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District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp’s TEDxVancouver video
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a foundation known for its conferences devoted to what it calls ‘ideas worth spreading’. Along with the regular TED event, held in Long Beach CA, and the TED Global conferences (held in different cities each year), there are now independently organized TEDx events happening around...
Telus Blackberry Storm 2, Bold 9700 and HTC Hero reviews
Alex and Doug take a in-depth look at 3 of the newest smartphones available on the new Telus HSPA network. We talk about the HTC Hero, which we reviewed at the beginning of the year, the Blackberry Storm 2, which we will be posting a full review of shortly, and...
The videogame history timeline
It’s not the first time someone has done a timeline for videogames, but the videogame history timeline is the best I’ve seen. It’s a new project from designer Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga, and dates all the way back to Charles Babbage. One of the nicest features is the top bar which...
Bethesda Softworks, makers of Fallout 3 have released the above teaser trailer for the all new “Fallout: New Vegas”, which is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment. This is noteable because Obsidian is made up of many former developers from Black Isle Studios, the creators of the original Fallout. It certainly...
Aliens vs. Predator demo coming Feb. 4th
The Sega Europe blog has officially announced that a multiplayer demo will be released on Thursday Geb 4th for the upcoming Aliens Vs. Predator game, via Xbox Live, PSN or Steam, depending on your preference. This AvP is set in the future (roughly around the time of Aliens), and will...
Mobilicity to launch this spring
Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises aka DAVE Wireless, has announced that when they launch their new wireless service in Toronto this spring, it’ll be under the much more consumer friendly Mobilicity brand, a contraction of ‘Mobile’ and ‘Simplicity’. According to their homepage, if you say it fast it sounds like “Moblissity”,...
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The latest Juxt Interactive work for Sprite and the NBA is now live. Case study to shortly follow. In the meantime, please enjoy the experience at: http://www.nba.com/dunk_fanfaceoff...
In just a few hours the latest project which has consumed the past few months will be live, stay tuned! Here is a preview/teaser:...
SQL Server Nightly Backup Script
Below is a Microsoft SQL Server script that I use to create nightly backups. The backups (.BAK files) can be copied to hard drive, tape, or remote storage to satisfy your disaster recovery requirements. The script requires two (2) modifications – first change the ‘master_backup_dir’ variable to the...
Sprite Step Off wins Site of the Day
On September 6th, The FWA (Favourite Website Awards) issued the Site of The Day award to Sprite Step Off. This is a project Juxt has been working on since late 2008. Many site enhancements are on the way. Expect a case study in December....
5 Firefox add-on’s Web Developers can’t live without
Over the past few years the Firefox community has growth fast and fierce. For web developers there have been countless add-on’s and plugins published that making building websites (i) more efficient (ii) more browser-compatible, and (iii) easier to debug. Below are my top five: Top 5 Web Developer Firefox Add-on’s Web Developer...
Twitter Strategy in the Workplace
Employees tweet at work just as they use instant messaging services assuming your company doesn’t have a policy prohibiting them said usage. So here is my views on how to harness Twitter in the workplace: Define a strategy for your company, just as we have done! I believe transparency...
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How to Save Your Digital Assets When You Die
Author: l0ckergn0meAdded: Wed, 06 May 2009 15:32:52 -0800Duration: 0http://www.twitter.com/chrispirillo - Inevitably, we're not going to be here at some point in time. Death comes to us all. In knowing our own mortality, we can enjoy life while we're here. What happens to your online self when you pass on, though?...
How to Share Music and be Your own DJ
Author: l0ckergn0meAdded: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:56:32 -0800Duration: 0http://www.twitter.com/chrispirillo - I am quite literally all over the musical map. I'll listen to any kind of music. Inevitably, I'll be playing a song and someone has to ask who sings it. Then, of course, they want to know how to download...
How to Create Your Own Twitter Clone
Author: l0ckergn0meAdded: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:56:32 -0800Duration: 0http://www.twitter.com/chrispirillo - Are you following me on Twitter? It's no secret I'm very active there. Have you thought about creating your own Twitter-like environment for a target group of people? That's easier than ever to do now. http://chris.pirillo.com - http://geeks.pirillo.com Distributed...
Pragmatic Bookshelf
All about the iPad; Metaprogramming Ruby in print
Issue #8 of PragPub with an iPad theme; Metaprogramming Ruby now in print and shipping. ...
First Beta on Paper now available: SQL Antipatterns
First title in the Beta on Paper program now available: B2.0 of SQL Antipatterns ...
Betas on Paper! Printed beta books from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Announcing new feature: betas available in paperback. ...
