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Tech-Support / Designer

wbullockiii — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:29:11 +0000

Haha… this is good stuff.

iPhone UI Template

wbullockiii — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:42:50 +0000

I’ve put together a sample template I printed and laminated for which I use when sketching out UI elements for iPhone application ideas. Below is the template preview and a download link to a .png full sized image, feel free to print and use.

Download the iPhone UI template

Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose

wbullockiii — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:42:32 +0000

In this talk from FOWA London (http://bit.ly/fowa-london-09) Kevin shares the secrets to digg.com and wefollow.com explosive user growth. He covers nine unique strategies that turn passive users into passionate advocates.

You’ll learn:

1. How to encourage users to tweet about your app

2. The concept of “The Circle of Life” in web apps and how it affects you

3. Growing your userbase: What worked and what didn’t for digg, WeFollow and Pownce

4. And more …

The Google Opt-Out Village

wbullockiii — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:09:21 +0000

Ha! I love this… the Onion is so good at this…

Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village

Living with First-Person Shooter Disease

wbullockiii — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:35:44 +0000

LMAO….. this is awesome

Web Site Story

wbullockiii — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:50:02 +0000

This is my kind of musical… I hope Broadway is watching

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Real Life Twitter

wbullockiii — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:51:49 +0000

Dan takes his tweets to the streets.

Watch Real Life Twitter on CollegeHumor

Mozilla Jetpack

wbullockiii — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:28:27 +0000

Mozilla is prepping a project to transform the extension ecosystem for their Firefox web browser. The potential for new extensions will skyrocket as anyone will be an extension author in the near future because Jetpack will base extensions on common web technogies meaning if you can build a web page you can build a Jetpack extension. Jetpack is very impressive, and two things are very exciting about it including not having to restart Firefox after a Jetpack extension install and the ease of use of the Jetpack framework to create new extensions.

Watch the video below for more information about Jetpack.

Mozilla Labs Jetpack – Intro & Tutorial from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

The Internet in 1969

wbullockiii — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:20:08 +0000

Getting My In-Laws Online, At Last

wbullockiii — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:57:35 +0000

If you watch this video in which CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman talks his in-laws through the most basic aspects of the net, you’ll either feel his pain or snicker in delight.

An excerpt from the site:

CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman’s in-laws live at the top of a mountain, are off the grid, and have missed the last 30-plus years of innovations in media. On Monday, they got satellite Internet installed. This is the view of their new dish from the deck of their mountain-side house.