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Archive for August, 2006

31 Aug, 2006

SnowBoard + Skooter + 20MPH = BushPig

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff

Enter the Wheelman BushPig from ExtremeToysForBoys.com. I came across this while watching one of my new favorite shows, I Want That: Tech Toys (reminiscent of the old Tech TV show FreshGear) from HGTV. It’s like a motorized snowboard on wheels. What’s actually pretty interesting is that you step “into” the wheels. There’s a hand throttle [...]

30 Aug, 2006

Get your Web 2.0 “On”

Posted by: imarichardson In: News

I came across these Web 2.0 Design Kits from PhotoshopLab.com. They’re cool little tutorials for giving your site/application that nifty little Web 2.0 look: reflections, gradients, stripped background, soft shadows, and the essisention two toned header bar image look.

30 Aug, 2006

Get your Web 2.0 “On”

Posted by: imarichardson In: Tutorials & Training

I came across these Web 2.0 Design Kits from PhotoshopLab.com. They’re cool little tutorials for giving your site/application that nifty little Web 2.0 look: reflections, gradients, stripped background, soft shadows, and the essisention two toned header bar image look.

24 Aug, 2006

Rails coming to a Leopard near you

Posted by: imarichardson In: Programming & Development

OK, so i may be a few days late but it’s looking like Apple will be shipping Leopard with both Ruby 1.8.4 and Rails 1.1.2 installed. So I’ve been looking at Rails over the course of the past few weeks and it’s really shaping up to be a pretty nice environment. I know there are [...]

23 Aug, 2006

Get a Crazy Egg!

Posted by: imarichardson In: Asides

Today Crazyegg.com just came online! Crazy Egg keeps stats about the different parts of your site that visitors click on so that you can detect which portions of your page are most clicked by visitors. It’s definitely worth checking out for anyone who wants to check how visitors use their website.

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22 Aug, 2006

DIY 360 (games)!

Posted by: imarichardson In: Gaming| Programming & Development

Microsoft announced last week a really exciting opportunity for the aspiring game developer: the New MS XNA Game Studio. The new kit will be released on August 30, and allow dudes and dudettes of all types to develop games that run on Windows and the XBOX 360. The basic kit is free but if you want to deploy your creations it’ll cost you a little to join the “Creator’s Club” $40 or $99 for a four month or 12 month subscription, respectively. Although, I personally think they should have made it $20 and $50 respectively, it’s still pretty cool .

22 Aug, 2006

New Touchpad Buttonless Cellphone!

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff

So this has got to be one of the coolest phones you’ve ever seen!  It’s the Synaptics/Pilotfish ‘Onyx’ Touchscreen Phone.  It’s got no buttons or slots or sliding “thing-a-ma-bobers” - just one piece with a flatscreen touch sensitive interface.  It’s got all the coolness: MP3 Player, Personal Computing (Calendar, etc.), Camera, oh, and a phone, too!


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Who am I? Well, let's see: I'm a husband, father, brother, God-father, down to earth, relaxed, happy kinda guy who likes clean code, long walks on the beach, takes his laptop with him everywhere he goes, and (as I'd like to think) all around good guy!