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Glims for Safari is a input-manager hack (I think) that enables a few ‘nice to have’ features. First, it adds favicons to tabs. I am not sure about you, but the new tabs (when you have a lot of them) are really hard to tell one from another. This helps. It also does things like […]

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You’ve probably seen this elsewhere already… but this is just like Readability in that this small bookmarklet removes all of the cruft around YouTube videos leaving you with just the video to watch. Quietube. Great name too. Update: I figured I’d provide an example link.

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[viddler id-7eba55b5 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Reading. Favorite on Viddler. In this fast paced, Twitter-powered world it seems like all we do is consume shorter, and shorter bits of data. First it was blog posts, now it is micro-blogging with services like Twitter (I’m cdevroe by the way). I believe reading books can really slow […]

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The FAIL meme strikes again! This time it is my friend Albert Yee, whom [I’ve mentioned before](http://cdevroe.com/?s=albert yee), that is setting up a fail blog for SEPTA (or the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority). He aptly calls the site SEPTA fail. He’s looking for help too. So if you deal with SEPTA on a regular basis […]

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Related to Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace: Shaun Inman nails it. "This is how I design. This is how I code. This should really be how I write." Word Shaun, word.

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My friend Tony Green, whom [I’ve mentioned before](http://cdevroe.com/?s=tony green), has done an excellent job covering his experiences at Philly Beer Week 2009. I’ve always had aspirations to attend this event in Philadelphia and have yet to make it. So I live vicariously through Tony. Thanks for the coverage Tony!

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[viddler id-c77e0a5c h-357 w-420] Random 60: What to do about Flickr? Favorite on Viddler. I’ve been a Flickr member since mid-summer 2004. I’ve been a Flickr Pro member for nearly as long. Yet, now that my Pro account has expired, I’m wondering if I will renew my subscription. Why? I think Flickr is great. The […]

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Guess who’s back? Back again! The Diet is back, tell some friends! You read that right. The Diet is back. And, like a Phoenix, it is back in a whole new way once again. Sort of like last time, what started out as a friendly challenge between a few ended up becoming something much larger, […]

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This is an excellent post by the hardest working blogger Jason Kottke, who just so happens to be a big David Foster Wallace fan, about writing from a book by James Tanner, whose book is ironically entitled Kicking Ass Being the Result of One Man’s Fed-upped-ness With ‘How to Write’ Books Not Actually Showing You How to […]

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[viddler id-5db033e0 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Coffee. Favorite on Viddler. Soooo you’re having a cup of joe, some mud, an expresso, a Starbucks, or maybe you just call it coffee. No matter how you take it, how you like it, or what you call it – we’re all addicted to it. Recently I switched to […]

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[viddler id-329a6f7 h-280 w-480] Random 60: HD TV – The choices are endless! Favorite on Viddler. In the market for a new TV? You’ll be going HD. But what to buy? LCD? Plasma? DLP? How big? 30-something? 46? 47? 50? 50 ? What about the hrz? 60? 120? I don’t know about you, but the […]

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Date taken: February 10, 2009. In the lobby of Ben Franklin TechVentures is this neat piece of metal/art of the Ben Franklin logo. Viddler is annexed in this building.

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[viddler id-b365dbdf h-357 w-420] Random 60: Can not find writing paper in stores! Favorite on Viddler. I know that writing letters is at an all time low – but is it so ‘unpopular’ to write that writing paper should be absent from the store shelves? I went to a few stores and not only didn’t […]

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Party time is over, so I feel it safe to write a formal, public request for some of the things I really need from Brightkite. I realize that some of the things I’m going to ask for are probably not that high a priority for Brightkite, but I thought that by making a list like […]

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Simply Recipes, which used to live at elise.com/recipes/, now has it’s own domain SimplyRecipes.com. It also has a slightly updated design, information architecture, and more. One thing I did like was that when the update was announced, they had taken steps to make sure that everyone’s feed subscription didn’t go stale. However, I don’t like […]

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An excellent title for this list. My wife Eliza’s iPhone photos always turn out better than mine – but, that’s ok. She must follow these rules more closely than I do without even realizing it. Meg Pickard shares some helpful tips on getting the best quality iPhone shots. Source: How to squeeze decent photos out […]

