Shazam vs. Midomi

Many of you have heard of Shazam, the little iPhone app that will tell you the song that is playing on the radio after listening to it for ten to fifteen seconds, but little has been said about Midomi.  It offers more features the Shazam, but is it really the choice for you when you need a song guessed? Midomi has added features such as saying an artist’s name or saying the name of a Read more…

iPhone WordPress App

Now I have not tried this out yet, but there is a new app out for the iPhone that allows you to update you WordPress blog from your iPhone. Here is what it is described as: “Robust but simple to use, the WordPress for iPhone Open Source application allows you to create and edit content on your WordPress blog(s) with support for offline use.” I am really interested to test this out as I was Read more…

Oklahoma City Thunder: Is this the new NBA team name in OKC?

KOCO is reporting that there sources say the name of the new Oklahoma City NBA franchise will the the Oklahoma City Thunder.  This goes against a Jason Zimdars post that leaked the name as “I love this basketball team.”  Either way Oklahoma City Thunder sounds like a WNBA team to some. I personally think this is appropriate for the people that sit up in cloud city, the upper sections properly named loud city.  “I don’t Read more…

GoDaddy .me domain debacle

GoDaddy released the .me domain extension to purchase at 11am ET today.  So far it has been a big fail for them.  I was the proud owner of the.me for a total of 1 hour and 6 minutes before I got an email from GoDaddy letting me know that I am not the owner anymore.  According to a Mashable post, on Twitter there are about 7 or 8 owners of aweso.me.  It might be a Read more…

Top 10 things to do while your iPhone 3G is bricked.

You’ve got that fingerprinted shiny new iPhone 3G and you are all ready to do everything “Twice as Fast,” except that you are stuck trying to activate it.  So now your phone is doing nothing as you wait around.  Here are some things to do with it while you are waiting. Use it as a see-saw for your fingers. Polish the back to get the fingerprints off. Check out the new app store on your Read more…

Seattle has a bad week

Seattle is having a bad week.  First Starbucks announced it was closing down 600 Starbucks coffee shops.  Now their NBA team is gone.  There are things that could make it much worse, but this was not a week they will soon forget. Clay Bennett and company from Oklahoma City won a ruling today that allowed them to break their lease with the city and move the team to Oklahoma City.  Under the agreement, Seattle will Read more…

Can twitter break more often?

So today I want to send out some tweets via twitter. Sorry, site down.  So I wait.  I come back an hour later,  sorry, site down again.  I’m not a twitter fiend like some are.  I can go without, but when I wanted to tweet where was it? Poor Analogy time: Last summer I always went to this snow cone stand.  It had the greatest snow cones.  The hours of service were from 2pm to Read more…

Is hip hop helping our kids in school?

I know, you are wondering what subject hip hop is helping the kids with.  Your first thought might be math.  With all those hundreds being thrown around in the videos surely you are talking about math, right LL?  No, math isn’t the subject that I am referring to, but that is a good guess. I’m referring to spelling.  There has always been spelling is rap/hip hop but lately there seems to be a plethora of Read more…

3G iPhone: More or less then what you expected?

I am all for the 3G iPhone.  I’m getting one right when they come out, but did you want something more like I did?  Is it because I was fed so many “official” specs and so many spyshots on various sites that I “knew” what was coming out?  The things that I knew because of all of the “official” info was 3G and GPS.  After that I thought anything else would be icing on the Read more…

Apple’s WWDC Tomorrow: New iPhone’s?

For many an Apple fan, tomorrow is a national holiday. Tomorrow is the beginning of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference, WWDC and Steve Jobs is the headlining speaker. What is so special about this conference you say? Well this one is special because the iPhone SDK will be shown and everyone is speculating a 3G version of the iPhone will be coming out. I’m going to make some predictions as well just so I Read more…