Eight Clever Ways to Take Advantage of Free Calling in Gmail

While I don't utilize it to its full potential, nor often enough, Google Voice is great. Now with it in Gmail, it becomes even more valuable in my book. I'm in Gmail a ton, so having the phone call option there is pretty handy. Below is a compilation of tips to take full advantage of this [...]

Find Creative Commons Licensed Sound Effects at The Freesound Project

Now that I've got a new machine at home, I've got iMovie on my computer and iPhone, and we've got a couple sources for recording high res video, I see myself recording more video — mainly of our little 11 month old who's now mobile and getting into everything. To supplement the video, and add a [...]

Time Warner Cable iPad App to Deliver On-Demand TV Streaming

How many times have you actually said, "man, it's great being a Time Warner Cable customer?" You can probably count on one hand, while still making a fist. But, this sounds promising. Time Warner is supposedly developing an app for the iPad to stream television content — both live and on-demand stuff. Now if I only [...]

New Gmail Design Revealed in Leaked Screenshot

It's nice to see Gmail continuing to do a little more evolution of its look and feel. While the screenshot featured in the article below isn't revolutionary, but any stretch of the imagination, it is evolutionary, and I'd welcome the changes if they ever leave Google's campus.

New Gmail Design Revealed in [...]

Hulu Expanding to Xbox 360, iPad

On the heels of my post last week about trying to find alternate ways to watch our favorite shows on an alternative to cable, I'm excited to read rumors that Hulu is looking to the Xbox 360 and the iPad. I don't really care about the iPad, but I am very excited to see the possibility [...]

Frog Design Envisions Your Future in 2020

The few augmented reality apps I've tried have been really lacking, but I'm loving the look of these mockups of Frog Design's view of the near future (2020), where people are given more meta data than today's boring 3D world.

Frog Design Envisions Your Future [...]

Create Your Own Personal Infographic

Thanks to a co-worker, one of my favorite recent adds to my RSS reading is CoolInfoGraphics. Today, they had a post to Create Your Own Personal Infographic via ionz.com/br. For all your English speaking peeps like myself, make sure to hit the British flag in the upper right hand corner.

It's a great concept, but I [...]

Eight Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers

Here's a great list of eight tips/habits consistently found across successful bloggers out there, which helps if you're a seasoned blogger, new to the game, or starting your fifth blog (what's up, John?) I do a lot of these eight — but not consistently. The big one that I don't do well is focusing on a [...]

The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites

Smashing Magazine did a wonderful job in the article below, writing up the trends and present and future of the web, the web browser and their technologies. The real gem though is the list of examples below the article that demonstrate various web sites, portfolios, and JavaScript library implementations to show off what is already being [...]

Google Reader Play

So I've confessed my love of Google Reader many times before. It's a great way to sift through a bunch of RSS feeds in a quick and efficient manner. Recently, on my Reader homepage, I saw a link for a "game" called Google Reader Play. Clicking through to it, it's a slidrshow-type view of the web-based [...]