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Visit us, in ancient Egypt?
Tomorrow Is iXmas
Apple will announce new iPads.
This is so going to ruin my productivity all morning long.
I Want An Instaprint For The Studio
Instaprint is a location based photo booth that can transform parties and events by putting a camera in everyone’s hand. By setting Instaprint to look out for specific locations or hashtags, any Instagram tagged appropriately will automatically be printed out on inkless paper.
I mean, serious people. Love that idea.
Sparrow Brings Mail
Trying out the Sparrow App for email. Both Brandon and Jason have been bugging me about it for months. Today, I am taking the plunge. I am usually very slow in adopting apps that replace the default apps on my Mac. But I’ll give it a whirl and see if it will stick as a default mail client.
Anywake Is A Brilliant App
Anywake is an alarm clock that takes you places.
It wakes you up to the sound of a randomly selected city in the world. To turn off the alarm, you have to guess which one. And if you get it right, you get a discount on a planeticket with Lufthansa to that city.
Lufthansa. Yes, Brilliant!
Wanna Learn How To Code?
CoderDojo is a movement orientated around running free not-for-profit coding clubs and regular sessions for young people.
Should we start one in Olympia?
Remove Your Google History
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future.
Clean your history, simple.
Via Daring Fireball.
Give Us More Info
Michael Arrington highlights the AppleTV’s reviews as a distinguishing factors in helping him pick out movies to watch.
I’ve learned over time, though, to keep my laptop or phone handy while picking out those movies. Comcast gives a little bit of information about the movies, but nothing from users or professional critics. Since they occasionally push sub par stuff onto their lists, presumably because they’re being paid to promote it, it’s worth it to check it out on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic.
Totally agree, would love to Netflix to add movie trailers to their Roku interface. Rather than having to start a movie and hope for the best, you could watch the trailer, get a feel for it and then decide if you want to plunge into it.
Road To iOS Apps
Apple loves it’s developers and just launched a fantastic looking overview on how the app development process works. What are you doing this weekend? Getting started on building your first app?
This the future – it’s here, at your fingertips!
Mountain Lion Slain
Apple surprised everyone and announced their next operating system OS X Mountain Lion. Lots of new features and changes and what it all means for us Mac users directed in “The Talk Show” with John Gruber, Dan Benjamin and special guest John Siracusa.
What Makes Twitter Brilliant
Are pages like this: ‘Ad Scrimmage’.
Wish Twitter would promote their special curated content a bit more. I love when they take data and make it accessible, visible and help us connect the dots.
DWT #44: A Look At Pinterest
A video in which I talk a lot… like a lot about Pinterest. Are you on it? Do you get it? Are you dizzy yet about all those social media platforms?
The Game Changer Is Here
Apple releases free ibook publishing tool “Author”. Now everyone can publish their media-rich books to the iBookstore.
I’m on it!
Want To Learn How to Code?
Code Racer is live now. Brought to you by the great Treehouse team.
Play to learn. Will try it out tonight.
DIY Space Program
In a decidedly 21st-century twist, team of German hackers bent on fighting the powers that be has chosen a rather ambitious means of taking the power back: building ahacker-owned and -operated space program, complete with a constellation of communications satellites beaming uncensored Internet to users on the ground.
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
SwiftRiver is a free and open-source intelligence platform that helps people curate and make sense of large amounts of information in a short amount of time. In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels such asSMS, email, Twitter and RSS feeds.
Yeah, I know the guy who’s working on that project.
Most Beautiful
Well, I know it’s linkbait and I fell for it, but here is it anyway.
TNW curates the 10 most beautiful online stores. What is ‘most beautiful’. How can you define it, measure it? Of course, none of those sites are revolutionary or show anything exciting. Most are exercises in various shades of white. Not a bad thing, but I think they could’ve done better… oh, and check out the url, what’s up with that bizarre Chevy Volt ad on the top?
Well, yes I linked to it anyway.
I Hate QR Codes
Don’t Watch This, Episode #41:
Yeah, those pesky, dumb looking bar codes for smart phone readers that promise the moon and fail to deliver – I hate them.
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