Google has Bridged Microsoft Office and Google Apps with Google's purchase of DocVerse. Google purchased DocVerse on March 5. The purchase price for the DocVerse plug-in is reported as $25 million dollars.

DocVerse takes Microsoft Office documents that are created off-line with the Microsoft Office Suite and converts them to online versions that can be stored [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Alice in Wonderland is a classic tale, and has been recently re-imagined in a darker version by Disney, directed by Tim Burton,  starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.   In it Alice returns to Wonderland all grown up, and does battle with the Red Queen.  
While many of us grew up watching the Animated Disney [...]

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While Apple is announcing the availability of the iPad in April, you can already buy screen protectors and portfolios for the iPad you don’t yet have.   Griffin makes this really nice looking portfolio.
 

Not bad for $44.95
You can also get iPad Screen Protectors and other accessories.
 
“iPad is something completely new,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re [...]

Filed under : Computers, PCs, and Macs

The steps are over here at Howcast.com, but I wanted to talk about some of the stuff that isn’t the “how to” here.
Building a Home Theater Screen from Blackout Cloth is a VERY cost effective way to get a great experience on a budget.   Even if money is no object, this is a great solution.
The [...]

Filed under : Carpentry and Wood Working, How To

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards are Sunday, March 7, 2010.  The ceremony is to be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, with actors Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin hosting and will be televised on ABC starting at 8:00 pm EST and 5:00 pm on the west coast.
Annually the Academy of Motion Picture Arts [...]

Filed under : Artists, Celebrity News, Uncategorized

The divorce proceedings of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Jenny Sanford are set to be televised on TV this Friday (February 26, 2010), according to The Post and Courier.
The divorce case is scheduled to be heard from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. but is not expected to take the entire time allotted because [...]

Filed under : Divorce

The U.S. Mint has unveiled the release of a new penny during a ceremony at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.               
The shiny new penny has a redesigned reverse for the US One Cent Piece. The coin features a union shield with 13 vertical stripes with a scroll draped across it that  reads “One Cent.”
The [...]

Filed under : Money

IPTV meets Brick and Motar: Wal-Mart is about to buy the Set-Top-Box start-up Vudu. 
Vudu is a Santa Clara, California based online movie service and is backed by Silicon Valley venture capital firms that include Benchmark Capital and Greylock Capital.  Vudo had been building set-top-boxes but change to a streaming media service.
It is estimated [...]

Filed under : Industry News, Videos

After the magnitude 7.0 devastating earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday, 12 January 2010 a remake of We are the World was planned for the benefit of the Haitian survivors.
The We are the World 25 Remix re-release features many of today’s top artist.  Over 85 artists are listed as participating.  The recording was organized by Quincy [...]

Filed under : Artists, Celebrity News

Jimmy Zhang is the best Ruby on Rails programmer.  He currently works at Howcast.com where he uses his Ruby Programming skills to advance the backend of the Rails powered Howcast platform.
You can’t actually hire Jimmy to be your Ruby on Rails programmer, because unfortunately while he is the best, he is also spoken for.
Prior to [...]

Filed under : Technical

Those watching the Parisian Love ad from Google may be searching for “How to assemble a crib” which is the last query of this tale of romance.
So if you need help with this one, you may find this How To from Howcast, to be a great start.
How To Assemble a Crib on Howcast

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John Terry had an affair with Vanessa Perroncel and according to a recent survey of women in the UK, they are understanding.   Unlike Tiger Woods who has been shown no sympathy, for his affairs, John Terry’s indiscretions are forgivable.
This might partly be the result of the level of hotness that Vanessa Perroncel brings to [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

Ready to upgrade your Farmville farm with a horse stable?  When you check into your farm, a message announces that stables have arrived in Farmville, and will take you to your gift box.

Your gift box will contain the frame for a horse stable, which can be placed on your farm. This is a [...]

