tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:09:28 +0000http://www.davidsterry.com/noreply@blogger.com (David)Blogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-6260876531056762354Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:04:00 +00002008-06-01T17:36:34.247-07:00This had to be by design. Jobs must love hackers. I am positive Steve Jobs wanted the iPhone to be the kind of awesome only an underground elite squad of coders could program it to be. How else could the iPhone be so much better jailbroken? I guess what I'm trying to say is: I jailbroke my iPhone. I've been using it stock for a good three months waiting for legal apps to come out but enough is http://www.davidsterry.com/2008/06/jailbreak-good-iphone-freshly-rocked.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-4974601578308135870Sun, 11 May 2008 06:18:00 +00002008-05-10T23:22:08.247-07:00I looked all around the internet(Google) for lyrics to this song that I'm hearing about 100 times a day and couldn't find it. So I typed 'em out. Enjoy. Super WHY! Theme Song Lyrics - PBS Who's got the power The power to read Who answers the call for friends in need? Super WHY! Super WHY! He's the guy, he's Super WHY! Who's got the power The power to read Who looks into books for the answers http://www.davidsterry.com/2008/05/super-why-theme-song-lyrics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-4307222463813082208Tue, 06 May 2008 23:26:00 +00002008-05-06T16:44:04.931-07:00I've had an iPhone for the past couple of months and I'm what you'd call a heavy user. I need email on the go and I like to check websites as well. So I figure it'd be useful to mention a few things I think haven't been mentioned before about the device. 1. The iPhone is one of the few devices you can actually hand to a baby(granted it's protected by an incase) and not worry about random phone http://www.davidsterry.com/2008/05/iphone-experience.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-8643521961486355058Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:55:00 +00002008-02-25T15:19:12.703-08:00I'm starting to believe in the power of audio to spread Linux. The nice thing about podcasts is that you can absorb them while doing other things but you can learn a lot. If you're like me, you login to Youtube to check out some videos and you end up shifting over to some other page midstream. So you miss part of the video and basically you're then listening to a (poor) podcast. Why now? Well I http://www.davidsterry.com/2008/02/linux-podcasts-are-cool.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-2442135067367239919Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:37:00 +00002008-01-29T09:39:53.814-08:00Just ran across these videos on Youtube just taken at IIT Tech fest in India. John Hall of Linux Journal discusses Free Software with a small crowd. Looks like a 5 part video so look out for the rest...http://www.davidsterry.com/2008/01/john-maddog-hall-on-free-software.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-4717428180424984891Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:05:00 +00002007-11-09T17:10:55.801-08:00So say the folks over at Real Fresh TV. Since we've just gotten started it's obviously an honor to be mentioned positively so early in our evolution. It's our goal to be the best Twitter Search Engine out there and we look forward to user feedback that will help us make an impact on the Social Networking and Twitter scene. If you'd like to try it out, go to tweetscan.com. There you can search http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/11/tweet-scans-fab.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-7305834077173884159Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:33:00 +00002007-11-08T00:39:29.847-08:00Tweet Scan is now capturing all public tweets. For the past month or so, I've been building and testing Tweet Scan and capturing enough tweets to make thing interesting. A search tool is supposed to find what people want and Tweet Scan was missing probably 95% of tweets. So I've just updated the capture engine to get as close to 100% of public tweets as possible. If you think it's missing a http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/11/tweet-scan-updates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-3626883913067809475Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:33:00 +00002007-10-25T21:51:33.812-07:00Today, I'm releasing Tweet Scan for your enjoyment. Tweet Scan emails you every day or week with the Twitter messages you choose. Twitter has given me something fun to do with my Treo's web browser and for that I thank them. My special way of thanking goes beyond just putting my hands together gratefully and looking toward the sky. I created Tweet Scan. It allows you to search recent Twitter http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/10/search-twitter-with-tweet-scan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-8908670462408832815Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:42:00 +00002007-09-03T19:10:40.075-07:00There's this new service called Twitter. It's part chat room, part mobile app, part social network and if you're here, you're thinking about getting yourself setup with it. It's pretty simple to setup an account but to get the most out of the service, I think there are a few more things you ought to know. 1. Get an account. Go to Twitter.com and go through the few steps it takes to setup an http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/09/howto-get-started-with-twitter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-8301092168254802512Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:11:00 +00002007-09-04T10:07:07.528-07:00Yesterday, I started grabbing the public_timeline xml file from twitter every 2 minutes and sticking it into a database. Then I hooked up my favorite ajax search script and set it up at http://www.davidsterry.com/tsearch. What you do is just type in a word or a couple of words and in a second you'll see some recent twitter posts that match. I've always found it frustrating to read the http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/08/ajax-twitter-search.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-4092846710480826788Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:03:00 +00002007-08-24T02:17:28.149-07:00I recently installed Ubuntu on a laptop that's resource challenged. While that could mean a lot of things, let's just say it has 128 MB of RAM and a mobile P3. It's not so bad because it's a small and cute laptop but anyway, I had to do a PXE boot(since it has no CD drive) and Ubuntu is what I happened to install. After using it for a bit, I realized it'd probably be a good idea to switch it to http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/08/changing-my-window-manager.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-6587203567465373067Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:17:00 +00002007-08-24T02:22:19.196-07:00There's this nagging problem I have on my laptop and maybe you, my trusty readers, have a solution. I'm running Beryl in Edgy and every time I boot up, everything is fine until about 1 minute after everything loads. Right then, Beryl restarts. I don't know why or how but it happens like clockwork and it's not too cool. It makes some of my windows resize just a smidge bigger than the desktop http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/08/beryl-restarting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-3691342090370279488Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:39:00 +00002007-08-14T00:47:12.224-07:00That's it. I've had it. I've been surfing too much on the web and have nothing to show for it except an absurdly intimate knowledge of web 2.0 and the social procrasto-sphere. Twitter. Kyte. Pownce. Please. So I've decided to enhance my copy of Firefox with what may be the most productivity-enhancing extension I'll ever know. It's called Meetimer and it's keeping track of my websurfing time as http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/08/website-procrastination.