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▼Blackberry Storm 3 is on the Horizon, Specs Detailed - Black Web 2.0
Late last week, details began to surface on the detailed specs of a new Blackberry Storm 3 coming to the market at the end of 2010. Amid all of the iPhone 4 and Android mania, we can’t ignore the...Expand this post »
Late last week, details began to surface on the detailed specs of a new Blackberry Storm 3 coming to the market at the end of 2010. Amid all of the iPhone 4 and Android mania, we can’t ignore the...Expand this post »
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Like▼Added some argyle style to my Dixie scanner with the included skins. I scanned through a fairly sizeable pile of junk tonight. It is all sitting comfy in Evernote. Liking the scanner a lot, very easy to use and quality scans. 12307 Broken Creek Ln, Pearland, TX 77584 - Show map
Andrew Maxwell - I love the Argyle. I have Argyle as my iPhone login screen.
Just curious, how well does the Dixie scanner, scan items into Evernote? Is the quality nice? I am writing a book/website on Evernote and I haven't had the pleasure of using one of those scanners.Jul 30DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Just curious, how well does the Dixie scanner, scan items into Evernote? Is the quality nice? I am writing a book/website on Evernote and I haven't had the pleasure of using one of those scanners.Jul 30DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sean Brady - I have been doing greyscale scans of documents into Evernote at 200 dpi and they are very crisp and clear. The scanner does not have great (any) feed guides so scans can turn out a bit at an angle if you are not careful.
On the Evernote integration, it requires that the desktop software be installed to use. It would be nice if it would upload directly to the cloud. On Windows, they have an issue with file naming when they hand the file off to Evernote and it ends up with an old 8 character Dos name.
I guess I would say that the integration is workable, and creates good scans, but it has much room for improvement.6:16 amDeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
On the Evernote integration, it requires that the desktop software be installed to use. It would be nice if it would upload directly to the cloud. On Windows, they have an issue with file naming when they hand the file off to Evernote and it ends up with an old 8 character Dos name.
I guess I would say that the integration is workable, and creates good scans, but it has much room for improvement.6:16 amDeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Decided to grab one of these portable scanners. Works quite well. Software on Windows could use a bit of polish, but I like the cloud integration side of the product.
Marshall Preddy - I'm particularly interested in scanning photos with this into Flickr. Does it work well? Is it reasonably fast?Jul 30DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sean Brady - Have only really scanned documents so far. I notice a bit of tilt to the scans, so I am not sure how well images will come out (if they have the same tilt). I will have to try that out.Jul 30DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sean Brady - I will note that for whatever reason they have decided to make it so their app cannot maximize, which makes using the software close to impossible on my netbook. I hate apps with sloppy settings like that.Jul 30DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Food for thought for anyone thinking of replacing e-mail with another collaboration tool.
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Like▼In this economy I often wonder why it is I can look out my windows in downtown Houston and see multiple large buildings being built. I suppose it is so all of the new Ipad owners have someplace to go during the day,
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Like▼Hehe. Like this one. Saw this from this article:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/10-ways-blogging-can-improve-your-life.html
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Like▼Google Earth Now Displays Real-Time Rain and Snow - Mashable!
The latest version of Google’s 3D map application, Google Earth, now has the ability to display real-time rain and snow in certain parts of the world. To see it, you must first enable the clouds layer, and then zoom in to a location where it’s raining or snowing. Google Earth displays rain and snow only in certain parts of North America and Europe; to see where exactly the new feature is avail...Expand this post »
The latest version of Google’s 3D map application, Google Earth, now has the ability to display real-time rain and snow in certain parts of the world. To see it, you must first enable the clouds layer, and then zoom in to a location where it’s raining or snowing. Google Earth displays rain and snow only in certain parts of North America and Europe; to see where exactly the new feature is avail...Expand this post »
Sean Brady - Can't wait for a hurricane in Houston to try this out...well maybe just a tropical storm.Jul 30DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼A Manual of Thievery - Fantasy Flight Games
The rules for Cadwallon: City of Thieves are now online Welcome to Cadwallon, a city of vagabonds and outlaws of every kind. Your tiny gang has been chosen to relieve the fat merchants of the city from a portion of their “excess” wealth. But there are many factions within the Guild, and yours is not the only band working in the district tonight! In fact, your...Expand this post »
The rules for Cadwallon: City of Thieves are now online Welcome to Cadwallon, a city of vagabonds and outlaws of every kind. Your tiny gang has been chosen to relieve the fat merchants of the city from a portion of their “excess” wealth. But there are many factions within the Guild, and yours is not the only band working in the district tonight! In fact, your...Expand this post »
Sean Brady - Really looking forward to this game. Great theme, and the rules being released means it should be on shelves pretty soon.Jul 29DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼An interview with Jim Bailey of Grindhouse Games - Tabletop Gaming News
The Gameshark computer gaming news site has posted an interview with Jim Bailey of Grindhouse Games.
