Fluid 0.9.5 released
Fluid, the site-specific browser that I use for things like Google Reader, Brightkite, Gmail, and also named one of The Best of 2008 on this site, has been updated to version 0.9.5….
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Install Git on Mac OS X 10.5 using a script
Although I'm a fan of Subversion as my version control system of choice, I have a few friends that are gushing all over Git. In order to begin my migration to Git,…
Jeff Bridges’ on-set photos from Iron Man
Everyone and their mother has linked to this, so you've probably already seen the photos that Jeff Bridges took when on-set for Iron Man. But, if you haven't, you can say you…
Pownce is closing its doors, team joins Six Apart
You may have heard the news (since both Twitter and Pownce is flooded with links to Leah Culver's blog post) that Pownce is shutting down on December 15th and that a few…
My third and fourth watercolor paintings; Orchids and Birch
Well, if you count watercolor paintings that I've done when I was younger then maybe the title of this post is a bit off, but I'd rather just start counting now. Oh,…
Carbondale, PA at night
City Hall – Carbondale, PA Last night my friend Sameer Barkawi, mentioned here a few times, and I wanted to take our cameras for a spin around our hometown of Carbondale, Pennsylvania….
Acquisition 2’s trial isn’t a very good trial
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I'm all for independent developers charging for their applications. In fact, I don't mind really good indy devs to charge a premium for their product if they're going to…
Back lit Pickles
Silouette of my bud.
Dreamdust – Because a day without hyperbole is a day wasted
I've been subscribed to Sarah Marchant's blog, dreamdust, for a while. I believe Mike found her photos on Flickr, suggested her profile to me, and it went from there. That was years ago. Recently,…
My Eliza
Chilling in the living room.
Our newly painted living room
My wife got an itch to finally paint our apartment's living room and hallway. On Monday and Tuesday Eliza and her mother took it upon themselves to follow-through with that and did…
Sameer
East
Taken on I-380 towards New Jersey in Pennsylvania.
Jelly Jenga
Settin' them up, knockin' them down.
Sleuth
Dr. Nick I presume.
iPhone software update 2.2 released
For the record I jailbroke my iPhone a few days ago full well knowing that the 2.2 OS update was imminent. I thought it gave me the perfect opportunity to play around with…
LOST Season 5 promotional music video on iTunes featuring The Fray
LOST Season 5 is coming within a few months. The Season 4 DVD is scheduled to be released in December. All great news. Even better, is that there is a free episode…
Solar cubism
A bug that seems to continuously create art.
Recording live video on the iPhone with Qik and Viddler
Sometimes I just can't help myself. I'm a hacker. Not the type of hacker that wants to break into a bank's records and steal your personal information or anything – the type…
Google Mobile App – search with your voice
The new version of the Google Mobile app for the iPhone has just been released with the ability to speak your search. The application also takes your currently location into consideration when…
Versions, the subversion client for Mac, goes 1.0
Versions had gone through what has to be one of the longer beta periods in recent memory, but I think it did the application a lot of good. I now only use…
I jailbroke my iPhone
First of all, it isn't pretty. It isn't all butterflies and bunny tails. But it has gotten a lot better. I wanted to jailbreak my iPhone because I was starting to get…
Not so random after all
When I switched to this theme in April of this year I had created two header images that would display at random on each page refresh. I had aspirations "to some day find the…
Making soup
When I saw Garret Murray's Flickr group called My Day, Yesterday it immediately struck a chord. Be sure to watch Garrett's inaugural video that started it all. Not only did it remind me of…
The best of 2008 as told by me
It is only mid-November but I'm confident in my choices for this years "Best of 2008 as told by Colin Devroe". This isn't a list based on popularity, consensus, or a set of…
Google’s Flu Trends – Track flu activity in the US
My brother Peter just called me. "Hey, I've got a hot topic for your blog." So, this post is for him. Google, and more specifically Google.org, has setup an equally neat and…
Julien Vallée
Somewhat related to the Origamido Studio is Julien Vallée's portfolio. Specifically a recent project called Raking Leaves in the Wind ((Direct link not possible due to the site using frames.)). Essentially it…
Origamido – The way of folded paper.
That Hawaiian beat just keeps on coming! While at Podcamp Hawai'i Eliza and I met a lot of interesting people from all over the globe. One man, Richard Alexander, had a pretty…
Tutorial: Deinterlacing video
Derek Steen, Viddler's new Community Leader (djsteen), has put together a dead simple tutorial for deinterlacing videos before you upload them to video sharing sites, like Viddler. But, before you read that,…
IBM’s Social Computing Guidelines
During the Social Media Club's workshop in Hawai'i Chris Heuer mentioned IBM's blogging policy. You see, unless you are a start up in the tech-space, having a blog is a relatively new idea….