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The Year In Photos And Status Updates

Years back, maybe 2007 or so, I’d get holiday cards from relatives with collages of the year in pictures and a 1 page year end letter describing the ups and downs of the past year for their family. This year two Facebook applications are filling this niche, My Year in Photos and My Year in [...]

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LinkedIn For BlackBerry Delayed to 2010

In yesterday’s late Christmas present of LinkedIn 3.0 for the iPhone LinkedIn dropped the following lump of coal for BlackBerry users in the next to last paragraph of the announcement on their blog. This application represents just the beginning of our mobile efforts in 2010. We’re just putting the finishing touches on our first native [...]

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Top 10+ Albums of 2009

Amazon.com WidgetsSo you may have gotten a new mp3 player yesterday that you need to fill or an iTunes gift card that is now burning a hole in your pocket.  Here are my top albums from the last year to give you some ideas.  These are probably not the most “important” albums of the year [...]

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Pee-Wee Herman Christmas

I’d forgotten all about the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special, but luckily Pee-Wee’s resurgence this year led to his posting it on his website in all it’s glory including a cavalcade of stars including Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Charo,  Del Rubio Triplets, Whoopi Goldberg, Magic Johnson, Grace Jones, K.D. Lang, Little Richard, Joan Rivers, Dinah Shore, [...]

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Blondie – We Three Kings

To my mind, one of the best albums of 2009 was The Gossips “Music for Men”, which I loved in part for Beth Ditto’s Blondie’esque mix of punk and disco (Heart of Glass has been one of my favorite songs since the moment I heard it back in the 70′s).  If it had been recorded [...]

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Track Santa With Google Maps

Once again this year Santa is being tracked by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) as he makes his way around the globe.  You can keep an eye on his progress at the NORAD site or, when you are out and about picking up those last minute gifts, with Google maps on your BlackBerry, [...]

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Review: Gmail For BlackBerry

Gmail is hands down the most useful 3rd party BlackBerry application that I use.  Others may have a better user experience, there may be ones that look better, some are certainly more fun or cool.  But Gmail is by far the application that I use the most and has the set of features that I [...]

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Facebook Memes of 2009

Not content to let search engines and Twitter to have all the fun dissecting the year that was, Facebook combed through status updates and rather than a list of specific things that we were talking about to generate a list of memes from 2009. Facebook Applications – Specific words: Farmville, Farm Town, Social Living FML [...]

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Airline Wi-Fi Availability Chart

More wi-fi travel news.  Jaunted has a nice little chart with details on the status of wi-fi for the airlines in the United States, availability, provider and cost.  Their report on the subject also includes details on the crucial AC outlet at your seat in order to make the most of that wi-fi access. Your [...]

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WordPress 2.9

I upgraded to WordPress 2.9 this morning and the water is fine.  Dive in and help yourself to some goodies like: Global undo/”trash” feature – bring back posts and comments that you’ve accidentally deleted Built-in image editor – crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images from within WordPress Batch plugin update and compatibility checking [...]

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