The Gameshark computer gaming news site has posted an interview with Jim Bailey of Grindhouse Games.
Sean Brady - Great interview with Jim about this game and the company he and his brother built. I think I still have marks from the whipping his Warhammer army gave me the first time we played.Jul 29DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼I am giving a presentation on using Google Reader as a personal knowledge management (PKM) tool. I have about 20 minutes to get through everything I want to say, and it is a hands on type of thing.
What are the top features of Reader you would cover as it relates to PKM?
Current Plan is:
1. Organizing Feeds into Folders
2. Tagging Feed Articles
3. Search
4. Building a Network (Following People)
5. Sharing via Reader (This part is outside of the 20 minutes)
What are the top features of Reader you would cover as it relates to PKM?
Current Plan is:
1. Organizing Feeds into Folders
2. Tagging Feed Articles
3. Search
4. Building a Network (Following People)
5. Sharing via Reader (This part is outside of the 20 minutes)
Kristian Serrano - 6. Notes (with options)
7. Bundles (or is that Sharing?)
8. Subscribing via Search
9. Starring
10. Bookmarklets and Extensions for noting something in ReaderJul 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
7. Bundles (or is that Sharing?)
8. Subscribing via Search
9. Starring
10. Bookmarklets and Extensions for noting something in ReaderJul 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sean Brady - What are you using starring for? It seems like a natural reading list, except that it is damn near impossible to star something from outside of Reader. That makes Instapaper or the like a much better reading list. I am going to try and squeeze the bookmarklet and bundles into the sharing part. Thanks.Jul 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Kristian Serrano - I just use starring as a means to mark something from my already subscribed feeds to read or reference later.Jul 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼The Decline of Startpages Like Netvibes & iGoogle (POLL) - ReadWriteWeb
2-3 years ago, so-called "startpages" were all the rage - online dashboards where users could store links and quickly scan important news feeds. Startpages were also an evolving platform for "widgets," mini web apps inside of a web page. The big Internet companies had startpages: iGoogle, My Yahoo!, Microsoft's Live.com. Among the startups, Netvibes managed to establish a foothold. Other startu...Expand this post »
2-3 years ago, so-called "startpages" were all the rage - online dashboards where users could store links and quickly scan important news feeds. Startpages were also an evolving platform for "widgets," mini web apps inside of a web page. The big Internet companies had startpages: iGoogle, My Yahoo!, Microsoft's Live.com. Among the startups, Netvibes managed to establish a foothold. Other startu...Expand this post »
Hector Martinez - I still use Netvibes. Portable bookmarks are great. But I've been spending most of my time on Google Reader.Jul 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Marshall Preddy - I use Netvibes to keep up with work-related feeds. So as not to clog up my Google Reader.Jul 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sean Brady - They have just never done it for me at all. The actual apps are just so much more functional, I find myself going to them anyway.Jul 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼New Google Previewer - Webfonts Easier and More Fun - Google Code Blog
We’re very proud to tell you that we’ve just launched a new feature for the Google font directory. The new Google font previewer lets you test drive all the fonts in the directory so you can decide which web font in the Google Font API works best for your requirements. Now, whenever you visit the font family page of any of the fonts, you will see a link saying “Preview this font” that will loa...Expand this post »
We’re very proud to tell you that we’ve just launched a new feature for the Google font directory. The new Google font previewer lets you test drive all the fonts in the directory so you can decide which web font in the Google Font API works best for your requirements. Now, whenever you visit the font family page of any of the fonts, you will see a link saying “Preview this font” that will loa...Expand this post »
Sean Brady - This is really awesome. Still need to enable it on my blog.Jul 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Bookmark this on De▼Regarding these crazy 4e rumors… - www. Newbie DM .com
So a rumor dropped today like a neutron bomb all over twitter (first dropped by @criticalhits) that Wizards would cease publication of the core 4e books, and concentrate on Essentials. This was reported by Mana Nation, a Magic fan site. You can read the original post here. As you can imagine, everyone is up in arms about this. My suggestion, as with every rumor, is to take it with a grain of...Expand this post »
So a rumor dropped today like a neutron bomb all over twitter (first dropped by @criticalhits) that Wizards would cease publication of the core 4e books, and concentrate on Essentials. This was reported by Mana Nation, a Magic fan site. You can read the original post here. As you can imagine, everyone is up in arms about this. My suggestion, as with every rumor, is to take it with a grain of...Expand this post »
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Like▼Would you like to see the death of all mosquitoes? I know my son would, his legs are covered in welts from the little blood suckers.
