T-Post is a monthly magazine that gets delivered as a t-shirt, with the news story on the inside, and an artist’s interpretation of that new story on the outside. This month, they’re talking about Higher Education, and Marc Stromberg’s t-shirt design includes an augmented reality tag that allows you to play Rock, Paper, Scissors with a hand that comes out of your chest when you sit in front of a webcam. Don’t believe me? Check it out: Now I’m not quite ready to call Augmented Reality clothing a trend, but with the Adidas AR Game Pack and now a shirt that plays Rock, Paper, Scissors,…
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…Adidas is adding AR to their Game Pack shoes?
2 Feb 2010 | 6:07 amSure, your shoes look good and show off your style, but do they do anything besides keep your feet protected? If they’re part of the Adidas Augmented Reality collection they do! Starting in February of 2010, Adidas will release a collection of shoes with an augmented reality code built directly into the design. These five special kicks, called the Adidas Originals AR Game Pack, will unlock an exciting online experience with challenging games and exclusive content living within a virtual version of the Adidas Originals Neighborhood. Are you ready? [Adidas Originals - AR Game Pack] -
…It’s Movie Monday: Videogioco-Loop Experiment?
1 Feb 2010 | 5:55 amIf you liked the Parkour Motion Reel, then check out the Videogioco-Loop Experiment by Donato Sansone, which features an awesome soundtrack and a hilarious storyline: The more I see of this flipbook style stop motion, the more I like it! -
…It’s Things Thursday: Time Machine?
28 Jan 2010 | 6:26 amIt’s hard to imagine a clock that’s cooler than the Time Machine. Instead of hands, the Time Machine drops a chrome ball down a wooden track every sixty seconds. As the balls stack up, the numbers that they come to rest next to tell the time. It’s loud, it’s imprecise, and it’s severely over complicated, but I challenge you to try and find a more interesting way of counting off the minutes. -
…Travis Pastrana is indestructible?
26 Jan 2010 | 6:42 amTravis Pastrana’s world record setting New Year’s Eve rally car jump in his Subaru WRX was impressive: What’s even more impressive though is that he managed to destroy his practice car and then walk away from the accident like it was no big deal: The man is either a cat working on his ninth life, or he’s indestructible. Either way, I can’t wait to see what he thinks of next.
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Chris Brogan
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Earn Your GED- Find Success Tomorrow
9 Feb 2010 | 1:30 amNo, not your General Equivalent Degree. The GED to which I refer is “guest experience design.” What the heck am I talking about? I’ll tell you. Old words: customer service. New words: guest experience. Disney, where I am this week, has a concept called a Moment of Truth. A moment of truth is “any time a guest comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.” Note that it’s “an impression.” It can be good; it can be bad. Why “guest?” Because guest is much more hospitable than… -
Pursue the Goal Not the Method
8 Feb 2010 | 1:30 amIn the back of a town car hired to take me to the Kansas City International airport, talking to Jeff, a driver with two kids, self-proclaimed ADD, and a history of quitting rote sales jobs every few months, I realized something of importance to the story of what’s brought me to this place: I am a seeker of the goal, not the method. Now, to unpack. The Method Is What We’re Taught to Pursue We learn our times tables. We learn the 50 states (in the US, at least). We are taught all these rules, these patterns, these systems, these methods. Musicians learn their scales. Painters copy… -
Your Blog From the Prospect’s Point of View
7 Feb 2010 | 7:34 amWhen you use your blog to complain or report sideways about the industry at large, what message is that sending to your potential new clients? If you’re spending your time analyzing what other people in your space are doing, citing why they’re wrong, and providing your commentary about all the things they’re doing, what does your next potential customer come away thinking? Is your negative commentary helping them make a buying decision? I’ve rarely seen the tactic work in traditional advertising. You can graze them a little bit. For instance, I’m a bit fond of… -
Just Lucky I Guess – Kitchen Table Talks
