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iomega gets it right again

By: ste!!a
24-08-2008
design, gadgets, objects of desire, technology


The first time that the peo­ple that made the Bernoulli Box became iomega with remov­able dri­ves that were all about YOUR STUFF I thought their was some very savvy think­ing about the desires or con­sumers. Then the CD burner came into being and smashed their suc­cess in the portable stor­age mar­ket­space. Well, It looks like Iomega is return­ing to its old smart self cre­at­ing a very desir­able, very sexy new ego 320 GB hard drive. The reviews I’ve read are very good and the drive is excep­tion­ally good looking.

It reminds me of a flask with some­thing warm inside for when the cold winds blow. Or maybe a cigarette/cigar case — some­thing very per­sonal. The kind of gift you give to some­one you are very fond of, some­thing to inscribe.

This is a prod­uct with a very inter­est­ing emo­tional connection.

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explaining twitter

By: ste!!a
21-08-2008
design, gadgets, technology, this fair city

Twitter _ Biz Stone_ A recruiter just called me

The Boston Globe and 140 Sec­onds on Twitter

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Twit­ter is a micro-sharing web­site
where you describe in 140 char­ac­ters or less what you’re up to. You can
send and receive mes­sages via SMS (text mes­sages) on your phone,
through Twitter’s web­site and third-party appli­ca­tions such as Twit­terific.
If you want to talk “with” some­one on Twit­ter, you add @theirusername
to the front of the mes­sage and it shows up in the person’s replies
tab. This was a fea­ture that was added sev­eral months after Twit­ter
first launched in 2006 based upon how peo­ple ended up actu­ally using
the ser­vice. That’s been the con­sis­tent story for Twit­ter — it’s
def­i­nitely evolved beyond “I’m mak­ing an omelet for break­fast” to now
include shar­ing info about late break­ing news, mak­ing plans with a group of cohorts, etc.

BTW, Biz Stone is a co-founder of twitter.

This is a great place to exper­i­ment in the social net­work space. It’s sorta like it use to be in the old days. Sorta free wheel­ing, unex­pected, and fun.

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MobileMe hearts me

By: ste!!a
18-08-2008
gadgets, talking, technology

MobileMe Update

We have already made many improve­ments to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To rec­og­nize our users’ patience, we are giv­ing every MobileMe sub­scriber as of today a free 60 day exten­sion. This is in addi­tion to the one month exten­sion most sub­scribers have already received. We are work­ing very hard to make MobileMe a great ser­vice we can all be proud of. We know that MobileMe’s launch has not been our finest hour, and we truly appre­ci­ate your patience as we turn this around. Read this arti­cle for more details.

The MobileMe Team

No this hasn’t been Apple’s finest hour.
I still haven’t pur­chased my iphone.

I will when its right.

I don’t get my voice mail from ATT now I just can imag­ine what life will be at the pre­mium price they want for their swiss cheese ser­vice they call 3G.

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first earthquake tweet

By: ste!!a
29-07-2008
gadgets, news, technology

Found out about the Cal­i­for­nia quake watch­ing my twit­terific wid­get.

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technical difficulty 101

By: ste!!a
09-07-2008
gadgets, technology

We all have these moments. This is my friend Becky hav­ing one. It turned out well for her in the end. I just won­der whose lap­top she’s using. Isn’t it a shame when we have dif­fi­culty with a childs lap­top. It’s really cool to be able to share video eas­ily on flickr.

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att and the iphone, forget about it

By: ste!!a
01-07-2008
gadgets, technology

How much more can we stand? I was wait­ing for announce­ment of the iPhone 3G and it hap­pened. Now all I get is email mes­sages about how the iPhone is com­ing, the iPhone is com­ing. You can read : How to hand-down your old iPhone after upgrad­ing to iPhone 3G, Mov­ing to iPhone 3G: a guide for cur­rent and non-current AT&T cus­tomers, New and old AT&T iPhone plans com­pared, cost increases detailed, AT&T announces iPhone 3G plans, 8 a.m. launch time on July 11.

I’m dizzy from “if it’s wednes­day and a full moon and you were pre­vi­ously a friends and fam­ily cus­tomer” you can expect to pay up to 50% more on your ATT bill.

