Archive for June, 2009
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-26
Returning from four days in Woods Hole with Boone and Lori, testing @pandora_radio on 2g. Quality is good,, but how do I expunge the ads? # Sublet my large studio next to City Hall Park in Manhattan for the month of July. Send me an @ reply if you're interested. # What happens when #IranElection [...]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
How to make your own ringtones for the iPhone
One odd limitation of the iPhone is that you can’t use songs from your iTunes library as ringtones. However, there’s an easy way around this restriction. Just create AAC files of 30 seconds or less that you want to use as ringtones and change their extensions from .m4a to .m4r and import them into iTunes. [...]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
My favorite iPhone and iPod Touch apps
I’ve been playing around with these devices for most of the year and have come to some conclusions about my favorite applications. Because Apple’s App Store is a bit of a mess, I’ve picked up most of my recommendations from other blogs and forums. So, here’s the list of apps that I wish I hadn’t [...]
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-19
I was an hour late to Fenway and couldn’t get a ticket. Ugh. This is not NYC. #
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-12
Anyone know a good place in NYC for a vegetarian dinner + watching the NBA Finals? # RT @PublishersLunch: New Generation Is Sprucing Up Paris’s Shakespeare & Co. http://tinyurl.com/nfmktf # It seems like @mcnallyjackson has been recording its events, but how can I listen to them? # The one time I got up during the [...]
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-05
Sherman Alexie at #BEA09: “I saw a woman in the audience with a Kindle, and I wanted to hit her.” http://rickyopaterny.com/shorturl/sakin # Kate Atkinson would rather not publish her work: http://rickyopaterny.com/shorturl/kapub # This makes no sense: “[T]here is no way to combine digital and physical shopping carts currently.” http://gen-o.com/shorturl/cen #BEA09 # Enjoyed Ben Greenman on [...]
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Samantha Power’s commencement address at Pitzer College
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