2010

Columbus Day, Observed.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 11, 2010 Announcements

Just stopping by to let you folks know that nothing has gone wrong. Tee and I have decided to observe Columbus Day this year, so the review for this week will come out on Tuesday. I know a lot of folks don’t do anything for Columbus Day, and a lot of workplaces don’t even observe […]

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#FollowFriday – @riznphnx: Writer, Podiobook Author, and Siren of Second Life

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 8, 2010 Follow Friday

This week’s featured Twitterer (Tweeter? Twitter? whatever…) was a Finalist in the Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster category for the 2010 Parsec Awards. She is a mother of three loyal minions, an author, and a Jazz singer on Second Life. @riznphnx, aka Starla Hutchton, also published her first novel, The Dreamer’s Thread, this summer and […]

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Editorial: The Elusive Verizon iPhone

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 8, 2010 Editorial

Once again, or is it still?, the spectre of a new Verizon iPhone has risen from the dead to plague everyone with a fresh stale round of false hopes. New evidence is being pointed to as a clear indicator that Apple will soon announce a new iPhone for Verizon to be released next quarter. Of […]

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October Poll: Do you want to see more polls?

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 5, 2010 Feedback

September has come to an end and it is once again time to tally poll results. In September, I asked what people thought of Apple’s new Ping Social network for Music. Apple calls it a great new way for people to discover new music on the iTunes music store. Reader of The Nifty Tech Blog […]

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#FollowFriday – @Nobilis: Podcaster, Erotica Writer, Insightful Mind.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 1, 2010 Follow Friday

This Friday, I’d like to introduce you to someone who may not be to everyone’s taste. He is a man of strong opinions, a husband to a disabled wife, and a writer and podcaster of erotica. He is also a man of biting insight and dry wit. I give you @Nobilis.

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Twittelator for iPad – Crossover Review with Bird House Rules

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor September 27, 2010 Crossover

And we’re back, with another crossover review with Bird House Rules. This week we’re looking at Twittelator for iPad from the folks at Stone Design, aka Big Stone Phone. Twittelator is the last of our “old favorites”, being a popular iPhone Twitter client in the past. The folks at Stone Design have been building interesting tools for a […]

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#FollowFriday – @AdagioTeas: Sellers of fine Tea and Teaware, with a twist!

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor September 24, 2010 Follow Friday

Do you like Tea? I love tea. A few years ago I got back into drinking tea on a fairly regular basis. If you like good tea, you don’t want to be picking up the run of the mill teabags that one usually finds in the grocery store. In fact, if you’re passionate about tea, […]

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#followFriday – @GailCarriger: New York Times Bestselling Steampunk Author, Tea Fanatic.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor September 17, 2010 Follow Friday

Little is known about @GailCarriger‘s origins other than that she was raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. And we only know that because that is what she tells us. Corroborating documentation is mysteriously missing. Or we didn’t bother to go look. One or the other.

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Personal Stamp: Cirque du Soleil’s OVO

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor September 13, 2010 Personal Stamp

Due to Tee’s trip down under to attend WorldCon, and my busy schedule of late, Tee and I decided to postpone the next chapter of our series on Twitter clients for iPad for another two weeks.  We realize that this has been a long time on a single topic and that folks would probably like […]

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#FollowFriday – @V_Momma: Voice Artist, Writer, Podcaster.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor September 10, 2010 Follow Friday

This week I’d like to introduce you to Veronica Giguere, aka @V_Momma, a voice artist, and podcaster. Veronica is the producer, voice, and a contributing writer to the 2010 Parsec Award Finalist podcast The Secret World Chronicles, an epic saga by Mercedes Lackey, Dennis Lee, and Cody Martin, and created by Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey. The Secret […]

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