Posts Tagged: Technology
Think Outside the Box
Posted by on Monday, March 17, 2008 in - leave a comment
Microsoft - as seen in Union Square, San Francisco on March 17, 2008. • Tip of the hat to Perez.
Get GPS Tracks From Your Garmin With The Timestamp Intact
Posted by on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 in - 3 comments
Little did I know that my Garmin (Vista HCx) can save GPS tracks with the timestamp intact! This is great for geotagging photos, loading timed tracks into Google Earth, etc.. Up until now the only way I knew to do this was to not save my tracks on the GPS and get the 'active log' from the GPS. A …
Pinhole - New Swat Based Gallery System
Posted by on Thursday, August 2, 2007 in - 8 comments
We're having a busy week here at silverorange. Today we pushed live a beta version of our new photo gallery software, Pinhole (latest build will be released shortly). As an early adopter/guinea pig I've switched my personal gallery over. We've gone from a completely closed source category based …
Uppermost Awards
Posted by on Monday, July 30, 2007 in - leave a comment
We launched another e-commerce site this afternoon. Uppermost Awards is a top-notch UK based awards company specializing in engraving. If you happen to need some trophies or awards please head on over.
Looking for Another Web Designer
Posted by on Monday, July 16, 2007 in - 3 comments
The word just hit the information-super-highway: silverorange is looking for a new designer (again). • This time we are looking for someone who lives in PEI (and would work in Charlottetown) or someone who would be willing to move to Charlottetown. • This position will become a full-time …
Spanking a Wii Remote
Posted by on Monday, May 14, 2007 in - 3 comments
So your Wii-mote gyroscopes stopped working? Nintendo told us to give it a good spanking. Turns out it worked. We had to spank ours quite hard. My hand actually hurts from the spanking. • Instructions: Hold the Wii-mote with buttons down on your palm. Spank with the palm of your opposite hand …
Silverorange is Hiring
Posted by on Friday, September 1, 2006 in - 3 comments
Silverorange, the company responsible for the popularization of the terms "web twenny" and "snack-O-clock", is looking for its next tribal member. We're looking for a talented designer to join our team. If you're wondering about the details of the position please check out our description.
Goodbye Spam, Hello Captcha
Posted by on Friday, July 21, 2006 in - 4 comments
Comment spam on here, and all of our other blogs, was hitting an all-time high. We had literally thousands of automated spam comments selling viagra, rolexs, sex, and a variety of other must have products. Yesterday we reached the limit of our tolerance and one of our developers implemented a …
Two Years of Linux
Posted by on Thursday, June 22, 2006 in - leave a comment
Two years ago I made the switch from Windows XP to Fedora Core 2. I haven't looked back since. • Since then I've been through three major updates of Fedora (3,4,5). It's gotten better with each round. All of the complaints I had at the start have been addressed, including removing the stupid …
Web Twenny Hate-On
Posted by on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 in - 4 comments
Those of you who know me in real life know that one mention of the term Web 2.0 will send me into a maniacal rant. Unless, of course, it's making fun of it. • Some readers are eagerly awaiting my public Web 2.0 rant. I'm going to disappoint you and simply point to another Web 2.0 criticism …
