Photo: Squirrel on Utility Pole
July 10, 2012 Leave a Comment
I have no substantive content to offer this morning, so here’s a picture of a squirrel on a utility pole:
Android News, Mobile Space MMORPGs, and a Music App
July 6, 2012 Leave a Comment
Busy week here despite the holiday:
- Adobe Ends Flash Certification for New Android Versions
The iPhone never had Flash support, and now Android won’t either. Hooray, equality? - Android Maintains Lead, Ice Cream Sandwich Growing
A report on various market share stats in the mobile world. - Android May Be Getting Military-Grade Security
With a little help from DARPA. - Review: Music Riff Studio from JavaFX.me
Cool little composing app for Android. - Physical and Virtual Design Principles Mirror Each Other
How design concepts for software and the real world are similar. - Top Space MMORPGs for Smartphones and Tablets
Blast pretend ray guns on the go.
New Hippo Techie: High tech yard saling
July 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
If there’s one thing I love as much as playing with new gadgets, it’s hitting yard sales. And finding a deal on a barely used gadget at a yard sale? Heaven. The only way that could be better would be using a gadget to get to the yard sale in the first place.
OH WAIT.
Read the complete article at The Hippo.
How To Make Keyboard Trays Into Shelves
July 4, 2012 Leave a Comment
Ergonomic experts love keyboard trays. The rest of the world is far more split; some folks like having the keyboard and mouse slide out from under their desks, while others just find it annoying to bump their knees into the trays.
In the office where I work, the latter sentiment has become dominant. I think the desks are a bit shorter than most, so the trays hang down even closer to the ground than usual.
It may look innocent, but it’s hell on the thighs.
The War on Independence Day
July 2, 2012 Leave a Comment
Looking forward to the Fourth of July? Going to celebrate with cookouts and fireworks?
Oh, are you ever part of the problem.
You’d think, with all the ultra-nationalism surrounding Memorial Day and Veterans Day, that Independence Day would get the same respect. But we don’t even call it that most of the time. If a store saying “Season’s Greetings” or “Happy Holidays” is enough to constitute a War on Christmas, than surely this indicates a War on Independence Day:
There is no other holiday that we identify primarily by its date. There’s September 11, but that’s more because we never came up with an adequate name or description for the events of that day, and we can’t be as collectively traumatized by our own declaration of independence as we are by a terrorist attack, can we? When did this tendency to say “the Fourth of July” or “July Fourth” instead of “Independence Day” begin, and why?
If it was the movie on the left, why didn’t the movie on the right cancel it out?
There’s at least one company that remembers the reason for the season. They sent me an e-mail yesterday morning about their respectful celebration containing the following graphic:
Not a flag or revolutionary document in sight, but explosions and coupons because America.
Just to get the point across even more blunty I might start calling it To Hell With You, Britain, Though We’ll Still Watch Your Television and Listen To Your Music Day.