Let’s look at my Google Analytics for this site for the last month: Well that’s strange. Why were so many people interested in visiting my sleepy little site on Christmas Day? Oh, so there you go. New XBOXs!
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MacBook Air
I bought myself a MacBook Air yesterday. Before I get into my thoughts on the computer itself, let me type at you for a minute about the Apple Store experience. I do not like it. I need order, not chaos. I need to know where to find my product, and where to pay for it. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Creating a ringtone for the iPhone
I spent a fair amount of time recently creating a few custom ringtones based on audio from Arrested Development. There has to be an easier way than what I went through. Rip one of the Arrested Development DVDs to ISO using DVD Shrink. Use Handbrake to transcode a single episode. Turn the Video rate down [...]
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Can you spot what’s wrong with this? If you make forms like this, you should find a different job. Tip: try using the form you’ve just designed. Name: ______________________________________ Address: ________ Phone: ______ DOB: _______ Or asking for magic numbers: FASB #: ________ LUPUS ID: ________ Sorry, just grumpy because it’s 2011 and I have [...]
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Good information. I did not know this.
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Last week sometime, I was bored, so I trolled the App Store for new games and found one called VegasTowers. I thought it was basically SimTower, which I was cool with since I loved that game, but turns out it’s not. If I were rating it on the App Store, which I haven’t yet, I’d [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Email for your business
Are you using an address like @comcast.net, @aol.com, @hotmail.com, etc. as your primary business email address? Bad idea. I’ve had a blog entry about this in Draft for awhile now, but Dave Taylor covers it as well as I could, so go there. What should you do instead? Spend $10 to register your own .com [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Skype and Microsoft
Keith Barrett has a much better write-up about the Microsoft purchase of Skype than I can muster the energy to write. For me as a home office worker, Skype is an invaluable business tool. I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on SkypeIn numbers and lots of long distance to colleagues over in the UK. And despite [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Major Amazon Web Services outage today
Want to know which of your favorite sites use Amazon Web Services to deliver some or all of their content? Today’s a good day to find out. Just browse around and find all the ‘Sorry we’re down!’ messages. I’ve found reddit and Springboard myself. AWS is in the middle of a major outage that’s lasted [...]
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