An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple. (Jay Abraham, mktg expert)

“Spacious Thoughts” – Tom Waits & Kool Keith

Posted: December 20th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Music | No Comments »

Boing Boing presents a music video from the N.A.S.A project: “Spacious Thoughts,” featuring Tom Waits & Kool Keith, directed by Fluorescent Hill. More on “the making of”, and interview with artists: http://tinyurl.com/yh39eww

N.A.S.A. Project
online: myspace.com/nasa

Tom Waits:
online: tomwaits.com

Kool Keith:
online: koolkeith.co.uk

Record Label
Anti- records and Spectrophonic Sound


Your thoughts on waving so far

Posted: November 28th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Google wave | No Comments »

We’re thankful that so many people have been willing to try out Google Wave in a host of different areas: personal, business, government, education and even not-for-profit. We’ve been glad to see positive responses, especially since we’re still in a limited preview and not quite ready to give accounts to everyone who has requested one.

via Google Wave Blog.


A Tokyo photographer offers tips on taking pro shots with an iPhone 3GS

Posted: November 27th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Art, Mobile view | No Comments »

Koichi Mitsui is a professional photographer in Japan. When he’s not on the job shooting for magazines and ads, he wanders around Tokyo taking pictures with his iPhone 3GS.

via Boing Boing


Beautiful-HTML.png (2000×2000)

Posted: November 21st, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Code | No Comments »

Beautiful-HTML.png (2000×2000).


Tarantino spiega a Billboard la scelta delle canzoni per “Inglourious Basterds”

Posted: August 31st, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Movies, Music | No Comments »

inglourious-basterds

Part of my process when I’m making a movie is to just dive into my record collection. What I’m looking for is the rhythm of the movie or the beat of the movie. In the case of, say, “Jackie Brown,” that’s ’70s soul. I’m finding pieces, and that keeps inspiring me to make the movie, actually.

L’intervista completa su Billboard.com


Arte dal basso

Posted: August 28th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Web design trends | No Comments »

“Every footer is unique in its own way and offers some sort of inspiration or lesson”: 25 Creative Website Footers


Same site, mobile view

Posted: August 28th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Mobile view | No Comments »

With MOBIFY, no content is ever copied or duplicated from the source website. Every time a mobile user navigates to a Mobify-powered URL, MOBIFY pulls up to the source site and applies mobile content/styling preferences specified by you, the web designer. The resulting “mobile view” is then automatically adapted to fit the customer’s mobile device. That’s it!

Read more on Mobify.me


Per un periodo limitato, download gratuito di una session di Eels

Posted: August 25th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Music | No Comments »

Mark Oliver Everett  (Eels) in una magnifica session acustica su MySpace Trasmission. Per un periodo limitato sarà possibile effettuare il download dell’intera session: 35MB di buona musica.

EELS “In My Dreams” from The MySpace Transmissions


Tieni acceso quel telefonino

Posted: August 20th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Mobile mktg | No Comments »

QR codes are a simply an image with encoded information. QR codes are similar to bar codes in the sense that they contain information that a specialized reader can extract. The big difference is that the QR reader is your mobile phone.

Here’s how it works. You take a picture of a QR code with your mobile phone and then you use a QR reader mobile app to retrieve the embedded information. This information can come in the form of URLs, plaintext, or phone numbers.

read more: The Next Big Thing in Mobile Marketing –  knowthenetwork


A Bethel, in questi giorni, 40 anni fa

Posted: August 14th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Music | No Comments »

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Un hacker rende pubblici documenti riservati di Twitter

Posted: July 17th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Google, Social media | No Comments »

dal blog di Twitter:

(…) an administrative employee here at Twitter was targeted and her personal email account was hacked. From the personal account, we believe the hacker was able to gain information which allowed access to this employee’s Google Apps account which contained Docs, Calendars, and other Google Apps Twitter relies on for sharing notes, spreadsheets, ideas, financial details and more within the company.

Articoli sulla faccenda:


25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs

Posted: July 15th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Free fonts | No Comments »

freefont

Sometimes, the best things in life are free – fonts are a great example of this concept. There are many typography designers and type foundries that choose to share their beautiful creations to the public.

