Sunday, June 14, 2009

Blog Services / Apps, Trail Tracking and App for That

I'll start off right quick with the short and sweet...
Found an app for iPhone called Everytrail for tracking bike ride time and such, as well as being able to shoot pics on the trip and post them to your own account on their site (which is everytrail.com), and it is set up as a slide show to show the pix from the trips. I will be trying this out soon. See site for more details.
There's also an app for Facebook for Everytrail, or you can 'share' right off Every's web site.
Doing some research about another iPhone app, I came across apptism.com (should be fairly obvious what that is about :-P)
Oh and I have an iPhone app installed that gives me a mouse and keyboard to control my computer! ;-)

And finally, blogging. As I had said, I have a set up to be able to do so via mobile and post to directly Blogger and Facecrook simultaneously... but I'm still on the hunt for an iPhone app possibly, that does this- One I've found is Blogpress... it looks good and has good reviews... but it's a pay app. Now, I have no issue with paying for apps, but sometimes it's a waste of money. Usually there's a 'lite' version that's free to get the gist of it, but for this one there is not. It's three bucks and I will probably just get it... it's only three clams. But I'm also a person who's big on principal! I've tried some of the free ones, and after time they aren't anything great. Or there's some hook, like the app is free, but you have to buy an account on their website to use it. Not interested. At that point I'll just stick with the Blogger set up.
And wit that, the next subject... blog services. I use blogger. I have Gmail. It's a nice knit. Live Journal. Pttht. I have Wordpress (iPhone app as well)... I don't know if, for my habits of use of this, using Blogger is just as fine. And then of course there's just many other services and apps, and ... tired. Any insight on this would be appreciated.

MY brain stopped (Prob due to two nights at the Ville haha). So we're done here. :-P

Friday, June 12, 2009

Quote II : 06.12.09

This is another good one...

'If you never have expectations... you'll never be disappointed'

Quote : 06.12.09

'When met with hostilities; let the violence of others prove your point.'
-Paul Hamad


I particularly like this quote because frankly, it's true, and in my opnion applies so well in todays society. It's takes a second, but think about it...

This was written by my friend Paul Hamad recently, whom is also a philosophy professor. I randomly assumed that he had found this quote somewhere, it being one dated from long ago from another philosophy figure or any one for that matter.
Good stuff.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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Trial Run : Blogging and 'The Soup Pot' (No soup for you!)

So this is the first run of me writing a 'note' (or as I use it, blog)
to Facebook via my mobile device (iPhone). There isn't a way to do it
directly with the iPhone Facebook app, but I've set it up with
Facebook and my Blogger account (which I'd want updated at the same
time anyway), so I post to Blogger from my mobile (no, not via http in
a browser) and it then automatically posts the same post as 'note' to
Facebook. I used the 'My Blog' app on FB a while ago, but it simply
just did not work. I dubbed 'notes' on FB as my blog... and with a bit
of effort, have this set up now to be able to blog on the go with my
mobile device.
Now that that's out of the way, the next trial run today is / was 'The
Soup Pot'. This is a new restaurant (carry out style) place in Solon
that mainly sells soups. I had seen it previously in my many ventures
through Solon, but never stopped... which is odd because I am a soup
lover, and more so, have many a time struggled with 'where to get some
soup!'.
This would be the case whether it was lunch or dinner time (even
breakfast... ok j/k). There aren't really many fast or convenient
places to get (more so good) soup. I think this was a great idea on
their part.
So today I ventured. I didn't study for too long, but they seem to
have an array of soups... they also serve breakfast, and do have a few
other select items like specialty salads and other food. But mainly
soup. Which is the whole idea of the place. I got traditional chicken
soup... it's what I was in the mood for, plain and simple. I'll
naturally go another time to try something a bit different. Today was
just about checking it out quick.
The soup I had was very good. I think a soup store is a brilliant
idea. I love specialty.
When I walked in, the first and only thing I could think of was the
show Seinfeld and 'The Soup Nazi'...
NO SOUP FOR YOU! :-P