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AT&T: New Cell Sites? Sweet!

January 27th, 2010 · View Comments · AT&T, Tech, iPhone

…and wow, that means that you actually GOT the text message they were sending you. Since last June I made the jump over to AT&T, with the only reason being the iPhone. I went despite the rumors about dropped calls, bad reception, and shoddy call quality. I have in fact experienced all of these, especially [...]

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Google Wave Invites Are Out (Get it?)

November 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Tech

Invites are out. Ha! I kill me sometimes. Seriously though, I was very happy today to notice this. I’ve had a few friends in the sandbox interested in creating things in wave, but not really enough people to put a dent in it. Sure there are public waves, think giant baseball game crowd participation where [...]

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Vectorscope’s Are Sorta’ Cool

November 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Art, Tech

This is video of a vectorscope. This is what happens when video is out of whack. Sorta fun to look at though. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

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The Diary of a Reluctant AT&T Customer: How I Came To Love the iPhone 3Gs

September 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Reviews, Tech

I’d been putting it off from the get-go. I knew I wanted an iPhone but I had run screaming from AT&T/Cingular years ago. Billing was confusing, customer service was shoddy, roaming charges would pop up causing exorbitant bills in places where no roaming charges should’ve been applicable; but, hey, that was the early 2k’s. It’s [...]

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What The Web Says About Me

August 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Art, Tech, Vlog

Jonny Goldstein, former host of Jonny’s Partay and the now graphical guru that brought the world Envizualize sent me a link the other day. “What the internets say about you http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.” This is what it had to say. Best viewed full screen. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

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Ford 1k Mile Challenge: Carl Edwards and Wayne Gerdes

April 27th, 2009 · View Comments · How To, Science, Tech, Travel, Vlog

VERSION 1 VERSION 2 My ride along with the champs as they knock out the 1000th mile for Ford’s 1000 Mile Challenge in the all new Ford Fusion Hybrid. More post later…right now…on to the video! Formats available:Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

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Earth Day 2009: Man Power On The Mall

April 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Tech, Vlog

Jesse Noffsinger charges Erin's phone with a little man power at the Motorola Booth on the National Mall in Washington, DC for Earth Day 2009. His mad cycling skills got her out of a frightful ‘low battery’ situation and saved the day. Formats available:Third Generation Platform (.3gp), Flash Video (.flv) UPDATE: And the day after [...]

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TechCab Confessions w/ Irina Slutsky and Steve Garfield

March 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · SXSW, Tech, Vlog

Irina and Eddie of GETV showed up in their TechCab for a third year in a row armed with live streaming technologies. Their task? Trade cab rides for confessions. I was fortunate enough to catch a cab ride with Steve Garfield of SteveGarfield.com and my new pal Chris. Steve was a bit reluctant at first, [...]

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Dorkbot Party: SXSW 2009

March 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · SXSW, Tech, Vlog

One of my favorite parties every year, Dorkbot, got under way and got out the Tesla coil. Mr. Tesla, you never expected what the freaks and geeks of Dorkbot would do with your technology did you? Star Wars fans will appreciate this. A lot. Formats available:Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

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Chi.mp: Content Hub and Identity Management Platform

August 10th, 2008 · View Comments · Reviews, Tech

At the height of the .me domain craze my pal Jason Drake pointed out this new site called Chi.mp that purported to take the content hub model that Friend Feed and so many other social media content aggregators are doing to the next level. Chi.mp stands for Content Hub and Identity Management Platform; “identity management” [...]

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