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Favorite Handmade Tech Items
Etsy is the great place to shop for handmade items that are the perfect mix of craft and tech. The combo of the two is a special interest of mine. Here are five favorite categories. 1. Flash drives (also known as USB drives). They range from old Pez dispensers to old keyboard keys to handmade cases carved out of purpleheart wood from Central America. The kitschy to the beautiful.

Does Apple Do Worse in a Bad Economy?
I read the following quote today, said by Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer (courtesy of All Things D): “Frankly, the economy is good for us, because people do understand that Macintoshes are quite a bit more expensive for essentially the same computer.” So he’s expecting to have strong sales, thanks to the bad economy. I disagree. First, let’s just point out that Apple has not used the word “Macintosh” for ages. Get with it, Steve! It’s “Mac” now. So right there I feel like Microsoft isn’t really in touch with

Slittens: Special Mittens for Using with the iPhone
In the chill of winter, it’s annoying to have to take off your mittens to make a call on your iPhone or adjust your music or surf the web–since the iPhone touch screen only works when your actual finger touches it. To solve the problem of cold hands, I’ve invented Slittens, a pair of mittens with a slit at the right index finger to allow you to poke one finger out and tap at your iPhone screen. (This works for the iPod Touch too, of course!)

Managing Your Facebook and Twitter All at Once with Seesmic
I wanted a way to be able to update my Facebook profile, my Facebook IvanExpert fan page, and my Twitter feed all at once–and to be able to choose, on a post-by-post basis, where I wanted the posts to display. Twitter doesn’t have any built-in functionality to allow Facebook updates from its website, so that’s no good. Facebook does have a few apps that allow sync with Twitter, but none of them work perfectly. The official Twitter app for Facebook is permanently broken, plus it’s hard to set certain posts to go only to the fan page versus the profile page. Other Facebook apps will pull a Twitter post if the post begins with #fb but that doesn’t

iPhoto Calendar
My 2010 calendar, made in iPhoto with photos from my trips over the years, showed up about a week ago. It looks great. Most of the photos came out very sharp and colorful. My only comments are: 1. I’m glad I manually lightened and color-adjusted all the images. They would have been too dark otherwise. 2. I removed the text from the calendar cover but there’s a think vertical gray line that isn’t attractive. Luckily I won’t be seeing the cover too often. 3. The one photo that iPhoto warned me was too low-res came out okay. It does look slightly pixellated but it’s not terrible. These calendars do print BIG so you really do n