New meaning to “sandbox” when it comes to playing with software.
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I can see why there is a run on stylus. I forgot myself and asked for one at the Apple store. They have all these awesome accessories (iPad stands, battery extenders, cases) and no stylus. Now there is a reason to get one.
Dropbox Hack Week Video
I am a huge Dropbox fan. This is a fairly cool video about a Hack Week put on at the company.
Mailchimp, my new BFF
I was sitting with Lisa at a local coffee shop. She was working on a new Newsletter (for her awesome business, GetConnected Communications) We were talking about how to get Mailchimp’s default templates customized… at first glance it doesn’t behave the way we thought it should… I decided, even though it was a holiday, to submit a ticket to the Mailchimpilicious Support team.
Amazingly, in a few minutes I get a response from Abby in Mailchimp Support Central… It says, you want to customize, we got your email template downloads right here.
Arms in the air, victory! It takes just a few minutes in Dreamweaver the make the changes.
Lisa says, “Abby is your new BFF.”
You can guess what I did now, I’m sure. I send a response, declaring Mailchimp Support my new BFF.
Abby responds saying what kind of BFF would she be if she didn’t send me a T-Shirt.
Schaweet! I’ve been secretly coveting a Mailchimp T-Shirt since they were announced. I exchange personals and logistics… then a few days later…
I have my very own Mailchimp T-Shirt. You can be jealous now.
Recursive Image Search
Starting with a transparent image, this video shows what happens when you feed one search with the result of the previous search. 2,951 times.
Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 from kingcosmonaut3000 on Vimeo.
Floppy Drive Music
A good friend sent me this link. The interesting thing for me is my kids will probably not really know what a floppy drive is.
How cable television gets from space to your TV
Of course, I like the shots of the Datacenter and the RNOC.
Head End: How Cable Gets to Your House from Space from Time Warner Cable on Vimeo.
Wow, Seriously Amazing Miniature Trains
When I was a small boy, my father spent five or six months setting up a miniature train at our house in the utility room. It had a couple of levels, a switching station, and a control board. It was awesome!
One of the best parts, at least to a budding geek like me, was the underside of the system where he installed lights to illuminate the wires. I have excellent memories of spending time just looking at that part of the set up.
I just now saw a video of the largest model railway in the world: Miniatur Wunderland. Simply amazing.
…The time has passed
In a previous post I commented how it was time to move on from the decade (closer to 15 years – yikes) old Blackberry crutch.
Today is the day. I was a tad disappointed that the elusive iPhone 5 wasn’t part of the recent announcement, but I was impressed enough with the changes to the iPhone 4S that I knew it was time.
I’ve been running the Galaxy Tab 10.1 along with other Android devices and, while my inner-geek loves the flexibility of the Android OS, I find the straight-forward user experience of the iOS devices better. I expect that Ice Cream Sandwich, the next Android OS, will bridge the gap, but it may take one or two more releases of Android to jump in front. (aside: did you know that the Android OSes are named after desserts in alphabetical order? Jellybean… Jello… Jam… what is next. I’m sure it will be yummy.)
Of course, Windows 8 will be a disruptive factor. I installed the developer build on an older Lenovo tablet and for the first time had a really good tablet experience…in between system crashes. But, hey! it is an alpha build, so that is to be expected.
Anyway, within the first few minutes of getting the new iPhone I asked it (Siri) to find me the nearest Starbucks. It worked great. While there is voice-enabled features to the Blackberry, each time I tried I ended up with something two steps left of what I wanted, so I gave up. Once I get over the semi-embarrassing idea of randomly talking to my phone, I expect to use that feature a lot.
webOS – what is the deal?
I have an HP TouchPad. I like the interface in webOS. It is integrated with my online accounts: box.net, dropbox, picasa, flickr, Google Docs, Office365, Facebook… I go look at my photos and all my photos from these services appear seamlessly.
Hey Apple, Google, Amazon: Do this in your next release, you will be a big winner.
Now HP is having hangover thoughts about shuttering the service because they were able to sell a mess of units when they were priced properly. The marketshare owner can make a lot of things happen… if done right it works well. If not, it can be a massive failure (hey Netflix, I’m talking about you).
I hope someone picks up the innovation that webOS brought to the world. Along with the TouchPad, I have an Android Tablet and an iPad 2, so I have a good perspective on what works… webOS is an excellent mobile platform. I want the best for it, even if it is broken off into patent pieces.