television, technology, politics, and more
Tech
Best ‘Team Coco’ Tweet
Jan 14th
Many people on the Internet are flocking to social media sites to take sides in the NBC Universal late-night meltdown. If those people who are supporting ‘Team Conan’ (aka ‘Team Coco’) had watched his Tonight Show, things might have turned out differently.
Nevertheless, there has been a flurry of activity on micro-blogging site Twitter with ‘Team Coco’ supporters lashing out at NBCU’s President, Jeff Zucker, and expressing confusion over what is going on. Several of these have been celebrity tweets.
The best one comes from Aziz Ansari, a hilarious comedian and one of the stars of NBC comedy Parks and Recreation. Ansari did not himself lash out at NBC (as his own show is in jeopardy of being canceled), but he did expresses his own late-night confusion:
Top 10 Web Tools for Starting 2010 Off Right
Jan 3rd
The Web 2.0 buzzword is applied to a great many Internet-based applications, tools, etc. In every category, there are many competing start-ups hoping that their brain child will catch on. As a heavy web user (who has gone to the extreme of having fiber brought to the doorstep of my nearly 100 year old domicile), I have complied a list of ten FREE tools that are actually useful.
I use just about all of these tools on a daily basis and am always on the lookout for something new (let me know what you use and love). There are a few tools to get organized in the new year and a few for entertainment (read: wasting time on the Internet).
Here are my top tools/apps/services (by category):
Organization
Mint.com is, bar none, the best financial management software out there (for free). Intuit purchased Mint last year, adding more legitimacy to its operations. Mint will track your bank accounts, credit cards, car loans, student, loans by automatically pulling data from over 7,500 US financial institutions daily, giving you control of your finances in one place. Seriously, it might just change your life.
Evernote is an amazing productivity tool. As a graduate student, I regularly use Evernote to organize research from the web, helping to keep sources sorted, annotated, and accessible in the cloud. It is one of those tools that has many applications since it allows users to take notes, clip web pages, snap photos using their mobile phones, create to-dos, and record audio.
Dropbox lets you sync files across computers. It is technically a software product and not a web app, but it is on my list anyway (my list, my rules). Dropbox simplifies that pesky problem of syncing files. The service makes it easy for users to securely share files, sync them across multiple computers, and access them from anywhere. I used to manually upload files to Drop.io to stay current or haul around a flash drive, but Dropbox has dramatically improved on those methods by automatically syncing my files and making them available in the cloud. More >