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Lego Calendar Syncs Automatically With Smartphone

As a child, I was an extreme Legomaniac, extreme I tell you. i'd spend hours and days building intensely detailed and large vehicles, structures, creatures, etc. When I got more into my teens, I still had my Legos and ended up making more functional things: phone holders, bowls, a guitar stand, etc....

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DIY Animated Videos

I came across goanimate.com, a cool site that lets you make your own professional animated videos. There are a ton of backgrounds, characters, themes, etc., and you have much freedom to change how it all looks. It's all drag-and-drop for storyboarding, and then you record your own audio. And the ch...

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GoDaddy Purchases Media Temple

DISCLAIMER: I will generally not comment on the happenings and decisions of my employer, here. More so, the thoughts and opinions on this blog are my own and do not represent or, necessarily coincide with, those of the company. However, I wanted to speak out on this one. Yesterday, GoDaddy purchas...

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I Added a Favicon

I added a favicon to this site. See it in the tab? I created the graphic, and then found an online Favicon Generator. Honestly, I don't even recall which one I used. I think they're basically the same for the most part, since they just take your image and convert it to a 16X16 pixel graphic. They...

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OVC as a Medium

“Old media are not being displaced. Rather, their functions and status are shifted by the introduction of new technologies” (14). Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2008. OVC as a Medium As I’ve discussed in the passed, while my research on ...

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