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Diggnation: Win Alex Albrecht’s Xbox and Kevin Rose’s iPhone

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Posted by Alisha on Friday, May 16th, 2008 – 10:28 pm
Filed under General

If you don’t know about Diggnation yet, go watch an episode, or two, or 150. Diggnation is probably one of the best shows from Revision3. The Totally Rad Show is pretty awesome, too, but when you put Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht together, it just makes it more fun.

On one of the Diggnation episodes, Alex announced that he’s going to give away his Xbox and some other goodies along with it to a random Twitter follower. But first, he needs 20,000 followers. Once he reaches 20,000 followers on Twitter, he will announce it on Twitter and ask everyone to reply if they want the Xbox, giving them something like 8 hours to reply in. Then, someone will be chosen randomly.

To win Kevin’s iPhone, I think the same thing applies. I’m not sure about the followers, but just follow Kevin on Twitter and wait for him to announce it if you want his iPhone for free.

Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose

Why do I want to win Alex Albrecht’s Xbox? Because ours broke a while back and I miss playing games on it! Besides, who wouldn’t want to own something Alex and Kevin signed?

Why do I want to Kevin Rose’s iPhone? Well, I don’t really need the iPhone, but I like it, and it belongs to Kevin!

This is real! Proof is on the latest Diggnation show, episode 150. Good luck everyone!

UPDATE: A winner was announced for Alex Albrecht’s Xbox 360. And, he’s decided to give away his iPhone to a random follower as well.

Multiple Ways to Access Google Reader

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Posted by Alisha on Friday, May 16th, 2008 – 2:28 pm
Filed under Software

Google Reader is a popular web-based feed reader that lacks one feature. A feature I’m sure everyone would love to have available, even if they didn’t use it. To sync with a desktop feed reader. Google seems to be falling behind with this. I stopped using Google Reader for a little while because of it. Now that I found a new way to read feeds on the desktop, I started to use it again. It’s not perfect, but it works.

One way to keep up with feeds is by using your mobile phone. You can access Google Reader on your phone by going to www.google.com/reader/m. If you have an iPhone, then you would go to www.google.com/reader/i.

If you use Firefox frequently, you can also set the sidebar to load Google Reader for the iPhone or the plain mobile one. It’s your choice.

Another way that might be my favorite, although needs issues worked out, is a desktop client called ReadAir, which connects to your Google Reader account. It’s not perfect, though. But, I’m sure eventually it could get pretty close. One of the issues only displays 20 items. Even refreshing does not remove the items you’ve marked as read.

ReadAir

Besides a few issues, ReadAir looks really nice and works very well. It’s not slow unlike viewing feeds in Outlook is. Using ReadAir makes me feel like I’m still using Google Reader, even though it’s on the desktop.

A List of 25 Lists

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Posted by Alisha on Monday, April 28th, 2008 – 1:10 pm
Filed under General

Lists seem to be very popular and attracts readers. (Not why I am writing this list.) I thought I would check out some lists with at least 50 or more to see what people have come up with. This was actually harder than I thought it would be. Here are 25 that I found:

  1. Top 50 ‘Sesame Street’ Moments
  2. Top 50 iPhone Applications
  3. Top 50 Eco Blogs
  4. 155 WordPress Resources, Tutorials, Plugins, Themes, AJAX, Podcasting…WP Monster List
  5. Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy - and Their Open Source Alternatives
  6. Top 50 Free WordPress Themes
  7. Top 50 Resources for Getting a Cheap Flight
  8. Wide Open VoIP: Top 50 Open Source VoIP Apps
  9. Top Best 50 Blogger & WordPress Customization Tips (Hacks)
  10. Top 50 Worldwide Most Influential Blogs of April
  11. Top 50 Classical Blogs, Using 4 Different Methods
  12. Top 50 Pictures Taken at Just the Right Time
  13. Top 50 Graphic Design Blogs
  14. Top 50 Apps That Fit on a USB Drive
  15. 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007
  16. The Freeloader’s Toolbelt: 50 Tools to Help You Get Anything Free Online
  17. Top 50 Logo Design Tutorials
  18. Top 50 Productivity Blogs (most of which you haven’t heard about)
  19. 50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to Make the Most of Google Calendar
  20. The World’s 50 Most Powerful Blogs
  21. 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X
  22. Web Design Toolbox: 50+ Tools for Web Design
  23. The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need
  24. 50 Great Widgets For Your Blog
  25. INSTANT MESSAGING TOOLBOX: 90+ IM Tools

If you want to create a top 10, 20, 50, 100, etc. list, you need to be able to do your research and have plenty of time available. Here are five tips for creating captivating lists. Top 50 ‘Sesame Street’ Moments is one example of tip five for creating captivating lists:

Ever try Video? Lists are not only meant to be done in text so I suggest you add some flavor into your routine by putting out a list using video. Video is different, fun and allows you to share the inner actor in you.

I know there are a lot more lists than what I listed, but I wasn’t trying to include them all. If there’s one you like that I didn’t include, please leave a comment.

Ultra Games Bundle II Interactive DVD for iPhone and iPod Touch

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Posted by Alisha on Sunday, January 13th, 2008 – 10:19 am
Filed under Reviews, Software

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Many have fallen in love with the iPhone and iPod Touch. Playing games on them is a nice feature. This Ultra Games Bundle is an interactive DVD which includes 40 games and even software to allow you to create your own iPhone and iPod Touch games and widgets. It also includes parental controls to keep children from playing any games that may not be appropriate.

Plenty of people who own an iPhone or iPod Touch probably wished they could create better games to play than the ones that are currently available. You don’t need to write any code to create games with the software. The software makes it easy for you to design your own games.

Games for iPhone/ iPod Touch are limited, but with this bundle, you can turn limited into unlimited by creating your own! Thumbs up! A revolution in mobile gaming. The games that are included in the bundle look really good, but create your own games and impress your friends.

I have always wanted to create my own games since I was little and hearing about this software makes it sound easy to do at an affordable price.

Sponsored by igiki

Gmail IMAP

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Posted by Alisha on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 – 8:40 am
Filed under General, Software

Google has added a new feature to Gmail. This feature is Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)! It will allow you to check your e-mail on Google’s server, rather than downloading them to your computer. This means that anytime you check your e-mail from your laptop, mobile phone and work computer, etc., your e-mail will appear as it did on either device. If you placed an e-mail in a specific folder, it will show up in that folder no matter which device you checked with! Same thing with marking e-mail as read.

I like this, because I have a laptop and a desktop computer. I had once setup a shared Outlook file between the two just so I wouldn’t have to read the same e-mails twice. IMAP is much simpler!

Google IMAP

To find this new setting, login to Gmail and view the settings page and click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab. If you don’t see this tab, then you may not have this feature, yet. Help for setting this up in Thunderbird, Outlook and iPhone, etc. is also available underneath the option for turning it on. Watch this video for setting it up on the iPhone. Or even read How-to: Proper Gmail IMAP for iPhone & Apple Mail. Although the steps are specifically for the iPhone and Apple Mail, I’m sure you can figure out how to do this for other clients (e.g. Outlook or Windows Live Mail).

It appears that some people are seeing this new feature and some aren’t. So, if you check your settings in Gmail and don’t see it, don’t worry, it’s coming!

Thank you for IMAP, Google!