Monday: April 26, 2010
- Thirteen terrific sites for managing and sharing media files.
I keep hearing fantastic things about DropBox but I have yet to take advantage of their service. Should you decide to not make the same mistake you'll get two free gigabytes of storage space for signing up. Happy sharing.
Thursday: April 15, 2010
- Cablevision, Time Warner and Comcast open up wi-fi to each other's customers.
This is very good news (and quite unexpected also) for customers of any of the aformentioned companies in the above headline. You can now take advantage of any of their wifi whilst traveling just so long as you are paying customer. Not too shabby, guys - not too shabby at all.
Tuesday: April 13, 2010
- A collection of the world's greatest scenic drives courtesy of National Geographic.
National Geographic offers up roughly forty-eight ideas to maximize your next scenic drive experience for those so inclined. Of the forty-eight on this list I am proud to state that I can check off two (maybe three) items off of this list. Alright, maybe I'm not so proud - I need to get out more.
Thursday: March 18, 2010
- Google teaming up with Sony and Intel to infiltrate your television.
Google intends to open its TV platform, which is based on its Android operating system for smartphones, to software developers. The company hopes the move will spur the same outpouring of creativity that consumers have seen in applications for cellphones.
Monday: March 8, 2010
- New trailer for Iron Man 2 now available online for your viewing pleasure.
Well then, this trailer certainly reveals more about the plot than the previous one did. For awhile I thought it was just going to be Tony Stark versus Randy the Ram - guess that's not the case anymore.
Monday: March 1, 2010
- PlayStation Network outage causes some annoyance for owners of the PS3 console.
Although Sony says it will have a fix by this morning, it has not yet said what went wrong. Anecdotal evidence points to a combination of DRM and firmware issues rather than a network outage.
Thursday: February 18, 2010
- New Apple products might be arriving tomorrow according to Best Buy inventory systems.
Dear Apple, please release an updated version of the MacBook Pro so I can eagerly give you my hard-earned cash to replace my aging plastic (cracking along the edges I might add) regular MacBook.
Wednesday: February 17, 2010
- A hundred and one reasons why you should play more Sudoku.
36. Experts say that solving Sudoku game is based on the neural pathways and even the computers that are most powerful cannot replicate.
Monday: January 11, 2010
- New York Times takes a peek at Netflix queues around the country.
A great visualization with some interesting data as to the kind of Netflix patterns from different metropolitan areas. Everyone seems to love The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Cadillac Records - not so much.
Monday: January 4, 2010
- A collection of some trippy time capsules for your viewing pleasure.
Where would one go to find the official, GWBR-certified “World’s Largest Time Capsule”? Not in the center of a major metropolis or at a global exhibition attended by millions, but instead at 318 Hillcrest Dr., Seward, Nebraska.
Wednesday: December 30, 2009
- Google files patent to possibly turn YouTube into some sort of video game service.
An interesting concept but I'd have to see it to believe it. From my personal experience watching many a YouTube video; the less interaction the better. Or this all could just be, as the source article states, another way for Google to inject more advertising into video content.
Monday: December 28, 2009
- A faster and more caffeinated Google search is coming your way in the near future.
Chances are you probably won't notice anything overtly different since most of the rumored changes are under the hood (algorithms, indexes, what have you). According to TechCrunch, Google will start to weight news and social media sites higher than older indexed pages. Eh, you'll learn to live with it.
Monday: December 21, 2009
- A handy tutorial on how to make time go by faster.
Sorry, but there are no time travel methods listed in this particular tutorial. The tutorial does give some handy advice on how simulate the appearance of time going by faster - which may be just as handy for you.
Wednesday: December 16, 2009
- A video game timeline for your viewing pleasure.
I am looking forward to ene day I will explaining to my children just how we played classic video games in my day. 'You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!'.
Tuesday: December 8, 2009
- 101 things to see and do in New York City this Winter according to Timeout New York.
Give yourself the gift of crowd avoidance: During the week, the rink is significantly less packed, so play hooky and get your glide on. If you can’t cut out of work, haul out of bed on a weekend morning and beeline to 30 Rock; the rink opens at 8am.
Monday: December 7, 2009
- Google pulls the curtain back on brand new real-time content search.
Try searching for your favorite TV show, sporting event or the latest development on a recent government bill. Whether it's an eyewitness tweet, a breaking news story or a fresh blog post, you can find it on Google right after it's published on the web.
Tuesday: November 24, 2009
- Celebrity time travel through the historical eye of Photoshop.
