Posted on July 15, 2010 by Toby Getsch
It looks like I get to do some blogging as part of my job at J Street Tech. I’m looking forward to this and to getting involved in more conversations this way. I will likely cross-post most of the things I put up on the J Street Tech blog so they can be listed here [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2010 by Toby Getsch
[Click on the image to view the full panoramic image.] While I only claim to be an amateur photographer, I also like to learn a little bit more about taking certain types of pictures, but only a little bit of that learning at a time. So, short articles like, “Shooting Panoramas by Jay Dickman” are [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2010 by Toby Getsch
This is a CASE study. Regardless of what you think about Facebook, it’s HUGE. If you hate it, you probably should learn to love it. That’s just reality. Even if your perception is what you really want, you should go with reality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8NdNy4wOM Facebook Digg Print Email
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Posted on June 12, 2010 by Toby Getsch
FightArthritisPain.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTptrY8zBfI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpfBBrxKAhI Facebook Digg Print Email
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Posted on June 12, 2010 by Toby Getsch
I really like the new Reader feature in Safari 5. Here are screen shot examples of how it takes a page with plenty of information and lets you focus on the primary information, all with one click. Here is a screen shot of the normal view. Click on the grey Reader button in the address [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2010 by Toby Getsch
Content is created all over the place. Discussion about content happens on Facebook. Twitter and retweets are nice, but discussion in a closed system among people who care about similar things and can hide certain “friends” makes for a better medium than other places. It’s actually open communication and open discussion, inside of a closed [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2010 by Toby Getsch
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Posted on February 12, 2010 by Toby Getsch
With the official start of the winter games happening today, I’m having a good time this morning checking out various sites related to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. It’s particularly fun being close, now that I am back living in Seattle, WA, just a couple/few hours south of Vancouver, BC. I may try to go up [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2010 by Toby Getsch
This past month I moved across the country, back to the Seattle, Washington area. I love it here! And, I’m glad to be back. This trip back was done with everything I own able to fit into my truck with the top carrier. It was not really that tight of a fit. That’s mostly because I [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2009 by Toby Getsch
There are many reasons. One of the Twitter co-founders writes about one good one. They listened. Facebook Digg Print Email
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Posted on December 29, 2009 by Toby Getsch
Twitter recently banned the use of some passwords that are way to easy and obvious for “the bad guys” to exploit. The commentary on weak passwords is so strong and obvious, yet so many people ignore the warnings and just don’t care. When users maintain weak passwords, and their computers or phones or bank accounts [...]
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