Filed under : Casual Gaming

For me at least the hardest thing about online dating is the schedule at which I am expected comply.  Dating in the real world, you flirt with someone at the office, or a friend of a friend, and slowly you decide you want to ask them out.  In most cases you have known this person [...]

Filed under : Dating in Cyberspace

I didn’t used to believe it.  Sure all the good gas mileage cars were always crap.  But I figured that was because the hippies never had money to spend on them.  But over the weekend I upgraded my 1999 Jeep Wrangler with a high-flow cloth air filter, and an electric cooling fan.  The results in [...]

Filed under : Automotive

This article should have been titled, “Pepsi to Prove That Brand Recognition is Less of a Factor than Brand Loyalty”.  Or….. "Pop Fo Sho"   ad campaign failed so badly, Pepsi can't do any worse with "Be my friend on face/Space/twit and I'll give you $10" campaign.
The problem is that by not doing a Super [...]

Filed under : Advertisements

Greg Oden’s dirty photos have ended up on the Internet.  The huge in so many ways NBA player sent nude pictures to his girl friend showing him fully naked standing in his bathroom.
While many of the pictures the cellphone obscures Oden’s face, that is all that is obscured. 
The Portland Trailblazers center made a statement [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

If you need to register to collect your military disability compensation, you need to check out PTSDLawsuit.com. This site is for those that have suffered post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and has the appropriate information on the class action lawsuit which is formally known as Sabo v. United States.
On the website, they list the [...]

Filed under : Random News

Adam Mesh sells a business kit, which already puts in him in the shady guy category.  It’s a get rich from home business plan that relies on the volatility of penny trader stocks to make him a lot of money, and the people at the front of the information chain money.
Here’s how any of these [...]

Filed under : Hard on the Pocket Book

In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale. In this massively multiplayer online game from Cryptic Studios, players can pioneer their own destiny as Captain of a Federation starship. Or, they can become a Klingon Warlord and expand the Empire to the far reaches of [...]

Filed under : Gaming, Reviews

Boxee is showing off at CES one of my favorite pieces of hardware married to one of my favorite pieces software, and to top it all off my favorite provider of content is explaining how to use it.
Boxee is launching their IPTV set top box powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2, this is the [...]

Filed under : Industry News

With as much IPTV news as there is around CES this year, you’d think Spring came early and it was NAB.
Microsoft announced that it will bring ATT Uverse’s Mediaroom to the Xbox 360, it also announced that it will launch IPTV Everywhere, a product that will allow live television, and the Mediaroom IPTV experience to [...]

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (directed by Terry Gilliam) is a fantastical story following the leader of a travelling theatre troupe who, having made a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations.
Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, and Heath Ledger star in the film, though Ledger's death one-third of [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

You are now looking at amazing video from your new HDTV and then it hits you, “there is no sound!”
Don't blame your HDMI cables, the solution is simple.

Filed under : CES, Electronics, Wiring, and Circuits, How To

If you’re like me, you may have heard of P90X, but does it actually work?
I have read many P90X reviews on the Internet and I wanted to determine does P90X work? Luckily enough for me someone bought it for me for Christmas so I will know in 90 days or so. But before I open [...]

Filed under : Reviews

Sitting around the Christmas dinner table, gathered with family your aunt looks at you and says “So when are you going to settle down and start a family” and amongst the married cousins, and the assembled great grandkids you sit alone the only uncoupled person at the table over the age of 16.
This is the [...]

Filed under : Dating in Cyberspace

It is interesting to me what people view as the test of an SEO.  “Really Smart People” is the Google Search that prompted Robert Scoble recently tweated was how he pick his “SEO of the Year”.
Really Smart People for me isn’t an ideal test because while the words appear in articles quite often people aren’t [...]

