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I didn’t want to do any more on the iPhone (actually there is one more post coming, but it’s not ALL about the iPhone), but I just have to share this video. David Pogue, the excellent tech columnist for the New York Times, has a great video out about his test run of the iPhone. Quite humerous indeed…
Tags: David Pogue, New York Times, iPhone, Gadgets
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The Google Maps team recently added some cool new features…
Tags: Google Maps, Directions
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If you haven’t seen these sites pop up on the gallery sites, then you’ve been missing out. Brusheezy is a site with hundreds of free brushes (and thanks to me they have an RSS feed). You can download and vote on the brushes and patterns.
Recently after that, they released Vecteezy, where you can find tons of free vector art files.
And the newest installment in the ‘eezy’ family is Fresheezy, where you can find a ton of great WordPress, Expression Engine, Blogger, BBPress, and more!
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Chris at Zeppelin Media called me out to participate in a meme… Eight Random Facts.
1. I began college as a history major
2. I love pastrami sandwiches
3. I could watch Seinfeld 24 hours a day and still laugh
4. I grew up in the biggest little town in three counties
5. I own over fifteen computers and have two full server racks in my basement
6. Wilco is my favorite band of the moment. The Black Keys may be the all time though
7. I have a personal blog that no one reads. It’s okay I’m redesigning it so you can wait but keep reading here of course
8. The best teacher I’ve ever had was Amrit during my tenure at ISU College of Business
9. I’m a Netflix junkie
10. If I wanted to live anywhere else other than Des Moines it would most definitely be in Seattle (hi cam)
Tags: Meme, Eight Random Facts, Zeppelin Media
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If you’ve had time to siphen through all the iPhone hype over the last few days you may have heard that AOL relaunched their news portal. But lucky for you its not good enough to take you away from staring at iPhone pictures.
Supposedly the site was redesigned with a ‘blog mentality’. According to Reuters’ coverage,
Time Warner Inc. plans to launch a test of its overhauled news portal on Tuesday, drawing influences from the uncluttered design of popular Internet blogs.
The online division of the world’s largest media company said it aimed to keep readers returning and to introduce a new generation of media consumers to the site by offering more interactive features such as polls and voting features and user-created news on one page.
Like all other like minded news/media websites doing redesigns it almost blatantly copied the excellent design of New York Times’ website. The design is quite nice, but I think NYTimes is one of the best designed sites I’ve seen this year and anything that copies it looks pretty good. This design ‘template’ is getting fairly standard but you can’t go wrong with clean and neat.
It seems they are trying many of the same things that other news sites like Newsvine have perfected. If you ask me – I’d stick to Google News, Newsvine, Reuters, New York Times, or TechMeme.
Should you visit? I dont think so. The two top stories today on AOL News: Paris Hilton and Chris Benoit. If I wanted meaningless “news” I’d watch CNN.
Tags: AOL, AOL News, News, Web Design
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