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Tweet! Tweet!Posted by Synfinatic on April 9, 2009 at 2:25 pm in Cool.Yes, I’m on Twitter now. Tags: twitter
Plug Computing == Cabernet Solution?Posted by Synfinatic on February 25, 2009 at 3:51 pm in Cabernet, Cool.So I was just reading about Marvell’s Plug Computing solution. Basically a $100 (goal is to get the price point down to $50) Linux based computer in the form factor of a wall wart. First let me say this is really damn cool. Cheap, small form factor, low power and doesn’t try to do too much (no video output for example). Tags: Cabernet, ideas
Great idea, bad examplePosted by Synfinatic on January 23, 2009 at 3:29 pm in Cool, Tech.So a buddy of mine at work (thanks Mike!) sent me this cool link about how to use real math to measure the complexity of user interfaces. I read the article (feel free to go read it now) and I loved the idea of quantitatively measuring the effort required to use a UI to determine how simple it is. While I think Aza is on the right track, I’d like to point out how the devil is in the details and how hard it is to map theory to practice. Tags: Cool, gui, math
Stopping wordpress spam botsPosted by Synfinatic on January 14, 2009 at 11:54 pm in Cool.I was having a big problem for a few months with spam bots registering user accounts on my blog. Generally, the bots would register accounts assuming (incorrectly) my anti-spam software was more likely to let their comments if they came from a registered account. As you might imagine, this gets pretty annoying pretty quickly. Tags: wordpress
So awesome…Posted by Synfinatic on December 9, 2008 at 10:26 pm in Cool.Once upon a time there was a website: www.justfuckinggoogleit.com which was a great way to express to people that their question was easily answered by a quick search on Google. Alas, the Google-gods struck down the site and sent a cease-and-desist letter which removed much of the functionality which made www.justfuckinggoogleit.com such a great site. Tags: google, lazy people, search
Free your mindPosted by Synfinatic on November 19, 2008 at 12:12 am in Cool, Tech.So I’ve just got into this whole mind-mapping thing. Mind maps are basically a way to organize thoughts and take notes in a graphical form, where you break things up into simple and short comments and link them together in a graph. The same hierarchy can of course be represented in the same way using nested bullet points, but the visual representation of the mind map really is more intuitive and makes your thoughts much easier to digest mentally. Tags: freemind, software
Boxee: What AppleTV should of beenPosted by Synfinatic on October 24, 2008 at 9:46 am in Cool, Tech.So I just got an Apple TV. Honestly, even after paying 30% less for a refurb and getting free shipping, I’m not that impressed. For $300 I’d expect a device to support more file formats and the tight link to iTunes to a single iTunes database is annoying in a multi-computer household like ours. Tags: apple, boxee, music, video
Happy Happy Joy Joy!Posted by Synfinatic on October 20, 2008 at 8:21 pm in Cool.Finally! San Francisco 49ers fire Mike Nolan! Tags: 49ers
Capital One makes it rightPosted by Synfinatic on July 21, 2008 at 10:14 am in Cool.So I’ve been freaking out the last week after getting a letter in the mail from Capital One stating that my final payment of $73 on my car loan was 30 days past due. This was a rather big surprise to me since my contract states they are to auto-deducted payment from my checking account and had done so for the previous 59 months. To make matters worse, I need to keep my credit report in tip top shape since we’ve been approved for a home loan and wanted to make an offer on a house this month. Tags: capital one, credit, loan
Up Against Big BrotherPosted by Synfinatic on February 4, 2008 at 2:06 pm in Cool, The Law.I found this an interesting article in California Lawyer Magazine on the history and current activities of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It’s not the longest or most detailed research article, but I think it’s an excellent primer on the goals and methods of the EFF. Tags: big brother, eff, history, lawyers
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