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Top 10 Ipad Apps

Dec 27, 2011   //   by Sterling   //   Misc. Stuff, My Blog  //  No Comments

These are the top 10 must have Ipad apps as rated by CNN.

Flipboard A very popular newsreader that collects all the articles or web sites that you’ve identified as being interested in, and plunks them into a slick-looking series of panels. It also integrates with your social media accounts, so your Facebook feed, for instance, displays as a virtual magazine of shared images, articles or updates.

Star Walk The first thing to know about this app is it turns the night sky into a real-time interactive plaything complete with descriptions of stars and constellations. The second thing to know is people who could care less about astronomy will still love it. Just aim your iPad at the sky and your screen goes full-blown atlas using GPS to give you live info on everything above your head, even which satellites you can see.

Hootsuite A one-stop social media stop. Hootsuite’s iPad app works in much the same way as its native Web site — using designated columns (or “streams”) to display not only your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Foursquare feeds, but also to monitor any #hashtags, Twitter lists or keywords you designate. You can also schedule posts (very handy) or track analytics.

Netflix/Hulu Plus Because why have an iPad if you can’t convert it to a mobile movie or TV viewer? The app is free, and if you already pay to subscribe to either Netflix or Hulu Plus, you can start watching Office Space or New Girl immediately from the comfort of the long line waiting for your morning coffee.

Crackle Like Netflix or Hulu Plus, but only with slightly less popular movie or TV titles and FREE. A fantastic alternative.

Real Racing 2 HD Every new iPad owner needs at least one supercharged video game. Consider this sequel to Real Racing a good place to start. Your iPad is your steering wheel. Tilt it left, you go left. Right, you go right. It also includes excellent graphics and a new multiplayer mode.

Frog Dissection Exactly what it says. Why get all slimy and sticky with the real thing, when you can do it with digital scissors and crystal clear graphics? Also, you may be saving a real frog’s life. So that’s a nice bonus.

Epicurious Possibly the iPad’s most popular food and cooking app, free content includes recipes from Bon Appetit, now-defunct Gourmet magazines. It offers a universe of excellent recipes and the ability to search them by a variety of filters. You can save off your favorites to your own virtual recipe box and tap next to ingredients you need to buy to create a shopping list. Splatter guard not included though totally recommended.

Words With Friends Somewhere in the skies above America, Alec Baldwin is lonely. Help the man out and challenge him to a game.

Bertha and Betty

Oct 29, 2011   //   by Sterling   //   Misc. Stuff  //  No Comments

Two 90-year-old women, Bertha and Betty, had been friends all of their lives.

When it was clear that Bertha was dying, Betty visited her every day.

One day Betty said, “Bertha, we both loved playing softball all our lives, and we played all through high school. Please do me one favor: when you get to heaven, somehow you must let me know if there’s women’s softball there.”

Bertha looked up at Betty from her deathbed and said, “Betty, you’ve been my best friend for many years. If it’s at all possible, I’ll do this favor for you.”

Shortly after that, Bertha died.

A few nights later, Betty was awakened from a sound sleep by a blinding flash of white light and a voice calling out to her, “Betty, Betty.”

“Who is it,” asked Betty, sitting up suddenly. “Who is it?”

“Betty — it’s me, Bertha.”

“You’re not Bertha. Bertha just died.”

“I’m telling you, it’s me, Bertha,” insisted the voice.

“Bertha! Where are you?”

“In heaven,” replied Bertha. “I have some really good news and a little bad news.”

“Tell me the good news first,” said Betty.

“The good news,” Bertha said with joy and enthusiasm, “is that there’s women’s softball in heaven. Better yet, all of our old buddies who died before me are here, too. Even better than that, we’re all young again. Better still, it’s always Springtime and it never rains or snows. And best of all, we can play softball all we want, and we never get tired.”

“That’s fantastic,” said Betty. “It’s beyond my wildest dreams! So what’s the bad news?”

“You’re pitching Tuesday.”

Iraq War Veteran Hit By Police At Occupy Oakland, Stun Grenade Thrown At Folks Helping Him

Oct 29, 2011   //   by Sterling   //   Misc. Stuff  //  No Comments

War Veteran Wounded By Police At Occupy Oakland

From MoveOn.org

Scott Olsen, a protester who’s done two tours of duty in Iraq and is now involved in Veterans For Peace, was critically wounded during an Oakland police raid by police projectiles. When people tried to help him, an officer lobbed a flash bang grenade right into their group. Olsen is currently hospitalized with serious injuries and is reported to be in critical condition.

If you’re as horrified by this as we are, please sign this petition to Oakland’s mayor and then share this page with everyone you know.

Found on Kresling’s YouTube channel.

Here it is….. Post numba 1.

Apr 7, 2011   //   by Sterling   //   Misc. Stuff  //  No Comments

Well, I have had blogs for several years now and have never actually sat down and wrote anything worth reading.

Hell, look at my blog here. Been up forEVA and still nothing worth keeping peoples attention. Yet, I get several thousand people to my site every day. (Fowarded Domains or Search Engines)

So, here is what I want to do. My goal is to help atleast one person out there that needs that hard to find answer to problem they are having when building a site, managing databases, setting up wordpress, using cpanel, registering domains and more.

Why Sterling? I don’t know everything, but 14 years of experience of being online and building websites, I do know a few things. Promise ya!

Also….

To the folk who had be coming to my site before now, you may have noticed I took the shop I had up, down. Well, I was using the jacked off wordpress plugin called wp e-commerce.

Everything was going fine until the updated to new version. Everything got screwed up because the released it before it needed to be and are on my shit list.

I will be setting up a new something to sell my domains soon and you can keep in touch and find out when and what’s for sale by signing up for my sold called newsletter (right hand side of this and evey page).

Til then, thank you very much for reading my blog and do please come back again someday.

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