6 Feb 2010 | 1:46 pmIn this Kitchen Table Talks video, I just want to address all the nice folks who call me lucky, or who think I’m just sitting around being handed my lot in life. Can’t see the video? Click here. Direct link to the video “Lucky” is absolutely what I am. Here’s what I do to earn my luck: Write a blog post or two a day. Write a newsletter every week. Comment and connect with others daily. Answer and send hundreds of emails daily. Read voraciously. Work with the best clients I can find. Reach into new markets weekly. Travel extensively. Seems lucky to me. People… -
Some Of The Third Tribe Conversations
6 Feb 2010 | 1:02 pmI’m really enjoying participating in the forums at the Third Tribe site. I was just adding my two cents to a handful of forum postings, and thought that I’d show you what some of the topics we’re talking about are, so you’d have a sense of what’s going on. We don’t really share the contents, because the people participating there like having the chance to speak openly/candidly about their marketing challenges, but I don’t see the harm in sharing a few of the topic titles. Here they are: Favorite copywriting and marketing books? Third Tribe Blogroll? 2…
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ReadWriteWeb
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How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards
9 Feb 2010 | 11:31 amGoogle rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz. It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services. It will compete with Facebook and Twitter. Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data. Google Buzz data can be syndicated out to other services using the standard data formats called Atom, Activity Streams, MediaRSS and PubSubHubbub. That couldn't be more different from Facebook. Google has taken open data… -
Mobile Health: Will Network Applications Help Us Get Healthy?
9 Feb 2010 | 11:30 amLast week, we were at the mHealth initiative conference in Washington D.C. The keynotes were all about the impact mobile health applications are having in shaping the future of the health care system. Nothing demonstrates that more than the iPhone. In the 18 months since it was released, it has been perhaps the biggest thing to happen to health care electronic records, which has seen billions of dollars worth of investment in past decades. Mobile and wireless health applications directly impact the individual's health and have the promise of ensuring that when a patient leaves a doctor visit,… -
Foursquare Partners with Zagat, New York Times
9 Feb 2010 | 11:17 amFoursquare has come out strong in recent weeks with partnership deals that look to put it at the top of the location-based app game. Last week, it announced a partnership with Bravo, the style and fashion-centric television network, and today it has come out with a partnership with Zagat, the restaurant guide, and the New York Times. As we wrote last week, Foursquare is competing in an increasingly crowded space, and these partnerships may help it attract a whole new audience and remain competitive against other services, like Yelp, just joining in the location-based arena. Sponsor According… -
Live Blogging from Google: Launch of Google Buzz
9 Feb 2010 | 11:11 amThis morning, Google is announcing some exciting new features for two of its most popular applications. Team Red, as we affectionately call ourselves, is present at the Googleplex in Mountain View, and we'll be live blogging the event, giving you, dear reader, a fascinating play-by-play. Stay tuned for updates! The event will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Just refresh this post to see new content as events unfold. Additional on-the-fly research and images from RWW journalist Frederic Lardinois. Sponsor 11:11: The event is over! Time to chase people down and ask some more pointed questions. -
Europe's 17 Golden Rules for Keeping Safe on Social Networks
9 Feb 2010 | 11:05 amAre you using your real name on your social network profiles? According to the European Union's Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), that's a big mistake. A new report, published to coincide with Europe's Safer Internet Day, details the dangers of using social networks and lays out 17 "golden rules" for keeping safe on social networks. The report's authors are especially worried about the proliferation of mobile social networks and, among other things, recommend that users turn off all location-based services whenever they are not absolutely needed. Sponsor The report argues that…
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Mashable!
