Off on a Tangent
My daily weblog on pop culture and technology as seen in TIME, BusinessWeek and the New York Times.
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Finder Preferences Mac OS X 10.6.2
Finder Preferences Mac OS X 10.6.2, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SAI had a problem where USB drives were showing up on the desktop, but not in my finder's sidebar.The solution was to go into Finder->Preferences... Click on the Sidebar...
Learning My Lines for the iPhone Rehearsal App
Listen!http://www.rehearsalapp.com/
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Highlights from "Great Web Videos Made Easy" Video Workshop
Highlights from the pre-140 Characters Conference video workshop, presented by Kodak, featuring Steve Garfield, author of "Get Seen: Online Video Secrets". Steve talked about producing video for the web, gave some tips on editing and publishing, and highl...
Web 2.0 Expo NY 09: Baratunde Thurston, "There's a #Hashtag for That"
Whoa @baratunde keynote just blew my mind #w2e
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Budget Cuts Could Shorten School Year
Budget Cuts Could Shorten School Year, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SAUsed here without linking back or posting CC license info:www.gpb.org/news/2009/11/20/budget-cuts-could-shorten-sch...
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iMake MakerBot
iMake MakerBot, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SAiMake desktop manufacturing system www.boingboing.net/2009/11/19/maclife-imagines-app.htmlMakerBotmakerbot.com/New Apple Products--as Imagined by the Elite Gadget Presswww.maclife.com/articl...
Star Trek (Three-Disc +Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] (2009)
I was in Target the other day and walked by this Star Trek Blu-ray disk. It was on an end cap. The perfect position for an impulse buy.I've got a Panasonic Blu-ray player that I got as part of the Panasonic Living in HD program, but haven't watched that...
We All Have Sleep Cycles: Light, Deep, REM
Last night I started sleeping with a personal sleep coach to better understand how I sleep. My wife is ok with it though since the coach is a Zeo which is made up of a headband and a bedside display.You wear the headband when you go to sleep and the Zeo ...
Marissa, will you marry me?
Marissa, will you marry me? from justin on Vimeo.
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Retweet
There are too many characters, 136, in this tweet by newmediajim to retweet the whole tweet the old way (copying the tweet and prefixing it with RT @newmediajim):Integrated retweet at twitter.com allows you to click retweet, and have newmediajim's tweet ...
Meep Emailer Reported to Danvers Police Department
School-girls #1 by Ed Yourdon, on Flickr CC BY-SADanvers High School baned students from saying the word "meep", Theodora Michaels sent an email to the school principal:An open letter to Principal Murray of Danvers High School (MA):Meep.Sincerely,Theodora...
TedxSF Live Tonight on Livestream
TEDxSF Partners With Livestream to Stream Event Live for the First Time Tonight: "Watch the live event unfold at www.tedxsf.org, http://www.livestream.com/tedxsf or on your iPhone at http://iphone.livestream.com from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. PST/ 7p.m. to 11 p.m....
Social Media: Blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr
PhotosTake your own photos or search for Creative Commons licensed photos on flickr. Add tags to your photos so they will be discovered.Northeastern University - Recent - Creative Commons Blog Posts11 Must-Dos for the Serious Blogger by Jay Baer.Your titl...
Twitter: Add Automatic DM Filters for FREE
If anyone sends me a direct message on twitter with the words, ringtones, quiz, mafia, thanks for following, thank you for following or find out how smart, their message will be ignored and deleted.You can set this up for free with Socialtoo.
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Twitter: Add Automatic DM Filters for FREE
If anyone sends me a direct message on twitter with the words, ringtones, quiz, mafia, thanks for following, thank you for following or find out how smart, their message will be ignored and deleted.You can set this up for free with Socialtoo.
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Twitter Question for the Democratic Senate Candidates
I think the candidates for Senate should answer questions like a job interview. I'd like to understand how they'd work in the job environment.Question #1: How do you handle disagreement within a work team?@MarthaCoakley How do you handle disagreement with...
USPS - The United States Postal Service - Click-N-Ship on a Macintosh
Although the requirements of the USPS - The United States Postal Service (U.S. Postal Service) Click-N-Ship service require Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, or Netscape Navigator 6.0 or higher, you can use the online service with Firefox on a Ma...
A Kodak Zi8 Walks into a Bar and Shoots a Video
Derek Wilmot video, shot with Kodak Zi8, Sima light, ATR 3550 microphone, after #SMCBoston at Cambridge Brewing Company with @stevegarfield @jimstorer @realtweeter @mattsearles @gregpc.
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