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I’m finally getting around to writing about The Last Crusade. The third Indiana Jones film, The Last Crusade, is as close to my favorite as Raiders of the Lost Ark.  Unlike The Temple of Doom Crusade gets back to Indy’s roots. Same friends, same mission, same pace. Beat the Nazis!  I believe if you aligned the story…

Ever have trouble getting the last bits of peanut butter out of the bottom of the peanut butter jar?  What is your method for getting it out? Maybe you tilt the jar and shoving a knife all the way to the bottom, which usually ends up getting more peanut button on the knife handle than…

Brett Wilson A few weeks ago I had lunch with Brett Wilson, CEO of TubeMogul, and we were talking about the partnership between TubeMogul and Viddler. We also talked about surfing and family, but for now we’ll focus on TubeMogul and Viddler. A few days later I asked Brett if I could ask him a…

Over 1 year in the making!  Well, not really, but it has been over a year since version 1.2 of the widget was released.  Now, with version 1.3, the Ta-da List widget is back in action and has been updated to accomodate the changes that 37Signals made to Ta-da List in a recent update. The…

When I was a kid Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom was one of the more gory movies I had ever seen.  Men having their hearts torn out while they were still living, alligators (which were being portrayed as crocodiles) ripping flesh from bone in a death roll, and voodoo practicing children stabbing dolls.  For a child, all…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] On Friday, while I was at Viddler HQ fooling around with Rob, I noticed my friend Dan Rubin twittered the following: "if I ditch cable, buy an AppleTV and only watch shows I’ve BT’d (I’ll pay for movie rentals), I’ll save myself over $600/year (ATV included)" Allow me, first, to decrypt this…

Have you checked the weather today?  Oh, but have you checked the weather on Saturn today?  Neither did I.  But it seems, according to yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, courtesy of NASA, that there is an electrical storm on Saturn that has lasted at least 3 months. Saturn. Early March, 2008. Extraterrestrial storms are not…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The crew over at the Iconfactory, who are the creators of Twitterrific among many other things, are doing a tribute to Indiana Jones this month.  Here is a snap of my desktop, which I took using Skitch, to see the icons and one of their desktops in action: You too can sport…

Keegan Jones‘ (among others) Ta-da Lists Widget is down! The erring widget. I began reusing Ta-da Lists recently when I found out about the iPhone support.  It works beautifully.  When I think of something while I’m on the go, I can add a ta-da list item with my iPhone painlessly.  When I’m back at my…

The image above is, supposedly, the longest set of driving directions that you can find on Google Maps.  Some guy named Alan Taylor has taken the time to figure this out, and although you could custom drag a longer set of driving directions, he’s pretty sure this is the farthest one. While other countries, and…

All of the mobile photos you see here on my site are taken with an Apple iPhone and then emailed to my Web site for publishing.  It appears that Flickr users are also using their iPhone’s to upload photos to the Web. As of: May 1, 2008 Somewhat recently, according to this graph (pictured), the…

GGW! Normally that accronym would be reserved for late-night commercials about incredibly inexpensive DVD-sets with future women that will sue Joe Francis. But not this time. This time GGW refers to NASA’s celebration of the Hubble Telescope being launched 18 years ago!  And so they’ve put together a site of awe-inspiring images that Hubble has…

I know it isn’t even 10am yet, but lets just call this the "link of the day" shall we? Nina Katchadourian decided, in 1998 no less, to repair broken spiderwebs around the home she was living in at the time.  She used red sewing thread and a few dabs of glue. Here is what she…

The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.…

The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.…

The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.…

The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.…

The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.…

The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.…

The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.…

Ansel Adams, considered one of the best American West photographers, had a studio which is still owned by his family and is named The Ansel Adams Gallery, now has a blog.  Still very fresh, this blog is cataloging some of the activities of the studio, its members, and fans of Ansel Adams. I am of…

Timeframe is "Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.", and is open-source.  It is thoroughly impressive, a great implementation, and works best in Safari! Timeframe demo The demonstration (pictured) is by far the best calendar "widget" I’ve seen in a browser.  One of my favorite things is the date range tools which is where Timeframe strived to…

The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is a natural phenomenon worth researching. The hows, whys, and whens are not as stunning as just sitting back and looking at it though. This series of photos gives us a glimpse of what the Aurora looks like from Murmansk, Russia. I’ve never had the opportunity to shoot the…

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech\_news/Not\_seeing\_your\_Twitter\_updates\_Here\_s\_the\_very\_simple\_fix‘; Over the past few days the number of Twitter statuses popping up from those I follow on Twitter have been scarce.  At first I thought it was because I was beta testing the latest version of Hahlo.  Then, I thought it was a problem with the API and so Twitterrific would also…

In very early January I decided to run an experiment where I’d put Adsense on this site for a few months, not do anything differently than I normally would, and see how much a personal site could earn.  Although I only planned on having ads on this site for January and February, they were so…

Slave Bale? Doesn’t this toy look like ________? How many times have you said that? Topless Robot has found more than a few Star Wars toys that unintentionally resemble celebrities. "But what about the toys that unintentionally resemble celebrities? In its early years, the Star Wars line suffered from a lot of terrible likenesses, and…

My first Macintosh computer was a white iMac G4 with a beautiful 17" floating screen above, what some have referred to as an upside-down bowl, a computer enclosed in a half-circle case.  It was gorgeous really.  My wife Eliza bought it for me for our anniversary and I used it as my main computer for…

File this under amazingly creative. Japanese Barcodes, or at least some of them that are being handled with creative care, are being turned into works of art instead of just your run-of-the-mill bleh. There are several really great examples if you follow the link through. I think the first time I see this on a…

TweetStats, a way to get all types of statistics for your Twitter account (or anyone else’s actually), has some interesting graphs by default. The one about interfaces (pictured), or "how you twittered" it could be called, seems to be a little inaccurate unless I’m completely mistaken. According the graph it says I’ve somehow interfaced with…

As I work on the next version of my site’s design, which is coming along quite nicely I might add, I figured now would be a good time to take a stroll through the hallways of Colin Devroe Design, Inc. and look at some of the designs of my site that had never made it…

Can you believe how far blogging has come over the last few years? I can’t. I could go on and on about the history of blogging, how I’ve used it over the years, and where it is now that I find really surprising – but instead I just wanted to take a moment or two…

Hitting ‘?’ at anytime during your use of Google Reader will display this, what I think is an, incredible HUD for Reader’s keyboard shortcuts. Google Reader’s Heads Up Display for Keyboard Shortcuts Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! When I saw this I immediately thought: "Wow, Google really gets this whole web application thing.". But what else…

Am I the only person with an iPhone that hasn’t at least tried to Jailbreak (read: hack) it? Nearly everyone one I know that has an iPhone, and is at least somewhat geeky, has tried to hack their iPhone to get third-party applications up and running on it. My iPhone, is one of these Photo…

While I await a new build of Camino that works a little better on Leopard I thought it a good opportunity to take Safari 3 for a spin. After using it since my upgrade from Tiger to Leopard I’ve found that Safari 3 is almost as good as Camino and in some ways even better.…

I love watching the trends of the traffic on my blog; even if said traffic is not that high. In fact, I think it is much easier to monitor my site’s traffic trends then it is for us at Viddler because I’m able to keep a much closer eye on even the smallest of trends.…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Something I was worried about with Eliza and I both getting iPhones was syncing. She has data, I have data, we have data! How would I be able to manage keeping all of this data in sync between our two computers and the iPhones without forcing her to only sync her iPhone…