So… Twitter is a social networking site where people can post micro-blogs which are viewable by others in their network. What is a micro-blog? Twitter likes to confuse us more by calling them “tweets”, but I like to think of micro-blogging as when facebook asks you “What are you doing?”. You have 1-2 sentences to express yourself. On [...]
What is a Twitter? June 4th, 2008 · No Comments
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The Ticket Assassin takes on Traffic Violations May 24th, 2008 · 16 Comments
The streets really aren’t safe anymore. There are red light cameras on every block, traffic cops are shooting to kill, and even Paris and Lindsey can’t get away with DUIs. The Ticket Assassin is our only hope. He offers step by step guidance to traffic violators in California. The Ticket Assassin really is Bernard Mulroy, [...]
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Read Strangers’ Text Messages and Laugh May 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
One day while driving a few colleagues to lunch at Ramenya on Olympic Blvd, one of my passengers discovered a cell phone under one of the seats. The phone wasn’t mine and although I had a pretty good idea whose phone it was, I gave her permission to look through the phone and discover the owner. [...]
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Shortcuts Does Supermarket Coupons Differently April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Coupon clipping is officially over now that Shortcuts by AOL offers a service where coupons can be electronically linked to your grocery store card. That way you can receive your savings upon checkout with no actual coupons required. This is great because coupons in the mail are always hidden among advertisements and other types of junkmail. Few of us have [...]
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Free Online Storage Solutions April 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Backing up and sharing files is too easy with the Microsoft Skydrive and the Gspace Firefox Add-on. These online storage solutions have been around for some time, but recently the storage space has grown quite a bit (to 5 GB) and since they’re free, it’s time to sign up. Put photo albums, music, and movies online so that [...]
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Internet Radio Revitalized with Pandora September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Finding new music can be a frustrating, time consuming activity, but internet radio has allowed music lovers to find new tracks and artists outside of the monotony offered by conventional radio. My internet radio site of choice is www.pandora.com. It is fueled by the Music Genome Project which assigns more than 400 attributes to every song; thereby [...]
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