New Mag, SQL Antipatterns, Language Implementation Patterns
Issue #7 of our magazine, SQL Antipatterns in beta, Language Implementation Patterns in print and shipping. ...
Naked Objects and Web Design for Developers in print
Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects and Web Design for Developers in print and shipping. ...
ExpressionEngine in beta; Security on Rails in print
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Lockergnome Blog Network
Going Mobile With The WeatherBug Mobile Website
By now, most of you are likely aware that WeatherBug provides a large number of mobile applications for the latest smart phones out there. The iPhone, Android, Pre, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia - all included. But what about for those who are not looking to install software directly? Perhaps...
Comcast Rebadges Bad Ideas As Xfinity
Unlike some companies that have the good sense to change their bad habits when changing marketing strategies (my mind immediately goes to Jack-in-the-Box and Domino’s), Comcast thinks that bundling the same old stuff in a new package is a change for the better. Not from where I stand. We are told all...
MakeMagazine: The UnaBox Weekend Project Hosted by KipKay
Here’s a cool weekend project that can last for generations to come. In this project you’ll learn to make a UnaBox. KipKay will show you how. From the pages of Make Magazine...
Is Microsoft Doomed To Failure As Some Believe? I Seriously Doubt It
The New York Times has chosen to allow Dick Brass, a former Microsoft employee, spill his personal opinions on why the mega giant of the software industry is doomed to fail. He mentions several factors that he cites, including but not limited to, the Redmond company being slow to adopt...
eBay: ‘We Don’t Want To Hear From You’
Let’s face it: eBay has made a lot of changes to their pricing models and it seems that overall improvements to the site have been slow. So I asked a representative at eBay’s live chat support if they would consider a suggestion to their user account summary. Unwittingly, I assumed...
Target & Walmart Stoke The Fire
The current problems that Coinstar is having with the major studios over the purchase of DVD copies have been further elevated by the new policies enacted at the big discounters that carry DVDs. In an effort to make the possibility of individual Redbox locations to load their machines from purchases...
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Most people know PARC as the place that famously turned Steve Jobs on to graphical user interfaces in the 1970s. You may not know that since about the same time PARC has been hosting talks by a diverse range of speakers, which are free of charge and open to the...
Facebook claims to have reduced CPU usage by 50 percent with its HipHop for PHP project, and now it's releasing the code as open source. O'Reilly author and PHP expert Kevin Tatroe digs into HipHop's applications beyond Facebook. ...
Why is Simple Soooo Not Simple? - Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7
Based on the recommendation of a couple of friends I sat down at my computer and decided I would do the upgrade from XP to Windows 7. Little did I know what I was committing to! Like many a blind date, where you hold out hope for Mr. Right,...
An SOE comedy of errors - PortableApps as a guerilla SOE
Over the years, the IT section has been pro-actively trying to improve security, to lock the system down, and keep commercial information safe. However, these steps also prevent the engineers from getting their jobs done, so they are all circumvented. The more that the official, central SOE is locked down,...
Google Ad Preferences -- my defaults look reasonable and tailored to my interest. Creepy but kinda cool: I guess that if I have to have ads, they should be ones I'm not going to hate. This and more in today's Four Short Links. ...
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How to get unlimited web and texts on your O2 iPhone for £15 a month
My iPhone recently ran off the end of it’s contract – and as I have written about elsewhere on the web, I chose not to renew the contract. When I called O2 to cancel the contract (which was costing me £35 a month), they offered to send me a “Pay and...
Recovering FileZilla Login Information
If you’re half as stupid as me, you regularly enter FTP connection details directly into FileZilla, and promptly lost the source of the information – so you rely on the quick logon drop-down. How do you find out the passwords for FileZilla connections ? Easy. Navigate to your profile directory, and then to...
In order to combat the endless torrent of tasks, requirements and commitments surrounding me throughout the past couple of years, I have been experimenting with the “Getting Things Done” methodology. I first heard about it while reading Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders website, and have since bought the book by David...
Executing C# code in K2 blackpoint
If you have experience of the K2 family of workflow products – perhaps as far back as K2.NET 2003 – you will remember how easy it was to slot programming directly into your workflows, and how useful it was. With the advent of K2 blackpearl, and more recently K2 blackpoint,...
RSS feeds, the SharePoint XML WebPart, and XSLT
I was recently tasked with importing an RSS feed into a SharePoint site for display. As luck would have it, this task was one of the first I ever investigated in SharePoint – way back when 2003 was launched. As is typical, I didn’t write the method down, so had...
From iPhone to Blackberry – Swimming Against the Tide
In a move that many might see as bizarre, last week I ditched the iPhone 3G I have been using for the last 2 years, and have replaced it with a Blackberry Curve 8900 (known stateside as the “Javelin”). It’s a little early to give any definitive opinions on the device,...
