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Foursquare Day checks in

What’s great about the internet is that all it takes is an idea and a blog post for something clever to become global. That’s what happened less about a month ago when Dr. Nate Bonilla-Warford decided to create an event called “Foursquare Day” to bring traffic into his business. Within days, people picked up on the idea and it soon became a global phenomenon, getting the attention of BBC America, Fox Tampa, and even Ashton Kutcher. We interviewed Dr. Nate for Geekistry a few weeks ago. You can read the story about how Foursquare Day came to be here.

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Michael Gaines | Apr, 16, 2010 | 0 comments

Stratosfear part 2: keeping your files in the cloud

Part two of our series of working in the cloud talks about different services for keeping your files in the cloud.

A few years ago, if I wanted to copy a large project I was working on between work and home, I’d have to burn it to a CD-R or DVD-R. This was clunky and slow, not to mention expensive since both CD and DVD burners were expensive when they were first released. Over time, USB drives came to be and that made everyone’s lives so much easier since they’re so cheap. They are still something extra to carry around, and I’m not one to carry too much with me, so sometimes I’d forget. Since I carry my iPod around with me all the time, I could essentially use that as a storage device if I really had to.

Michael Gaines | Apr, 14, 2010 | 0 comments

Geek horoscopes for April 12, 2010

Aries - Greetings, program!

Taurus - That third party Twitter app you’re writing won’t be bought by Twitter.

Gemini - That third party API wrapper you’re writing for the iPhone will be rejected by Apple.

Michael Gaines | Apr, 12, 2010 | 0 comments

Classic arcade characters invade New York City

In a reversal of the movie Tron, videogame characters burst out of an abandoned TV set and wreak havoc in New York City. “Pixels” by Patrick Jean, done as a promotion for onemoreprod.com, masterfully integrates CGI with on-site footage, showing what would happen if those little critters we killed in the arcades took their revenge on us.

Michael Gaines | Apr, 9, 2010 | 0 comments