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FlickrFetchr – great little Mac app to download flickr sets (supports Guest Passes!)

I get photo’s shared with me on Flickr. Guest Passes. Pretty cool to look at them and do slideshows online, but what if I want to download them all?
There are many apps out there for windows and mac that let you download your OWN sets, or also download public sets from other users, but I [...]

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Product Review: Balsamiq Mockups

Have you ever wanted to quickly mockup software, website, iPhone app, etc? Most people do it on paper, or try something in Visio, or Word, or even Excel!!! But they just lack that feeling of what they want you to build. I was looking around on the web and stumbled upon Balsamiq Mockups

I download the [...]

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Pen Tablet Blog Post

Today, I picked up a Bamboo Fun Pen tablet by Wacom.

As you can see, I wrote this post using nothing but the tablet, pretty sweet!

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Apple Time Capsule Rocks – Microsoft needs to make one.

Since I make a living and love working on Windows, SQL, Windows Server, Office, Exchange, etc, it is kind of weird I am a Mac guy. Never thought it would happen. iPhone, Mac, Macbook Pro, Apple TV, Time Capsule, accessories…
Anyways, since Ella was born, I have TONS of pics and videos of her, on [...]

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Book Review: The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen

Recently, Amazon released their Kindle application for the iPhone. Since I don’t have a Kindle (but I want one!) I figured this would be the next best thing. They have this technology in the app called WhisperSync which sync’s up the page you are reading, so if you do have a Kindle, you can switch [...]

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iLife 09 – iPhoto and Flickr Integration

I installed iLife 09 a few weeks ago and I have been organizing my photos using faces, places, Facebook, MobileMe and Flickr.
One thing I noticed though, is the Flickr integration is OK, but really doesn’t fit my workflow. Why?
Well first, it wants to create a Flickr Set out of everything, if I upload 1 [...]

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How 20$ Saved Me 100$ + A Month – HDTV Antenna

I really hate TV. I don’t even watch it. It is something that you should be able to pay for what you use, not pay for everything and use a little bit of it, so here is what I did.
I went to Best Buy and picked up and HDTV Antenna.
It rocks. I just plug [...]

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Browser Wars 08

Now that Google has released its browser, Chrome, that leaves us 4-5 big players in the browser wars.
1) Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (download)
2) Mozilla’s Firefox (download)
3) Apple’s Safari (download)
4) Opera’s Opera (Weird – their company name is the same as the browser name) (download)
5) Google’s Chrome (download)
Pretty much everyone has used IE, unless you are [...]

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MobileMe’s Mail – Glaring Omission

So we have MobileMe setup. I still use GAFYD for my main email, but I had Emily use MobileMe with my old iPhone. Today a glaring omission was pointed out. No rich text, formatting, coloring, smileys, font changing, italics, bold, underline, etc to be found.

There are options to send, draft, spelling, and add contact. [...]

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Can’t Play A Video? Try VLC

One application that I always install when I set up a new machine, is VLC – http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
What is nice, is that it will play just about anything. Video, Audio, whatever. It will play AVI’s, DVDs, Mp3s, FLV’s, and any other 3 letter acronym you can think of.
You can set it to be default for all [...]

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