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Track This

Published on October 10, 2007 in Technology. 5 Comments .

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As with most of you out there, I’m addicted to Twitter and love following your lives up to the minute. Now anything they can do to make that experience better for me, I’m all for. Their newest update gives us tracking; a way to follow words or “concepts”. I think this is the coolest addition to Twitter ever! The #1 thing I love about Twitter is the fact that you can send and receive updates from your mobile via SMS and this tool just extends that even more. You can track any word you want, even someone’s name. The updates are sent to your mobile and denotes someone you don’t follow with parentheses around their name.

It’s so easy to track and untrack things too. Just send ‘track’ and the word you want to track to Twitter’s mobile number 40404. You’ll receive an update stating you’re now tracking that word. To stop tracking it simply send ‘untrack’ and the word you wish to stop getting updates on. Want to find out everything you’re currently tracking? Send ‘track’ alone to find out.

I’m already tracking a bunch of words and am finding a lot of new friends to follow. Thank you Twitter team for making Twitter that much better, for me.

Photo courtesy of Jim Kirks.

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I <3 Google Reader

Published on September 8, 2007 in Technology. 5 Comments Tags: .

google readerAs most of you know, I love going through your feeds. I live for them. My reader of choice of course is Google Reader. It’s web based so I can check in whereever I have an internet connection, which is a main reason why I use a lot of Google’s services.

A few months ago they released something called Google Gears which allows you to take your new feed items offline. At first I thought to myself, this defeats the purpose of having a web based RSS reader. Then it hit me, I get the best of both worlds. I’m live when I have an internet connection and can go offline when I’m on a plane or somewhere that doesn’t have an internet connection. SCORE!

Well the guys over there in the labs have done it again. They’ve added some new features that I’m just as excited about. First off, a FRAKING SEARCH BAR!!! I mean you would think this is something simple from the guys at Google but until now there hasn’t been one. Second, the “All Items” count can now go up to 1000+ instead of just 100+ which is a good thing for me since I tend to get behind in my new items very quickly. Also, you can now hide the side navigation by clicking on the separator to its right, and Reader now behaves like every other web page and lets you use the forward and back buttons to move between folders and subscriptions that you’ve navigated to.

I love Google Reader now more than ever. Thank you Google. For the latest on Google Reader check out their Official Blog.

(EDIT) A few people have asked me abou some of my reader stats so I thought I would put them in here. They are as of today (9/10/07):

From your 140 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 6,089 items, starred 16 items, shared 23 items, and emailed 0 items.

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Steve Garfield Creates and Watches Internet TV with a Nokia N95

Published on March 3, 2007 in Friends and Technology. 1 Comment .

Check out Steve Garfield’s video on how he shot, edited, and played his video all with the Nokia N95. This just goes to show that technology is a beautiful thing and great things are to come. You can check out Steve Garfield’s video blog at SteveGarfield.com.


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In this video, I’m watching video on a Nokia N95 via a cable connection to my TV. The video I'm watching was filmed and edited on the N95, uploaded to my video blog, and then downloaded back to the N95 using the Nokia Video Centre via the RSS 2.0 with enclosures feed from my video blog. This is a glimpse into the future of creation and consumption of Internet TV. This video has been entered in Network2.tv’s How do YOU watch Internet TV contest.

How do YOU watch internet TV?

Clintus

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LG announces combo HD-DVD/Blu-Ray drive

Published on January 17, 2007 in Technology. 1 Comment .

LG has announced a HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo drive for computers, reports Engadget. However, while it is capable of reading both HD formats, it will only be able to write to Blu-Ray discs. It’s due to be released at the end of January, but unfortunately the $1200 price tag won’t mean you get to pick one up anytime soon.

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UFC Video Games Announced

Published on January 16, 2007 in Friends, Technology and The lil' Screen. 1 Comment .

THQ revealed to IGN that it will announce a new agreement with Zuffa LLC tomorrow, granting it the rights to publish new games based on the Ultimate Fighting Championship license.

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An Apple a day…

Published on January 9, 2007 in Technology. 2 Comments Tags: .

Well as most of the tech world knows, Mac has been doing some talking, and some presenting, and some unveiling. All sorts of crazy, super cool stuff has been announced and it seems a whole lot of you are going ape shit over it. I’ll admit apple has there shit together and it seems like they can’t do wrong. I plan on getting my first mac this year and look forward to joining the dark side.

Here are some of the biggest announcements thus far:
iTV becomes Apple TV iTV

The REAL iPhone stands up
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Apple unveils Bluetooth headset, new headphones for iPhone
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apple's new headphones for iPhone

For more news and the latest updates check out engadget.com

Twitter

Published on January 4, 2007 in Technology. 0 Comments Tags: .

I first saw this on Chris Brogan’s blog then again on Zadi Diaz’s blog. I always thought it was a cool idea but never really looked into it. Once I did I realized how fraking awesome it was. What Twitter does is allows you to post a quick blog like entry of what you’re up to from their site, an IM, or right from your phone and posts it to your Twitter page; which then can be put into a widget on your blog. I LOVE IT!! It’s awesome cause you can see what your friends/contacts are up to as they update it; and from what I can see, people update it all the time. Plus you can get updates sent right to your phone. That’s kinda stalkish, huh? I can’t wait to add the widget to the site. But that will be part of the 2.0 roll out :) .

So if you’re on Twitter send me an add. If your not, get on it and tell the world what you’re up to.

My Twitter page

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