Hector Martinez - I have wished for this very thing countless times.Jul 27DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Online Services - Sean's shared items in Google Reader
Online Services
- Backupify
- bit.ly blog
- Diigo Blog
- Evernote Blog
- Facebook Blog
- Feedly Blog
- Flickr Blog
- Instapaper Blog
- The Official Netflix Blog
- Posterous Posterous
- Remember the Milk Blog
- Seesmic Blog
- XMarks Blog
- Jing Blog
- Mendeley Blog
- Twitter Blog
- Amie Street Blog
- FriendFeed Blog
- Pogoplug Blog
- Zune Insider
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Like▼Awesome amazing pictures. Having the people in the photos to lend scale makes it all the more impressive.
Reshared Giant Crystal Cave in the Mexican Desert - Amusing Planet
Nearly 1,000ft below the Chihuahua Desert in Mexico, a gigantic cave was discovered by two brothers drilling in the Naica lead and silver mine in 2007-2008. It was an eerie sight. Obelisks shaped crystals up to 37 feet (11 meter) in length and the equivalent height of six men jutted out from the damp rock walls, and there were hundreds of blade-sharp crystals.
The giant obelisks are formed from groundwater saturated in calcium sulphate which filtered through the cave system millions of years ago. These water warmed by an intrusion of magma about a mile below, began filtering through the cave system millions of years ago. When, about 600,000 years ago, the magma began to cool, the minerals started to precipitate out of the water, and over the centuries the tiny crystals they formed grew and grew until 1985, when miners unwittingly drained the cave as they lowered the water table with mine pumps.
Because the crystals resemble giant icicles, the picture suggests it must be very cold inside the Cave of Crystals - but appearances can be deceptive. In fact, the temperature is a sweltering 112F, with a humidity of 90-100 per cent. The cavers had to wear protective suits and carry backpacks of ice-cooled air.
The cave has now been fitted with a heavy steel door to preserve this beautiful wonder for generations to come.
© Amusing Planet, 2010
Chris King - It looks like the set of a sci-fi movie! You know, I always wonder why people believe in imaginary pseudoscience when the real world is so many beautiful and unexpected things.Jul 27DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sean Brady - Hey just remember this is still the year we make contact, and it is not over yet.Jul 27DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Seesmic Web - Now with Facebook and LinkedIn Support, Desktop notifications, and Faster than ever! - Seesmic Blog
Seesmic Web now eases the management of all your social feeds, by also adding Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, all in one browser tab! We were keen on making Seesmic Web snappier to use! Getting our web application to run faster and be more lightweight is extremely important to us. We're hoping you'll be delighted by the performance boost in this new version of Seesmic Web! This, along with ot...Expand this post »
Seesmic Web now eases the management of all your social feeds, by also adding Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, all in one browser tab! We were keen on making Seesmic Web snappier to use! Getting our web application to run faster and be more lightweight is extremely important to us. We're hoping you'll be delighted by the performance boost in this new version of Seesmic Web! This, along with ot...Expand this post »
Marshall Preddy - So much better than anything else I've used. Updates actually load. And unlike Brizzly, you can update Facebook and Twitter simultaneously. Still not sure why Brizzly thinks it's okay not to allow simultaneous updates.Jul 27DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Working in Google Docs, I really miss the image control you get in the Blogger editor. Why is it so hard to add a caption for a picture in Google Docs?
