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Dropbox Shopping List Hack
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24 Feb 2010The other day my wife and I were doing the “don’t forget to pick up X at the store” routine. She then came back with, “if you go, don’t forget Y.”
Just the a little brilliant hack came to me. I quickly opened up TextEdit on the Mac (notepad for you Windows folks) and write down [...]
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- Tags: Dropbox
Today I received a letter in the mail stating that I could either sign up for Automatic Payments, or Sprint would charge me $4.99 per month extra.
Now under many circumstances, Sprint imposes the Automatic Spending Limits when someone with less than good credit applies for an account. On the other hand, like in my case, [...]
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Why Do I Keep Buying Advertising?
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12 Dec 2009 I am sure that sounds quite counter-intuitive. Today the latest issue of Mix Magazine came in. I was flipping through the pages and it occurred to me that it’s pretty much all advertising, loosely held together by editorial content I could have easily found online for free.
I am really into music production. I subscribe [...]
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- Tags: Magazines, Newspapers, Publishing
Why I love the internet and some cool art too
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13 Aug 2009I had to show this, recently an artist contacted me and asked if she could use a photo of mine as the inspiration for a piece of artwork. I was glad to help, and totally jazzed when I saw the result of her amazing work.
The photo in question was taken near the troll bridge in [...]
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- Tags: Art, Photography
This account is a true story, the names and dates have been left in tact to further shame Verizon.
So once upon a time this not so bright contract sales person comes by my home to try and get me to switch from Comcast to Verizon FIOS. I talk to him for a few minutes, [...]
Jason’s Big Adventure
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22 Oct 2008Last night was the Seattle Mac User Group meeting, dBug, here in Seattle. My wife is a member and had asked me to attend with her. Being that she was already in Seattle, I had to get there and we all know I don’t really like to drive if I can help it, at [...]
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- Tags: Adobe CS4
Our Alaskan Adventure So Far…
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4 Sep 2008It’s Wednesday, I am sitting in our stateroom taking in some quite choppy seas. As far as I can see, which isn’t far, there are 8-10 foot swells until the fog line. This is about what I expected from the ocean in this area, we left Tracy Arm Fjord this morning heading for Ketchikan [...]
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When you are competing with products that are trendy, fashionable and appear to be refined and expensive (aka Apple) is this what you want pimping your product? Not me.
R.I.P. Zune Guy…..
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Are you kidding me?
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Are you kidding me?, originally uploaded by philoking.
I know it’s probably not the most manly blog post I have ever made, but good grief, look at this cat!
10 80s Movies I Would Love To See Remade…
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13 Jul 2008So, this will be kind of a long blog, but after a dinner conversation with Dawngrrl last night, I thought it would be fun to talk about the movies I want to be remade the most, and for fairness, I will not mention some of the ones that are apparently on the radar but not [...]
RIP Voicemail
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6 Jul 2008I saw an article today about voicemail being dead and I have to agree. It’s time to let it go, with IM, SMS and Email, who needs it really? It’s an archaic form of messaging and it’s time for it to go.
Do you agree? Do you think good old voicemail should give up the ghost?
From So Long, Bill Gates, and Thanks for the Monopoly By Dylan Tweney
In fact, the monopoly that Microsoft once had on computer operating systems was essential to the development of the computer industry, enforcing a de facto standard that permitted thousands of software and hardware companies to blossom.
The Microsoft monopoly was one [...]
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Making Philoking.com a bit more personal…
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25 Jun 2008I have gone through many changes with this blog, and one reason I don’t update it as much as I would like to is that I try to keep this thing a constant topic (or group of topics) that draw a particular type of user. Now, I love blogging, and I will continue to, but [...]
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- Tags: Blogging
SharePoint goes multimedia with Podcasting Kit for SharePoint!
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10 Jun 2008What Can You Do With Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS)?:
Listen and watch audio/video podcasts, anywhere on your PC or mobile device (Zune, SmartPhone, or any podcasting device)
Share content by producing your own audio/video podcasts and publish them on PKS on your own.
Connect and engage with podcasters via your integrated instant messaging program [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Sharepoint
Ahh, the complexities of writing an app for yourself… Photo Transfer v0.3 thoughts
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5 Jun 2008I am designing what I want my next step of my application to look like and do and two things occurred to me that I want to cover.
Sometimes you take photos in different places before downloading your card
This is 2008 man, you’ve got to support tagging so you can search your photos contextually with the [...]
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