Addicted to Placebos

Got to give the credit for this one to Scott Kleinberg over at the Chicago Tribune. Heck, I’ll even throw in an Eat n Park smiley cookie!
While I usually like to point you toward free music, I think six cents a track is close enough. iTunes has a CD available that compiles 100 [...]

Marci Lisa, originally uploaded by Marci Maleski.

Well, usually.
Sometimes, they’re just incredibly fun toys.  Cameroid is one of those.  The site allows you to take snapshots using your webcam and immediately apply filters, scenes or frames.  Once saved, you can add them to Cameroid’s public gallery, send links to the photos or download them as JPGs.
I [...]

Saying that I love Evernote is like saying I love oxygen.
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
There are an increasing number of times that I find my mind to be simultaneously everywhere and nowhere at all. I have mounted a dry erase board on my front door with a checklist - coffee, lunch, phone. I [...]

Twitter. Photoshop Express. Flickr. I love web apps. I use web apps a lot. I’ll squeal over them later. This post is about a free download that makes all of those web apps live on your desktop. (Sorry - this one is Mac only.)
Fluid is a tiny little [...]

CrunchGear » Archive » Like gadgets? You’re probably an arrogant prick

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
w00t! Another epithet to add to my profile!

A pious Prius driver
A Mac snob
An arrogant techie prick

Awesome! Wanna make something of it?

My Spore creature, Nintin. I’m not a big gamer but after playing around with just the trial version of the Creature Creator, I’m hooked.
Going to be a long time until September 7 rolls around, though.

After a couple of months of trying to resist, I bought myself a really neat solar system picture yesterday. It just makes me smile with the robots and the spaceships and the green glitter. And I had a spare wall in my computer room which is where my nerdiness all hangs out.
Uploaded with [...]

June 17 is Download Day. The folks at Firefox are hoping to set a Guinness world record for most downloads in a 24 hour period. As part of my “yay, free software” thing, I’m more than happy to pitch in.
I’ve been using a beta release of Firefox 3 for a bit now and [...]

I brought my MacBook into work with me today, only to find that I apparently work in a lead-lined building. At least writing doesn’t require net access. There are so many times that I get ideas during the day to write about but by the time I get home, they’ve sort of faded [...]

I think the folks over at Buzz Out Loud nailed it with today’s show title - “iPhone hangover day”. I was so, so thankful for the non-tech podcasts I had lined up today. I did listen to more than my fair share of iPhone news before I switched over to “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell [...]