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Google Buzz: The Official Demo [VIDEO]
9 Feb 2010 | 11:08 amGoogle has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space: Google Buzz. The product is integrated within Gmail and will be rolled out gradually to all of the webmail service’s users over the next few days.We’re still digesting all of the implications of Buzz (and will have more coverage throughout the day), but in the meantime, here’s the two-minute demo of the product in action both on the Web and via mobile that Google showed off during today’s press conference:What are your initial reactions? Another soon-to-be-forgotten Google social product? A… -
BREAKING: Google Goes Social with Google Buzz
9 Feb 2010 | 10:21 amIt’s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature.On stage revealing the new product was Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president for product management. While introducing the product, Mr. Horowitz focused on the human penchant for sharing experiences and the social media phenomenon of wanting to share it in real time. These two key themes were core philosophies behind Google Buzz.“It’s becoming harder and harder to find signal in the… -
Facebook Kills Lexicon, Focuses on Analytics for Page Admins
9 Feb 2010 | 10:20 amFacebook has removed its Lexicon analytics app, blogger Steve Rubel noticed last night.Don’t know what Lexicon was? That’s OK, a lot of people didn’t; it was announced very quietly, but it was a neat tool. You could use Lexicon to see how frequently, and when, certain terms were trending in status updates, just like you can use Google Trends to do the same with search terms.For example, our own Stan Schroeder was a bit perplexed a couple years back when the word “sex” had a massive spike in usage on May 30, 2008. It was the launch day of the Sex and the City… -
7 Ways to Promote Your Offline Event Using Social Media
9 Feb 2010 | 10:10 amSusan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog, and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.We all know about Tweetups and online events, but what about events that you didn’t specifically invite the Twitterati to attend? Conferences, meetings and parties are all events that might not have started online, but which can definitely benefit from online promotion and mention.Leverage your offline event with some smart social media marketing. Here are… -
WordPress To Posterous Users: Graduate to a Full Blog
9 Feb 2010 | 9:57 amIn an effort to remind you that WordPress can be just as flexible and e-mail-friendly as Posterous, the company has released a Posterous importer for users who want to “graduate” from the mini-blogging site to “a full blog with the features, flexibility and reliability of WordPress.com.”The new WordPress.com utility can be found via the Tools section within the Dashboard. All that’s required to run the import is your Posterous host name, user name and password, and it can import all of the following: posts, tags, comments and images.On the flip side, Posterous…
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Engadget
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Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 exhaustedly previewed, screenshotted to death
9 Feb 2010 | 11:29 amWhile we patiently wait for the X10 to make its way into retail channels (or, you know, give up and buy something else instead), mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin has come through once again with one of his world-famous eleventy billion page previews rife with thousands of screenshots, which should take you long enough to skim through so that the phone's available by the time you're done. Thing is, you may not want it anymore: Eldar's concerned by the phone's cheap plastic shell, which is particularly alarming in light of the direction competitors are going, and the screen could apparently be… -
Google Buzz takes mobile location services to the next level
9 Feb 2010 | 10:48 amGoogle just announced that it's bringing some serious location-based integration to its services, all centered around the new Buzz social networking tool built into Gmail. Google's going to do location better than the usual latitude / longitude coordinates -- it's able to snap those to actual place names and then take context-aware actions depending on where you are. The new location services is integrated into the main mobile Google.com search page and the new buzz.google.com page for the iPhone and Android, and into maps for Android, S60, and Windows Mobile. Buzz is rolling out starting… -
Google's Street View snowmobile takes your voyeurism to the Olympic slopes
