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Pearl Jam’s New Single, ‘the Fixer’
Friday July 24, 2009
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Pearl Jam’s new single the Fixer is the 1st single of the new studio album ‘Backspacer’ due out on the 20th of September. The band is also playing some dates in the US and in Europe in support of it. Not much else is know of this release but the band played the 1st Tonight…
Navigon GPS App for the iPhone
Thursday July 23, 2009
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Navigon just released their GPS for the iPhone. Temporarily priced at $69.99 till August 15th then the price will jump to $99.99. It’s a great price if you don’t want to carry an additional piece of hardware around when you have the iPhone already available to you. The only flaw is you cannot use your…
Tomato Photosynth
Wednesday July 22, 2009
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Photosynths are a great way to document, share and record three dimensional objects. In this example we used a strange little tomato from our garden which made us giggle. We have found photosynths to be a fabulous way to also enable viewers to navigate within a space. Photosynths can be used creatively to capture small…
Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Monday July 20, 2009
Reading Time: 7 minutes
#MusicMonday for my Bailey Rose Blessing… If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience… I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy…
Waiting for Godot on Broadway and it was Quite the Adventure
Sunday July 19, 2009
Reading Time: 5 minutes
Dan “Waiting for Godot” Broadway has a life of its own and is a magical place to be! As you may already know, I saw Waiting for Godot on Broadway and it was quite the adventure. Waiting for Godot is not a play for everyone; it’s a drama where the actors drag you into a…
Walk on the Moon Memories 40th Anniversary
Saturday July 18, 2009
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I was 19 years old the summer of 1969. Richard Nixon was president. The Vietnam War was raging and Woodstock would not happen until August 15. 40 years ago this weekend Americans waited eagerly for Sunday morning, July 20th, to arrive. NASA was going to fulfill a dream that President John F. Kennedy spoke of…
“It Might Get Loud”- a Documentary on the Guitar and Rock N Roll Music
Friday July 17, 2009
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< ‘It Might Get Loud’ is a rockumentary starring 2 guitar legends and one of recent music’s only significant guitar contributors- Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin, the Edge from U2 and Jack White from the White Stripes, respectively. This film is released August 14th limited.
Push Notifications Not Working on Unlocked iPhones
Thursday July 16, 2009
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Push notifications will not work on your unlocked iphone. There is a problem with push which appeared few weeks ago when Apple released the iPhone OS 3.0 which included support for Push notifications. Weather the application is free or a paid version it will not work. Keep in mind if you did not go through…
What is a CSA?
Wednesday July 15, 2009
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Yesterday we picked up the first basket of our CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and it works by the community prepaying for the harvest. We invest in the harvest and every week, or every other week depending on your package, you receive a large or small basket of freshly picked produce. Our…
Using Google Insights for Search
Monday July 13, 2009
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Soup or Salad? That is the question, but wait! How has Google been asked that question over the last 7 days, month, year? Was it on the Web? A News item? An Image or New Product and how do you find out? You find out by using the Google Insights for Search beta* Soup or…
Waiting for Godot on Broadway
Sunday July 12, 2009
Reading Time: 8 minutes
Last night your Sunday blogger, Dan, was literally Waiting for Godot on Broadway. Since Dan is traveling today, sans laptop, he asked me to post a blog for him. You may remember reading Dan’s May 24, 2009 post Waiting for Godot is Back on Broadway. In that post Dan reported that he was able…
Is Bing a decision engine, a surname, a candy bar, a slag heap?
Saturday July 11, 2009
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Is Bing a decision engine, a surname, a candy bar, a slag heap? Over the past couple of months I have been reading a lot about Microsoft’s new search engine BING.com. We are all familiar with Microsoft, right? We know about Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search. And now we have Microsoft’s latest…