Interesting Stuff

Interesting Stuff is Leaving Tumblr

Sun, 06 May 2012 14:16:00 -0700

I am moving Interesting Stuff from Tumblr to Google+, as of today. I have been running parallel posts for several days, and the time has come to change.

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To subscribe, go to:

www.feedmyinbox.com

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If you have questions, please email me at perryjeb@gmail.com

Things to do with an old Smart Phone

Sat, 05 May 2012 10:40:22 -0700

Here are some ideas to productively use old smart phones. I particularly like using them as a remote camera, and also learning to root or jailbreak.

http://is.gd/bt54oL

GDrive: Automate your Google Drive

Sat, 05 May 2012 05:19:40 -0700

You might remember Wappwolf from its previously released product, which was crazy successful. The Dropbox Automator allowed you to set up folders and a series of rules and actions for those folders, whenever you dropped files in them.

The team has taken that success and poured it into a new product specifically for Google Drive, aptly named GDrive Automator. The service allows you to do the same thing as the Dropbox service does, with some added features since we last took a look.

http://is.gd/mOAHXp

Sort Netflix with Rotten Tomatoes ratings

Sat, 05 May 2012 05:17:05 -0700

A Better Queue is a simple mashup of Netflix and Rotten Tomatoes that allows you to view what’s available to watch instantly from Netflix in a list sorted by Tomatometer ratings.

http://is.gd/gLzpB9

Google News Updates

Fri, 04 May 2012 08:04:39 -0700

Google News’ US edition now has a realtime mode, meaning that stories will hit your news stream as soon as Google grabs them.

It’s also supplemented by discussions, powered by Google+, which pulls in the top posts on each topic giving a sense of what others think.

http://is.gd/UgqRzx

Samsung Galaxy S III: The complete FAQ

Fri, 04 May 2012 07:58:15 -0700

After months of hype and rumors, Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone is finally in front of us.

So what’s the new Galaxy all about, and when can you get your hands on it? Here are answers to all of your burning questions.

http://is.gd/2p4Zx1

Windows 8 drops DVD playback

Fri, 04 May 2012 07:43:13 -0700

Metro-style music player for your iPad

Fri, 04 May 2012 07:40:23 -0700

A new iPad app from Ender Labs called Track 8 is little more than a music player that’s been unapologetically decked out in Windows 8’s Metro UI, and if nothing else it’s incredibly well-put together as a technical exercise. If you don’t like Apple’s music player, give it a try.

http://is.gd/OwOBEe

Google Music adds 'Shared with me' playlist

Fri, 04 May 2012 07:38:56 -0700

If a friend of yours shares a song on Google+, you get a free listen of the entire track. Now those tracks are being collected in a single place with the addition of an automatic playlist called “Shared with me.” Google likens this feature to an email inbox, and that doesn’t seem too far off the mark — there’s a counter of songs that you haven’t yet listened to, and those new tunes appear bolded in the playlist.

http://is.gd/UQeU4f

Guide To Solid State Drives

Thu, 03 May 2012 20:09:43 -0700

You may have heard a lot of talk about Solid State Drives (SSDs) recently. In the last six months or so they’ve really taken the mid-range to high end computing world by storm. If a manufacturer decides to include a solid state drive in their computer, they’ll make sure that you know it’s there. But what are they?

Find out in Hard Drive of the Future: Your Guide to Solid State Drives.

http://is.gd/vTDbt4

Samsung Galaxy S III faster than iPhone

Thu, 03 May 2012 20:03:25 -0700

We knew the Exynos 4 Quad chip inside the Samsung Galaxy S III was fast, and now we have the benchmarks to back it up. Brian Klug from Anandtech ran a series of performance benchmarks on the Galaxy S III and found it had the fastest graphics performance of any mobile device he had tested.

http://is.gd/Sj9jRf

10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:44:52 -0700

A chart found on Reddit.comtoday shows that most products we buy are controlled by just a few companies. It’s called “The Illusion of Choice.”

Check out the chart here:

http://is.gd/5SyyRR

Gmelius Customizes Gmail's Interface

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:52:03 -0700

Remove features you don’t like from Gmail, leaving behind only the things you do. Gmelius is a simple extension for Chrome, Firefox and Opera that lets you turn off parts of Gmail you’re not interested in, including ads.

http://is.gd/HJyxzv

Samsung Galaxy S III Phone

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:46:07 -0700

Samsung’s Galaxy S III is finally official and man, is it big.

With a 4.8-inch, 720p Super AMOLED display, the Galaxy S III is the largest smartphone that Samsung has ever built–unless you count the company’s Galaxy Note phone-tablet crossover. And yet, the Galaxy S III still uses physical buttons for home, back and menu navigation.

It comes with several software innovations.

More details are here:

http://is.gd/mGpbeW

Logitech Solar iPad Keyboard

Thu, 03 May 2012 13:47:33 -0700

Logitech’s new Solar Keyboard Folio for the new iPad and iPad 2 is a Bluetooth keyboard that replenishes itself through solar power, eliminating the need to plug it into an AC adapter or USB cable for periodic recharging. $129.

iPhone Slo-Mo Video

Thu, 03 May 2012 13:34:26 -0700

SloPro for iPhone is a free app that lets you shoot high quality video in slow motion at an amazing 60 frames per second on an iPhone 4S. If you were to simply slow down the iPhone’s native 30 frames per second video, video would be super choppy, but SloPro somehow figured out how to make playback really smooth. $1.99.

http://is.gd/7Bew2F

Tablet shipments up 200 percent

Thu, 03 May 2012 08:56:59 -0700

The future of netbooks, meanwhile, doesn’t look particularly bright. Shipments for that breed of computing hardware were down 34 percent year over year, marking the sixth successive quarterly decline.

http://is.gd/nELnJW

Your Guide to Chrome

Thu, 03 May 2012 08:48:59 -0700

Learn everything you could hope to learn about Google’s browser. It’s all outlined in “Browsing at Warp Speed: Your Guide to Chrome!”. This free manual, from author Lachlan Roy, covers the basics of using Google Chrome and also outlines more than a few advanced tricks.

http://is.gd/rFYAd5

UC Berkeley Automated Dorm Room

Thu, 03 May 2012 08:43:21 -0700

Facebook Organ Donor Status

Wed, 02 May 2012 20:11:31 -0700

Facebook recently teased that they would be bringing a new, life saving feature to all Facebook users. As with anything involving something new coming to Facebook it was met with a mix of curiosity and vitriol. Finally, Facebook has revealed the potentially lifesaving feature, and it is the ability to add organ donor status directly on your Facebook timeline.

http://is.gd/yjVVOM