Jeff Shariat
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Get Your Super Bowl Commercial Fix
February 6, 2010 - 1:01 pm
Tags: commericals, football, news, SB44, sports, super bowl, tech, Tips
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MakeUseOf.com has a great rundown of all the different ways you can get your superbowl commercial fix. I like YouTube’s AdFix which will let you watch the commercials live and vote / comment on your favorites. Click through for more…
How will you get your fix?
via [makeuseof]
State of the Internet 2009 – Infographic
via [makeuseof] via [focus]
Twitter, the Super Bowl and You – #SB44
February 3, 2010 - 7:24 am
Tags: news, SB44, sports, super bowl, tech, Tips, twitter
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The NFL announces the #SB44 tag for Twitter and Flickr (and wherever else you use tags).
Not surprisingly the NFL has a Super Bowl XLIV related site up with all the standard bells and whistles (countdown timer, visitor guide, etc) including a new Super Bowl Twitter Page and announced #SB44 as the official hash tag for [...]
4 Favorite Firefox Plug-ins I Can’t Live Without
February 2, 2010 - 7:30 am
Tags: firefox, How-To, mozilla, open source, tech, Tips
Posted in Apps, Editorial, How-To, Product, Tips | Comments Off
First off, if you use Internet Explorer regularly… What is wrong with you?
Now that that is out of the way lets talk about Mozilla Firefox. The beauty of open source applications are the plethora (I can’t say that word without thinking of the 3 Amigos) of plug-ins, add-ons and extensions to let you add or [...]
Google Docs Lets You Share Any File For Free
February 1, 2010 - 8:13 am
Tags: google, google docs, How-To, software, Tips
Posted in Google Docs, In the news, Tips | Comments Off
Back in October ‘09 the Google Docs team announced shared folders which was a much needed addition to the gDocs featureset. Now the team has announced the ability to upload any file type you please, essentially making Google Docs into an online file sharing repository.
Users can upload up to 1GB of data and make the [...]
How To Make Twitter Useful For You – Privacy, Advanced Twitter Search
January 29, 2010 - 8:13 am
Tags: geo api, geo search, geoapi, geosearch, How-To, search, tech, Tips, twitter
Posted in How-To, Tips | 2 comments
I think Twitter is the best way to get real-time crowd sourced news. Yes, Twitter can be a clusterfuck of useless people spouting useless information…but it doesn’t have to be!
If you’re not interested in publishing to the masses I’d recommend setting your tweets to private and requiring that you approve followers before they can see [...]
3 Cool Things You’re Not Going to Spend the Money to Buy
January 28, 2010 - 5:25 pm
Tags: gifts, holiday shopping, Shopping, toys
Posted in Product, Round Up, Shopping | Comments Off
3 things from Uncrate.com that I want, but will surely not buy.
Ping Pong Paddles – Brodmann Blades ($100)
These are the craziest table tennis paddles I’ve ever seen. They remind me more of Klingon weapons then paddles. I have no idea if they are actually intuitive to pick up and play with or if it’s just [...]
Google Voice Now On the iPhone with HTML5
January 28, 2010 - 11:25 am
Tags: google, Google Apps, Google Voice, googleapps, googlevoice, html5, iphone, iphone app, palm, palm pre, palmpre, tech, Tips
Posted in Apps, Google Apps, In the news, Product, Tips | Comments Off
I’ve talked about using Google Voice in your daily life before, but Tuesday Google quietly released a new version web based version based on HTML5.
I’ve already been using a gVoice program for my Palm Pre (gDial if you were wondering…and yes it’s updated with this release), but iPhone users were stuck in limbo without an [...]
Twitter Local Trends keeps you ‘up to tweet’ on the latest in your area
January 28, 2010 - 8:00 am
Tags: geo, geo location, geoapi, geolocation, geosearch, local trends, Tips, twitter
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On Tuesday Twitter launched a new feature that (I think) is the first to take advantage of their new GeoAPI from Mixer Labs.
Local Trends builds upon Twitter’s trending topics feature by adding a geo-location layer. Now you can set your location and see trending topics in your area.
For example, as I write this I can [...]
Keep Personal Errands and Work Projects on Track With the Right Tool
January 27, 2010 - 7:42 am
Tags: android, Apps, gadget, gmail, google, Google Apps, google calendar, google docs, google labs, googleapps, How-To, iphone app, open source, opensource, project management, small business, software, tech, Tips, tracking
Posted in Google Apps, Google Calendar, Google Docs, How-To, Product, Review, Round Up, Tips | 10 comments
Everyday people have tasks they need to complete. Be it at work, at home or somewhere in between there are chores, tasks, issues, assignments, to-do’s, … on and on. There are basically as many ways to track and organize all of these from the always classic Franklin-Covey planner to a well organized spreadsheet to enterprise [...]
