February 2009
34 posts
new to twitter? things you must do...
i’ve been slowly seeing more and more of my friends on twitter lately. i’ve been at the twitter game for quite some time now - for, oh, about a year now… here are some things i’ve learned from twitter that i would like to share with all the new twitter’ers.
make twitter whatever you want it to be. you do NOT have to answer the question you want it to. that being...
how i got someone a job...via twitter
also, i’d like to add - i’ve never actually met the two involved - never face to face - never in person - nothing - our only communications have been via twitter.
chain of events below:
brad hogenmiller is an IT recruiter/account manager at technology partners with over 500+ Connections on linkedin. looking for an IT job? follow brad on twitter @javastl.
still...
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airfoil
have an aiport express? an appletv? want to stream audio from you computer, say from firefox, the twit live deskop air app (check out the boxee twit plugin - it rocks!), pandora, last.fm, or any other application to your existing ‘wireless’ speakers - well, you can with airfoil.
airfoil ‘hijacks’ your local applications audio - and streams it to your airport express,...
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spanning sync
with last weeks pick, i filled you all in on dropbox, an application that keeps your files in sync across multiple computers. this weeks pick, spanning sync, continues with the sync theme from last week. spanning sync allows you keep your google calendar(s) in sync with ical, as well as your google contacts with address book.
personally, i only use spanning sync to manage my calendars - opting...
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how to get your work's outlook calendar on your...
with this weeks announcement of google’s new, google sync service, i went out on a mission to finally try to get my work calendar on my iphone - and without any cables (“the cloud”, ftw!). to i’m using a combination of google calendar sync + google sync.
google calendar sync allows you to sync outlook with your primary google calendar - calendar (this is the calendar...
my first app of the week pick, follow my picks here: http://is.gd/iPIP
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dropbox
dropbox is an application that keeps your files in sync - across multiple computers. perfect for those who have more than one computer.
so how’s dropbox work? dropbox adds a special folder to you computer - if/when you save, add, and delete files in your dropbox folder - it automatically cascades those changes to all your other computers.
dropbox even has a web interface - allowing you to...
crap - just found out that there is no iphone API that’ll turn off things within ‘settings’ (like wifi, bluetooth, ringer…). boo!
playing around with iphones corelocation framework.
perfecting my biscuit and gravy making skills…
just landed a gig to test an iphone application for work…
test twitter2gchat…
“is that jim’s?” could be the best office quote…period.
“Your Bank of America Credit account balance has increased by 54% from $13 to $20” - thanks equfax…
playing with google’s latitude - i’ve been wanting a similar iphone app for quite some time now…accept my invites if you’d like.
RT @cubeecraft: perfect companions for your desk - http://www.cubeecraft.com
Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone? →
Apple is considering allowing apps to run as user selectable background processes. If so, this feature would likely come in the rumored iPhone 3.0 software update but would be limited to only one or…
Wow. Just woke up. Not feeling so hot.
nice - using ssh + os x’s say “word” command freaked kadie the hell out!! hahaha
trying out foxmarks.com…
this worked grep -li “findme” *| xargs perl -pi -e ‘s/findme/changeto/gi’ - thanks @ryanhirsch for the help!
remembering how to use ‘s/e/d/g’…
Drive DRUNK [PIC] →
kindle 2.0 will be announced today, right?
WOW..Korea to Get 1Gbps Downloading by 2012 ! →
While we’re all celebrating Charter’s 60Mbps broadband access here in the US, the Korea Communications Commission is spending $24 billion to secure 1Gbps access by 2012.1Gbps allows you to download a…
someone’s birthday is coming up, 12 days, ahem, ideas - http://is.gd/ibfn
whoo hoo! drobo’s working over fw800 now!
memory installed - imac maxed out - http://twitpic.com/1b290
figured it out, word ftw - did a find: “><”, replace: “>^l<”…in case you were wondering.
basically - i have xml that’s all on one line…i’d like to have it more readable. thanks.
looking for a site/program/script that’ll take an .xml file and spit out xml in the proper format (hard returns at <>here</>).
BART signs 20-year deal for Wi-Fi →
A pilot project testing high-speed Internet access on portions of BART will expand systemwide, allowing people to surf the Web, send e-mail and videoconference when riding the rails or waiting in the…
dusting, sweeping/mopping the floors…yuck.