Filed under : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

A recent article in the Vatican’s News Paper entitled “Aristotle's Virtues and Homer's Doughnut” acknowledges that Homer as an everyman has the same kinds of trials of faith that normal people face.
Every few years overly critical social critics share their feelings on why the Simpson’s are “OK”  I remember a very long while back reading [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents

Exercise. I hate it, you hate it, it’s just plain boring. Besides, who has time to go to the gym every day anyway? We all know that exercise is important, even for those not looking to lose weight. But it’s hard.
DirectLife helps you measure your activity level and add to it with the help [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks, Product Reviews

It all started back in 1987, when Square was having a brush with bankruptcy. Displaying some gallows humor, Hironobu Sakaguchi stated that his FINAL game would be a FANTASY role-playing game. And right there, one of the best-selling game series of all time was born. Now, after 12 console games, 1 MMO, two company changes, [...]

Filed under : Casual Gaming, Gaming

Santa Claus met with military brass at the NORAD Command center today to discuss air safety, how to deal with children who are awake, and the possibilities of The Grinch.
A top official from the Federal Aviation Administration assured Santa that despite the 8,000 airplanes that will be in the air over the United States on [...]

Filed under : Random News

Microsoft got a double helping of lessons in IP this past week.  It turns out that Microsoft’s Juku Beta was developed in partnership with MSN China who used an outside development firm who pirated much of the source code, and image assets from competing social media company Plurk.
Even Microsoft’s attempt to do something nice for [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Donna Campbell is getting help from a moving company who offered to help move her out of the home she once shared with her husband after the house went into foreclosure and was auctioned. Campbell never held title on the house with her husband, Arnim Ramdass, who has stopped paying for the mortgage.
Campbell's problems began [...]

Filed under : Divorce, Random News

Last week Elin Nordegren met with her lawyers to renegotiate her prenuptial agreement so that she would receive $75 million after 7 years of marriage plus a one-time $5 million payment to stay with Tiger Woods. After the agreement was successfully re-negotiated, many people were shocked that she suddenly moved out.
Earlier this week Ms. Nordegren [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News, Divorce, Marriages

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Nominations are out, and the 2010 List is pretty much what you would expect, no real upsets, or snubs.  The Golden Globes is not as prestigious as the Oscar's, or the Emmy's but because it honors both TV and Film it is a larger event and can be more fun [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

I play a lot of games and things on my phone and I was wondering do push notifications on iPhone count as a text message?
I went on Google and did a whole bunch of searches but still couldn’t figure out definitively if the push notifications from my iPhone apps will count against my AT&T bill. [...]

Filed under : Casual Gaming

Apparently Mitch Berman doesn’t just discriminate against women, but throws racial slurs around the ZillionTV office as well.
XYHD.tv obtained documents today confirming that a ZillionTV contractor is pursuing legal action as a result of racially prejudice comments Mitch made in a meeting of most of Zillion’s remaining employees.
You’d think Zillion would tread a little [...]

Filed under : Industry News

The Joojoo was formerly the “CrunchPad”, made famous by Michael Arrington. The original CrunchPad was recently pronounced dead and now is alive again.
The Joojoo is a reborn version of the CrunchPad and instead of costing less $200 is now selling for $499.
The term “joojoo” is really supposed to be “juju,” an African word meaning [...]

Filed under : Computers, PCs, and Macs

December 7, 1941 is as Franklin D Roosevelt a date which will live in Infamy.  The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, stunned virtually everyone in the United States military. Japan’s carrier-launched bombers found Pearl Harbor totally unprepared. President Franklin Roosevelt quickly addressed Congress to ask for a declaration of war.
President [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents

Kylie Bisutti is the newest secret angel of Victoria's Secret who appeared before the world during the latest annual show by one of the world's largest lingerie companies.
Kylie won the Victoria Secret Model search, She was the fan favorite receiving the most votes in a contest run by CBS to choose the next Victoria Secret [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

This year, the credit union cherry blossom 10 miler for 2009 was held in Washington dc just like every year. This was the 37th running held and has participates from all over the world. What's great about the race is positive atmosphere and energy you get from the other runners and you get to run [...]

