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August 24, 2009

opening up my iphone, knight in shining armor.

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hi dear readers -

i recently took a rollercoaster ride when i decided to purchase a used iphone to unlock and use with tmobile. After much research, interviewing and apprehension, I am currently the proud owner of an unlocked iphone.

in my search, i found this (adorable) teenager who (i am slightly embarrassed to admit) became one of my most trusted sources. ;) i read plenty of techy posts on the subject, and watched beaucoup youtube vids - but in the end - this boy was it!

(also, important if you are curious, i used redsn0w to jailbreak and ultrasn0w to unlock! - http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/126908912/redsn0w-in-june - it took MINUTES and i am now a happy iPhone user / loyal T-Mob customer!

shout-out to roddy too - having a friend to ask a million questions of is huge!!)

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August 23, 2009

Create Custom iPhone Ringtones the Free and Apple Way - Digital Music - Lifehacker

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because i can't be that girl with the blah-zeh-blah ringtone.

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May 20, 2009

One For the Commons - remixing creative potential:

One for the Commons is an initiative to bolster the flow of freely licensed quality art from the fine arts and design community into the commons. The idea of remix culture, Open Source software, and a DIY ethos of sharing pervade much of the communities built around computing and creating. Like the music industry, and the publishing industry, the fine arts and design community has resisted this paradigm shift. Concerned that digital media and the Internet represent a threat to their control of their intellectual property, they risk obsoleting their cultural heritage to a generation of creators interested in public access, remix, and sharing. The fine arts should realize the opportunity at hand or suffer marginalization on a scale larger than even the culture wars provided.

We are asking living artists to dedicate some portion of their work to the commons through the use of one of two Creative Commons licenses or a waiver to place the work in the Public Domain.

To begin our search, we are using Wikipedia’s notability guidelines as the filter by which we judge historical importance. Which is to say, if a given artist has an entry on wikipedia that met the community’s guidelines for notability (i.e., it has not been submitted for deletion), we are interested in soliciting your work. If you do not yet have an entry, but believe think you should and want to be part of this project, let us know since Wikipedia community guidelines dictate that it is bad form to author your own wikipedia article.

Get Started

To get started, please visit our HOWTO section which includes a video explaining how to upload to the commons.

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May 6, 2009

GPS Visualizer

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GPS Visualizer: Do-It-Yourself Mapping

GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints, including GPX files), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you've been, plan where you're going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, scientific observations, events, customers, real estate, geotagged photos, etc.).


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May 4, 2009

welcome [ShareYourWifi.org]

* Treat others as you would have them treat you. If you've ever used someone else's wifi, you should also share your own.

* Put productivity before profits. Restricting access to the internet can mean big profits for a small group of people, but everyone pays through loss of productivity and access.

* Allow easy access to the internet. More and more, access to the internet means access to speech. If people do not have access, their voice cannot be heard.

* Use open wifi without guilt Use open wifi knowing that you are also a contributing member, sharing your own wifi. The Ultimate Open Wifi User Kit makes it easier.

* Give and Take This idea is based on the gift economy, where people who can give do so, and people who need receive. The roles reverse from time to time, but the key is it about sharing.

via shareyourwifi.org

The Why's and How's of sharing your wifi.

The revolution is nigh.

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April 15, 2009

19 web start-ups to watch (euro social media)

On April 5, Mashable exclusively announced the 19 finalists in a European startup competition, selected by a panel including Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. It’s all part of the 2009 Next Web Conference in Amsterdam this month, which gathers together Europe’s tech community and brings it some well-deserved international attention.


(Here is the one I am trying out:)


All 19 are listed here: http://mashable.com/2009/04/05/europe-social-media/

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April 7, 2009

thrillist thrills again.

i am so not the target audience for Thrillist - it's brutish swaggering language just annoys the soft woman in me - however, I can't make myself unsubscribe. Time and time again, the product they are pimping (when not men's clothing!) is so fascinating. so again, for at least the third, if not fourth time, I bring you a post via my Thrillist email subscription:



Read more at: LaunchYourLine.com

Subscribe to Thrillist. (but beware - it reads like Men's Health or Esquire, but even more(?) I know so many dudes that are like, that's a warning? I have been subscribing to those magazines for years!)

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December 9, 2008

WHY GMAIL IS TOPS: 10 reasons from lifehacker

4. Help friends find their own Gmail messages or bookmark your own.

"You honestly do not have my email explaining how to take care of my dogs and disable the alarm system? Okay, no, it's no big thing, Steve. Hit this link, it should take you to the right message: http://mail.google.com/mail/#search/buster+alarm+code+Pedigree" That kind of universal search link is pretty helpful, but the addresses of any email you open in Gmail are also permalinks for the account owner, meaning you can create lists of emails you need to get back to, bookmark an important thread in your browser favorites, and save them for any other purpose or list.


Read the whole list: http://lifehacker.com/5103016/top-10-things-you-forgot-gmail-can-do

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October 26, 2008

Do you know about Instructables?

[I always feel like this website would be so great for a teacher to take on with her/his students....]

http://www.instructables.com/

Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to share their projects and help others. Read more about the history...

To create a new Instructable, comment on someone else's Instructable, or do lots of other cool things, you need to create a free account. We also have a new guided tour.

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September 22, 2008

VOTING FOR THE MASSES

The Obama campaign just launched a new one-stop voter registration website called Vote for Change: http://my.barackobama.com/vfc

You can check your registration status, register to vote, look up early-vote information for your state, apply to vote absentee, or even find your polling place.

It's the easiest and most important thing you can do to bring the change we need. Make sure your voice is heard: http://my.barackobama.com/vfc

See you at the polls!

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