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Kristin is a UX Designer living in the suburbs of Chicago.
This website is a stream of her daily activities, updated via an iPhone, a Droid, and a Blackberry, with an occasional blog post here and there.
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Evernote and Shoeboxed Make Receipts Universally Accessible
How do you manage receipts and business cards? The super human among us file, categorize, and store their receipts and business cards for financial tracking, tax purposes, and networking needs. Most of us, though, are not super human, which means…
First Guest Post and Contributions
Its 49 days into 2009, and I have made my first Guest Post and have contributed to a few great articles around the blog world. This year I wanted to offer my ideas to other blog and websites. Guest Posts…
Facebook Connect Adds a Cut-and-Paste Comments Widget
Social is the new trend for both Google and Facebook’s Connect platforms. Just a week after Google’s social bar announcement, Facebook’s getting even more social too. The social networking powerhouse is making it even easier for bloggers and publishers to…
DocsToGo Demo’d on the iPhone!
What’s that? iPhone news at MWC09? It’s true. I just got back from a meeting with DocsToGo and they showed off an early version of their app. So far Word document editing is a go, Spreadsheet editing is definitely in…
Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database
What do you do when you get home from a conference or networking event with a pile of business cards? If you’re diligent, you might go through them one-by-one, sending people a “nice meeting you” email and inviting them to…
I Can Has Cheezburger to Launch “Son of a Tweet”
Pet Holdings, the company behind sites like I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog, and GraphJam, is moving into the realm of tracking Twitter memes. They’ve purchased a website called Twittypic that monitors Twitter for popular pictures and videos and posts…
Google Chrome for Mac (First Screenshots)
Google’s first try at building a web browser was almost an unexpected success: Chrome is fast and quite reliable, and I’ve made a habit of firing it up whenever my trusty old Firefox goes out of breath. Unfortunately, it’s available…
When You Love WordPress Very Much, You Tattoo It On Your Arm
This is nice, in a slightly creepy, and yet delightfully geeky kind of way: a fellow named Ed Morita decided to tattoo a WordPress logo on his forearm. It’s not just a plain, boring logo type of tattoo, there’s all…
Got $40,000? You Could Buy Jenny’s Number on eBay
The song “867-5309/Jenny,” from the Tommy Tutone 2 album, is an 80’s classic that most of us still love, and continue to blast and sign-a-long with from our cars, stereos, iPods, and karaoke bars. Sing it with me: 8 -…
Got $15,000 for an iPhone Accessory? Mamiya Has the DL28 Digital Camera System!
Every week, the TWiT.tv network produces MacBreak Weekly netcast (podcast). Every week, the panel on MacBreak Weekly announces their “picks of the week”. This week, noted photographer Scott Bourne’s pick was a $15,000 iPhone accessory: the Mamiya DL28 Digital Camera…
Twhirl Updates: Will You Dump TweetDeck?
Die-hard Twhirl fanatics (like me) can celebrate the start of the weekend with a fresh new update to the desktop Twitter app. Albeit just a preview release, Twhirl v.0.8.8f is here and includes a few extra gems for Twitter, Seesmic,…
Twttrstrm: Squidoo Turns Twitter into Yahoo Answers
A few attempts have been made to turn Twitter into a more robust Q&A platform than it already is. For example, services like Twtpoll and Strawpoll let you create a question and will then give you a unique URL to…
TweetSuite: Complete Twitter Integration With WordPress
Dan Zarrella, who introduced us to Tweetbacks last week, has released a new WordPress plugin that takes the concept to the next level. Dubbed TweetSuite, the plugin builds on TweetBacks utility of displaying all of the tweets that link back…
DMfail Fails, Reborn as Re-Twit’d
The creators of sneaky Twitter app DMfail are back creating apps, but this time they’ve released something pretty useful that’s likely to last more than a week. re-Twit’d is a simple application that lets you see what’s hot on Twitter…
So, either Steve Jobs really is retiring and Paris Hilton is now CEO of Apple, or some factory in China is taking the knock-off back plate biz to a whole new level. Our money’s decidedly on the latter. Engadget is…
Showtime Puts Free Episodes and Bonus Footage Online
Cable network Showtime is expanding its online presence, launching Join Showtime, a new site featuring full-length episodes and bonus footage from its shows, community features, and a “personality quiz” to determine which of its series you might enjoy. The full-length…
WildCharge – Wireless Charging For Pearl & Curve
WildCharge has been promising a wireless charging solution for quite awhile and has finally delivered. They are now selling their wireless charging mat and skin for the Pearl 8110/20/30 or Curve for $79.99. Its not really wireless since you need…
Mozilla Officially Ends Support for Firefox 2
As expected, Mozilla has officially discontinued support for Firefox 2, notifying users via the most recent (and final) automatic upgrade of the Web browser. According to the message, which shows up upon opening the program, “Mozilla is not planning any…
Zentact Might Be the Best Social Networking Idea This Year
With the rise of social networking, many of us have hundreds if not thousands of online contacts. But how many of them do we actually keep up with? Probably not many. That’s the problem Zentact attempts to solve through a…
Send a Virtual Drink That Will Actually Get You Drunk (Invites)
Virtual gifts are big business, and virtual drinks – sending someone a cute graphic featuring a martini, a Jack and Coke, or a Mike’s Hard Lemonade, for example – is an immensely popular activity on social networks. GiveReal is a…