Gobble, gobble. Happy Thanksgiving! =]
From November 15, 2008 through January 1, 2009 Tanglewood Park of Clemmons, North Carolina becomes a spectacular winter light show that is open to the public. Visitors can drive their own vehicles through the course or for a fee take a hay ride or carriage ride. There are over one hundred displays and over a million lights filling up the park. View a map of the light displays here.
On November 20th I visited the park for this first time this year and was amazed that no cars were in front of our car or behind. It’s normally slam packed, it was actually quite nice. I was determined to get a video going through the park, but I ran out of memory. I did get some pictures of some of the displays and will hopefully have a video up soon. =)
For more information including times and rates visit www.forsyth.cc/tanglewood/fol_info.aspx.
The video ”The Matrix Runs on Windows” is from CollegeHumor. This gave me quite the giggle, you’ve gotta love Windows XP and that little paper clip. Well not really, I don’t miss it. =P
I just plugged in my iPhone to back it up and voila there it was: “A new iPhone software version (2.2) is available for the iPhone “Cathryn’s iPhone”. Would you like to download and install it now?”. The update is here and claims to have many bug fixes and improvements for the iPhone and iPhone 3G including:
1) Enhancements to Maps:
-Google Street View
-public transit and walking directions
-display address of dropped pins
-share location via email
2) Enhancements to Mail:
-resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
-improved formatting of wide HTML email
3) Improved stability and performance of Safari
4) Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)
5) Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
6) Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages
7) Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
8 ) Preference to turn on or off the auto correction in Keyboard Settings
So far there has been no mention of copy and paste, MMS, or landscape view of text messages. Hm, I’m still waiting Apple. I’ll keep you updated as I play with my phone and hopefully find some other neat improvements for the iPhone. =]
Here’s a little bit of the history that goes with the story. The infamous drawing of the 7 legged spider by David Thorne was sent to an overdue account for compensation. Below is the beginning of the conversation and find the full conversation on Geekologie. Let me tell you it was definitely worth the read, and gave me a laugh.
So here we have this creative conversation, and now the spider has been sold on eBay for $10,000! Of course it was the 7 legged version not the remade 8 legged version. Crazy, huh? Someone is now making accessories for this spider and also selling them on eBay. I wish that I would have thought of something like that. ;]
“However, this spider is driving me nuts. Also he’s lacking a leg and thus is useless to me. I now offer you to buy this fine piece of spider for the original price set my the artist David Thorne himself.
At $233.95 this should be considered a bargain for the original drawing in this Internet meme!
I will donate some of the money for American Breast Cancer Foundation.”
eBay Auction of the Accessories
Credits: First saw from She-Geek Memoirs. eBay news from Geekologie.
Over the past month I’ve been playing around with different headers and colors. I’m happy to say that I’m pleased with the current layout. =]
Here’s a look back on the past two variations:
After using Hotmail for a couple years when I was younger I discovered Gmail and have been a fan ever since. Today Gmail released integrated themes which makes me a little happy that I won’t be looking at the same bland color scheme anymore. Take a look at the options (Credit: Official Gmail Blog):
I’ve got my eye on the notepad or beachy looking theme. Unfortunately the Themes tab is still not showing up under my settings, but hopefully soon. On the Official Gmail Blog it has been stated, ”To customize your inbox, go to the Themes tab under Settings. We’ll be rolling out themes to everyone over the next couple of days, so if you don’t see them yet, check back soon. As for which theme to choose, don’t ask us. We’re neutral ;)“.
Ah-ha! The Google Mobile iPhone App with search-by-voice is available via the iTunes store now. I downloaded it last night and began playing around with it. I can definitely see it coming handy while being in the car trying to find restaurants in the area or looking up something I can’t figure out.
When I opened the App I was greeted by this boy, I’m assuming he’s hungry for a cheeseburger:
Then I hit the “Voice Search” button and got the “Speak now” screen:
After that it tells you that the App is working and then pops up with the search results. It’s really as easy as they have made it out to be.
Cathryn Gray is a new media chic with many passions and interests, including photography, modeling, blogging, social media, design, gadgets
(especially those Apple ones), traveling and more.
