Tag: online
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Flipboard comes to the web — and my Gaming Magazine is featured!
Very cool! I’ve been curating a Flipboard magazine for a few months now, gathered a modest following, and now that Flipboard magazine is featured as Flipboard makes the huge leap to sharing magazines on the web! On Gaming is featured in the ‘Magazines we Love’ section of Flipboard’s Community profiled pages. So now, you don’t need to…
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Free and good? It’s for the birds!
Actually it’s for you and me, and I’m referring to the free online suite of tools that flies under the Aviary banner. Actually, it’s more than a suite of tools, Aviary is also a community by and for content creators: At Aviary, we believe that everyone in the world should have access to powerful creation…
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Making music on the iPad
In the previous item I mentioned that I’d not yet tested out Seline HD, an iPad app. Well, I have now, and yes, it really is quite cool. After fiddling about with the interface for a bit, I was able to pull this little bit together. I must have been inspired by the few hours of…
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Keeping the Internet safe, one browser at a time
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser hasn’t been my daily work browser for many years, and I can’t see that changing anytime soon. There are many reasons that I’m not going to go into, but these days it’s mostly about what I’m familiar with. From the satisfaction numbers I’ve seen, IE is still quite the powerhouse browser-of-choice…
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The view out my window
Daily I work in a cube, except for today. As you can see, I’m in my ‘away’ office, yet still connected. And yes, I am working. Through the wonders of technology, I’m cranking out the copy, sending the email, editing the text and photos. This is Lifestyle Technology at work. Wifi enables me to be…
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How to easily convert almost any eBook to open ePub format
My iPod Touch is also my eBook reader. I use the Stanza app (recently upgraded), and the Stanza desktop application to get pdf and other formats into my iPod Touch. But Stanza can’t read all formats, and occasionally an imported file will not display correctly — the layout gets messed up. This is where 2epub.com…
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A great tool if you’re writing on a deadline
All righty then. Just finished up a cool conversation with a dude that I have to meet with later to figure out some stuff. Now, I guess I’ll keep plugging away at writing, nay, testing Write or Die, a timing and wordcount interface that helps focus your writing by imposing limitations and consequences on your writing.…
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Cool! Online lighting diagram creator — photography
The following post is a QuickHit™ — an article or post I found online and thought was important enough to share directly with you. Of course, you’ll see my thoughts or opinions prepended or appended to this post, otherwise I’m just scraping content, and that’s not the intent. I’m looking for tools to help me…
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How to easily install essential applications on a new Windows 7 computer
It doesn’t matter if you’ve upgraded from Vista or XP, or if you’ve bought a new Windows 7 based computer, you’re going to need to install some basic and essential applications on your new baby. And this awesome website makes it so, SO easy. 4 easy steps: Visit the site Select which applications you want Press the button to…
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Old school dungeon crawling on the iPhone
Last week Torchlight was released. Future Shop Techblogger Matthew Kumar wrote a great overview of the game. But there was a time, way back in the last century, when similar computer games were played without the benefit of 3D graphic cards, Dolby Surround Sound, or mice and gamepad macro programming applications. Strap yourself into the…