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I take all theories, especially LOST theories, with a healthy-sized grain of salt. I’ve read theories, especially just before the beginning of Season Two, that I thought were too incredibly detailed not to be the real thing. They all turned out to be duds. As we’re finishing up the second-to-last season of LOST, I’m guessing […]

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I’m all for advertising on the Web. But lately it seems that the content to ad ratio isn’t in favor of us readers. So, Arc90 is taking matters into their own hands. They’ve created a simple bookmarklet (or a small piece of JavaScript that you run by clicking on a bookmark in your browser) called Readability. In […]

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I just finished reading Stephen Fry’s thoughtful essay and strategy regarding Retweeting. If you are a Twitter user (like me) I suggest you give it a read. Most of us do not have 296,000 followers as Steven Fry does (as of this writing), but we do have a responsibility for what we Retweet, link to, […]

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Before I reveal a few of the photos that I took during our Photo walk this past Sunday in Scranton, Pennsylvania – I wanted to post an update to how it turned out, and perhaps some thoughts about having another one and what I’d do differently. Sameer, Chris, Eliza and I were the only people […]

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This coming via Justin Blanton who says "mind == blown" after linking to a fish with a transparent head.   The fish, Macropinna microstoma or barrel eyes, is a bit of an oddity.  Most fish have their eyes on the sides of the head, giving them a much better view of the things going on around […]

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Who owns this relatively small set of islands and reefs found halfway between South Korea and Japan? This has been in dispute for centuries. I find this most recent post by The Big Picture fascinating. "Isolated, tiny and desolate, The Liancourt Rocks are the center of an international dispute that dates back to the 15th […]

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In fact, it could be argued that Atlantis was ever lost at all – but that isn’t why I’m writing this post. How awesome is this blog post from Google? A few weeks ago (and I’m just getting the chance to read this now) there was some rumors being spread around the Interwebs that some […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Since there seems to be a lot of people having this same issue and not a lot being said about solving the issue, I thought I’d write a quick post to document the process of fixing this problem. I’ve owned an Airport Extreme for awhile and, just this weekend, out of the […]

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Photo: My friend Sameer on a Photo walk of sorts in Carbondale, PA. Something I’ve wanted to do for some time was to have a Photo walk in Scranton, PA. I would like to have one in Carbondale some time in the near future, but I think we’ll get more support in the Scranton area […]

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Every now and then I experience a 500 Error when trying to access and older post. I really have yet to figure out what is causing this problem but it seems to happen only on old posts. Really old posts. Posts at least 2 or 3 years old. Mainly the posts that I imported from […]

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For some reason I have only been drinking water from these glass cups. They are perfect for drinking water.

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Let me just start off by saying that I think this is excellent in every way. Shaquille O’Neal, the star Center from the NBA, is on Twitter and actually uses it aright. This you may have known already, but if you aren’t one of his 225,000 and counting followers yet, now you know and maybe […]

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For the past several weeks we’ve been interviewing for various positions at Viddler. We’ve gone through several resumes, conducted a few interviews, probed referrals for information about the interviewees, sent follow-up questions, and generally debated the fate of our would-be potential new team members for what seems like weeks. This is an interesting process on […]

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If the camera model and the film type don’t mean too much to you – don’t worry. All you need to know is that my friend Albert Yee has managed to take some fantastic photos with his new toy, the Canon Canonet G-III QL17. Source: 400TX and QL17. Photoset: Canonet G-III QL17 400TX.

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I’m a little late to the game in mentioning this application – as it has made its rounds around the Mac-Web a while back – but I’d be remiss if I didn’t take a moment to link to it and let you know my thoughts. Right? I’m a tagging freak. I believe tags are the […]

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New York is easily one of my favorite cities. The last time I was there I had the privilege of eating some really delicious Thai food, drink at an authentic Irish Pub, and scarf down 4,000 calories worth of White House burgers. Where else can you do that? The Thai food that we had was […]

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Nearly every browser has "hidden" preferences. Options that you can set by running a command, editing a file, or changing an entry here or there. The Safari 4 Beta, which has only been out for a few days, is no different. Caius, of Random Genius, recently published some of these hidden preferences including: A way […]

