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...