehacker has The Complete Guide to Google Wave.
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Ringcentral review
By Elph · In: Geek Finds| Review
24 Nov 2009Today I was playing with some details in the Ringcentral account that we setup for Zingerman’s Press this summer and really enjoying the ease of use and reasonable cost structure. Tonight I ran across a quick review by the good folks over at Web Worker Daily that they did last month. Enjoy.
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First Glimpse at Google Chrome OS
By Craig · In: Geek Finds| Good Stuff| News
19 Nov 2009
Not to be confused with Google’s Chrome web browser, or its mobile phone platform, Chrome OS is Google’s web centric operating system for laptops and desktops. Lifehacker has a great preview worth checking.
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They’re Open!
19 Nov 2009Coffee Company’s Cafe is open! Airport Plaza Drive peeps, come on over and get your caffeine fix. Ask for the “Southside Special” to get your coffee drinks ON THE HOUSE!
Here’s me and Nicole, our Art Director who does the gorgeous mail order catalogs, enjoying a Dirty Sheed and a Mocha respectively.
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Scenes from the Almost-Open Coffee Company Cafe
18 Nov 20093723 Plaza Drive, Ann Arbor MI 48108
Counting the days till my Dirty Sheed*.
I like the colors and the bar stools. And look, a big window so you can watch the roaster in action.
Robot sees you!
*Dirty Sheed — two shots of espresso, Mexican vanilla syrup, splash of half & half over ice = sweet energy
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