Well, maybe an iPhone just isn’t want I am long­ing for any­more. It’s just not any fun. Who wants to go into the brain­trust they call the ATT store? Who wants to fig­ure it all out? Sorry no SMS mes­sages are included with your plan.

I would have rather payed 500 dol­lars for the iphone and known the ATT couldn’t do this lets screw the cus­tomers again rou­tine. Apple and their exclu­sive deal sucks. I’m out. Too much money. I can open my browser and play my music from my lap­top thank you.

I just say no.

Some­how this reminds me of the new gal­lon milk car­ton that you need instruc­tion to use. I guess that’s another post.

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my birthday month : day five

By: ste!!a
05-05-2008
birthday month, gadgets, moments of indecision, technology

Today was geek day. My new drive from Other World Com­put­ing came 200 gigs or 7200 rpm good­ness, yummy. I took out my drive and all the tools I needed (so I thought) and began by for­mat­ting and installing OSX. That wasn’t too painful. Then I began to take apart the case of my Mac­book Pro. Tiny screw by tiny screw. Damn this thing has lots of teeny tiny screws. Twenty seven in total. The whole case was apart and now I removed the hard drive.

Now I am tak­ing apart the screws on the hard drive itself with the lit­tle rub­ber bumpers… geeze where is my torx 6? I can’t find my torx 6. 9:45 pm — Every­thing is closed.

This is what it looked like.

that's it

I can fig­ure this out. I get a small hex dri­ver and I can get three of the screws out. I can’t get the fourth and I don’t want to strip the screw. Emer­gency geek friend call. Dri­ving to George’s house at 10 pm. I get the torx 6 and buy an extra hard drive case he hap­pened to have around. Got the screw out and head­ing back downtown.

The rest of the story… I’m writ­ing this post on my machine with my new hard drive.

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Electronic Arts Spore and my birthday iPhone

By: ste!!a
13-03-2008
gadgets, technology

AppleIn­sider | Com­ing to iPhone: Instant Mes­sen­ger, EA’s Spore, SEGA games

I watched the Apple event about the iPhone again today. I had to watch the Spore ame from EA. I love that lit­tle spore and I can’t wait to play it on my very own iPhone. My Razor is start­ing to be a lit­tle weird and although I have a love for the Motorolla bat­phone sym­bol I just want an eas­ier to use device. Actu­ally, I really want a device that is more than a phone. I want a hand­held device that will allow me to leave my lap­top at the stu­dio now and again.

I want a device that man­ages my voice mes­sages, that will let me access my grand cen­tral account, my flickr account, IM, watch movies and lis­ten to music… and yes play SPORE.

I think this is going to be a very good birthday.

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apple wireless keyboard oh my! [review]

By: ste!!a
17-11-2007
gadgets, objects of desire, technology

Just last week I took a trip to the local Apple store. I had made up my mind to get a new wire­less key­board. A friend and col­league had pur­chased the full size key­board and I tried it out. But it was time to go wire­less and to dump the num­ber pad which I almost never use. I wanted to get back some desk space.

Boy did I get back some deskspace.

The key­board is the same size as the one in my mac­book pro but response of the keys is much bet­ter than expected. Being wire­less is new found free­dom. It’s a great design detail how the bat­ter­ies load into the top of the key­board. even with the bat­ter­ies the key­board is incred­i­bly light.

I do miss the apple key.

I also bought the wire­less mighty mouse. I’ve loved that mouse from the beginning.

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using PictoBrowser

By: ste!!a
10-11-2007
design, gadgets, technology

This is a test of a sweet lit­tle piece of tech­nol­ogy that I recently stum­bled upon. I can’t even remem­ber how I dis­cov­ered it. I just know that it’s pretty darn sweet and its really easy to use. I can turn lots of my artist and photo bud­dies on to using this tech­nol­ogy to view their work within a clean inter­face that doesn’t dis­tract from the work. So here’s my first try. As soon as I get a few more set together at flickr I will be mak­ing them available.

I tried putting the code in a Dru­pal site I am work­ing on with dis­mal results. A real bum­mer. I’m inves­ti­gat­ing if it’s Dru­pal that’s muck­ing it up or me or what. Gonna make a visit to the devel­oper page and check it out. Has any­one else tried to put this in Drupal?

These are images from a trip to the Whar­ton Esh­er­ick Museum. Enjoy.

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