The Horse
Hot off the presses today, Apple's Steve Jobs announced and showed off the new iPad tablet computing device called the iPad. For those of you that have been hiding in a cave, the iPad is an ultra thin tablet computer used over Wi-Fi and soon over 3G cellular networks. Some...
The website mowjcamp.org hacked by Iranian cyber terrorists
The website mowjcamp.org hacked by Iranian cyber terrorists, originally uploaded by Josh Self.Full article by me on Examiner.com:Twitter hacked by Iranian Cyber Army - http://tinyurl.com/y96m435Stolen from THE HORSE (rigpea82.blogspot.com) ...
This device isn't a spaceship, its a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards... It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. Its not called "the wheel", its called "The Carousel". It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and then...
Outskirts of West Berlin, West Germany10:37 pm August 30th, 1961The stench of diesel exhaust filled the air. It had snowed the day before and the streets were still icy. Smokey clouds of CO2 puffed out of the exhaust pipes from the convoy of US Army supply trucks that sat idling...
"That last catch was swell Neil!"A young guy in a letter jacket opened the door of the old bar in the industrial section of Trussville, Alabama. "Yea, but it was your great block on that running back that cleared the path!", Neil Self said as they all paused in the...
"(Important) families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground."-- Francis BaconSo it was with my uncle Neil...He passed away a few years ago of a heart condition (that seems to run in our family) and I couldn't make it to his funeral that day for some insignificant reason or...
Chris Pirillo
Are Adult Bloggers Ruining it for Kids?
Are Adult Bloggers Ruining it for Kids? is a post from Chris PirilloI read an interesting post on Lockergnome today, written by my friend Ron. Ron cites a study that shows that only about 18% of teens today write in a blog. Only about 8% of them are Twitter users....
Download Center is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedEvery so often, you may need to download something to make your computer or mobile device run better. There are millions of pieces of software and applications available for...
Still Think the iPad Sucks? is a post from Chris PirilloThe question posed in this article’s headline is somewhat unanswerable, considering the iPad hasn’t even shipped yet. To claim that a product has failed before it’s even started the race is… asinine.Given the amount of gamers in my community, I...
Customize Your OS X Dock is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedSince we have several Mac people floating around our community, James created a screencast to show you different ways you can customize your Dock. While those...
Italy Plans to Hold YouTube Accountable for Your Uploads
Italy Plans to Hold YouTube Accountable for Your Uploads is a post from Chris PirilloIn a bold move, Italy has announced plans to hold YouTube itself accountable for all content uploaded to their site. The government plans to extend television-broadcasting regulations to Web sites that host videos. According to new...
Wide-Angle Camera Lens for the iPhone
Wide-Angle Camera Lens for the iPhone is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedYes, I’m using my iPhone to record this video, instead of my regular video recorder. The reason for this is quite simple. I wanted to...
Pixelated Geek
New Facebook layout looking like a social iTunes
Straight from a tweet form one of our readers, Mathew has posted screen shots of how the new Facebook is looking like. Personally, I have never been a fan of Facebook’s current layout, but then again, I doubt I could do any better. Past the break are the screenshots of...
Arthas is now truly dead – Congrats Blood Legion
Congratulations and GG to the U.S. Horde World of Warcraft guild for truly defeating Arthas Menethil. After watching the below video, I felt a familiar feeling I had before leaving the game cold turkey. Now, finally we can say goodbye to our old Lich King and close the chapter to...
Chair Personality Socks – Socks for your chair!
Do your chairs ever scratch your hard wood floors? Or do you hate the noise that a chair makes when it squeaks against the ground? Well Charles and Marie can solve that problem for you! The question isn’t, “Why do those chairs have socks?” The question IS “Why not?!” You can pick...
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Officially Announced
OK, so there have been quite a few attempts by Sega to get Sonic into the 3D realm, pretty much all of which sucked. It’s ok, not every 2D character translates into 3D and finally Sega seems to have wised up about it because Sonic 4 is going 2D again!...
Is the iPad just another money grubbing gadget?
There has been a ton of discussion surrounding the iPad concerning both negative and positive impressions. Well let me be one those few whom throw a little more fire into the negative side of things against the gigantic iPod touch device. Last week Steve Jobs wow’d the rows and tiers of...
Shirt.Woot – Player 2: A Love Story
Are you an uber geek? Do you have a crush on someone or already have that significant other? Then grab this shirt from Shirt.Woot now before it sells out! This awesome poem and design was made by Woot user, haxrox, is very creative and is here just in time for...
