December 2007
32 posts
World's Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal...
Inhabitat  » World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island, which will be the world’s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster’s mountainous 27 million square feet spiraling “city within a building” will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years. The...
Dec 30th
Jott — Toll-Free Number to Post to your Tumblelog
Jott lets you call up 1-866-JOTT-123 and leave a message to appear on your tumblelog as text, so you can finally post to Tumblr safely while driving. Just visit Jott.com to get started. -–——————————-  Also, did you know you can post to tumblr from AIM Chat & thus from iChat? Just add “TumblrBot” as a new buddy in your...
Dec 30th
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WYSIWYG Website Creation Apps
Hey I just wanted to share some simple-to-advanced, easy-to-use, web development tools…WYSIWYG editors with some offering much more advanced options. iWeb—is a part of Apple’s iLife ‘08 suite is simple to use, has a few decent templates, but is very limited, especially regarding export. It’s primarily built to upload directly to .Mac, as it lacks the functionality of...
Dec 30th
Dec 30th
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Quicksilver — Application Launcher and SOOO Much... →
Dec 30th
Why The Kindle Will Fail — Kindle Edition - :D
Amazon.com: Why the Kindle Will Fail (Kindle Edition), by Rick Munarriz Okay, that’s kinda funny. [via greghaspants] — merlin   - - - - - - -  I personally think the Kindle will be a success in the long-run, but just thought this was ironic… a book on why a product “will fail” and is offered on that product. It’s like having a podcast (on an iPod) saying Apple’s next...
Dec 30th
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Girls Are Sexy — Technology News →
Dec 30th
Ruby on Rails: Screencasts →
Dec 30th
The Three (3) Secrets To Apple's Success →
what the heck?  haha…
Dec 30th
WatchWatch
The Top 5 Inefficient Cars Of 2007 
Dec 30th
Dec 30th
MailtoEncoder - Encode Email For Web →
About MailtoEncoder A small application for encoding email addresses for web pages. Simple enter the email address and hit ‘Encode’ for the encoded mailto email address link.System Requirements Mac OS X 10.4 or later Java 1.5 388K DOWNLOAD HERE
Dec 28th
What's The Difference Between Data Center Tier I,...
Recently I’ve been comparing hosts (that supports Ruby on Rails and Mongrel) for my new website BrianHernandezPhotography, coming in 2008. Many of the hosts mention what “Tier Level” their Data Centers are rated. Because I’m not an IT professional, I had no idea what this meant to, ME, the end user. So I did some digging and thought I’d share the info I found. ...
Dec 27th
Mac360 - CrashPlan + SuperDuper! = Best Backup... →
Do You Backup? What’s The Crash Plan For Your Mac? Combine With SuperDuper! For The Best Mac Backup Solution. Add Amazon’s S3 (simple storage solution) and you have a real inexpensive way to make sure you don’t lose any files for your business or personal use. Read More…
Dec 21st
Mac360 - How Amazon And Jungle Disk Can Save Your... →
Amazon’s Simple Storage Solution (aka S3) is the cheapest storage solution per gigabyte… at only 15¢ per gig. Wow!  “Per month, you’ll pay only 15-cents US per gigabyte of storage used, and 20-cents per gigabyte of data transferred. 50 gigabytes of storage would cost a mere $7.50 per month.”  “Think of storage this way: 1 gigabyte will hold about 250 songs in iTunes,...
Dec 21st
Dec 21st
Xinema - View Movies Full Screen in QuickTime...
Xinema 1.5.1 is the ideal application for playing QuickTime movies in full screen mode. QuickTime Player can play movies full screen, but only if you purchase the Pro version for $29.99. Xinema brings you full screen playing for FREE, and provides controls for pausing, fast-forwarding and adjusting the sound volume during playback. You can also control the movie playback by using...
Dec 21st
Dec 21st
iCaffeine - Keep your Mac awake!
 Caffeine 1.0 from Lighthead Software is a FREE application that prevents your Mac from going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. You can easily toggle Caffeine on and off as desired via a menu button. Click and hold the Command key to see the menu. Give your Mac some java… DOWNLOAD NOW! If you’re looking for a way to keep your mac laptop awake when you shut the lid,...
Dec 21st
MoodBlast - Easily Update Multiple Chat Clients &...
MoodBlast 3.0 from Circle Six Design is a simple Mac app that simultaneously updates multiple chat clients and web services such as Skype, iChat, Adium, Twitter,Jaiku, Yappd, & FaceBook. An additional add-on allows users to “blast” from any program that can trigger an Applescript, such as:  QS Blast for Quicksilver (yay!), iTunes track watcher (will blast on track change), iCal...
Dec 21st
Image Upload Test Using Jing Project
Just created my first image screen shot capture with the Jing Project and used the built-in integration with ScreenCast.com to upload the image to their free server (200mb for 60days free).  Optionally, in Jing, you can also upload to a FTP server of your choice, Flickr, or a File location on your hard drive or File Sharing location. It would be nice if it would allow me to upload to my .Mac site...
Dec 21st
NEW LaCie Brick Hard Drives - Lego Stack
These new USB 2.0 hard drives from LaCie look like large lego pieces, that stack easily onto one another and come in red, white and blue. Now professional storage is easy and fun! They come in two varieties… a 320GB for $139.99 and a 500GB for $169.99. Visit LaCie…
Dec 20th
Happy Holidays from the Hernandez Family. From Left to Right: Kauai, Brian, Socks, Adrienne. http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1592662926
Dec 20th
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Great Apps For Screen & Movie Capture
 SnapzProX - One of the pro standards for great screen capture (still photo) and QuickTime (QT) movie capture tool out there, but it costs $69. Compatible with Tiger OSX 10.4 and now Leopard 10.5, and is universal too (works on PowerPC and Intel Macs).  Mac ONLY. For me it’s a good app but not $69 “good”.. I’d pay maybe $39 for it max. Some of these other apps look...
Dec 20th
CrashPlan – Automatic Onsite & Offsite Backup >>>... →
Dec 20th
Vizual Graphix Websites
My website is currently being updated. Checkout the progress by visiting www.VizualGraphix.com today! Also, I’ll soon be launching a new fine art photography site: www.BrianHernandezPhotography.com
Dec 17th
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Kajeet - Cell Phone For Kids & Tweens
There is a GREAT product, service, and idea I just heard about on a podcast today. It’s called KAJEET. It’s a cell phone service for kids! No Contracts. No Worries. No Surprises. No fees. Ever. It’s a Pay-As-You-Go plan… http://www.kajeet.com/4u/index.html NOTE: It only works with Sprint, but their nationwide service is pretty good.
Dec 17th
Google's Picasa Available on iPhone
Mobile Version of Picasa Web Albums …Read Full Article Here Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:38 AM Posted by Karen Groenink, User Experience Designer If you’ve ever picked up an iPhone, you know that it’s great for showing off digital photos. iPhones have a high-resolution screen that’s big, bright, and crisp, and a first-class web browser that supports complex web...
Dec 17th
senduit "Send U It" Share easily →
Step 1 - upload your file Step 2 - share your private link Step 3 - set an expiration from 30 min. to 1 week 
Dec 16th
Dec 16th
Hey, just thought I’d try to post something from iChat to my Tumblelog. :D
Dec 16th
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First Post
Hello everyone! Just signed up with tumblr and wanted to leave my first post. It is such a relief to find a service that provides a place for me to post all the little informational and fun tidbits I find throughout my day. Whether that’s videos, photos, audio, text, links, chat, cool applications, or whatever I find and want to share, now I have the distribution channel for that very need....
Dec 16th