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My Favorite Mac Related Sites

I received an alumnimum Mac Book Pro a little while ago and I began to scour the net to find some great websites for getting the most out of my system. I figured I’d create a list to give back some link love. Learning OSX has video tutorials on getting the most out of OSX [...]

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Pandora draining iPhone battery

Two days in a row I’ve woken up to a dead iPhone. This isn’t so bad but I generally like to have a working phone while I’m on the road. The first day this happened, I wasn’t sure of the cause. Today, I’ve figured it out. It’s the Pandora client. I don’t think that the [...]

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iPhone OS 3.0 Noticeably Slower

I like many people eagerly updated the iPhone OS to version 3.0 the day it was released. I did it mainly for the copy and paste functionality. I noticed however, that once I did this my phone no longer performed as well as it did before. This performance hit has taken a couple of forms. [...]

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Import tables from websites into Excel

I have found what has to be the coolest Firefox plugins ever. I often spend hours scouring the web for bits of information that I need to bring into other documents. Many times, I’ll want to bring in a web table to Excel. This is often met with frustration and a lot of manual tweaking. [...]

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Random Thoughts – Portable Social Graph and URL shortners

Two completely disparate topics but my brain generally jumps from topic to topic almost randomly. First, I listened to a great podcast this morning discussing how social media companies need to start thinking about ways to leverage the portable social graph. Second, are short URL services harmful to search rankings? Google uses the context of [...]

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Crowdsourcing from the Crowd

John Winsor, Business Week contributor as solicited opinions from the twitterazzi about the phenomenom of crowd sourcing. Some have predicted that the crowdsourcing phenomenon will accelerate creativity across a larger network. Others, meanwhile, have predicted the practice of opening up a task to the public instead of keeping it in-house or using a contractor will [...]

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I am not a spammer!

So recently, I started recieving bonce back message in my inbox indicating of people complaining about spam messages getting sent to them. It would appear that someone has begun forging my domain name (cotellese.net) in order to send out spam. How can this happen? Well, it’s actually quite easy for spammers to replace the From [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-08

sorry missed the HH. Wanted to watch debate # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-03

Popcorn and beer, gearing up for the debate. # Go Phils! # Embarrased to know a Hillary supporter who is voting for M/P based on Palin. # Palin did better than I expected. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-02

datamining # Idea for SNL Skit McCain/Palin Geico Ad # Go Back in time http://www.google.com/search2001.html # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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