Ron Guest

Mexican style ceviche

King crab, blue crab, crawfish, potato

All swum out

Most App updates improve the software. This one improves the use. Wonder what super power I’ve gained?

Break Fast

Sky

Kid in the dressing room waiting for mom

My work desk at Starbucks :)

Maredsous with lunch FTW

Saturday Cartoons

Entranced

Make: Crash

Saturday morning cartoons

Travel involves a lot of this…

Enjoying a pot this great coffee on my BD. Fun day ahead.

The eye

Boy and a beer

Wheels in the sky

Little man

End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google.

Hiding from the world

If you’ve heard about Arduino and want to know more about the system and get an idea of some of the projects you can implement this Lifehacker article would be a great place to start. Just keep in mind the projects listed are a tiny slice of what’s possible. Really the only limit is your imagination.

How to Start Making Your Own Electronics with Arduino and Other People’s Code.

Time for my second iPad app recommendation. Flipboard seems to get all the love yet, while I do use it, I find myself looking at Zite much more often. While Flipboard is source oriented, Zite manages personalization using topics. This generally works well and provides a more diverse mix of stories than Flipboard. Zite takes personalization another step further by allowing you to give a thumbs up or down to a story to help guide which ones it presents to you in the future. You can also indicate a preference for certain sources as you page through stories.

Navigation is easy and the usual methods of sharing stories present. I like it’s Twitter integration better than some apps because it uses what you’ve configured in Twitter on the iPad. I have a couple of Twitter accounts and Zite lets me pick which one to post to on each share.

Now that I’ve been living with my iPad 2 for a few weeks I’ve settled on some favorite apps. The first I’ll mention is the Echofon twitter client. I’m using the lite version on all my devices (Mac, iPhone and iPad - they also have a Windows version). The Lite version has ads but they’re not intrusive (to me…). One of the best features is Echofon syncs read status across all the platforms. So if I read a tweet on my iPad and then open up Echofon on my Mac I won’t see some huge number of unread tweets. And it will scroll to the point in the timeline with the unseen tweets. I use a couple of Twitter accounts and Echofon handles that just fine on all the platforms.

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