Filed under : Random News

Since it is December now, there will be lots of people looking for free Christmas desktop wallpaper on the Internet.
You can include me in that category as well because I just bought a new HD monitor and would like to get a nice festive xmas or holiday wallpaper to download for free. And I’m very [...]

Filed under : Life Hacks

I will say it again, I’m not a divorce attorney or even a lawyer, but if I was, I’d bet the rumors about a Tiger Woods divorce to wife Elin Nordegren have a chance at proving to be true down the road. There are even gambling sites on the web putting odds on them splitting [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

Here are some practical Christmas gift ideas 2009. Christmas, the once a year obligatory gift giving occasion oftentimes is the most difficult. For one, you have to keep track of what you’ve given in the past, all the while being creative and inventive.While gift giving can be a chore for most, it doesn’t have to [...]

Filed under : Shopping

The NFL 2010 Pro Bowl is going to be held in Miami, Florida at the Land Shark Stadium on January 31, 2010.
If you’re a fan of the national football league or just pro sports in general you know that there are a couple weird changes to the sentence above. First being that the 2010 Pro [...]

Filed under : Random News

What an amazing awakening of a man conscious during 23-year coma.
In Brussels, a man named Rom Houben was misdiagnosed to be in a vegetative state while his body was paralyzed after an automobile accident which occurred 23 years ago. Except for some very little movement in his hand, he was unable to communicate to anyone.
Now [...]

Filed under : Random News

Google let me in to the beta of the new Adsense interface.  It is pretty cool. Unlike the Adwords "improvements" which I still don't like.  The new Adsense does a lot of useful things,   The CTR to eCPM tool is interesting, and the daily trends let me know if it was my traffic, or [...]

Filed under : Industry News

The world’s largest cruise ship, The Oasis of the Seas cost $1.5 billion to build and is five times larger than the Titanic.
It may have taken six years, but the world’s largest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas was finally delivered to Royal Caribbean and they are now taking reservations.
The cruise ship is HUGE. It [...]

Filed under : Riches and Lifestyles

YuDu Screen Printing Machine Kit is the first "As Seen on TV" item I have wanted in a long while.  I have a lot of funny t-shirts, and I often have ideas for new ones.
I'm having a hard time justifying the Nearly $300 Price tag, but Amazon has it for a lot less (about [...]

Filed under : Hard on the Pocket Book

It should come as no surprise that lots of people are scouring the Internet for the New Moon bootleg full movie.  Stephenie Meyer’s second book in the Twilight series just opened across theaters nationwide and fans of the popular series jam packed the theaters. So far the reviews of New Moon have been less than [...]

Filed under : Random News

I read it on Yahoo News (so it must be true) about Oprah Winfrey ending her talk show.
This is huge news because the Oprah Winfrey Show has been around for 20+ years. It is arguably one of the most influential shows on the airwaves right now and some might even say in the history of [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

On Jason Calacanis’ show This Week in Startups, he announced a special offer for Audible.com/thanksgiving. He then asked people to tweet out the deal with the #Twist hashtag on Twitter about the Audible special offer. It isn’t an offer code or coupon code type deal, but just simply go to the website and save money [...]

Filed under : Advertisements, Shopping

Some PhotoShop work is hard to detect, and forgivable we don't want to see zits on our favorite teen stars, nor do we want to see stretch marks from models turned mothers.
But some PhotoShop work is obvious.
So we took a look at how photoshopped this image was.  By adjusting the histogram of the image to [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

One of the best colognes you can get on the market right now is Armani Aqua Di Gio.
If you’re looking to buy cologne as a gift or just want to try out a new scent for yourself, be sure to try out Armani Aqua Di Gio cologne. It is very popular amongst guys 18-35.  [...]

