Just an FYI – every Sunday I will be reviewing an iPhone app.  I download a lot of applications onto my phone, some move straight to the front page, others linger in the last pages and never get opened.  Each week I will review the apps that I love/hate. This weeks iPhone App is Prowl.  Prowl is a great iPhone app that utilizes the new push notification feature introduced in the iPhone 3.0 software.  Put simply, Prowl is Growl for your iPhone.  For those you who don’t know what Growl is – it’s a program that noti...

Quite a while ago I stumbled upon a service called GrandCentral that promised to give you one universal phone number and the ability to control how, when and where you receive calls to that number.  I liked the idea but did not find a real need for it.  If I remember correctly, I signed up for it, realized it wasn’t going to be useful for me and canceled my account.  With the (not so) recent Google acquisition of Grand Central I am now kicking myself for canceling that account.  Two years ago Google acquired Grand Central, revamped a...

My Yoono notification popped up while I was working on this blog  the other night with a notification from Google stating that Google Chrome OS is on it’s way. Since the announcement the web has been abuzz with talk about whether it will give Windows a run for it’s money.  Google’s reasoning behind creating this new OS is that with the evolution of the internet people are spending more time on the internet doing things they used to only be able to do on their desktop.  They are looking to integrate some of their already...

Found this (so far) decent looking plugin for Firefox called Yoono.  It’s basically a sidebar that displays updates from a plethora of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter, FriendFeed and more.  Found it when I was reading an article from the geniuses at makeuseof.com about managing social networks. So far it’s worked out nicely for me.  I am on a bunch of different social networking sites and have always been on a quest to find that all inclusive holy grail of desktop social network agregators. ...

I recently reinstalled TweetDeck on my desktop and realized in order to get the most out of the program I really needed to be following more than just the 7 or so people I was already following.  So off I went to search for the top Twitter accounts to subscribe to.  One such account that was on almost all of the lists I perused wasMashable.  Great, I thought, another techie website that I can get updates from.  Little did I know how much I would fall in love with and utilize the website.  So many great tweets were coming from the site mu...

I spent most of today putting my office together and setting up my new studio for my YouTube videos but as always, I needed something on the TV in the background to listen to while I was working. What better time to catch up on the 9 episodes of Diggnation I have missed over the past few months. For those of you who don’t know, Diggnation is a weekly podcast hosted by Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose (founder of Digg.com). They review some of the top stories from Digg.com. Man, I forgot how awesome that show is! Not only have I been missin...

Of course 2 years after I start this blog I’m starting it up again. We have since been through 2 more versions of the iPhone, the most recent incarnation being the iPhone 3GS. Unfortunately I’m one of the many AT&T customers who basically got screwed, my upgrade date isn’t until December, which isn’t as long as some others may have to wait but it’s longer than I would like to. I sure as hell am not going to be bending over and taking it and purchasing the new phone without the upgrade discount. (I encourag...