GeekLad
The Google AdWords Keyword Tool is a great tool to help you identify popular keywords that can help with search engine optimization. However, it really only supplies insight into one component of the equation when it comes to driving traffic to your site: keyword demand. It lacks any...
goo.gl URL Shortener Bookmarklet via YQL
Last month we saw a new Google URL shortening service that will be used for Feedburner and the Google Toolbar. It wasn’t long before the URL shortening code in the toolbar was dissected, and subsequent APIs developed. I managed to put together my own by using YQL. YQL is...
I found this excerpt from Yahoo! Finance particularly amusing. Apparently, Obama wants local lenders to help businesses seize. Related posts No related posts....
Google Fusion Tables Could be a Game Changer
Google has been very busy lately with many new products recently. Many of them, such as Google Public DNS, Google Chrome OS, and real-time search have received the lion’s share of publicity. I’d like to talk about a little jewel sitting in Google Labs you may not heard...
Turn Any File into an EXE with Convert to EXE
If you’re a geek like me, you may on occasion have run into a situation where you had a file that you needed to convert to exe. I had read a few forum posts and tutorials on how to do this with self-extracting installers, and I even managed to...
Download the Google Chrome OS Virtual Machine
Last week, Techcrunch reported rumors of the release of the Google Chrome OS. They stated that the info came from a reliable source, and indeed that source was reliable. Google had an event at their headquarters, and indeed provided new details and a demo of the Chrome OS....
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Are Adult Bloggers Ruining it for Kids? (Chris Pirillo)
Are Adult Bloggers Ruining it for Kids? is a post from Chris Pirillo I read an interesting post on Lockergnome today, written by my friend Ron. Ron cites a study that shows that only about 18% of teens today write in a blog. Only about 8% of them are Twitter...
Still Think the iPad Sucks? (Chris Pirillo)
Still Think the iPad Sucks? is a post from Chris Pirillo The question posed in this article’s headline is somewhat unanswerable, considering the iPad hasn’t even shipped yet. To claim that a product has failed before it’s even started the race is… asinine. Given the amount of gamers in my...
10 Reason iPad Will Sell Heavily Despite Modest Features (Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog)
more images Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price is how Apple defines its latest super-gadget. Apple's promo doesn't seem to generate any reactions, given the web is abuzz with iPad's shortcomings. Most tech gurus have written off the device. Significantly, quick-witted Chris...
Italy Plans to Hold YouTube Accountable for Your Uploads (Chris Pirillo)
Italy Plans to Hold YouTube Accountable for Your Uploads is a post from Chris Pirillo In a bold move, Italy has announced plans to hold YouTube itself accountable for all content uploaded to their site. The government plans to extend television-broadcasting regulations to Web sites that host videos. According to...
Build Your Own Burger (Chris Pirillo)
Build Your Own Burger is a post from Chris Pirillo Took Mom & Dad to @ CounterBurger with @ HipsForHire today. I’m stuffed silly with my delicious design: In case you can’t read the ingredients list, here’s what I built: 1/3lb Beef (on a Honey Wheat Bun) Danish Blue Cheese...
Citrix Security (Chris Pirillo)
Citrix Security is a post from Chris Pirillo Find more videos like this on Reviews, News, and How To Geeks This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of GoToAssist . All opinions are 100% mine. The evening news often talks about a company that has been hacked,...
The Simian Downtime Analyst
Whip Up a Custom Fedora Spin with Revisor
Image via Wikipedia One of the bigger issues with some Linux distributions is the software selection. Some packages come with entirely too much software, while others require many updates and additions just to function properly. By creating a re-spin of your favorite flavor of Linux, many of the issues can be...
Love, Hate and Third Party Comment Systems
Fresh out the box, WordPress comments just are not enough for me. I don’t want someone to have to fill out any extra forms to comment, especially when I despise doing that myself. It is not like this place is some hotbed of conversation so I can understand if people...
Code that Caters to Your Laziness
Image via Wikipedia Like clockwork, people build lists of resolutions and things to do for the new year. Many of the folks with websites end up scrambling to change the copyright dates sometime in the afternoon before they go out New Years Eve, or they end up doing it while hungover...
Does Duct Tape Work on WordPress?
After having used WordPress and phpBB separately for some time, the need to combine them did not happen until recently. Considering the popularity of the two, you would think that there would be an easy way to glue them together already. This does not seem to be the case. This was a...
Image by ncomment via Flickr I get it. You want to sound like an authority on something. All the other authorities have said something is dead, but you want to fit in so you swirl the words around in a cup and say it is dead on your blog as well. That’s...
To state the obvious, ads are usually annoying. Usually they are only vaguely related to the content on the page and most of the time it is a highest bidder situation and not one where the website owner actually cares about the product. While this is totally understandable when the...
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