Shiny New CoLab Website Coming Soon
Posted by derekbender | Filed under General
Here is a quick preview of the brand spanking new CoLab website that I’m working on. Its due to launch Oct. 1st just in time for the opening (fingers crossed). Learn more at colaborlando.com.
Tags: colab, commnunity, Orlando, website
Time for Some Campaignin’
Posted by derekbender | Filed under General
With the presidential election less than 2 months away you can barely get away with avoiding the media throwing in it your face every other minute, and believe me, I’ve tried. Don’t get me wrong, I like to talk about politics and the state of things over a couple beers with friends, or even watching a few minutes of the DNC (and pointing out their Socialist points and hypocrisy; I missed the RNC but I think I’d do the same). To tell you the truth I already made up my mind about who I’m voting for (see if you can guess who!). Even with all this I still felt like writing my thoughts about the election and the candidates, so, here they are.
Aside from the usual non-issues every election seems to bring up (guns, abortion, and religion) there are a few real issues out there, namely the war, the economy and the looming “energy crisis.” But instead of talking about the important stuff I’d like to focus on some things that are fresh in my mind.
Tags: election, energy crisis, net nuetrality, politics, Technology
I Have an iPhone
Posted by derekbender | Filed under General
So I finally got an iPhone. I planed to buy one anyway this month but the process was sped up when I inherited an iPhone (1st generation) from a friend after a funny sequence of events. I spent the last couple days really getting into and exploring what it can do, hunting down apps that I wanted, upgrading and all the things people do when they have an iPhone.
What helped my progress was I already had an AT&T service. I swapped the SIM card and hooked it up to iTunes, within an hour (i also did a complete reset) I was up and running. To date I have a few games (Super Monkey Ball is super monkey difficult) and a handful of really helpful apps like Todo, Evernote and Twitterific. Also my email accounts are synced too which is extremely convenient.
To be honest I don’t miss the 3G’s speed (probably since I’ve never had it) but it would be nice to have the GPS. The selling point for me on getting an iPhone would needing to be connected when not on a computer. For now it lets me do that, very easily. And I get to play games, which helps.
