November 2010
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Loved Tron - Derezzedby Daft Punk on Boxee →
September 2010
3 posts
Gmail’s Permanent Failure: Only Humans Can Build...
Editor’s note: Guest author Adam Rifkin is a Silicon Valley veteran who organizes a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers called 106 Miles. In this post he argues that Gmail is perhaps not the best vessel for Google’s social ambitions. Last week was marred for me by a temporary but super-painful Gmail failure, and the software’s behavior points to why a “more social” Gmail would...
Use Google Storage as a One-Time Cost, Lifetime...
Use Google Storage as a One-Time Cost, Lifetime Backup Solution You can get extra Gmail storage pretty cheaply from Google, but eagle-eyed reader gthing lets us know that you have read access to that storage even after you cancel your subscription. You have read and write access to your storage for an entire year after paying, but if you choose not to renew,...
In Defense of Links, part three: In links we trust...
This is the third post in a three-part series. The first part was Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification. The second part was Money changes everything. Nick Carr, like the rest of the “Web rots our brains” contingent, views links as primarily subtractive and destructive. Links direct us away from where we are to somewhere else on the Web. They impede our concentration, degrade our...
June 2010
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Check out me, Chris, on Stickam. SO addictive...
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Christopher Paul Rutili 04/11/1985 - cprlogic
Christopher Paul Rutili 04/11/1985 LUCKY NUMBERS: 11,11,2,67,14,35 BIRTH DAY 11: You are very energetic and charismatic. You are a natural in music or the performing arts. You are very adaptable and fit in however you are needed. You are just as comfortable leading a group as you are at being a team player. LIFEPATH 11: You are a deep thinker and with many ideas. You are interested in many...
May 2010
3 posts
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How A Cell Phone Call Works
We use our cell phones all day, every day, but did you ever wonder what is really going on when you make or receive a call? Of course there are towers that we see dotting the landscape and it’s obvious that they make this all possible, but exactly how? Here is a detailed look at how cell phone calls actually work. Posted via email from Chris’s Posterous | Comment »
April 2010
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How to Back Up and Play Your Wii Games from an...
Connecting an external hard drive to your Wii to backup and play your games is a simple way to keep expensive discs out of harms way, decrease game load times, and organize your collection with swanky cover art. Here’s how it works.Last year we shared two guides with you that other people had written—the original and a revision—on how to back up and play your Wii games from an external hard...
March 2010
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How to Automatically Sync Any Song You Download to...
iTunes has never been great at automatically syncing new songs or folders of music, but with a little finesse and the latest version of iTunes, you can automatically sync any new music you download to iTunes, with relative ease.Love it or hate it, tons of people still use iTunes to manage their music library. Maybe it’s because of your love for the iPod, the iTunes Music Store, or...
Awesome new track by M.I.A.
Bucky Done Sun - (Gorillajetpackattack Mash ) by M. I. A Download now or listen on posterous M.I.A___Bucky_Done_Sun____GorillaJetpackAttack_MASH_____The_Hype_Machine_e91e331f00ec7d172c41f619a840fb61_2.mp3 (5710 KB) Posted via email from Chris’s Posterous | Comment »
An interview with the inventor of the mobile cell...
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B-Flow's Facebook Stream
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February 2010
7 posts
Shutter Island TELESYNC XviD-MENTiON
`Shutter Island TELESYNC XviD-MENTiON Posted on 22.02.2010 at 18:37 in Movies, Telesync by Frado Here’s Mention with the first TS for Shutter Island. Since it’s from Mention, we can probably expect a nuke soon.. Check out the sample here for audio improvements! PLOT: It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from...
: The Smarter You Are, The Less You Click
From ReadWriteWeb: The Smarter You Are, The Less You Click If the latest numbers from online ad network Chitika are anything to go by, then we may well be on our way to the world of Idiocracy. According to the study, which compared click through rates to college education, the less educated your audience, the more likely they are to click through on an advertisement… Posted via email...
Microsoft's Project Pink Phones Show Up On FCC
Microsoft’s Project Pink Phones Show Up On FCC [ProjectPink]By Kyle VanHemert, on Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:30:10With MWC right around the corner, all eyes are on Microsoft for the launch of Windows Phone 7. And though we heard Project Pink was in trouble, this FCC filing suggests the Sharp-made Turtle may still be on its way.The diagram for the model PB10ZU shows a short, stout device that...
