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Own Your Content

Brett Slatkin and Gina Trapani definitely have me convinced that for content creators, screen casters, bloggers, designers, even developers, your own domain name is where your content needs to live. With services like YouTube, Facebook, and even Google Plus, we are giving our thoughts away to other services; they do offer amazing value and convenience after all.

When the services die, so will our photos, posts, experiences and everything that goes with them. It’s important for all of us to get our own domain names, post our thoughts there, and back our data up.

WordPress Self Compare Fail-safe Sequence

While editing one of my website pages I wanted to see what would happen if I compared the same revision with itself. It’s nice to see that the WordPress developers have a sense of humor! Read More

The Dread Crew of Oddwood at Comic Con 2010

Walking along the street after exiting Comic Con on Saturday, we passed by this great band-o-pirates. There was a huge crowd gathered and the pirates were performing awesome music and just having a great time. We watched for a song or two and then moved along, and are now looking forward to seeing them at a renaissance fair in the near future.

Great job Dread Crew! You earned a few new fans on Saturday!

Check them out online:
http://www.myspace.com/oddwood
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dread-Crew-of-Oddwood/372864750910

Everybody Loves Sketch

A while ago, I saw the I Love Sketch Video for the first time and I was blown away. I kept hoping that it would not be one of those university projects that us mere consumers never get to experience (see the Jeff Han demo with the large multitouch screen)
Recently I received an email from Seok-Hyung Bae (that was probably addressed to all the people who emailed him over the past year or so asking about the project) and it said that they’ve got a new paper out and that the I Love Sketch/Everybody Loves Sketch is currently in alpha form, and he’ll let everyone know when it’s in beta form.

More info can be found at the I Love Sketch Homepage: http://www.ilovesketch.com/

I really can’t remember the last time I got this excited about a piece of software, and if you haven’t seen it yet, I’ve embedded the newer video below for your viewing pleasure: Read More

Accelerometers: My Favorite Trick of 2008

Most of us have held an accelerometer in the palm of our hand quite recently. Can’t figure out when? Still trying? iPhone. The iPhone and iPod Touch both use accelerometers to sense how they are being oriented. Need another example? How about the ever fun Nintendo Wii? The Nintendo Wii uses a 3-Axis accelerometer (in each remote) to sense how you are holding the controller. Read More

Open Source, Choice & Change

Recently I have been fiddling with quite a few open source applications, and I’d love to share some of my thoughts. Maybe some of you would like to try a few of these trinkets of freedom.

Ubuntu 8.1.0

Ubuntu, which is a version of Debian Linux, is essentially a free and open-source operating system. No copy protection, in fact it is encouraged that you share the discs with your friends. The bottom line is that this is a free, popular (relatively), and powerful operating system that works pretty well on most hardware. There are versions for Power-PC and intel Macs, Intel and AMD based x86 and x64 systems, and I believe there is even a version that will install onto a Playstation 3. Read More

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