Month: January 2008

Matchbox Twenty at Philips Arena 1/28/08

29 Jan 2008

Matchbox Twenty – LIVE – “Disease” – Philips Arena 1.28.08 from Chris Harrison on Vimeo. View more of the photos I took on Flickr. I took around 800 shots total, but scrubbed a lot of the pics that were screwed up one way or another. Some of the best shots can be seen in the…

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Piclens: Photo Browsing Enhanced

26 Jan 2008

PicLens is an add-on for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari that will change the way you interact with a lot of websites. The add-on is currently compatible with Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, DeviantArt, Smugmug, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, Google Images, Yahoo Images, Ask Images, Live Images, and AOL Images. These screen captures really…

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Canon PowerShot S5 IS

26 Jan 2008

A few months ago, I picked up a Canon PowerShot S5 IS from Amazon.com. It’s the nicest digital camera I’ve owned so far. I chose this camera for a few reasons: I wanted something more than 6.0 Megapixels; I wanted something with at least 8x optical zoom; I wanted something that could use lens accessories;…

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CreativeTantrum

21 Jan 2008

Typically I wouldn’t do this… but Nick McMillan is someone I’ve known since high school and he just took the bold step of starting his own business: CreativeTantrum. Based in Northern Virginia, CreativeTantrum specializes in web design, identity, print design, you name it. Nick’s done freelance work for me in the past through PowerServe, and…

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MacWorld 2008 Keynote Address

15 Jan 2008

MacWorld 2008 Keynote Address

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WTF Apple. srlsy?

15 Jan 2008

So… in order to get functionality that probably should have been included with the iPod touch to begin with… you’re going to charge me $20 for it. Are you out of your effing gourd, Apple? This is in bad form, especially considering this product is only around four months old, and today’s update was software…

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Choose your favorites

10 Jan 2008

Choose your favorites for the 2007 Crunchies. The Crunchies is a collaboration project between GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat and TechCrunch.

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Why won’t people pay $5?

10 Jan 2008

Trent Reznor: Why won’t people pay $5? Answer: They had an option to have it free. Lots of people took you up on that. I know I did, and I liked the album enough to go back and buy a higher-quality version. Don’t beat yourself up, Trent. This is the beginning of something big and…

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50000+ Spam Messages Killed and Counting

10 Jan 2008

Since installing Aksimet, it’s blocked 50,222 spam messages from appearing on my site. That’s a lot of crap I didn’t have to deal with. Thank you Akismet. (I wish I could determine exactly when I started using the plugin… but I am not sure where to find that information…) If you’re blogging with WordPress, enable…

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NewsGator Frees RSS Readers

10 Jan 2008

For a couple of years, I’ve happily used NewsGator FeedDemon as my RSS reader. I use it to read through a hundred or so feeds that I am subscribed to. (The integration of NewsGator Online with the desktop application is one of my favorite features.) I’ve used Bloglines, Google Reader, and several other web-based RSS…

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