Archive May 2008
It’s a Free Computer!
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Thanks to HP and BuzzCorps, Ponzi and I gave away a $5000 Dragon notebook last night! We had a lot of fun, and I’m sure our winner Ralajer is one happy camper in sunny California! Unfortunately, the video of the drawing [...]
Do you Have eBay Seller or Buyer Accounts?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Sutty5 writes: “Many discussions recently have focussed on having more than one eBay account. Ebay has no problems with this, as long as each account is kept in good standing. Following are five reasons for opening multiple accounts.” Buyer Confidence. If [...]
Are you Participating in FireFox Download Day 2008?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Join FireFox in their mission to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours! World Download Day is fast approaching. Will you pledge to help Mozilla reach its goal? Sounds like a good deal, right? All [...]
What did you Want to be When you Grew Up?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed What did you want to grow up to be when you were little? I wanted to be a few different things. I even had the opportunity once to ask Bill Gates this very question. Did you know that as a kid, [...]
Do you Embed my Videos or Pictures?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Someone recently asked me what exactly embedding means? To embed something simply means that you are enclosing or adding something. For instance, you can embed a video into a blog post, or onto YouTube. We record and upload videos to YouTube. [...]
How to Make your PC into a Firewall
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Last week, we shared tips with you on things you can do with your old computers. One of those things was to turn it into a firewall. Of course, in order to do this you’ll also need software. So what is [...]
My Parents are Recovering
My parents were released from the hospital in Kansas City on Wednesday. Adam drove ‘em back to Des Moines, and Ponzi and I decided that it would be best for me to travel back to Iowa for a week to help them back onto their feet (so to speak). I’ve been driving them around town [...]
Is Home Inventory Delicious?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Ever wish you had an inventory of all your games, software, DVDs, CDs and books? Well, you can easily create one – using a webcam and your computer! If you have a Mac (and who doesn’t these days), you likely already [...]
Can Marriage be Saved without Talking about It?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Any book that Ponzi has ever given me on the subject of relationships makes me shudder. I’m a dude. Dudes don’t read those books! However, when she handed me this one, I couldn’t help but reading it after I saw the [...]
How to Find YouTube Videos in Violation of Copyright
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed As far as online video is concerned… if it’s not on YouTube, then it’s not a video. I publish all my videos to YouTube, along with a few other places. I’ve been publishing videos for several years, but never found a [...]
Where do you Download Desktop Wallpaper?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Every single day in the chat room, someone asks me where I get my wallpaper from. Sometimes I make them myself, using Oxidizer. Sometimes I download them from somewhere. But my friend Andy Stanberry reminded me about using DestopTopia. Desktoptopia is [...]
Using Your Telescope to Photograph Explosions on the Moon
Last week NASA released this map of 100 explosions on the Moon, observed in the last two and half years. (read original article at NASA) “They’re explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the Moon,” says Bill Cooke, head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center (press release). “A typical blast is about [...]
Alternative Fuel and Hybrid Modifications: Water4Gas?
Stephen of Ohio (that’s what he calls himself) sent me this message earlier today, no doubt in relation to my recent posts on the high cost of gas here in the United States: Now we all know that Ethanol is not going to take the market for fuel, hydrogen is somewhat promising, but how about [...]
What Are You Paying for Gas?
How high do gas prices have to get before you change your own driving habits, if you haven’t already? I thought, for certain, that there would be less vehicles on the road after gas hit $4 a gallon here in the United States (at least, in the Seattle area). Seems to me that even when [...]
Would you Accept Advertising on your Gadgets?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I get invited to several events throughout the year. I was supposed to attend an event the other day at Microsoft. Unfortunately, I’ve been having issues with my own Web servers, and couldn’t go. Microsoft has been making waves with their [...]
