Technology and Tools

On the Charlie Rose Show, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman said that in the future, there will really be only three major social networks: Twitter would be more of a social media than a social network, MySpace would be for artistic social networking,...

Click here for more photos I've had a lab of some sort or another all my life. Whether it was the floor of my mom's office or the old kitchen table, I found a place to put my projects together. Eventually I set up shop in a small closet it my...

'ValpoLife.com' Encoded in QR Code Most everyone is familiar with the 1-dimensional barcode. It's that little strip of black bars that we find on ID cards and UPC labels at the store. This label is designed to be easily read by a computer for fast...

Audio after the readmore A while ago, Dave's Dad asked me to take a look at a record for him. The record was actually a recording his mother had made at Coney Island in the summer of 1942. I was intruiged at the idea of being able to digitize the...

Give me a call! A while ago, Google bought Grand Central, a web-app designed to help you manage your phones. The original idea was that you could have one Grand Central number that could forward to other phones. If you get a new cell or home phone...

Saturday is a pretty big day for us here at ValpoLife.com. We'll be at Thomas Jefferson Middle School giving out prizes, filming, and showing a video right before the fireworks. For my part, I'm readying my Balloon Camera Rig to launch at 6:15. In...

Click here for more photos There was something about seeing the balloons rise up that made me giddy. While I knew that the whole endeavour was perfectly logical, watching the balloons pull my camera up into the sky, I couldn't help but feel the whole...

ValpoLife.com now has a geocache! A geocache is sort of high tech scavenger hunt. The idea is that someone takes some kind of container (the cache) and fills it with a random assortment of items and a log-book. That someone then hides the cache in a...

ValpoLife.com joins Twitter and would love to tweet with you! For anyone who hasn't yet heard of it, Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are...

Facebook has announced that starting Saturday, June 13, the social networking platform will begin allowing user names for profiles tomake finding friends, family, and contacts on the network easier. Currently, your profile’s URL goes something like...