Evernote was recently spotlighted in Inc. Magainze, and for good reason--it's a fantastic app for helping you remember stuff. It goes beyond simple note-taking and makes it easy to take [More...]
My latest read is The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, a gut-check to whether or not you're on the right track with your entrepreneurial ideas and mindset. I'm only about a third [More...]
Well, Spotify, it's been a good run. You got me through the summer, helped me during Fall semester, and now it's almost time to say goodbye. I hope you understand [More...]
The news came out yesterday that Google search will soon be including results from its Google Plus network. This is pretty huge if you think about it. It means that [More...]
I've had my Kindle Touch for a little over a week now, and absolutely love it.
First of all, I prefer it to reading on my Samsung Galaxy Tab, mostly because [More...]
Read one book per month.
Go to the gym at least once a week.
Blog on here at least once a week.
Lizzy is doing a really cool "12 in 2012" resolution idea. [More...]
I still think it's only a matter of time before Google Music adds podcast subscriptions natively. But until that happens, I've found a solution to get podcasts into your Google [More...]
In an effort to consolidate my blogs and (hopefully) write more frequently, this will now be my main blog. As a result, you'll see more non-technical posts mixed in with [More...]
I've been eyeing the FiveFingers for a while now, wanting to get a pair mostly just to try them out. The price tag was getting in the way, so when [More...]
My favorite album of 2011 is definitely The King is Dead by The Decemberists. I found it this past summer, right before The Decemberists came to SLC for the Twilight [More...]
I realized today that I'm not a big risk-taker when it comes to food. It's not that I'm picky about different kinds of food--it's more the fact that when I [More...]
If there's one place I wouldn't mind living, it's Park City. I feel like every time I go my blood pressure drops, my stress level halves, and my "Hakuna Matata" [More...]
OK, just when I thought artist collaborations couldn't get any better, I find videos of The Decemberists and Gillian Welch. Did I mention that one of my all-time favorite concerts [More...]
Lizzy and I saw Gillian Welch and David Rawlins in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago, and it was one of the most amazing concerts we've ever been to. [More...]
My wife and I were talking last night about our next big project. We came up with the idea to start The Luncheon Project:
A few weeks ago, we heard Jon [More...]
I got a call on Tuesday from a guy named Steve Call. He needed a website because his YouTube video, Jazz for Cows, was going viral:
So I spent the afternoon [More...]
I've been looking for something to really satisfy my music needs. iTunes got old fast, I hate anything that comes standard with Windows, and other players just had crappy interfaces. [More...]
One of my favorite features about the new Google+ product is Huddle. It's not in the browser (at least not yet), so you'll need to download the mobile app to [More...]
After scouring the Internet for a way to get into Google+, I finally connected with a friend I met at the Google I/O conference in May and he sent me [More...]
I've got a new favorite app--Pulse News. It does news. And it does news really, really well.
I'm not one of those guys who has a million apps installed on his [More...]
I've had this dilemma for a while now--do I buy an e-book or not? Then I went to Google IO and got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and installed the Kindle [More...]
The other day I tried to update this site using SimpleScripts, a handy tool provided by my web hosting service. SimpleScripts is supposed to take all my WordPress sites and [More...]
I read an article the other day contemplating the future of DVD sales. While the article doesn't have much hard evidence to back up the decline of disc sales in [More...]
I'm glad there are people out there who try to make online documentation interesting. Take the Drupal documentation, for example. It's simple, easy to understand, and maybe even a little [More...]
I saw this article on Google News tonight:
Netflix now "the king" of North American Internet traffic
Basically it says that Netflix, at peak traffic times, accounts for almost 30 percent of [More...]
8:59 am. The keynote address is about to start. Can't wait.
9:00 am. Vic Goduntra takes the stage, starts reminiscing about previous years of Google IO, starting with Google IO 2008.
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Remember [More...]
6:23 am. Arrived early with my friend, Trevor Fitzgerald. There were only about 15 people here.
7:40 am. Check-in started early. At this point, the line was down the hall and [More...]
I've got an itch to do something incredible--something that will have a real impact on the world. My evenings will be more or less free over this coming Spring/Summer since [More...]
This morning I found an invite to Mashable Follow in my email. I followed the link, registered with my Twitter account, and started following a bunch of topics to create [More...]
In one of my classes this morning, someone made what I thought was a pretty ignorant comment: "If people don't figure out how to use social media for something useful, [More...]
Found the following auction on Twitter this morning:
I thought the $600 offers I saw a week or so ago on Twitter were high. Sheesh.
When registration opened for Google IO, I [More...]
I had a friend come to me a while back and ask about WordPress. He fly falcons and helps to manage an event called the Utah Sky Trials. They've been [More...]
For all you Adobe junkies in Utah (specifically those in Utah Valley), there's a great resource available to you: the Adobe Beehive user group.
The group is headed by Jamie and Garth Braithwaite. Jamie [More...]
Whenever I install fresh version of WordPress, there's one thing I do usually before anything else--install Google Analytics for WordPress.
If you're not familiar with Google Analytics, check it out here--it'll [More...]
I've been telling myself for a while now that I want to start building Android apps. Well, tonight I finally did it.
Google has a cool thing in Labs called the [More...]
When you're writing content with WordPress, you want that content to reach as many eyes as possible. And with so many people moving to social media networks, it's an absolute [More...]
Playing support technician for your friends and family members is not always fun, especially when you can't see their screen. You find yourself describing tiny little buttons in really obscure [More...]
I've always been a fan of linking things together and consolidating as much as possible. For example, ever since I got a phone that could handle playing MP3s, my Zune [More...]
Alright, I gave in. The new HTC Incredible came out on the Verizon network, and I bought it.
I took some convincing, however. My first look at an Android phone was [More...]
Have you ever tried to copy a long URL into Twitter, only to realize that it puts you over your alloted 140 characters per tweet? Well, there's a way to [More...]
I've had a lot of people ask me about why I'm such a WordPress fan. Here are a few reasons why I enjoy it so much:
Easy to afford. WordPress is [More...]
I'm a recent convert to RSS (don't ask me why it took so long). And seeing as how I've only just found the joys of loading my RSS reader with [More...]
Have you ever wondered why people use FeedBurner for their RSS feeds? Well, if you've ever used Google Analytics to track traffic on your site, you know how cool it is [More...]