9 Feb 2010 | 10:29 amThere's something deliciously futuristic about the fact that Microsoft and Google are patrolling our roads, documenting their every nook and cranny with large multidirectional cameras strapped to SUVs. But what about the unpaved wilderness? Well, Google's after that too now, with its new Street View snowmobile it's unveiled just in time for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Sure, it's a bit of a gimmick, but also it's surprisingly thrilling to chase down the various slopes in use for the Olympics, and Google Earth even has most everything mapped out in 3D for your aerial viewing pleasure. -
Handheld US rolls out rugged Algiz 7 tablet
9 Feb 2010 | 10:11 amIt's been quite a while since an Algiz tablet last popped up on our radar, but Handheld US is now back with another model: the Algiz 7. In addition to a fresh new white enclosure, this one packs a 7-inch touchscreen display, along with a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 2GB of RAM, a 64GB SSD, and Windows 7 Professional for an OS. To help you out in the field, you'll get a hot-swappable 2400 mAh dual battery pack, built-in GPS, and optional 3G -- not to mention ruggedization to MIL-STD-810G standards. No word on a price just yet, but this one will apparently start shipping next month. Handheld US rolls… -
Screen Grabs: DJ Roomba mixes business with pleasure on Parks and Recreation
9 Feb 2010 | 9:48 amScreen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com. An automated vacuum cleaner that pumps out rap while tidying your mess? Call us crazy, but this very well may be the most intelligent thing the United States government has ever done.Continue reading Screen Grabs: DJ Roomba mixes business with pleasure on Parks and RecreationScreen Grabs: DJ Roomba mixes business with pleasure on Parks and Recreation originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:48:00 EST. Please…
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Gizmodo
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Best Buy E-Cycle Billboard: Where Old Gadgets Go to Shill [Ads]
9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pmIf you happen to be in Times Square any time soon, you may notice this billboard for Best Buy's electronics recycling program. Make sure you take a close look! It's composed entirely of outmoded gear. While part of me would hope some VHS players and bulky monitors would be allowed to fade away with dignity, at least these are ultimately being used in a clever way that promotes a good cause. Besides, it looks cool! And it's bonus fun hunting for bygone favorites. [Scouting NY] -
Your Future Morning View Will Make You Vomit [Augmented Reality]
9 Feb 2010 | 11:40 amCurrent augmented reality: Computers recognizing your surroundings and overlaying useful information over the real world. Future advertising-driven augmented reality according to Keiichi Matsudafor: A mind blowing view that will make everyone of us puke. Even his simulation makes me dizzy. The video was produced by Keiichi for his final year of Masters in Architecture. He has this to say about it: The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may… -
25 New Ads to Introduce Xfinity to the Masses [PhotoshopContest]
9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 amHave you heard the exciting news?! Comcast is rebranding as Xfinity! We decided to help them out by calling on our lovely readers to create the first Xfinity ads, and I think they did a bang-up job. First Place—Jeffer Mitchell Second Place—Alexander Deluca Third Place—Die Hard Dan -
Google Buzz on Phones: Location Is the Killer App [Google]
9 Feb 2010 | 10:42 amGoogle Buzz is actually slightly more insane on Android phones and iPhone than the desktop: There's a revamped, Buzzier Google homepage; you can post entirely using your voice; and a new version of Google Maps eats Yelp's lunch. There's three components to mobile: A new mobile Google homepage with automatic geo-location and Buzz integration; a web app for Android phones and iPhone located here with full, incredible speech-to-text powers (especially with Android, which uses the built-in search widget); and a new version of Google Maps that tightly bundles location with Buzz. In fact, location… -
What Is Google Buzz? [Google]
9 Feb 2010 | 10:22 amSo what exactly is Google Buzz? Used on a PC or mobile, Buzz reminds us of an RSS combined with all of your social networking—all within the existing Gmail and Google.com infrastructure. Buzz's five key features include: • Automatic friends lists (friends are added automatically who you have emailed on Gmail) • "Rich fast sharing" combines sources like Picasa and Twitter into a single feed, and it includes full-sized photo browsing • Public and private sharing (swap between family and friends) • Inbox integration (instead of emailing you with updates, like Facebook…
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TechCrunch
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Screenshots: Google Buzz In Action
9 Feb 2010 | 11:17 amNow that the Google event is over, the company has started turning on Buzz for Gmail users. Here are some quick screenshots of it in action. CrunchBase Information Google Buzz Information provided by CrunchBase -
