Author: jezlyn
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What’s that song?
Top Gear always has cool music in the background for their features, and often I'll recognize a snippet and try to identify it, which recently has become easier now that the iPhone has magic apps like Shazam and Midomi SoundHound. However, sometimes there's too much noise or talking over clips that the apps can't ID the song. Well, have no fear, just check out the Final Gear discussion forums specifically for identifying music used in the series. Brilliant! -
10 Free Apps Make Sure Droid Still Does
10 Free Apps Make Sure Droid Still Does
I’ve been rocking my Motorola Droid since the first day it was available to the public. Although it is still a little rough around the edges, the Droid is a different animal from the iPhone and offers an equal amount of impressive and useful features. This list of ten free apps includes a variety of tools that will help improve your overall Droid experience. As Android becomes more mainstream, it’s nice to see many new apps being released. A phone will only be as successful as the apps that are available. While these apps may also work on other Android handsets, these are must-haves to ensure that you’re taking full advantage of your Droid.The thing I like about this list of Android apps is that it specifically mentions camera/photo-related apps right from the start. Yes, I know that Android has lots of the usual cadre of apps to handle e-mail, social networks, and the like, but not much is said about camera/photo apps. I use a ton of photo-related apps on my iPhone most of the time, so this is of great interest to me, since I haven’t personally had a chance to check out the Android app store.
If you have any other fun camera/photo apps that you use on your Android device, please let me know.
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Lenovo Combines Laptop With Tablet, Using Two Chips – Digits – WSJ
By Don Clark
Thinking about a tablet computer instead of a laptop? Lenovo is offering to sell you both at the same time.
The China-based computer maker is using the Consumer Electronics Show this week to announce an unusual hybrid product called the IdeaPad U1 that covers the two categories. It can function as a conventional clamshell-style laptop, which runs Microsoft Windows, uses a microprocessor from Intel and weighs in at about 3.8 pounds.
- Lenovo
- Lenovo’s new IdeaPad U1 hybrid laptop
Alternatively, a user can detach the 11.6-inch, 1.6-pound screen and use it like a tablet, Lenovo says. The display includes all the features of a computer, including a Linux-based operating system and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip, which is not based on the x86 technology used in most PCs but a design licensed from ARM Holdings.
via blogs.wsj.comInteresting take on the combo laptop-tablet. The HP TC1100 was a similar device, but it was more of a slate with a detachable keyboard than this laptop with detachable slate. I’m curious to see how this works in person.
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New Year’s Day “brunch”
I know this looks incredibly messy and/or disgusting, but this Cinnabon is mega-delicious (and I’m sure, mega-fattening). Good way to start the year.
Happy new year, Friends!
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Sunshine? Who’da thunk it?
via tweetie
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White Christmas is in sight
Recently there hasn’t been a lot of snow on the ground due to a day or two of cold rain. However tonight we got some flurries and it seems that a white Christmas is in our future.
All pictures taken with my iPhone 3G and the “Night Camera +” app. Edited to clean up noise, fix white balance, and do a bit of unsharp mask. Night Camera + is pretty fun. 
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The look of success. #fb
via tweetie
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Random observation of the day
The quality of tools at your disposal can dictate how well you perform
Same could go for photography, tasks done at work, etc. I know this is
a task. Case in point: I’ve been wrapping presents and started out
with a really crappy pair of scissors because it happened to be in the
box of gift wrapping paraphernalia I had from last year. Most of the
paper cut with that crappy pair of scissors are more haphazard and a
bit sloppily cut (though the wrapped presents are overall still fairly
neat). I switched to a much nicer, smoother pair of scissors and the
paper for the remaining unwrapped presents is cut much neater, and I’m
enjoying the task more.
not a very profound observation, but I still felt like blogging it.
Feel free to use this argument if you’re trying to get some better
tools at work or for home use. “But Honey, I’ll do a much better job
at getting through the fix-it jobs you gave me if I had better
tools!”
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Tonight’s dinner
Leftover salmon sashimi from dinner last night is reborn as salmon fried rice for tonight.
(iPhone photo processed w/colorcross filter in CameraBag app; makes the salmon fried rice look a little crazy, but I love the blue in the background and the amped-up red of the chopsticks)
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Parks and Recreation is the shiznit
via gq.comI know a lot of people saw Parks and Recreation’s freshman season and wrote it off, but the hubby and I actually liked its quirkiness, at the same time acknowledging it needed to improve. Well, we were rewarded when Parks and Rec’s second season started (from the cold open of the first episode, even!), and it seems that a lot more people are starting to get on board with this hilarious show. Glad to see that NBC isn’t messing this up like they did with so many other shows.
If you’re not yet watching Parks and Rec, please catch up with it on NBC’s video-on-demand site, or Hulu. Love it! 
