I got the OTA (Over The Air) Ice Cream Sandwich update yesterday for my Nexus S 4G. It was a bit of a surprise. I had just left to go to lunch from work and looked at my phone and it said that it was ready to perform the update.…
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Touchscreen Phones & Finger Smudges
OK, it’s Friday and I’m going to write about something not very serious. How many of you that have touchscreen phones hate when they’re smudged with fingerprints? I’m pretty OCD about my phone. I find myself constantly wiping it off on my shirt or pants to make it clean and…
25 jQuery Plugins For Responsive Layouts
I came across this article on speckeyboy.com for 25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts and thought it was great! There are a lot of plugins to help with layouts, image and text resizing, sliders, video and more. I love finding these resource round-ups and will share them if I get…
Web Site Design Inspiration
I look at sites around the web and try to get ideas from them. I get inspiration from different places but I really like templatemonster.com. They have quite a few impressive template designs for all sorts of different categories of business and interests. Lately, you see a lot of sliders…
UberMusic Zune Player Skin Android App
I found this Android App from UberMusic that mimics the ZuneHD interface. It’s pretty slick! I love my Zune and to be able to have the same looking interface on my Android phone is awesome! And since I have a Nexus S with a large 4″ screen it looks cool.…
New Cheap Indian Tablet
There’s a new tablet pc that’s coming out that will undercut all the current ones on the market. It’s manufactured by an Indian company called Ubislate and it’s pretty impressive! The tablet will be called Aakash and it’s got a 7″ screen, 256MB of RAM, up to 32GB of storage,…
DirecTV Controller Android App
If you’ve got an Android phone and DirecTV you might be interested in this app. You can find it for free in the Amazon Android App Store. It’s the free DirecTV Remote App and I love it! The remote is constantly getting lost in our house and it’s so nice…
AnyMeeting: A Free Online Meeting Platform
A few weeks ago a friend of mine, Michael Daehn, moved to California to work for a company called AnyMeeting. Obviously, it’s a rival to GoToMeeting. Recently, I had to do an online meeting with a client of mine and decided to give AnyMeeting a try. I was pleasantly surprised…
New Amazon Tablet – Kindle Fire
Either I’ve been living on Mars or Amazon has done a really good job of keeping the lid on their new product! The Kindle Fire is set to be debuted today and it looks like it could take on Apple’s Ipad on several fronts. According to what I’m hearing, it’s…
Customized Ad Banners?
I was surfing the net and landed on the Weather Channel site, weather.com. The day before I had been on Amazon’s site and was looking at a record player. (yeah, I still have quite a few old records packed away that I haven’t played in years.) I even put it…
New HTML5 ‘mark’ and ‘summary’ Tags
I just learned that there is a new HTML5 tag that allows you to highlight text and do some cool stuff with it. It’s the ‘mark’ tag and you can make it any color you want and even round the corners! Of course this only works in certain browsers that…
New HTML5 Logo
Since it’s inception, HTML5 has had many different logos all vying for being the official one. Well, now there is one! And it comes with logos for other aspects of HTML5:Semantics,Offline & Storage, Device Access, Connectivity, Multimedia, 3D, Graphics & Effects, Perfomance & Integration and CSS3.
Internet Explorer 6,7 & 8 Trends In 2009
As the Google Analytics Administrator at my work I was able to track the visitors to our site throughout the year that used different browsers. Of particular interest to me was how many visitors used IE6. Anyone who has coded a website to be browser compliant knows how much…
Negative Z-Index. Yeah! It’s Possible!
Did you know that you can have a negative value for a z-index? I didn’t! Until now, that is. I was having a problem at work with two absolutely positioned DIVs. One wouldn’t stack itself on top of the other even when I gave it a higher z-index. I…
Movie Review: Push
PLOT: On the run from the Division, a shadowy government agency that uses people with psychic abilities to do their bidding, telekinetic Nick Gant (Chris Evans) and clairvoyant Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning) join forces to find a third psychic who can help them destroy the organization. But when the…