Kristian Serrano - More importantly, why are editors across Google's products completely different from one another rather than borrowing from the same piece of code?Jul 26DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sean Brady - yea. Shame that they are not more consistent in that regard. The sites UI has additional differences. Odd considering all of them are designed to edit HTML documents.Jul 26DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼An Even Better Way to Find Places Nearby - Google Mobile Blog
With six updates in six months, Google Maps for Android has been getting plenty of new features, both big and small. A continued focus with each update has been on giving you better ways to find places nearby. In the most recent updates, Maps has gotten features like swiping between search results and info like photos, reviews, and more helpful content on the result pages. With today’s launch o...Expand this post »
With six updates in six months, Google Maps for Android has been getting plenty of new features, both big and small. A continued focus with each update has been on giving you better ways to find places nearby. In the most recent updates, Maps has gotten features like swiping between search results and info like photos, reviews, and more helpful content on the result pages. With today’s launch o...Expand this post »
Kristian Serrano - I'm trying to figure out if this makes Places Directory obsolete. Also, Places Directory updated, but it's caught in a permissions loop of some sort. It keeps asking for permission to use my Google account.Jul 26DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sean Brady - I still have Places on my phone, but I don;t understand why they keep updating it. The favorites from the two do not seem to mesh, and the detail pages in maps is just much nicer. Have not tried the update from today yet.Jul 26DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼I need these for my new office. I put a lot of my old toys away.
Reshared For the Android developer that has everything: 3″ robot figurines - The Next Web
A company called Dyzplastic says it has worked with Google to produce these 3″ tall vinyl Android figurines. We’ve contacted Google to find out if these are indeed “official” (we have no reason to think they aren’t, but just to be sure) but regardless, they look cool.
Unfortunetly, however, they are currently all sold out, with Dyzplastic stating that they’ll have more this summer. When they are available, you can purchase them for a reasonable $7.25 a piece, or get a boxed set of 16 for $112 (although it doesn’t seem as if you’ll be guaranteed a full set of 12 if you do so).
The names of the various robots are pretty funny, with Standard Android, Hi-Voltage,
Here’s some more images:
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Richard Georges - Never put your toys away. I have mine in my den, along with the ones I gave my son, who is now 15 and too cool for toys. He will grow up someday, and want them back.Jul 25DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sean Brady - Well away means not on my shelf and under the desk instead. My home office is more of a home toy room, I know the value of toys. :)Jul 26DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Google Chrome Canary Build - Google Operating System
Google Chrome's team added a new releases channel for early adopters and developers: Canary builds. Unlike the beta channel and the dev channel, Canary builds can be installed without overwriting a regular Chrome build. That means you can install both a Canary build and a regular build that could be on the stable, beta or dev channel. The Canary build is only available for Windows, it's "insta...Expand this post »
Google Chrome's team added a new releases channel for early adopters and developers: Canary builds. Unlike the beta channel and the dev channel, Canary builds can be installed without overwriting a regular Chrome build. That means you can install both a Canary build and a regular build that could be on the stable, beta or dev channel. The Canary build is only available for Windows, it's "insta...Expand this post »
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Like▼Screen Capture Extension for Google Chrome - Google Operating System
Google repackaged some of the code from the Feedback extension as a screen capturing Chrome extension. Google's tool lets you save the content of a tab as a PNG image, annotate the screenshot and highlight interesting parts of the image. The extension is able to capture the visible content of a tab, a region or the whole page, but it needs to scroll the page to capture the content that's not vi...Expand this post »
Google repackaged some of the code from the Feedback extension as a screen capturing Chrome extension. Google's tool lets you save the content of a tab as a PNG image, annotate the screenshot and highlight interesting parts of the image. The extension is able to capture the visible content of a tab, a region or the whole page, but it needs to scroll the page to capture the content that's not vi...Expand this post »
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Like▼Faster dialing with Google Voice on Android and Blackberry devices - Google Voice Blog
At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better. This is true for our Google Voice mobile apps as well. When you want to make a call, your phone should connect you as quickly as...Expand this post »
At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better. This is true for our Google Voice mobile apps as well. When you want to make a call, your phone should connect you as quickly as...Expand this post »
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