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Weekly Review – 12/10/2012

December 10, 2012

If you’re here in MN then grab your coffee, take a break from shoveling, and put your feet up. If you’re not here in MN, your back is thanking you right about now.

Square Introduces Gift Cards: The Slow Death Of Physical Credit Cards And Cash Continues [Article & Video] – Is the traditional gift card slow on its way to the grave? I hope so!
Back to the Future – 25th Anniversary [Image] – One word: Awesome! It’s a yellow taxi DeLorean…
LOOK LOCK SMARTPHONE CAMERA ATTACHMENT BY TETHER TOOLS [Article] – Such a novel idea… How to get kids to look at the camera.
Best Buy Screw-Up Results In an Amazing “Buy One Get Five” Deal on iPads [Article] – I knew I should have placed an order…
Casio G-Shock syncs with an iPhone to deliver email, call alerts [Article] – The best watch ever created!?
Google Apps no longer free for new business accounts [Article] – Everyone needs to make money somehow. Regardless, I’m still a bit angry and sad about this one.

Weekly Review – 4/1/2012

April 1, 2012

Top off your coffee and check out some of these interesting links from last week…

Drunk Man Sings Entire Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody In Police Car [Video] – Just awesome!
Kill Your Email Addiction; Put Your Inbox in the Upstairs Bathroom [Article] – Interesting brain hack to be more productive and to cut the cord between your email.
How to Restrict USB Drive Activities on Your Computer [Article] – a neat little program to lock down your USB ports to prevent others from transferring your data. That’s if you still use USB drives.
Google Drive leaked screenshots show up to 5GB free storage [Article] – This could be the ultimate Dropbox competitor! I can’t wait to try this and use it. Finally, everything could be under one umbrella… Is that a good thing?
Bazinga! [Pictures] – The side of the Big Bang Theory that we never see!
Coffee Makes Overachievers Slack Off [Article] – Hmm, time to try deaf for a while? Maybe I’ll mix half regular with decaf…

Weekly Review – 2/5/2012

February 5, 2012

Top off your coffee and check out some of these interesting links from last week…

Indie video portrays the crazy, notification-driven life of an Apple user [Video] – I bet you know someone like this!
Glassdoor Mines Your Facebook Connections to Help You Find a Job [Video] – Add LinkedIn and you have a goldmine. Great use of Facebook!
Sharing with “Friends of Friends” on Facebook Exposes You to 150,000 People [Article] – Some good advice. Then again, you should probably only share with your “friends”. Hmm… I wonder if this helps Glassdoor?
Google Cloud Print: It’s Actually Awesome, and Here’s How to Set It Up [Article] – Do you need to print something while sitting on the couch? Here’s how.
Eight Clever Things You Can Do with Your Underused Personal Domain Name [Article] – So, should I be doing something different with this domain name?

Weekly Review – What did you read last week? 11/13

November 13, 2011

Top off your coffee and check out some of these interesting links from last week…

Coffee shop denizens reveal their top pet peeves [Article] – Just use common sense when working in a coffee shop…
Watch a Guy Magically Balance 3000 Coins on Top of a Single Dime [Video] – Total waste of time, lots of patience, and actually pretty cool.
How To Create A Google+ Page [Article & Video] – Want to create a Google+ page for your website, business, or extra curricular activity? Here’s how.
The Power Of Photoshop [Video] – This almost looks fake…
Anoka-Hennepin teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000 [Article] – Totally awesome! Utilizing technology too.

Weekly Review – What did you read last week? 7/10

July 10, 2011

Top off your coffee and check out some of these interesting articles that I read last week.

Apple granted a trademark for the word 280 [Article] – I could get on my soapbox about this one but really!? Is it possible to trademark any word in the dictionary? There has to be a limitation somewhere…
Facebook Launches Skype-Powered Video Calling [Article] – To be perfectly honest, I wish they would have come out with an iPad app before enabling this feature. Then again, maybe I don’t have enough options to chat with people face-to-face: Facetime, Skype (traditional), iChat, etc…
Google+ to require that profiles be visible to all, will boot private profiles after July 31st [Article] – So much for having a private profile. Then again, if you’re going to be on a social network you might as well treat everything as being public. Reminds me of what Eric Schmidt said:

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”

This Accessory Turns Your iPad 2 Into MacBook Air [Video] – I’m definitely rethinking my purchase of the Apple bluetooth keyboard. Then again, it works with my iPhone and MBP. This is still freakin’ cool and it’s only $49!
How to Securely Tie Anything to Your Car [Video] – This will come in handy next week while helping a friend move. I only wish that I knew about it when I was moving to and from college!