Category: miscellaneous
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Great instructional videos
Anyone who wants to create instructional videos for their software should head over to the Youtube Channel I link to below. This set of videos was created by the SketchUp team and really showcases the power and simplicity of online, streaming video training. I’m not sure what capture tool they used to create these, but…
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Will facebook self destruct?
.!. “Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people youre looking to avoid.” While I have been lucky so far and avoided all facebook stalkers (no this isn’t an invite!), it seems that there are some (and Cory…
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Wow…we work on interesting stuff here at Siemens
Where do I put in for mid-20’s female Harvard grads for all my tech support and travel calls? Siemens developing call center voice-recognition software that determines age and gender – Engadget
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The sunset tonight
.!. The sunset tonight Originally uploaded by aakelley
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Everyone who will ever use Powerpoint should have to click through this before it starts
.!. Personally I have been trying to avoid using Powerpoint, instead looking to Mind Maps, or just plane old notes. But despite my efforts, PPT seems to be the predominant attachment to every email that comes into my inbox. Maybe I should just give up on email? No there’s an idea! Well, until I do…
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A little late for Halloween
But still this is funny…the creativity out there continues to amaze me. Brainz…. YouTube – The Zombeatles – A Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead Under Siege 2: Dark Territory hd
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Wish I had some more time to geek out coming up
I have been looking at a few of the different low cost alternative PCs including the OLPC and the Asus Eee. Now it seems you can run OS X Leopard on the Eee. I really wish I had a week off soon to try this out…and get my MythTV box working again…and get Tversity working…
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Social networks in you inbox
An interesting idea coming from the big online email vendors: let’s turn people’s inbox into a social network. Don’t get me wrong: I love gmail. But email in general has such a bad name these days (info overload, spam, viruses…) I doubt they will be able to convince “social network true believers” (that view email…
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It’s the end of ads as we know it
and I feel fine. IBM Press room – 2007-11-08 IBM Predicts the End of Advertising as We Know It – United States