Archive for the 'interesting' Category

“It has a good beat and you can dance to it…”

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patrick
on October 22, 2006
in apple, interesting, mac and music
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TangerineI have long been a huge fan of Pandora, loving it for its ability to find music that I am in the mood for. The added benefit is finding great new music that you have never heard before. However, every now and then I just want to run through music that I already know but don’t want to take the time to setup a custom playlist that fits the mood that I am in. Tangerine takes care of that issue, building a playlist of music based on different styles and beats of music contained in your library. So next time you are in the mood for Celtic music tune up Tangerine and tell it to start playing.

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[tags]itunes, music[/tags]

I have been looking for a new diet

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patrick
on September 23, 2006
in Uncategorized, commentary, family and interesting
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I am a large man and thus am always looking for ways to seem smaller. I will definetely be buying one of these.

[tags]weight loss, photos, cameras[/tags]

Lose your cell phone? Ask it to scream for you

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patrick
on September 7, 2006
in cellular, ideas, interesting, lifehacks, mobile and phone
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This article details a piece of software that will cause your cell phone to begin screaming if stolen from you. Most people realize that their cell phone is missing within in 30 seconds much faster than the one hour it takes us to realize our wallet is missing. I am not sure what that says but it says something. This software will cause the stolen phone to make a loud high pitched noise begging the thief to relinquish it.

[tags]mobile phone, cellular, security, mobile, phone[/tags]

Got family pictures… create a poster

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patrick
on August 31, 2006
in advice, family, ideas, interesting, lifehacks and mac
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Family PosterI love pictures, in fact the entire wall behind the desk in my office is one giant bulletin board with no cork showing from all the pictures placed on it. My wife, however, will not allow me to do that same at home. Recently I came across this idea on Mac Break which uses an OS X Automator script to compile images into a 24″ x 36″ poster. I printed out the poster on film quality paper and now have a beautiful collage of my family that hangs in our media room. It took some searching on the Internet to find a suitable frame but I found one here at a quality price. This was a simple and cost effective way to capture some of my favorite pictures for display.

I wish they would dig this fast

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patrick
on August 25, 2006
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Diesel speed record brokenThis week the worlds fastest diesel engine broke the diesel engine speed record by over 100 mph, averaging just at 350 mph. The engine was the same type that is used in JCB loaders. Now if they could just get them to dig faster they would really have something!

H-T: CNET News