Umbrella Today

Umbrella Today

Sep 08

As I’m sitting here in the office, looking out at the rain, I found this great website via lifehacker. Umbrella today will tell you if you need an umbrella, not only that, it can be set up to notify you at any hour you set on days you will need an umbrella. Life is easy again.Visit: Umbrella...

Shopping with Android

Shopping with Android

Sep 05

I figured I’d post this since I had one of those “hey, that was my idea” moments with this cool application. A $275k winner in the Android developer challenge, Rylan Barnes came up with this great idea of being able to scan a product with your mobile device and do a real-time price look up on the Internet and in nearby stores. From there, you can visit a link or get information...

Chrome = Fast

Chrome = Fast

Sep 04

Google’s new browser ‘chrome’ isn’t just slim in retail space, but it’s slim on page load times. I’ve been working on a JavaScript heavy website at work recently, and let me tell you that this has blessed my testing process. Pages load so incredibly fast i can refresh a page 5 times in chrome before the page has loaded completely in Firefox. As far as science...

Digsby (Putting all of your eggs in one basket)

Digsby (Putting all of your eggs in one basket)

Sep 04

Within the title of this post lies the problem. I’m a huge fan of meebo and not such a fan of desktop apps for my chat conversations, but digsby might have something here. With a little bit of work, this application could take the cake and really get everything i need in one smooth looking and functioning application. The problem right now is, it’s in beta and is slow and buggy. First...