Category: tech

Good ‘ole Innovation 0

Good ‘ole Innovation

The other day I saw a random post inviting me to follow a link and check out the way that Disney made cartoons “Back in the Day”.  I love animation, and more specify, I...

Downgrade your iPad to a Zeotrope 1

Downgrade your iPad to a Zeotrope

Advertised as “Amazing iPad Animations”, the video below uses a technique as old as animation itself, and really, it’s not that amazing.  Well, turning your $500.00 iPad into a $10.00 pre-schooler’s board book is...

Marketing for a Good Cause 0

Marketing for a Good Cause

Associate professor of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California Berkeley Daniel Fletcher posed a challenge to his students.He said to imagine working in a remote African village at the time of...

Diminishing Goliath 1

Diminishing Goliath

I think that we are all familiar with the epic duel between David and the “giant” Goliath from the first book of Samuel. Twice a day for forty days, Goliath, the giant champion of...

Lead me Lord Vader 0

Lead me Lord Vader

In a fantastic combination of technology and geekery comes the TomTom portable navigation device with turn by turn directions from none other than his royal Lord of the Sith, DARTH VADER!  Over the next...

I’ve Been Linchpined 0

I’ve Been Linchpined

My friend Blake sent me a link yesterday to the “Linchpin Index“.  I was a bit taken aback to see my photo on the page, then I was deeply flattered.  You see, Blake works for the...

InterNET + Movies = Net + Flicks =AWESOME! 0

InterNET + Movies = Net + Flicks =AWESOME!

When Netflix was established in 1997, it was venturing into some uncharted waters. Instead of running down to Blockbuster or your local Video Shack, a Netflick subscriber creates a list on the company website,...

The Other Wind Power 2

The Other Wind Power

My wife has worked very hard to get our kids into a night time routine so that they’ll go to bed without too much fuss.  Somewhere along the way, they decided that they needed...

iPhone Updates 0

iPhone Updates

I spend the majority of my working time in front of a computer connected to the internet.  I LOVE the idea of having an iPhone, but I feel like it’s a lot of technology...

PayPal Mobile 0

PayPal Mobile

I found out about PayPal mobile today on PayPal’s homepage and went on to read some more about it here.  I could have used this information over the weekend.  So for Father’s Day my brother...