When in doubt, smile.

I know there are so many people out there sharing their favorite iPhone applications, I figured I’d let you know mine. I still have last year’s version, not the new 3G, but it has the same software as the 3G. 

Solitaire City - This is my #1 time killer .. at the dog park, at dr. appts, waiting for my car to get serviced .. it comes in really handy. Plus its kinda awesome to see how you’re ranked in the world (resets daily). 

midomi - I am totally addicted needing to know the titles of songs on TV or commercials that catch my attention. Midomi can actually find songs by you singing/humming them, by putting your phone upto a speaker or a few other ways. I have one song that I fell in love with at the Post Secret exhibit, and recently I heard it featured in a Olympic / Special Olympic commercial from Coke. I tried out midomi and it found the song right away - Breathe Me by Sia

Flashlight - I always use my phone for a flashlight around the house, this will keep the screen a solid white until you decide to turn it off

Twitterific - I love twitter, and this makes it easy to add an iPhone photo to a twitter update, as well as your location and other neat little features. 

Weatherbug - If only they could animate their radar .. I would be in heaven! 

Anyways .. if you’re thinking about an iPhone .. do it! You wont be disappointed

Anybody out there using an online todo list? Last fall I signed up to Remember the Milk after reading some favorable articles on Lifehacker (one of my favorite sites). Anyways I signed up, then ever logged in again Today I decided to give it a shot, and see if it can help me get things going around here. I’ll let you know if it does anything for me.

Here’s a long article about using Remember the Milk for advanced purposes: [click here]

Since May starts this week, and Mondays are the most popular day for visitors here, I decided to update my theme today

I also disabled the ‘you must register to comment’ so all you lurkers, feel free to leave me a comment, let me know you stop by, or if you love or hate my new theme! Just click the ‘Add a Comment’ link below the post.

Happy Monday everybody!!!

If your mighty mouse stops scrolling .. and ‘pushing down really hard’ while scrolling doesn’t fix it. Try a can of compressed air. Spray it all around the ball, it worked for me! I was worried I’d have to buy another $50 mouse! 

After my upgrade yesterday .. all cookies were erased .. meaning if you want to leave me comments you’ll have to remember your passwords. Luckily for you this site will email your password if you’ve forgotten it. Just click the ‘Comments’ word at the bottom of this post or .. go here

It really bothers me when I upload an image to share and it just doesnt have the same impact, color & blacks, then what I see in my editing program. I believe its because of the compression from uploading, but I have no idea how to control that myself. Here are two images and I’d love for your opinion .. which one looks better (richer color)?

Wow .. I think I answered my own question just by putting the 2 images side by side. The 2 pictures above are the exact same image from my computer .. the one on the left uploaded into this site by wordpress, the one on the right uploaded into flickr. 

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Wordpress 2.5 was released today .. you probably wont notice anything on the front end of my blog, but I assure you that the entire backend has been updated and its so clean and pretty The biggest new feature is their built in gallery support, which I’m about to try out in my previous entry. If you use wordpress .. backup your stuff and upgrade, I think its worth it!

It wasn’t flickr or youtube, but a plugin I installed a few months ago to look at the statistics of this site, just for shits and giggles .. but apparently it was screwing things up Goodbye wassup!

Also .. I canceled sewing wednesday apparently, as I’m sitting on my couch not in the craft room

and its driving me nuts. I’m trying to narrow it down, thinking it was the theme, but changing the theme hasn’t seemed to make a difference .. now I’m thinking its either the images I have linked from flickr, or the embedded youtube video, neither of which should matter, but it seems that it does. The back end of the site loads super fast .. so it has to be something on the front

In other news, if everything goes as it should, I could be substituting as early as next week! I know I said it would take 3 weeks after my last post, but when I went to turn my application in, the woman told me I could schedule my interview without waiting the 2 weeks! Most likely its because I have previous experience. Anyways, yesterday I had my interview and drug screening, which both went well. So 1 week from yesterday I can find out if I’m clear and ready to teach.

In the photography business, I’ve started to publish my recent ’shoots’ on a blog that’s linked to my photo site (email me for URLs, I dont want photo clients finding this blog). It was kinda neat to revisit my sessions of the past year, and see my favorites. Putting that together also helped me book my first wedding .. score!

Tonight I’m reviving sewing Wednesday, even if it is just me sewing alone I have some new fabric and want to put together a few aprons to sell online, and I have 24 zippers on their way for my ‘purse pockets’ .. so I can start figuring out a pattern for that and cutting up the cute fabric I got for them Link to that site is coming soon!