Tag: technophilia

info @ the P.Pole 11.08.12

5 apps that I installed/will reinstall on my Android tablet right away: Camera Launcher for Nexus 7 (free) Dropbox (free) Flipboard (free) Kindle (free) NotationalAcceleration (free) As you can see, I'm mostly a thrifty app user, favoring free apps almost exclusively (I think I'll purchase Swift Key Tablet if the new keyboard slated for Jelly [...]

Tech Tip: Hide/Disable the Chrome Download Shelf

A common annoyance that I've finally found a fix for is this: Google Chrome, for all its virtues, likes to open up a download shelf at the bottom of your window whenever you download anything. This is a royal pain in the ass if you don't have a magically infinite monitor, since it takes up [...]

info @ the P.Pole 12.08.11

I made something cool a couple nights ago. In true Carl-Pun fashion, I named it bookcase for all the things that it is and does. Features: A pen detainment apparatus that detains at most one fat pen (or maybe two skinny ones) A large, folio-style Moleskine garage that can house at most one Moleskine notebook [...]

Hori Real Arcade Pro V3 Special Addition

I really like fighting games, from 3D franchises, like Tekken and Soul Calibur, to the strictly 2D series, like Street Fighter (classic!) and all its crossovers with other universes (eg: Marvel vs Capcom, Capcom vs SNK, etc...). I own a few of these games for my PS3 but I've only been playing using my controllers, [...]

Be Social, They Said

Facebook's "Like" button is pretty ubiquitous as far as the Internet is concerned and I finally got around to finding a way to add it to my posts (you have to be on the post's own page to see it) so to test it out, I wonder how many people will read this + click on the post's [...]