If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present
9 Feb 2010 | 10:40 amSee our live notes from today’s Google Buzz event here. Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they’ve never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social. Yes, they have Orkut and OpenSocial, but no one actually uses them. Okay, some people use them, but not in the meaningful social ways that people use Facebook or even Twitter. Today, Google may have just solved their social problem. Google Buzz is easily the company’s boldest attempt yet to build a social network. Imagine taking elements of Twitter,… -
Gowalla Rolls Out API
9 Feb 2010 | 10:35 amAs location-based social networks gain serious traction, its inevitable that that these applications will become full-fledged platforms. Like Twitter, these networks can become ecosystems. Plus, they have a better chance of continuing to survive when Facebook enters the location ring. Foursquare released its API in November. And now Gowalla will has released its API today. In a blog post announcing the API, Gowalla encourages developers to build out features that incolve location and the community, highlighting the recent addition of user-curated trips. Gowalla also suggested several uses of… -
Google Street View Goes To The Top Of The Mountain
9 Feb 2010 | 10:31 amGoogle’s Street View has gone to many strange places, even off-road. But in preparation for the Winter Olympics it equipped a snowmobile with 360-degree cameras and took it to the top of Whistler, the Canadian ski resort where the Games will take place. The slope-side views can be seen in the map on Google’s new Winter Olympics information page. Google should do this for all major ski mountains. It’s a great way to see if you really want to go up to the top of that double black diamond chair lift. Here is a video showing how they got the images: -
Morning Buzz: Live From Google’s Major Step Into The Social Spotlight
9 Feb 2010 | 9:57 amThis morning, Google is hosting an event at its Mountain View, CA headquarters to show off a new social product it has been working on. Google VP of Product Management Bradley Horowitz, VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra, and product manager Todd Jackson are on hand to show it off. Below, follow our live notes (paraphrased): They’ve announced it will start in a few minutes, waiting for people in traffic, etc… Horowitz: Exciting news to share this morning. This is exactly the right audience. Next 45 minutes to hour we’re going to be showing off something. I bet many of you are…
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Geekologie
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Print Them Out!: Star Wars Valentine's Cards
9 Feb 2010 | 11:45 amThis is a little gallery of Star Wars Valentines created by freelance illustrator James Stowe. He made one for each episode of Star Wars, so there are six in total. I particularly liked this one and the Han Solo/Greedo one, but they're all pretty cute. Per the artist himself: I wanted to show you some valentines I made for my son's kindergarden class this year. He likes old Peanuts comicstrips and Star Wars... so these are kind of a mix of both. Oh man, these bring back memories. I remember in Mrs. Cox's third grade class we each took a paper lunch bag and decorated them with hearts and… -
Star Trek: The Sexed Generation
9 Feb 2010 | 10:45 amThis is an older compilation of Star Trek clips that, out of context, sound incredibly sexual. Actually, in context they sound super sexual too. Yay, freaky space-sex. RED ROCKET RED ROCKET! This is an expansion of a short set of clips that Gene Roddenberry had put together after the second season, that set was just about 2 minutes and mostly bloopers, but the few suggestive shots were enough to make me wonder what a full version would look like, so enjoy! Oh man, that was hot. Granted not as hot as my laptop's heat exhaust, but I'm tryin' to cook my meat. Which, medium-rare -- anybody? -
But What's He Competing In?: Newspaper Reports Pedobear Is Going To The Olympics
9 Feb 2010 | 9:45 amA Polish newspaper wrote an article about the Winter Olympics and included this graphic, which depicts Pedobear as one of the games' mascots. Which, wow, who knew Poles could run a printing press? ...apparently what happened here is that someone Photoshopped Pedobear into a piece of artwork containing the various cuddly characters that some artist dreamed up to represent the upcoming Winter Olympics. While putting the article together, it would appear that some photo editor got his hands on the wrong version of the artwork, didn't realize it, and the image ran in the paper. Listen, this sort… -
Dodge Throws In The Towel, Makes Challenger In 'Furious Fuscia' For Men