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As most of you know I have struggled with my weight ever since reaching adulthood. The reasons for my weight gain are vast but one of the more significant reasons is the fact that I work at a desk all day. That is, I sit all day. Even though I play basketball, try to jog […]

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Jason Kottke recently linked to a photo essay on the making of these authentic Japanese blades. After looking through the photo essay, while my jaw progressively lowered itself to the carpet, I strolled over to the Web site for CHROMA Cutlery’s Haiku Knives. Eliza, you have my permission to buy me an entire set of […]

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Yesterday, February 23rd, I did a lot of driving. I attended the February Viddler Board Meeting in Springfield, New Jersey. To go to a board meeting in New Jersey I end up being away from home for a little over ten hours. That includes 6 hours of driving, about 3 and a half hours for […]

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Date taken: February 22, 2004 Clifford, Pennsylvania Five years ago today: Eliza and I went to look at an apartment in the rural village of Clifford, Pennsylvania. It was a small, two bedroom, one bath place that was the perfect downsize for us at the time. It wasn’t too long before Eliza longed for a […]

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Last Thursday, not Friday, Owen JJ. Stone, also known as Ohdoctah, interviewed me for his Friend-up Friday series. Well, now it is Friday. And he has put the video online. It is about 10 minutes long but the last few minutes are probably my favorite. The word association game he plays was really fun and […]

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I have a confession to make. I only watched the first twenty-five minutes of No Reservations – Philippines on Monday. Why? Because I was tired after playing many hours of basketball. Why else? Because I didn’t think the episode was any good. So I shut it off. Went to bed. And awoke the next morning […]

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"Why can’t I lose any weight?" or "Why am I fat?" Two questions that have no doubt crossed your mind, in one form or another, in your life. Well, this blog attempts to answer them for us. Source: This is why you’re fat. Via: Justin Blanton.

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Date taken: February 17, 2004 On a Mac. Five years ago today: I had a video chat with Chris Clark while he was still in Perth, Australia. Now he’s somewhere in Canada or the US-west coast I think. I believe Chris was my first (!) video chat on a Macintosh but I could be mistaken. […]

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A fantastic site written by Howard Hall and entirely Haiku. Source: (non-breaking-space).

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An excellent example of why I’m happy I did this experiment – here is a tutorial from Jesse J. Anderson on how to make seamless grunge textures using Photoshop. What I appreciate the most about Jesse’s tutorial is the step-by-step detail that is given. A lot of tutorials, that I’ve come across for similar things, […]

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A few minutes ago I asked for everyone to please @cdevroe me their blog URL on Twitter. Here’s why. After a few years of Twitter use I’ve found that, through trial and error, to keep a signal vs. noise balance and keeping the value of Twitter high enough for me to keep using it  – […]

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We all have our obsessions. Wine. TV. Guinness on draught. The Internet. Photography. Traveling. Religion. Books. Anything composed or performed by Jack White. LOST. Art. Wall calendars. Star Wars. The warm underbelly of our cats. It doesn’t matter what it is that you obsess over, what haunts your dreams, what you put down in your journal every single day, […]

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Dean J. Robinson, the developer behind what is easily the best iPhone web application for Twitter, recently gave us a glimpse of what we should expect from the next version of Hahlo. He lists ten things we should know about the next version – and here are three that I’m really looking forward to. Better […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I remember one of my favorite activities while in the fourth grade was playing Oregon Trail – on a Macintosh – whenever possible. It forced you to make choices, to read, to do math, to learn a little about geography and the limits of what humans can be asked to do. Oregon […]

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I’ve seen these types of videos tons of times – but since owning a Jeep it really brings home the level of patience and skill that these drivers exhibit by pushing the limits to what the structures of their Jeep’s can handle. Four-wheelin’, off roading, or just rock climbing – no matter what you call […]

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Date taken: February 7, 2004 Rockaway, New Jersey Five years ago today: Eliza and I went to New Jersey to see Peter Z. (our nephew) and Melanie (my sister-in-law) at the Rockaway Mall. It would be the first of a few trips that we’ve taken to meet them there. Partially because we’re always excited to […]

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