ReadWriteWeb: How I Loved, And Lost, an Aardvark
How I Loved, And Lost, an Aardvark One day in December I was visiting family and picked up my niece from daycare before her balloon got turned into an animal. It was disappointing. So when we got back to her house, I pulled out my iPhone and showed her an app called Aardvark. We asked Aardvark how we could turn one long… Posted via email from Chris’s...
Become a Gmail Master Redux - Gmail
Reload Original PagePrint PageEmail PageGmail is easily the most popular email application among power users, and with good reason: It’s an excellent app. But if you haven’t gotten to know its best shortcuts, tricks, Labs features, and add-ons, it’s time you made Gmail sing. Photo remixed from Google’s own Become a Gmail ninja page. Way back in 2006, I showed you my...
How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers...
How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers 2008/03/30 :: 14:48 :: iPhone, iTunes (Or, How to sync an iPhone with one computer and manually manage music and videos on another). Note: This tutorial allows you to add music/videos/podcasts from multiple machines. If you just want to sync PIM (Contacts/Calenders etc) on one machine and media on...
Thin Film Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen -...
Turning your monitor into a touchscreen could some day be as simple as peel … and stick. Displax, a Portugal-based company, promises to turn any surface — flat or curved — into a touch-sensitive display. The company has created a thinner-than-paper polymer film that can be stuck on glass, plastic or wood to turn it into an interactive input device. “It is extremely powerful, precise and...
January 2010
14 posts
Defrag Your Mind in Five Steps
We recently highlighted personal development blogger Dragos Roua’s suggestion to treat yourself as a computer to become the best version of yourself. One of his suggestions: Defrag your mind. Here’s a closer look at what he meant.Roua extended his brain-as-computer metaphor a bit further, offering five steps to defragging your mind. It may sound a little silly, but a lot of it is...
2 Excellent Media Syncing Applications For Your...
When I got my Android device last Christmas, I received it with the knowledge that it would be replacing several other devices. Truth be told, most Android phones being released now have the capability to adequately replace not only the old phone, but also things like dedicated GPS devices, cameras, and MP3 players. This article will focus mainly on Android media syncing software that...
The Best Free File Hosts To Store Your Files...
Recently, the need for space has become immense. Files have become increasingly larger, there are more things to download and so on. Personally, I run out of space on multiple drives all the time. Maybe you are trying to get a file sent to someone, but it’s too large for an attachment on your email. Possibly you want to backup some files to download later or multiple times. That is why there are...
Know What Your Email Address Says About You -...
Know What Your Email Address Says About You Earlier this week we asked you what your email prejudices were. We dug through the comments, and now we’re back to highlight how you feel about certain email addresses and what they say about the people who use them. Opinions were passionate in comments on the article, and as of the writing of this...
The Schedule
————— Forwarded message ————— From: Chris <crutili@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:12 AM Subject: 2010 Class Schedule DePaul Spring To: crutili@gmail.com Time Monday Jan 4 Tuesday Jan 5 Wednesday Jan 6 Thursday Jan 7 Friday Jan 8 Saturday Jan 9 Sunday Jan 10 8:00AM 9:00AM 10:00AM ...
The Schedule - Depaul Spring Quarter 2010
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Boxee Beta Officially Available for All Platforms
Windows/Mac/Linux/Apple TV: Boxee—the XBMC media center spin-off that took web video by storm—has just released its first public beta into the wild. The new release comes with a new look, improved features, and a few new tricks up its sleeve.For example, Boxee’s just pushed out a very cool Boxee bookmarklet that lets you add any web video to your Boxee queue for easy access next...
Apple Reveals New Touch Screen Technology for...
On January 7, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for Apple’s multi-touch screen technology.Apple’s patent generally relates to displays having pixels that include capacitive elements, and more particularly to displays in which capacitive elements of the pixels that form part of the display system...
The Google Phone Has Arrived : Technical Specs...
Nexus One Phone - Feature overview & Technical specifications Power and battery Removable 1400 mAH batteryCharges at 480mA from USB, at 980mA from supplied charger Talk timeUp to 10 hours on 2G Up to 7 hours on 3GStandby time Up to 290 hours on 2G Up to 250 hours on 3GInternet useUp to 5 hours on 3G Up to 6.5 hours on Wi-FiVideo playbackUp to 7 hours Audio playbackUp to 20 hours...
