Category: In the life
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Can I buy your support? It’s for a great cause.
Update: Beamdog just dog-piled on with 6 classic Dungeons & Dragons games! I’ve added my Gaming Schedule. If you read this post (I’m Crazy and I’m gaming for 24 hours for an amazing cause! Sponsor Me!) then you know that I’m doing a bit of fundraising for my favourite dog rescue — CaliCan Rescue. But I’ve…
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I’m Crazy and I’m gaming for 24 hours for an amazing cause! Sponsor Me!
Update: Beamdog just dog-piled on with 6 classic Dungeons & Dragons games! Bioware just jumped in to support me! Cool prizes for donors. I’ve added my Gaming Schedule. I’m kinda into gaming — y’all know that. And I’m into my dogs — ya’ll know that too. So when an opportunity like this popped up, I couldn’t…
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Aphex Twin releases 110 tracks for free on SoundCloud
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Once $399 A Year, Google Earth Pro Is Now Free
Interesting development. Very cool if you may be doing something like Geocaching and need to dump all your cache locations into GE. Worth checking out, for sure!
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Testing Duet — an OS X display extender app for iPad
You’ve probably seen the online hype around Duet — an OS X display extender app for iPad. Basically it’s supposed to allow you to extend your current desktop screen to an iPad — just as if you had an extra monitor. Other apps already do this, but Duet’s claim to fame is it will extend…
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My iOS App Picks for 2014 — iOS Photo Apps
I tend to keep my photography over on iPadDarkroom, but since I’m writing about iOS photo apps that I’ve discovered or have dominated my work this year, it seemed fitting to look at apps that have influenced my photo work. You’ve likely seen some work created with these apps before, but they’re worth profiling again as…
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My iOS App Picks for 2014 — eBook Readers
It’s that time of year again — the year is ending, coming to a close. And we often take time to look back at things we’ve done. In my case, I thought I’d look back at the iOS apps that have most engaged me over the last year. I’ll basically select a ‘winner’ and a ‘runner…
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Things you find when cleaning out your Google contacts
If you’ve got a Gmail account, you’ve got Google Contacts. These are entries of all the folks you’ve ever emailed with Gmail, or interacted with in any other Google property. We’re working on a Christmas project and wanted to get a good list of friends, so I pulled my contacts from my Gmail account. Over…
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Ello’s a thing, like the other thing, but more.
You’ve probably heard about Ello, a new, Facebook alternative that promises to be ad free, and not sell your data. Sounds interesting, so I’m trying it out. Given my recent observations on Facebook — mostly that the stuff I share there isn’t really seen by my friends who follow me there, I thought I’d give…
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Free online storage — what I’m doing now
Back in 2012 I wrote about a few cloud storage options I was exploring. Well a few years have passed so I thought I’d update / annotate the old one. So here goes. New comments will be coloured red. UPDATES Wow, another one today (Thursday, April 12, 2012). LogMeIn has entered the ‘cloud storage space’…
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Love the new Google doodle
Kenojuak Ashevak, CC (October 3, 1927 – January 8, 2013) was a Canadian artist. She is regarded as one of the most notable Canadian pioneers of modern Inuit art.
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It’s about rescuing the ones you can.
Many of you know we support and foster for CaliCan Rescue. This short video helps explain why.