I want a BookBook for my MacBook Pro.

Pretty damn fancy laptop case!

Available on twelvesouth.com.

Bulk download from Flickr

I love Flickr. It’s the best online tool ever - and the only online service I actually pay for. I have the last 4 years of my life in photographs up on that site (private). It is especially helpful because I’ve been switching primary computers over the last few years, but my photographs are all stored in one beautiful place (now, I have my trusty external hard drive, but it’s not nearly as pretty).

I was glad to hear that sunkencity.org provides a tool in which you can bulk back-up all of your flickr photos in it’s original size… YIPPEE! I am so happy with the product that I am sharing it here, on my bloggyblog.

http://sunkencity.org/flickredit

Yay, technology!

In other news, I may start up Project 365 again. I would also like to print out the photos and put them in a scrapbook so that I can look back in a few years and see what I did during those 365 days. NEATO! I’ve already started documenting since the new year (haha, it’s day 4) so we’ll see how that goes!

Geek, meet Fashion. Fashion, meet Geek.

I love when geek meets fashion, so I was pleasantly surprised when I opened my inbox last week and found a flyer from Armani Exchange with their newest geeky endeavor:

Eagerly, I picked up my beloved iPhone and tapped in the URL. I was happy to find a pretty quick mobile website that looked great on screen. I’m not sure yet how useful mobile shopping is when it comes to clothes (books, DVD’s and etc, I can see), but I’m hoping Armani Exchange can pave the way.

I’d like to surf the site on a more legacy device (can’t believe I’m calling the old 4.2-4.6 BlackBerry devices ‘legacy’, but I am!) and maybe something new and cool (BlackBerry Onyx & Motorola Droid).

Did I mention I’m a geek?

Anyways, screenshots of a few screens through the shopping experience.

First screen that pops up - choose a category.

A very pretty dress! I didn’t take a screenshot of the actual category view, but it was very basic - photo, price, clicky the link. The actual product view is also very minimal.

On to checkout. Aside from that missing image up at the top (what’s up with that!), it’s pretty standard 2-flow checkout process. It is secure - but I opted not to buy that dress :)  (regardless of how pretty it is)

Huzzah!

A letter from FutureMe.

Getting up this morning felt no different from any other day - although it should, considering it’s the first day of 2009 (hope you all had a safe one!). Instinctively, I grabbed my blackberry and started going through my emails that landed in my inbox overnight.

And that’s when I saw it. The letter from FutureMe. An email I sent myself a year ago, through the FutureMe.org service.

Dear FutureMe,

One year ago, you decided that you were going to really hunker down and start going to the gym regularly. Have you?

This year, you’ll be turning 25 - a fairly large milestone. I hope you accomplish as much as you can before your birthday so that you can look back and realize how much you have going for yourself.

And… stop throwing shit when you’re angry.

It was creepy and kind of cool getting a letter like that. I might draft one up for myself again for next year. For those planning resolutions this year, it might be helpful to send yourself an email once a quarter/every 6 months to check up on yourself.

Anyways, off to dinner… at chez Martin. I’ll be heading out of the country for a week, so I’ll see y’all when I see ya.

Oh, Google, themes are what you deliver?

Now, don’t get me wrong. I love me some google. Love. I even use shared calendars and shared documents at work - and goodness gracious, it has definitely improved productivity tenfold. 

However, dear Google, I question your priorities. 

I opened up my Gmail inbox this afternoon to find an interesting surprise: 

It’s pretty and all… the themes are fun and add a little punch but… 

What about the ability to integrate TODO’s and your calendar items right into your emails? Or vice-versa? What about the ability to mark items as high priority? What about notifications? Surely, “themes” weren’t at the top of the list, were they? 

Sigh.

Now I will go revert my theme back to the good old blue version.