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-4151775258292334877Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:04:00 +00002007-08-09T18:17:00.547-07:00I'm extremely excited about a new company and what they're enabling people to do in terms of using audio, video and text to communicate in a brand new way. Kyte.tv allows anyone with a recording device to create a channel and produce shows on that channel. Each channel has its own url and producing a show is as easy as recording from your webcam, emailing pictures from your phone, or simply http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/08/kytetv-youtube-with-feedback.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-6628417039665856719Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:11:00 +00002007-08-09T17:03:49.510-07:00I've discovered Google Reader. The next best thing to having an ethernet jack right between the skull and 1st vertebra. Google reader along with their little "Next >>" bookmark makes sifting through all the news (or detritus) of the day all too easy. First you get yourself an account with Google if you don't already have one. Then go to reader.google.com and add 1 or 20 subscriptions. Then you http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/07/mainline-web-20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-5092758789430536851Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:04:00 +00002007-07-21T00:19:55.422-07:00Today Robert Scoble posted an episode of ScobleShow where he interviews Drew Clark of IBM Venture Capital. It's a great interview and lets us peek into the world of technology and business strategy that IBM both exists in and builds on. Check it out at Scobleizer Here are my notes on the interview: IBM has 400,000 people. IBM is a little like an Elephant...What you think it is dpends on whathttp://www.davidsterry.com/2007/07/scoble-and-drew-clark.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-574788175294137Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:49:00 +00002007-07-20T20:58:51.896-07:00Not so long ago, I found a service called Twitter. It's a website where you can log in and repeatedly update the question: What are you doing? Now, that's a simple way to put it but that's the kernel of its function. People answer that question and look for some feedback or just enjoy announcing their status to the world. On the next level, it acts as a huge distributed chat room. Once you loghttp://www.davidsterry.com/2007/07/twitter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-3811825316691354591Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:00:00 +00002007-06-25T00:15:54.551-07:00Today, I was searching YouTube for some recent linux videos and ran across this great talk given by Linus Torvalds for Google. The subject of this conversation was Git, his source code management brainchild. The main theme of his talk was that Git is so much better than CVS and Subversion for open source projects(and others) because it is distributed. FYI, Git is used to manage the Linux kernelhttp://www.davidsterry.com/2007/06/git-from-source.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-789846995950523698Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:22:00 +00002007-06-04T01:41:09.140-07:00Google came out with an awesome enhancement to their Google Maps tool a couple days ago called StreetView. It's remarkable because they've taken 360 degree views from their van about every 20 feet in the areas they cover(SF, Denver, New York City, Miami, and Vegas). The resolution of the images in San Francisco is better than the other areas they covered but it can still be fun looking around http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/05/streetview-links-and-discussion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-85063171284431795Mon, 21 May 2007 19:20:00 +00002007-05-21T12:32:45.996-07:00If you're a spreadsheet junky like me, you've learned all kinds of things to do in a spreadsheet. From using $'s in autofills to cross-workbook cell references to pivot tables. There's lots of fun to be had. I've been using Excel and OpenOffice Spreadsheet for years and was pleasantly surprised to find this function the other day: vlookup. It was used to reconcile one statement against another http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/05/queries-in-excel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-1035597860640486769Fri, 18 May 2007 00:54:00 +00002007-05-17T18:31:24.899-07:00A few weeks ago, I was listening to a radio personality with a large following. You might know the one I'm talking about. She's known for being harsh on her callers who generally call asking for love and family advice. Anyway, she announced on the radio that one of her fans had offerred to setup an online forum where many of her fans could get together and discuss the love and family issues. I'vehttp://www.davidsterry.com/2007/05/suze-orman-forum-on-drupal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-2607407450480976480Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:18:00 +00002007-05-19T12:48:19.408-07:00The OpenGL-based window manager Beryl has some great features like cool window movement effects, transparency, and reflections. The most notable effect has got to be the Desktop Cube which allows you to switch between one or more desktops by rotating a polyhedron(often a cube). One cool thing about this effect is there is a new "space" for a wallpaper or backdrop to this cube's rotation. That http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/04/creating-beryl-skydome-with-gimp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-4585798124729503187Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:21:00 +00002007-04-24T02:11:23.788-07:00I'm in the market for some important software. I've been using Access to keep track of my jobs and hours but something's missing. I'm not able to access it unless I'm at my computer and frankly it's time for something more established and supported than my own little app. What I'm looking for is a combination of Customer Relationship Management(CRM) and Enterprise (cough) Resource Planning(ERP) http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/04/free-open-source-billing-with-phpbms.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-3221581451635256093Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:38:00 +00002007-04-20T10:40:17.604-07:00Today's search engines are pretty impressive if you think about it. Type in a keyword or three and you're a just couple clicks away from the information you want. Of course, the internet is young and it was just yesterday that Google and Yahoo! were born. In the net's early years, there was Gopher and WAIS. Before that there were just printed directories of websites and advertisement through http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/03/anatomy-of-search-engine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-104759062096154822Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:05:00 +00002007-03-30T03:34:25.771-07:00A few days ago, I decided I wanted to make a little demo video of myself using Ubuntu. I wouldn't create anything too complicated but I would use Ubuntu to produce it. I have a Sony digital video camera and a firewire cable so all I needed was some software to help me get the video into a YouTube-acceptable form. After little research, I found Kino was the best option for me. The first step is http://www.davidsterry.com/2007/03/using-kino-to-make-youtube-videos.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David)