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I can’t stand it. What is it with some women (I guess some men fit this bill too) and their desire to keep magazines, stack them up and 1) claim they’re going to read them or 2) save them for reference for ‘future ideas’? I love my mom to death but she used to be a major ‘mag-hoarder’. I remember the stacks of Better Homes and Gardens. Higher and higher they...
Greetings from Nashville! I’m on the road with Tara as her childhood friend Jen is getting married at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. This place is massive. It has 2,881 rooms – each more than 400 square feet. Others, including the suites, are much bigger. All in all, it’s a great place to have a wedding. The first thing that really impressed me (outside of an atrium with a...
If you’re like me, you can’t remember the last time you were ‘bored’. I haven’t used the word in years. Wait, I did a few weeks ago. I was at home in my kitchen, pacing around the island. The robot slipped a gear, as I fought to grasp the idea, “could I possibly be bored!?”. I found something to do quickly and that was that. My point is, with how busy we...
WFTV-TV photographer and friend Dan Criswell just introduced me to a very cool, yet slightly creepy iPhone app. It’s called Cinemagram – what seems to be an offshoot of Instagram with some motion ability! Basically, it’s an animated GIF file. But it takes the magic of your iPhone images and video and merges it into a GIF and not a .JPG or .PNG you’d normally save from your...
Are you a Discover Card customer? Check this out... Getting those Xbox charges off of your credit card Yep, that’s what I saw on my credit card bill recently. Xbox charges. In fact, I saw three charges on my credit card from the transaction description above. Just from seeing it on my card, I could easily gather it had something to with A) Microsoft, B) XBox and C) Washington. If you see...
By now you’ve seen it, the privacy link on Google, YouTube, etc. explaining that “this stuff matters”. Did you read it? I have been plowing through it here and there. It’s boring, but I knew it would become a big point of discussion. Because every time I go to YouTube to log in, or head to Google, it pops up. I get it already.
But they’re right: This stuff matters.
(11/4/11) Update: I just downloaded the app for a test drive. It was a small pain to track down my account number, set up an account online and register – but it was pretty quick. But I must say, the picture quality is great! Smooth scrolling channels are much better than the rigid delay you get on the TV from the cable box. The only downfall was waiting for some channels to load and there...
iPhone screen flickering? Give this a shot I’ve had my iPhone 4 (work phone) about a year now. And just a few days ago I noticed I had a case of the iPhone 4 screen flickers. It’s a bit lighter and you can see lines like you would if you looked very closely to a TV set. I’ve added an image, but that doesn’t add anything because the flicker doesn’t affect it. So my...
I’ve done it again. These things don’t grow on trees, ya know. But I still manage to fling them around like a nasty apple with a wormhole and a nice, fat bruise on it. I dropped my iPhone 4 again. This is the second time. The first time was in my kitchen. Tile. I did the smash and dash around the apartment cursing myself to no end. Why was I so stupid?! Be gentle. Be gingerly. But I...
Times they are a’changin’, that’s for sure. GQ just had a great article about The Cloud and what it’s going to do to the way you listen to your music. Think of the old days of buying LPs, cassette tapes, CDs and, yes, even the days of iTunes receipts. In the ‘old days’ you bought your music and stored it. The Cloud is going to change the way music is listened...