Filed under : Shopping

BlackFriday Ads are Rolling in and in 2009 Target is hoping to lure this year's Black Friday shoppers with $3 toasters and coffeemakers, deep deals on high-definition televisions, and discounts of 50% on clothes and toys, according to a Web site that says it has received a leaked copy of the retailer's circular.

For competitive reasons, [...]

Filed under : 2009 Black Friday Ads, Sales, and Door Buster Specials

I work with nearby schools, YMCA's and Latchkey programs to teach playground games.  You would be amazed how many schools have a four square court, tether ball court, even a "rover lines" they aren't using.  So I have been teaching kids to play most these games (Red Rover, and Crack the whip are too dangerous [...]

Filed under : Camp Leadership

Many who watch Dancing with the Stars are asking is Carrie Ann Inaba pregnant?
It has already been reported that Inaba, a former “Fly Girl” was dating Artem Chigvintsev, who is about 15 years younger than her. He is also a former contestant on the other popular dancing show So You Think You Can Dance (season [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

When a start up is getting started it is common for the founder to call the guys he worked with at other companies and invite them to come work with him. Roku has a lot of Akimbo guys. Microsoft Media Room had a lot of Akimbo guys. It’s just the nature of things. What is [...]

Filed under : Industry News

After many long months, the Rihanna interview with Diane Sawyer on 20/20 is here.
I remember when the story broke earlier in the year of how R&B pop star Chris Brown supposedly beat up fellow music star Rihanna. It was the hottest topic on the Internet and now Rihanna decided to break her silence by appearing [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

This is really just a neat exercise in image reconstruction.  This is the image on CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's Tablet.

Original photo from here.
Reconstructed image from the reflection. You can see he is playing Ratatouille

Not real exciting, but still.

Filed under : Rants and Tangents

Kmart calls it's Black Friday sales Blue Friday.  The deals listed, start on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), include DSi bundles for $170 that come with five free games and a $25 Nintendo gaming coupon, Left 4 Dead 2 for $40, an Xbox 360 Elite bundle featuring Pure, Lego Batman and Halo ODST for [...]

Filed under : 2009 Black Friday Ads, Sales, and Door Buster Specials

Java Script isn't Compiled until it runs, as result if is often in efficient.  Uncompressed Java Script contains comments, friendly variable names, and white space.  Dean Edwards created packer and made it available as a Java Script Compressor. ( dean.edwards.name/packer/)
While there has been a lot of fan fare around Closure it is just Google's version [...]

Filed under : Industry News

ZillionTV will announce Monday that it has completed a deal with Paramount.
Not wanting to be the only one not at the party Paramount has agreed to a content deal with struggling ZillionTV.  Those close to the deal say that ZillionTV completed a deal which includes warrants for the later purchase of stock in ZillionTV, based [...]

Filed under : Industry News

So you bought Forza 3 and the graphics are amazing, the sound is stupendous, and the physics are so real they are kicking your ass. 
Let's Start with assessing which type of Driver you are:
My Controller is:
a. The Race Wheel b. The Original 360 Controller c. [...]

Filed under : Gaming

Now that we’re getting into the Christmas shopping season, don’t forget to buy a few items at the Old Navy scarf sale. It’s being rumored that the price will be only $1 per scarf. Talk about a budget buster, this is awesome. It hasn’t really been advertised many places, but there is definitely a sale [...]

Filed under : Shopping

Freeslots.com is all about free slot machines. They are one of the oldest sites (been on the Internet since 1999) like these that offer over 30+ free slots.
Some of these games include: Treasures of Egypt (freeslots.com/slot515), bonus Land, Party bonus, Fruit Smoothie, Flaming Crates, Shopping Spree and many other 5-wheel and 3-wheel slot machines. [...]

Filed under : Gambling, Gaming

Gwen Stefani and her band "No Doubt" are suing Activision Blizzard Inc over how they appear in the game Band Here.
Band Hero is similar to Guitar Hero or Rock Band, but allows for multiple players.  A feature of the game allows you to play any song as "No Doubt" Or "Nirvana".  Gwen Stefani was less [...]