View (and download) the list on Six Revisions website


Beck Covers Velvet Underground & Nico

Posted: July 12th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Music | No Comments »

Here is the third song: Femme Fatale, from Velvet Underground and Nico, the first album Beck’s record club.

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico “Femme Fatale” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.


Google Chrome presto sarà anche un sistema operativo

Posted: July 8th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Google | No Comments »

Google announces

(…) a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.  (…)

[Official Google Blog]


Black Cab Sessions: Damien Jurado

Posted: July 5th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Music | No Comments »

This is the Chapter fifty-four of the Black Cab Sessions.

“The sessions are all about great music and the venue strips this to its essence. we aren’t picky about genre and will happily open the cab door to anyone who blows us away.”

damien

much more on blackcabsessions.com


Facebook wants you to do it live

Posted: June 24th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Social media | No Comments »

When Facebook launched its latest redesign, it became evident that the company was putting a lot of emphasis on real-time information–inspired, undoubtedly, by the runaway success of Twitter. Now the company’s rolled out two small but crucial new features that put instant updates even more front and center. [more on Webware - CNET]


Google AdSense for Mobile Applications Goes Into Public Beta

Posted: June 24th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Google AdSense | No Comments »

Google had been testing AdSense on mobile apps for the iPhone and Android in a kind of private beta with roughly 10 partners, including Pandora, Shazam and Urbanspoon. [Search Engine Land]


“The Ledge (Fleetwood Mac Cover)”

Posted: June 24th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Music | No Comments »

by Lake Fever Sessions

“The Ledge (Fleetwood Mac Cover)” from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.


Matt Cutts presents Wordpress 2.8 Release

Posted: June 10th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Wordpress | No Comments »

“I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.”

[Read Matt's post and see the video]


Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook product demo

Posted: June 10th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Google | No Comments »

“Windows only: Google Apps Sync is a new free utility from Google that syncs your Google Apps (Premier or Education edition) email, contacts, and calendar directly with Microsoft Outlook.”

(Read full review on Lifehacker)


Gmail power tools (Gina Trapani)

Posted: June 8th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Emailing, Google | No Comments »

Attachments, Tasks, multiple inboxes, calendar, notifier, voice and video chat, here’s How to maximize your productivity with Google’s Web mail (by Gina Trapani)


Elliott Smith tribute

Posted: June 1st, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Music, Special WPost | 2 Comments »

elliottThis special post is my personal tribute to Elliott Smith, a talented songwriter and musician. Biography, reviews, images, book, music and video resources. Enjoy

– tipsorg

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See Google Wave in Action

Posted: May 29th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Google | No Comments »

Una lunga dimostrazione (è un video di più di un’ora, meglio se visto in full screen) sulle funzioni del nuovo Google Wave.


20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know

Posted: May 28th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Social media | No Comments »

Some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends.


Microsoft’s New Search at Bing.com Helps People Make Better Decisions

Posted: May 28th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Search engines | No Comments »

bingMicrosoft Corp. today unveiled Bing, a new Decision Engine and consumer brand, providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions. Annunced a June 3 launch date. PC World magazine tested a preview release (with screen shots).


Google Wave: “what email would look like if it were invented today”

Posted: May 28th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Google | No Comments »

Google announced today a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web. Google Wave also going to be totally open source. (via Lifehacker)


The biggest white page of the world by Ivan – Firenze

Posted: May 27th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Art | No Comments »

The biggest white page of the world.
Ivan offered a free big space for free expression and public art in [according to him] a so difficult moment for freedom in Italy. [ekosystem.org]


Quality web icons to designers/developers

Posted: May 27th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Free icons | No Comments »

Fugue Icons (by pinvoke – Icons and pixel fonts). The icons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.


40 (NEW) High-quality and Free Icon Sets

Posted: May 18th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Free icons | No Comments »

“40 most beautiful icon sets that were freshly created” [Noupe.com]


Email client popularity

Posted: April 18th, 2009 | Author: tipsorg | Filed under: Emailing, Internet trends | 1 Comment »

6 months of data covering more than 250 million opens. The result – a birds eye view of email client popularity and usage trends over time. (Campaign Monitor)