9 Feb 2010 | 8:45 amBecause when you know you're going down you might as well do it in a big pile of flaming pink shit, Dodge has decided to make 'Furious Fuscia' Challengers and market them to men. Chrysler Group is trying to better define its various brands and products as it attempts to claw back lost market share following years of slumping sales and financial cutbacks that ultimately ended in bankruptcy. Photographs don't really do justice to Furious Fuchsia, Chrysler spokesman Dan Ried insisted, while acknowledging that fuchsia might seem an odd color choice for a male-oriented car. "I saw it in person and… -
Haha!: Admiral Ackbar Gets Suckered Again
9 Feb 2010 | 7:45 amDon't do it Admiral! Also, is that a womp rat? Because I don't know if I told you but I used to bull's-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home. Yep, yep, yep, and have a thing for my sister (I watched her shower once, it's true). admiral ackbar [izit] and It's a Trap Woot shirt available again
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Uncrate
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Ralph Lauren Polo Olympic Games Collection
9 Feb 2010 | 9:31 amAs the official outfitter of the 2010 U.S. Olympic team, you'll no doubt be seeing plenty of the Ralph Lauren Polo Olympic Games Collection ($10-$425) over the next few weeks....Visit Uncrate for the full post. -
Canon EOS Rebel T2i
9 Feb 2010 | 8:57 amAnd so the DSLR wars continue. The Canon EOS Rebel T2i ($900) is the latest salvo from Canon, offering a number of improvements over the T1i it replaces. Highlights include...Visit Uncrate for the full post. -
Atlantic Records Time Capsule
9 Feb 2010 | 7:54 amFounded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson, Atlantic Records has come a long way in the last sixty-plus years, and the Atlantic Records Time Capsule ($200) chronicles the...Visit Uncrate for the full post. -
Creed Private Collection Tabarome
9 Feb 2010 | 7:32 amIt's not very often we cover a product that isn't going to be made anymore, but that's precisely the case with Creed Private Collection Tabarome ($405). Because the quality and...Visit Uncrate for the full post. -
NASA Space Shuttles
8 Feb 2010 | 2:29 pmNASA's official night launches might be over, but you can recreate them with one of the remaining NASA Space Shuttles (roughly $28 million). Space Shuttle Discovery has already been sold,...Visit Uncrate for the full post.
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Lifehacker
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Google Buzz Is Google's Approach to Sharing and the Social Space [Social Networking]
9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 amGoogle today announced a new service called Google Buzz (URL not active just yet), automatically brings social networking to Gmail. Whether or not you're a big on social network sites like Twitter or Facebook, it looks very cool.What's Buzz All About? Buzz integrates with photos, video, links to web site, and other content from all over the web. It's a whole lot like Facebook's newsfeed or FriendFeed, but it lives inside Gmail and integrates automatically with your most frequent Gmail contacts. Apart from working directly inside Gmail, it can pull content from Twitter, from Flickr, and from… -
Move the Users Directory in Windows 7 [How To]
9 Feb 2010 | 10:30 amEd. note: If you've tried moving the Windows Users directory to a location other than the default, you know it can be quite an undertaking. Reader Roobs wrote in detailing how he moved his Windows 7 Users directory without nasty registry hacks. (Every day we keep a close eye on our #tips page to see what readers have to offer. Sometimes we get links, other times quick suggestions, and sometimes we get full-fledged how-to guides. Here's one of them.)When scouring the net for hours on a method of relocating the entire Users directory (in Windows 7) on another partition, most of the methods were… -
Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker]
9 Feb 2010 | 10:00 amWhether you're looking for a new HDTV, laptop, camcorder or even a boot dryer, we've got you covered with today's Dealhacker roundup. If you're here for the freebies we didn't neglect you, you'll find free music, games, and more. Computer Gear! 15.6" Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop for $399 + $13 shipping (Regular Price: $509). 15.6" Toshiba Satellite L505D Laptop for $549.99 + free shipping (Regular Price: $645). 15.6" Acer Aspire 5740 Core i3 Laptop for $499.99 + free shipping (Regular Price: $630). 13.3" HP Pavilion dm3 Laptop for $559.95 + free shipping (Regular Price: $600 - use this form). 12"… -
Add Universal Keyword Control to All of Your Browsers with Quix [Saving Time]
9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 amImagine typing the same few keystrokes from any browser to email or clip a page, or start any kind of search. Quix is a universal browser commander, on your desktop or mobile, and it's my favorite new timesaver. Here's how it works.We've previously taken a peek at Quix, but having played with it quite a bit since then, it's turned out to be far more helpful, adaptive, and just plain cool than we'd initially thought. It does everything that a whole fleet of bookmarklets do, but it does them all from a single button—or, if you're of a keyboard shortcut type, one quick command. Quix may… -
