I really enjoy my iPhone for many reasons.  Not only is it fun, it can be a sanity saver.  My job requires some pretty mindless and repetitive tasks on occasion.  My remedy has been to listen to podcasts or music while I do these things giving me something interesting to focus on (so I don’t go crazy).  Here is the short list of podcasts to which I listen...

It has truly been a while since I last posted something not related to news or NaNoWriMo (which is going quite well) so here is something a little different. I am sure many of you are very aware of the shift in how we are using our computers and our time these days.  Social media is all the rage and people are connecting to more people via the internet than ever...

“Google Wave?  Never heard of it.”  You may be saying this so let me give a brief explanation.  Google Wave is the newest web application from, you guessed it, Google.  In short, Google Wave is a new communication tool that combines the best of email, instant messaging, and other collaboration tools like wikis into one, powerful communication package.  Since...

I just wanted to give a quick plug to the (not so new, but new to me) service, Twitter.  I have had an account there for a while (brian_casey if you want to follow me) but I haven’t really used it much until recently. Before I was just using it to broadcast that I had a new blog post, but if you know anything about Twitter, it doesn’t really work well...

I discovered something incredible yesterday and it’s name is Wolfram Alpha.  Some of you may already know about this website (it officially opened in April of this year) so I might be late to the party.  Nonetheless, it is quite the party. I am sure everyone reading this is familiar with Google.  You want to find something on the web, you go to Google.  But...

What is this?  A new post?!?  Well, it has been a while since I have been around here.  It seems that the only consistent posts around here have been the ones that are automatic.  Hopefully you have gotten some enjoyment from some of the items that I think are interesting enough to share. I have recently discovered Pandora.  I know.  Most of you know know about...