Always wondered what some celebrities would have been like had they lived in different time periods? The folks at Worth1000 were thinking just the same thing.
Monday: November 23, 2009
- AOL trying out new look now that split from Time Warner is official.
Say goodbye to the that blue triangle you've grown so familiar with over the years. Say hello to various works of clipart instead... with the letters A O L (and don't forget the period) draped over them.
Friday: November 20, 2009
- Daily Grind: Cloudy
Name: Vin (aka dayquil daytripper)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Cloudy @ 2:39:23 PM
What Vin really wants today: To shake off yet another strain of this cold/flu business prior to my upcoming (and much-needed) vacation.Music Stuck in Head: Only a Dream / Phish
I'm very curious as to why they decided to leave this off the new album and stick it on the bonus disc (which most people still haven't received). This tune is better than most of the songs on 'Joy'.Stuff to do today:
- Clean up GeekLikeMe footer and paging (scroll to the bottom of the site)
- Test new code additions in multiple browsers, particularly Internet Explorer
- ...of which I highly reccomend this tool to all of my fellow web nerds: IETester
- Cross that item off the list
- Fix rupture in space time continuum for crossing off crossed off item on daily grind to do list
- Wish a certain member of the Michnay family a happy birthday
- Apologize for lack of a daily grind post in what... two weeks?
- Get back on track next week now that server mess is all cleaned up
- The fifty best inventions of 2009 according to TIME.
Covers everything from tank-bred tuna all the way up to fashion robots. Looking for the worst inventions of 2009? There's a list for that.
Thursday: November 19, 2009
- Apple's unannounced tablet might come in two different flavors.
...Apple's two tablet PC models - one of which will have a 10.6-inch TFT LCD panel while the other will have a 9.7-inch OLED panel. However, the sources did not explain how production for the two models would be split between the three makers.
Wednesday: October 21, 2009
- Microsoft and Google now have their very own special ways to search Twitter.
You can try Microsoft's implementation here and Google's is somewhere over here. On the Microsoft side, searching for a particular topic brought me to my cousin's Twitter account which was kind of humorous but slightly scary at the same time. Good work, Dan.
Monday: October 19, 2009
- A gellery of ten cars that were ahead of their time.
...featured several industry firsts, including seat belts, a third headlight that turned with the wheels, a perimeter frame with integrated roll-bar crash protection and a hemispherical combustion engine. It also was remarkably aerodynamic.
Thursday: October 15, 2009
- Magnetic version of electricity, called magnetricity, just recently discovered.
It is unlikely to become an immediate replacement for electricity because the crystals have to be cooled to below minus 272.15C — just above absolute zero — to be conducting.
Thursday: October 8, 2009
- New study shows that Windows 7 doesn't boot up faster than Vista.
...a three-month-old machine can take up to a minute longer to boot, or 2 minutes and 34 seconds. Windows 7 did outperform Vista at the three-month and six-month marks but it generally 'trailed the older version significantly' in its boot-up tests.
Wednesday: October 7, 2009
- Fabled Apple tablet might be a reality first quarter of 2010.
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will be the manufacturing partner for an upcoming tablet PC device from Apple, according to market sources.
Monday: September 28, 2009
- An amazing collection of liquid art to feast your eyes upon.
What better way to end your day than with a splash of liquidy-colorful goodness. These photos were shot by combining soundwaves with water-based paint using a mic-triggered camera. Wow.
- Daily Grind: Calm
Name: Vin (aka shaggy)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Calm @ 1:18:00 PM
What Vin really wants today: Enjoy a quiet Monday at the office due to the holiday. Attempt to get a leg up on some upcoming work projects.Music Stuck in Head: Nothing
...and it's kind of nice actually.Stuff to do today:
- Convert some non-compatible iPod movies to compatibile versions with iTunes 9
- Converting... converting... converting...
- Holy crap, this is taking a long time
- Twiddle thumbs
- Start drawing up new DotComic strip for this week
- Note that season premier of Dexter was pretty good, creepy as always, but pretty good
- Thank Showtime for showing more than enough of John Lithgow for one week
- Post-rehab House should be interesting tonight as well
- Note that overall Fall television programming so far has been pretty entertaining
- Even Heroes was borderline decent
Friday: September 25, 2009
- New study shows that time spent on social networks has tripled since last year.
You probably have Facebook open in another tab next to this one don't you? DON'T YOU?
- The twenty-five of the best SNL commercial parodies of all time.
Do not taunt happy fun ball.
