Guess who’s featured in the Pulse blogs this week? Me. Not sure why they’d want to interview me but they did. Basically they ask me questions about what I did, about this website, as well as how I use Pulse on a daily basis and why. They go into other questions but I won’t spoil it for you guys who might actually want to read it. I don’t really find myself that interesting but other people do I guess. haha.
You can check out the entire interview on their blog here. Also if you aren’t using it, you should be. Pulse is one of my favorite news readers on the iPad/iPhone and is the only one I really use daily to check up on blogs and news quickly.
Interesting thing I found the other day, a clock that changes colors every second of the day. Pretty cool huh? Each number displayed on the screen is represented by a different color. I wish my professors used this during exams =P Click on the image to see the clock in action.
If you have a Mac you can even have this as your screensaver. It’s too bad they don’t have one for the PC
Google helps celebrate what would have been Will Eisner’s 94th birthday today. One of the most influential comic book artists of his time, Will Eisner is known for creating The Spirit as well as writing and illustrating the ever popular Comics and Sequential Art. I remember reading that in high school and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to break into the comic book industry.
For most of his career, Eisner was years, even decades, ahead of the curve. I saw him debating artists and editors half his age, and there was rarely any question who the youngest man in the room was. It helped that he never stood on ceremony. Everyone was his peer, regardless of age or status. None of us called him “Mr. Eisner.” He was just “Will.” – Scott McCloud for Google Blog
Here’s the official letter from Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. They’ve just made being an Amazon Prime member even more appealing by offering free instant streaming service to their paid Prime members. That means if you pay the $79 per year fee, you can now enjoy this service. Sadly, I can not try out the service as my Amazon Prime membership is the free one they give out to college students.
If you don’t have an Amazon Prime membership yet, it looks like Amazon is giving away another free 30-day trial of Prime.If you’ve never tried Prime before, I highly recommend it as you get free 2-day shipping on anything that is sold and shipped by Amazon and you get free release-day shipping on pre-order games.
I’m blessed to have such artistically creative friends. If I didn’t have them, I would have never been introduced to this site. The site is called “Draw and Fold Over” and it’s a site that encourages social drawing. What you do on the site is you start a drawing that consists of 4 parts. You start the first part which is the head. After which you post up a link to the started drawing and have other people complete the rest of it. The creative part here is that these people do not see the parts that have been completed, only the very bottom of it. That means that the next person has to continue the drawing based on only what they see. This makes for some very creative and sometimes hilarious drawings.
I’d like to thank my good friend Brian Christopher for showing me this site as I’m having a bit of fun with it.
Google always has a special doodle for holidays and today is no different. With today being the last day of 2010, Google has a special 2011 doodle up to ring in the new year. It’s very creative with the roman numerals MMXL (2011) even though it doesn’t exactly spell out Google.
Google just made my life much simpler. I’m not sure how new this feature is but I only just noticed it last night while trying to organize my Gmail inbox. You see, I have thousands of emails in one of my Gmail accounts that I never bothered to archive or mark as read. It’s my junk account that I use for stuff like newsletters, signing up for websites, promotions, etc. and I rarely organize it because of how much mail I get in it on a given day.
Last night while selecting all emails on the page to mark as read, I noticed a new option that popped up that you can see in the image above. The new option is to “select all XXX conversations in inbox.” What this does is allow you to select every single email in your inbox regardless of what page it’s on. You used to have to go through each page individually before and it was a pain especially if you had thousands of emails in there. I promptly clicked it and archived everything instantly making my inbox clean and organized. That saved me what used to take me maybe an hour of cleaning. Thanks Google!
Please note however that this only seems to work so far on the main Gmail site. If you have email through Google Apps, the feature is not available there yet which is a bummer but hopefully Google will add that feature soon to Google Apps.
UPDATE – It seems that the option is now available for Google Apps customers too. I just tried it with my account and it now works. Time to organize my emails.
So I came across these 2 apps on the App Store that seem to accomplish the same goals. Both Fiddme and Foodspotting are social network sites that are food based. What you do is instead of just writing about the food you are eating, you take pictures of it, upload them and then write something about it. All of which can be linked to all your other social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. I’ve decided to try both out and see which one is more appealing. Both are free. Both seem to have the same App Store ratings for their current version but Foodspotting seems to have more users. I can already tell you that no one on any of my social networks is using Fiddme but I did find a few using Foodspotting.
Stay tuned in a few days when I finally choose the winner. If you are using any of these two apps, I’d sure like to hear your opinions about them.
Google today has a pretty awesome interactive logo in honor of what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. By clicking on the logo, a short animated music video tribute plays on their homepage. The video is set to the song “Imagine.” Very cool. Happy Birthday John Lennon.
Facebook the past 2 days have been having some sort of outage every now and then but today is the first day I’ve seen this message pop up while trying to access Facebook.
Microsoft released a free e-book today aimed at teens that is supposed to teach them about safe online computing by safeguarding their computer from online threats. Own Your Space, which is the title of the book, talks about such subjects as phishing, SPAM, malware, trojans, cyberbullies, social networks, and other such topics.
I had a chance to skim the book and it’s actually very informative. So informative in fact that not only teens can benefit from a read through. I have plenty of internet-brain dead co-workers here that I plan on giving this book to as a day doesn’t go by when I need to clean someone’s computer of malware or fake anti-virus apps.
Own Your Space is a good 250+ page book so its filled with quite a bit of useful information. It’s really a good read for anyone who wants to brush up on their internet threats. You can get Own Your Spacehere on Microsoft’s website.
