encounter sound

OK, for those of you like me who 1) run a Windows box, 2) Listen to a ton of podcasts when you have time to, and 3) don’t enjoy manually deleting all those old “Daily Breakfast” and “Buzz Out Loud” episodes that quickly fill up your hard drive, I have stumbled upon an AWESOME application! […]

I started a family tree for my fam at Geni a couple of weeks ago with the 30 or so relatives closest to me and now we’re up to almost 200! It’s a great service, and has TONS of potential (the least of which is not that it tells you when someone’s birthday is […]

OK, so you’ve gone through the steps in securing a “gig” in Second Life.  How exactly does your voice in real-life get broadcast through your avatar in Second Life?
Well, technically speaking, it doesn’t.  Your performance won’t actually come out of your avatar, rather, it will be broadcast through the venue that you’re playing in.  Every […]

So since running a band in real life isn’t enough work, I’ve decided to delve into the metaverse of “Second Life.” You can quote me on this:
I think that defining a presence in “Virtual Worlds” is going to be every bit as important as the real one in ten years. As technology gives […]

I just started Beta testing the new version of Microsoft Office (2007, Beta 2) and it’s really, really, really cool.  The most noticable change since the last few versions (97-2003) is the new “Ribbon” replacing the old toolbars we’ve become accostomed to over the last little while.  Evidently, the Evil Empire has been tracking how […]

In case anyone’s a WordPress blogger, you might want to use the Google Calendar Widget script I modified for my calendar “Life in a Nutshell” sidebar over there. Basically, I just added the ability to handle spanned dates (Young Neighbors weeks, for instance) and display them smartly (Jun 19-21, Jun 30-Jul 4, etc.). […]

OK, so I’m obsessed with my Treo, there’s no doubt.  One of the things about this amazing little piece of technology is that every now and then you find an application that makes you say “Why, oh why, didn’t they include this with the phone?”  SpeedDial is one of those applications.
Essentially it offers two simple […]