Filed under : Gaming

I’m not a divorce attorney or lawyer, but if I was, I’d say that all the rumors people are talking about a Peyton Manning divorce to wife Ashley Manning (Thompson) have a chance of being true.
The rationale being that there have been so many reports of a Peyton Manning divorce that there has to be [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News, Divorce

Many people in the real estate industry and first-time homebuyers are probably excited to hear that the homebuyer tax credit 2010 is being extended and expanded.
People who bought their first home this year have been getting tax credits up to $8,000 which was part of the economic stimulus plan that was put into effect [...]

Filed under : Money

Jim Nance, Sportscaster for CBS will have to pay almost a Million dollars a year in alimony to his now ex-wife, as part of the divorce courts decision.  Jim Nance started dating prior to the divorce being finalized, but the Judge ruled that this was not the cause of the split and ruled no one [...]

Filed under : Divorce

Tim Floyd, the former USC basketball coach who was unceremoniously let go after the O.J. Mayo recruitment scandal, is making headlines again. This time though Floyd found himself in the middle of a catfight at the Morongo Casino in Cabazon, California.
Credit coach Floyd with having the wherewithal to stop the fight till security guards came [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News, Random News

Valli Girls front woman and current/former girlfriend of Dane Cook, Raquel Houghton, 28, is aiming to be the next American Idol.
There is not much out on the interwebs about her, but from her interview we’ve included below, Raquel Houghton singer reveals a little about her bio and points out that she is a waitress at [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

Twitter Integration with Amazon makes it easier to share product links with your followers.

Dear Associate,
Today we are excited to announce the launch of a new feature called Share on Twitter. You can access Share on Twitter from the Site Stripe and post to your Twitter account from Amazon detail pages in just two clicks. [...]

Filed under : Industry News

While it is true that the economy is in the doldrums, at least one things is booming and that is air traffic controllers school. A recent study done by Investopedia cited that the job of “air traffic controller” was named one of the top paying jobs in the United States that didn’t require much education. [...]

Filed under : Money

 
My 2010 Lincoln MKS review is here. Please keep reading and I will tell you my thoughts on Ford’s flagship sedan.
The Positives
I’ve test drove the 2009 Lincoln MKS before and I like that version, but in doing my 2010 Lincoln MKS review I definitely want to mention a few key benefits. Great features when it [...]

Filed under : Autos

Net Neutrality is one of those names like Pro-Life or Pro-Choice that at first glance seems like you should be for it at first glance.  Teleport back in time to before the debate started and ask George Washington if he his Pro-Life, I bet he will say Yes, ask him 5 minutes later if he [...]

Filed under : Industry News

A yoni massage video is not hard to find on the Internet. A quick Google search will net you close to one hundred thousand results and there are lots of videos on YouTube to watch. But do you know what it actually is all about?
The word Yoni actually comes from Sanskrit for sacred place or [...]

Filed under : How To

I got to sign for a package today.  It was from ZillionTV.  No, I am not in the $99 beta.  They sent me a kind letter asking me to stop disparaging ZillionTV's Management.  I should feel bad, I mean they do have a lot of problems already,and I'm sure me sharing the truth about their [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Snap On tools hired a Scumbag SEO firm to send C&D's to sites who included Snap-On in the title of posts. The SEO Firm ( here to referred to as SCUMBAGs ) is attempting to get sites to remove pages that compete with Snap-on In search.
The SCUMBAGs convince companies that the easiest way to rank [...]

Filed under : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Forza 3 is available Tuesday October 26th, but if you need a bit of a fix before then, here is the list of cars in the games.  It is a LONG list.
Acura 2009 #9 Patrón Highcroft Racing ARX-02a 2008 #15 Lowe's Fernandez Racing ARX-01b 2008 [...]

Filed under : Gaming