Apple Now Selling 350 Apps Per Second
Heyzeusrollerbladingchrist. Apple has sold one billion apps since the two billion September 28 mark , reaching three billion in 98 days. That’s 30,612,244 apps per day, 1,275,510 per hour, 121,043 per minute, 350 every second. Freakingnuts.Apple’s App Store Downloads Top Three BillionCUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that more than three...
Apple Dabbles With a 3D Multitouch UI
A recently released patent by Apple shows that they are one of several companies dabbling with the idea of a 3D mulitouch interface. In this case, a “touch screen device, method and graphical user interface for manipulating three-dimensional virtual objects.”Will we see this sort of technology on upcoming Apple products like the tablet? Probably not, but it is interesting to point out...
Avatar Makes $1 Billion in 17 Days
Apparently, the $300-$500 million budgetpaid off. Right now, with over $1 billion in worldwide sales, Avatar is the third highest grossing movie of all time. It could even take down Titanic ’s $1.8 billion record. [Inquirer via Techie via boingboing ] Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from Chris’s Posterous | Comment »
Fox News “Confirms” Rumored Jan 26 Apple Event,...
Fox News’ Clayton Morris is upping the ante on the rumored January 26 Apple Media Event, not only saying it’s the real deal, but that it will focus on “mobility”: I’ve spoken to a source inside Apple who confirmed a “big” event for January. While nothing official has been handed down from the notoriously tight-lipped company, my source took the Financial Times report one step further by saying...
UltraNewb: How to move your iTunes library to an...
Now that you’ve been going to town adding music andmovies to your iTunes library, your hard drive’s pretty crowded - and all those space-hogging media files might have a better home on that empty external hard drive you’ve got set up. iTunes has a (deservedly) bad reputation for taking total control of your music and videos, including where they live on your computer. It...
December 2009
4 posts
Start Programs Automatically With USB Agent
It sometimes can be quite handy to start programs automatically when a new USB storage device is connected to the computer system. This can be an USB flash key or external hard drive. Applications that come to mind are automatic virus scans of the data on the drives or the start of True Crypt or another data encryption program if data on the USB storage device is encrypted. USB Agent is a portable...
Your Friend is sharing the "Apple maintains "Think...
“Apple maintains “Think Different” trademark” - TUAW.comhttp://www.tuaw.com/2009/12/09/apple-maintains-think-different-trademark/?icid=px-iphone When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, the public’s perception of the company was grim. To make a long story short, Steve’s plans for resurrection included changing that, and the “Think Different”...
Mashable!: HOW TO: Use Social Media to Retain...
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November 2009
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BitTorrent Tracker Mininova Goes Legal-Onl
Mininova, one of the web’s go-to aggregators for BitTorrent trackers, hasdeleted nearly every torrent on its site in response to a court order. Only torrents uploaded by approved partners in its legal distribution network survived the cull and will continue to be allowed. There are, of course, plenty of alternatives for torrent fans, and technologies for a steadier BitTorrent future, but...
Amazon Offers Three FREE MP3s of Your Choosing
Amazon is running a brief promotion (ends November 30th) offering $3 worth of MP3s from Amazon MP3 for free. Just head to this page , follow the directions, and enjoy your free credit. Jason mentioned this in today’s deals of the day , but we all know how important music can be to getting work done , so take advantage. [Amazon via UneasySilence ] Posted via email from Chris’s...
BitTorrent's Future: DHT, PEX, and Magnet Links...
Last week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker permanently, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX, and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who were confronted with confusing new terminology and technology. Time for some explaining.The Pirate Bay’s recent confirmation that they had closed down their tracker since DHT and Peer Exchange have...
Try Google New Search Interface
Google has, according to some Gizmodo readers, begun offering up a bolder but more condensed view of its home and search results pages to certain users. Take a full-size look, and try it out for yourself with some JavaScript magic.Our own tips box isn’t lit up with readers seeing this new, more Google-Wave-like interface, but Gizmodo reader Matt Karolian sent over these pics that look a...
Lifehacker's Guide to Making the Most of Black...
Black Friday: It’s a day when you can either score killer deals on gear or pay way too much for too little. The amount of planning and strategy you use is the biggest factor in whether or not you’ll get burned.Photo by mecredis .Black Friday marks the traditional point in the year when retailers stop operating at a loss (in the red) and start turning a profit (in the black), and they...
Pi (1998) : Eureka!!
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Pi (1998)
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