Sep 03
Entertaining video of the day. 23 seconds well worth your time, can be found here.
Sep 03
Scott Adams wants to rename the phone. Although I agree with his reasoning below, I can’t get behind the new name he picked. There’s gotta be a better name for it out there than “head”.
I’m biased against the voice communication function of my so-called phone because I hate that particular feature. It’s impossible to have a conversation by cellphone if any of the following conditions is true:
- An earpiece, headset, or speakerphone is used.
- One of you is in an area with bad reception.
- One of you has an iPhone.
- One of you has a heavy accent.
- One of you is insanely boring.
- One of you is near anything loud, such as traffic.
That covers just about every call I’m likely to get. I end half of my phone conversations by shouting “I…CAN’T…HEAR…YOU…SEND…ME…AN…EMAIL!!!”
Sep 03
Finally got access to Gmail Priority inbox on my gmail and Google Apps accounts. It’s as awesome as they claim it to be. Being able to prioritize incoming emails automatically makes my inbox life so much easier. With the lightning fast Chrome 6 browser, I don’t see a need to keep Outlook open. Buh-bye, Outlook, it’s been a nice 10 or so years, but I just don’t need you anymore.
p.s. Hey Google/Apple, can I get Priority Inbox on my iPhone next please?
Sep 01
Google just rolled out a new way to organize your inbox called Priority Inbox. Some people call this a game changer, can’t wait to try it out myself. Maybe it’ll finally get me out of Outlook hell? One less application open on my desktop would be a very good thing ™. I’ve tried so many things to get email organized and prioritized over the years, including inbox zero, and nothing has worked for me. As evidenced by the 1301 unread messages I have in my inbox right now. Here’s hoping this is the solution.
/M
Jun 22
Just got the notification email today that my iPhone 4 shipped and will (hopefully) arrive on Thursday. Going to convert the old one to an iPod Touch. Here’s a list of the apps I’m going to re-download on the new phone.
- Pageonce – Finance
- Toodledo – To-do list
- Evernote
- Shazam
- Fluent News
- TripIt
- USA Today
- The Weather Channel
- TFLN
- Local News
- Discovery
- Trendz
- ESPN Scorecenter
- Sportacular (Best sports app nobody has heard of)
- Time Mobile
- eWiFi
- Skype
- HeyWAY
- Yelp
- Pegasus News
- Dragon Dictation
- ShopSavvy
- Meebo
- Dropbox
- Apple Remote
- Last.fm
- WunderRadio
- Voice Memos
- Live Cams
- Tungle
- NASA
- OrbLive
- GWJ
- Mark The Spot
- WordPress
- SVT Play
- Amazon
- pUniverse
- Kindle
- Bump
- OpenTable
- Now Playing
- Pizza Hut
- IMDB
- SR Play
- Alice
- Ringtones
- Trapster
- Sonar Ruler
- iDisk
- Blacklist
- Analytics Lite
- FML
- Aftonbladet
- Chartbeat
- Flickr
- Zillow
- DrHorrible
- You’re #1
- FIOS DVR Manager
- City Guide Stockholm
- Kayak
- BookLover
- NBC DFW
What other apps should I get? Anything you’re using that I’m not?
Jun 16
- Coke & Milk. Good article about Swedish-American Stereotypes.
- Soccer and Game Theory. Bizarre game of the week.
- It’s the end of the world as we know it. Solar storms in 2013 says NASA.
- Royal Wedding this weekend in Sweden.
- Can’t wait to try Facetime on the iPhone.
Jun 02
- How to make your HDTV look better in 5 seconds using 1×1 pixel mapping. Here are the instructions I used for my LG.
- Skype on iPhone over 3G. Free calls. For now.
- How TV can make you happy
- Coke & Mentos Rocket Car. Win.
May 25
- Kindle software update with social networking. Why? I just want to read books on my Kindle. That is all. I don’t want an iKindle.
- The last episode of Lost was on and they’re all dead. I want my 121 hours back.
- My 3G iPhone keeps dropping calls and it’s starting to bug the heck out of me. Yet I’m holding out for the 4G iPhone upgrade. Makes zero sense, I know.
- In-N-Out Burger in Texas!
- I haven’t had time to watch the season finale of The Big Bang Theory, but The Big Blog Theory did.
Double Double FTW
May 21
- Quantum Teleportation over 10 miles. Check.
- How to make your credit card work for you for a change. Pun intended.
- The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson. Great NY Times article about the now deceased author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)
and Sweden.
- Awesome Nike soccer commercial.
- The Geek Alphabet.
Z is for Zork
May 18
Now they’re using squirrels!
- Power outage caused by squirrel.
- Squirrel roughs up iraq veteran at park.
- Suicidal squirrel cuts power to hundreds
- Squirrel blacks out 2800
- Squirrels are overrunning his property
Squirrel Terrorist