Grill a Perfect Grilled-Cheese Sandwich [Food Hacks]
9 Feb 2010 | 8:30 amIf your grilled-cheese sandwiches never achieve that perfect diner-style golden grill but instead end up a shade too far into burnt-marshmallow territory, a simple tweak or two can make your sandwich perfect.Over at the baby and kid-centric blog OhDeeDoh, they put together a tutorial to help a friend of theirs who has a finicky 3-year old will reject any grilled-cheese sandwich with even a hint of burnt bits on it. The tutorial is focused on grilling a perfect golden-crust, char-free, gooey-cheese, sandwich. Their two critical components of the perfect-sandwich grilling process include a…
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The Art of Manliness
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The Perfect Valentine’s Day Menu: The Have Her Over for Dinner Cookbook Giveaway
8 Feb 2010 | 8:28 pmImage from Ellynkocher Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Matt Moore, author of Have Her Over for Dinner. See below for details on how to win a signed copy of Matt’s cookbook. Share Amber Jones, 6th Grade, and Valentine’s Day. I can remember it like it was just yesterday. You see, up to this point in my life, Valentine’s Day was an exciting holiday that meant cards, and most importantly, candy from friends and loved ones. In grade school, our teachers required us to write notes to the entire class, ensuring that everyone was equally appreciated. The stresses of defining… -
The 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America
8 Feb 2010 | 12:28 pmEditor’s Note: This is a guest post from Harry R. Burger. Mr. Burger joined the Cubs Scouts at six years old and has now been involved with Scouting for 20 years. He earned his Eagle in 2001. Share Today marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. For the past century, the Boy Scouts of America has been a premier organization for teaching boys to be good men. In addition to camping and outdoors skills, boys are taught leadership, character, citizenship, and service to others. They also have fun while they are doing it – after all, middle and high school… -
The World Belongs to Those Who Hustle
7 Feb 2010 | 9:08 pmWe get a lot of emails from men lamenting the fact that they feel stuck in neutral and asking for advice. Many of these men have great aspirations, but that’s all they have. Aspirations. Many don’t have any results to show for all their ambitious goals in life. Some are on year seven of a four year degree, and others are stuck in a job that’s going nowhere. Maybe you know a man like this. Heck, maybe you feel like this. Unfulfilled goals, of couse, can lead to frustration, depression, and just a general dampening of your man spirit, which only makes it harder to get… -
Manvotional: The Right Kind of People
6 Feb 2010 | 10:53 pmThe Right Kind of People By: Edwin Markham Gone the city, gone the day, Yet still the story and the meaning stay: Once where a prophet in the palm shade based, A traveler chanced at noon to rest his mules. “What sort of people may they be,” he asked, “in this proud city on the plains o’erspread?” “Well, friend, what sort of people whence you came?” “What sort?” the packman scowled; “why, knaves and fools!” “You’ll find the people here the same,” the wise man said. Another stranger in the dusk drew near, And… -
Man Knowledge: The Greek Philosophers
4 Feb 2010 | 8:27 pmEditor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ernesto Fernandez. Ernesto is a graduate student in the Philosophy Department of Biscayne College at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, FL. So there you are, deadlocked in the men’s underwear section, torn between the solid and striped cotton boxer-briefs and wondering which one Chuck Norris would buy. And then you remember: Chuck Norris doesn’t wear underwear, just two pairs of pants. Oh, how low we’ve fallen. Once upon a time, men called on their knowledge of the great, introspective minds of history to inform their…
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Smashing Magazine
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Applying Mathematics To Web Design
9 Feb 2010 | 4:52 am“Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies. In fact, one of the greatest ancient philosophers, Aristotle, said: “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”Because of its beautiful nature, mathematics has been a part of art and architectural design for ages. But it has not been… -
Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes
8 Feb 2010 | 3:58 amIn the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology. While this information is important, I’m sure a lot of people were wondering when we were going to get into the nitty-gritty of actually creating some color schemes.Well, that’s where Part 3 comes in. Here we’ll be talking about methods for creating your own color schemes, from scratch. We’ll cover the traditional color scheme patterns (monochrome, analogous, complementary, etc.) as well as how to create custom schemes that… -
