There is an interesting article on MSNBC about a new phone from Sprint. The phone is essentially an iPhone knock-off. It copies heavily from the iPhone in functionality and design. Sprint is trying to creatively use social media to promote the phone online by offering customers $20 to make videos for...

Since Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo board rejected the unsolicited Microsoft buyout offer the news has been dominated by talk of Carl Ichan, shareholder lawsuits, poison-pills, etc. all complaining that the company is not acting in the best interest of the shareholders. These people need to get...

This week I installed VMWare Fusion, Windows, and Outlook 2007 on my Mac to try out Xobni. I heard that Xobni was supposed to be the ultimate social networking app so naturally my interest was peaked. The way the software works is by indexing your Outlook inbox in an effort to find facts, statistics,...

Yesterday after I left work and saw the smoke plumes of the fire just west of Phoenix soon after an early season thunderstorm blew past the city. A lightning strike in the desert ignited a brush fire that is continuing to burn, now up to 2,400 acres. This afternoon the smoke cloud blew over the city,...

I love Easter Eggs in software. I think that they are a great way for the programmers to have some fun. Today I was told about one in the new version of Firefox that rolled out last week. This one is a play on the theme that Mozilla used during the betas of the browser. In the address bar of the browser...

Over that last few weeks I have been reading Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser. Wow, what an eye opening book. This was essentially one man’s story of what he learned over a two-year period about an industry that is one of the most influential in the world, but draws little attention to its economic...

Recently one of the companies that I work with, Off Madison Ave, decided to start a webinar series on various marketing, advertising, and interactive topics. It was my job to get the technical aspects squared away. The first and most important item on my list was choosing a software and service package...

This week I stumbled upon a piece of software that I soon will not be able to live without. The software is called LogMeIn Rescue. While looking for the latest version of Hamachi (another fantastic product, but could still use some more dev work) I did something I usually never do, I clicked on a banner...