Last weekend Teri and I had a scavenger hunt, she was looking for RED items and I was looking for YELLOW items. As we found these items we would take a picture of them with our phones, and at then emailed them to each other. I talked a lot of trash and in the end she kicked my ass… Anyways, moving on… We thought it would be fun to get the family involved. So here we go…
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If you are on a PC and are looking for the perfect photo (album, editor, sharing) tool then you need to have Picasa from Google. I have searched and searched for better, but in the end this is it! Not to mention that it is 100% free from Google!
Here are just a few of its features:
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If you’re like me then you will understand when I say, I HATE CHECK REGISTERS!!! I mean I just hate them! It’s not that they are complicated or any of that crap, it’s just that I can get all my info via online banking (well, most of it anyhow). However, as I get older I begin to realize more and more how important it is to know exactly where your checking account is at all times.
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I just got the 3.0 update for Beejive today that uses the push notification on my iPhone! YAY!
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I have been playing around quite a bit with the iPhone Voice Memos feature and discovered like some of you have that there is a limit on the size of a memo you can send via email. Because of this I decided to write a quick post about that limit. Here are the quick details:
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ya, like the title says
90ish
105ish
I got faster but it was hard to take pics at 120MPH in the rain LOL!
Just a quick walk through on how to set up your mobile phone to be able to receive updates or send messages to Twitter from it.
Step 1: Login At Twitter
http://www.twitter.com
Twitter Login Page
After doing some testing I think I am going to make my move to using Twitter as my new form of instant messenger. Now most of you that are familiar with Twitter will think “It’s not an instant messenger!”, but I am going to show you how I use it to make it more like one.
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Ok so we all know social networks is the big thing these days, and it seems the more you join the better… Right?? Well at some point you begin to loose track of where you are and what you are doing. This is the case for me. I only belong to 8 Social Network type sites + my own personally hosted blog, but it started to become very difficult to keep all of them well groomed. I needed a solution, and so far I think I may have found it. Keep in mind this is a mix of stuff that I use to attempt to stay on top of my social status.
First off my blog is my #1 location period. If everything was to fall away for simplicity sake, my blog would still be standing. With that said here is my list of other locations I belong to in basic order of importance to me.
Picasa Photo Albums = My online photo Albums
FaceBook = Couple of friends had it so I had to also, right?
Linkedin = Couple of friends had it so I had to also, right?
Twitter = Couple of friends had it so I had to also, right?
Delicious = My solution to my bookmarking woes.
YouTube = Location to host any random videos I want.
Pandora = My music site
So how do I manage these spots? Ok here is the break down…
Picasa Photo Albums is managed with the Picasa photo software (it’s free from Google). Oh yea, if your not using this you really should be! It’s just that awesome!
Twitter, FaceBook and Linkedin are are updated via a 3rd party solution called Ping.fm to which I send a text msg or IM to, this is used for those short bursts of information rather than long blog stuff.
Delicious, YouTube are directly accessed by me.
Loopt is a new toy that allows my friends to see where I am at and me to see where they are at, it’s tied to my iPhone. I am sure they have a service for other mobile phones as well.
Confused yet? Good!
So here is how it works…
I make a post on my blog.. let’s say, THIS POST.. I then send an IM or SMS to Ping.com, something like “hey check out my new post at www.lostinmadison.com” who will make a short post to Twitter, FaceBook and Linkedin. Simple right.
The goal here is to drive you BACK to my main blog, remember I just want to keep one location up to date.
As for the Picasa, Delicious, Pandora and YouTube? After I have made my updates to those specific locations, they automatically appear in my blog. Delicious links are on the right, along with Pandora. The Picasa web album link is under the About Me section (along with all the Social Networks) and YouTube videos or specific photo albums will show up in blog posts as I want them to appear.
I also have my iPhone with me 24/7 and have all of these apps on it as well. In a pinch I can do any of the above things right from my phone if I really wanted to.
So now I am curious, how do you handle your Social Networks?
Ok so I was over at one of the geek sites I like to visit (http://chris.pirillo.com/) and during one of his live feeds he reviewed a site (http://www.typeracer.com). What is TypeRacer? Here is what they call it…
The online typing competition, TypeRacer, is a multiplayer typing game where you race others by typing quotes from popular books, movies, and songs.
Ok so ya sounds very geekish but trust me it’s fun. So far I am at a Pro level with an average WPM of 55 and have won 8 out of the 14 races I have been in. I think I have come in 2-3rd on the other ones. 55 WPM is not something to really brag about, but hey I am doing better than some people. So go give it a shot and let me know what your WPM is. If we can catch each other on at the same time we can even have a private race!