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How will OLEDs affect my life?

Organic Light Emitting Diodes seem to be the next big thing in the fast moving flat screen display industry. My mind goes crazy just thinking about all the possibilities and how it can change my daily life in the future. This technology will take the world by storm and I’m not just talking TVs.

Imagine if your bathroom mirror was a computer screen. How about a removable stick-on screen you can put anywhere. Slap it on the kitchen fridge or your office desk. What if we had special windows with this stuff built in? On a rainy day you can switch to sunshine or nice city view if you live in a tight NYC apartment facing a brick wall.

Now this will blow your mind… how about OLED contact lens?? Add a multi-directional treadmill and your half way to having a holadeck! A freaking holadeck dawg. Imagine that!

Check out some videos on OLEDs and let your thoughts run wild:

• Foldable Display
• CNET drops some OLED knowledge
• The Jessica Alba of TVs
• More info from DigInfo

Tags: Gadgets, ideas, OLED, scifi, techie, video, youtube
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Keepin It Nerdy

Hip hop music came a long way since the 80’s. I remember how underground it was back in the day. Most rappers rhymed about their experiences in the hood or about other rappers. Now a days you’ll hear all kinds of hip hop about anything. What about geek rap? Droppin dope rhymes about my laptop or my web app. Its got crazy gradients and phat fonts. Web2.0 biotch!!

I’ll be the first kat on my block to get a phat platinum dual core xeon chain with DOS on the front. Thats right.. I’m a OG (Original Geek).

Check out this article on Wired about geek hip hop.

Tags: HipHop, nerd, rap
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Switching to OS X

I’m about ready to toss my Windows pc out the window and drop my old ass fridge on it. It randomly reboots for no apparent reason. I can’t take it anymore… I’m done. Good bye Windows! We went through alot but I got a new OS in my life.

I bought a MacBook not too long ago to replace my old ThinkPad. Thought it would be a nice intro to the Mac world. Now I find myself using it more then my WinXP desktop. I didn’t think I could switch to OS X so quick. Most of the IT guys at my job made the switch but they don’t depend on applications that are hard to find on unix based platforms. Applications like Eclipse and Java are readily available for back-end developers. The network guys are right at home with OS X. It seemed like most of the applications I needed for front-end web development would be hard to get. Problem was I never took the time to look.

Most of the applications I found are much different from what I’m use to but I’m up for the challenge. With some help from friends and random recommendations found on the web I now have all the apps I need to get me going. Here’s a list for any other web developers making the switch:

• Disk Order (File Manager/FTP Client replacing Windows Commander)
• Adium (Instant Messenger replacing Trillian)
• iTerm (Terminal replacement)
• Desktop Manager (Manage multiple desktops)
• Firefox (Browser)
• Gimpshop (Image Editor for temp use until I can get Photoshop)
• TextMate (Code Editor replacing HomeSite)
• BootCamp (For cross platform testing)
• StuffIt Expander (Expand compressed files.. replacing WinZip)
• SketchUp (3d Modeling App… not really for work)
• CVS
• iLife (Media Applications that come with MacBook)

Tags: Apple, applications, macbook, osx, Software, thinkpad, windowsxp
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Free site analytics service by Google??

This really caught me off gaurd. I usually know about upcoming google services and products before they get to beta. Well, this isn’t really a brand new service. Google bought Urchin awhile ago but seemed to keep things the same. Now they changed the name, integrated Adwords and offer it for free.

Not sure how this will make mo’money for the search giant but it will definitely help out users. It seems to have the tools and services most of the big dawg’s offer and then some. I’m gonna keep my eye on this one. It’ll be interesting to see the ripple effects in the web analytics market. Google press release…

Tags: analytics, Google, webservice
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Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks With Geeks - a documentary

Now here’s a documentary that might be worth buying (or renting). This film is about four interns working on a software project for 12 weeks. The movie isn’t out yet but you can pre-order the dvd.

I’ve seen many of the dot.com documentaries out there but none of them really showed much about the programmers involved. All seemed to focus on the business side of things. I still found them interesting and funny but I was always curious about the technology and coding side to startups. Seems like I found just that on Joel Spolsky’s blog. It just might be worth the twenty bucks…or not.

Tags: documentary, dvd, intern, movie, programmers, software development, video
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