SimpleFolio: A Free Clean Portfolio WordPress Theme
7 Feb 2010 | 8:35 amToday we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider.It has 2 different widget areas and threaded comments, and also supports paged comments and has 2 different page templates for advanced usage. The control of images is done from the post page.Download the… -
Beautiful Motion Graphics Created With Programming: Showcase, Tools and Tutorials
6 Feb 2010 | 5:50 amWhen you hear the word “creative”, what type of profession comes to mind? Maybe a graphic designer, painter, sculptor, illustrator, or writer? It’s unlikely that you would consider a “programmer” when thinking of creative fields of work. But programmers have the potential to be creative and come up with ideas or concepts that will impact others in positive ways.We often turn to programmers to solve mathematical-related problems, but the concept of mathematics in programming is what powers programmers to innovate. When you think of mathematics you… -
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files
5 Feb 2010 | 6:04 amPlanning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has the basic elements of a Web page: header, footer, sidebar, maybe even some generated content, which gives you, your clients and colleagues a simple visually oriented layout that illustrates what the structure of the website will be by the end of the project and that…
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The Importance of Thinking Before You Post
8 Feb 2010 | 10:10 pmToday is Safer Internet Day in the European Union, a day that promotes safe and responsible use of the Internet and mobile technologies among young people. We asked Childnet International, a member of Facebook's Safety Advisory Board, and its CEO Will Gardner to share more about this year's theme and how the organization is working with young people on Internet safety. When young people discuss the future of the Internet and new technologies, a central theme is keeping safe. Many see it as a right. At Childnet International, we saw this reaction firsthand as part of the recent Youth IGF… -
Faster, Simpler Photo Uploads
5 Feb 2010 | 2:57 pmFacebook is the largest photo-sharing site with over 2.5 billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month. In order to make sharing photos even easier, today we are announcing a new and improved photo uploader. Recently we've received feedback that people struggle with our current photo uploader due to various technical issues, while others are confused by the installation process. In this new version of the photo uploader, we have solved many of those problems and developed a fast, stable and simple experience for sharing photos on Facebook. The new uploader will be rolling out gradually over… -
Introducing Your New Navigation
4 Feb 2010 | 6:46 pmOver the past few months, we've been testing several different designs of the home page to improve navigation to and discovery of commonly used features. Today, we started rolling out the most recent navigation updates to help you find what you are looking for on Facebook. Now from the top and left menus you can quickly get to what's new and important. Stay Updated from the Top Menu In the top menu, you will find your newest notifications, requests and messages. For example, when you receive a Facebook notification about someone writing on your Wall or tagging you in a photo, you'll see a red… -
Six Years of Making Connections
4 Feb 2010 | 5:41 pmToday we're celebrating our sixth birthday, and this week there will be 400 million people on Facebook. Just one year ago we served less than half as many people, and thanks to you we've made great progress over the last year towards making the world more open and connected. Facebook began six years ago today as a product that my roommates and I built to help people around us connect easily, share information and understand one another better. We hoped Facebook would improve people's lives in important ways. So it's rewarding to see that as Facebook has grown, people around the world are… -
Connecting with... Sam Gosling: Facebook Psychologist
2 Feb 2010 | 12:56 pmAt Facebook, we're constantly connecting with interesting people—from experts in their field, academics and researchers to celebrities or visitors to our office. Occasionally, we'll share these conversations on the Facebook Blog in our "Connecting with...." series. I had the opportunity to speak with Sam Gosling, professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and author of "Snoop: What your stuff says about you." He recently published research that found that people are expressing their real personalities on social networks like Facebook, rather than inflated takes on…
