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# matt binkowski

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## Posts

- [Thoughts](https://mattbinkowski.com/thoughts/)
- [Testimonial8](https://mattbinkowski.com/testimonial8/) - "You expect great work form a top notch agency, but Matthew went well beyond great work by developing and presenting incredibly disruptive ideas which, quite simply, blew me away every time. Matthew's passion for delivering beyond expectations, is a testament to his laser like customer focus, his deep knowledge and experience in all aspects of
- [Testimonial7](https://mattbinkowski.com/testimonial7/) - "Matt was a pleasure to work with at Organic - funny, genuine and wholly committed to his work. Of course that was 2000-ish ... I've had the great good fortune to work with him since. His skills have intensified and the depth, breadth and detail of his vision for client products/projects is astonishing. It's a
- [Testimonial6](https://mattbinkowski.com/testimonial6/) - "Matt was the creative force in our office, always the go-to for big ideas, innovative thinking, and thoughtful and creative plans. We could always leave every brainstorm with at least one executable idea from Matt. More importantly, Matt is a great team advocate and mentor, always there to challenge us and listen to us."
- [Testimonial5](https://mattbinkowski.com/testimonial5/) - "Matt has a tremendous eye for quality and a great mind for clean, clear effective website strategy. He architects, writes, paints, designs, and codes. Basically, he's the guy you want creating your next super-galactic online whatever. He is also hilarious, especially when critiquing someone else's website."
- [Testimonial4](https://mattbinkowski.com/testimonial4/) - "Matt pushes creative and technology boundaries and is incredibly committed to preserving the integrity of the creative product even when reality attempts to shape it in a different direction. Working with Matt -- whether executing a complex campaign or just sitting on a brainstorm --pushed me to challenge assumptions of what could be possible and
- [Testimonial3](https://mattbinkowski.com/testimonial3/) - There are people you work with and then there are people you enjoy working with. Matt falls soundly into the "enjoy working with category."
- [Testimonial2](https://mattbinkowski.com/testimonial2/) - One overwhelming sentiment that was shared with all of Matt's direct reports was that Matt is an excellent people manager in addition to being a hands-on designer that can implement his ideas as well the best individual contributor on the market.
- [Testimonial1](https://mattbinkowski.com/testimonial1/) - "Matt has an innate ability to foster great ideas and the creative spirit from his team, constantly challenging us to think in grander ways. Any employee would be fortunate to have Matt as a manager."
- [On the Way to Half Moon Bay](https://mattbinkowski.com/on-the-way-to-half-moon-bay/)
- [Penn Station 2](https://mattbinkowski.com/penn-station-2/)
- [Penn Station 1](https://mattbinkowski.com/penn-station/)
- [United](https://mattbinkowski.com/united/)
- [Tilt and Shoot](https://mattbinkowski.com/tilt-and-shoot/)
- [Ascension](https://mattbinkowski.com/ascension/)
- [Angel Harp](https://mattbinkowski.com/angel-harp/)
- [Must Board Situation](https://mattbinkowski.com/must-board-situation/)
- [Mt. Diablo](https://mattbinkowski.com/mt-diablo-2/)
- [Many Roads](https://mattbinkowski.com/many-roads/)
- [Hotel Neo](https://mattbinkowski.com/hotel-neo/)
- [The Finch](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-finch/)
- [Nowhere Near Fast Enough](https://mattbinkowski.com/nowhere-near-fast-enough/)
- [Winter Migration](https://mattbinkowski.com/winter-migration/)
- [Stanley's Odyssey](https://mattbinkowski.com/stanleys-odyssey/)
- [Gates of Detroit](https://mattbinkowski.com/gates-of-detroit/)
- [Simple Minded Lyrics](https://mattbinkowski.com/simple-minded-lyrics/) - First Verse: Feelings that I left behind don't compare to the morning high. Nothing else is okay. Me my friends and I have nothing left to say. Will I spend the night with you, just to watch the morning dew and all my troubles float away? Chorus: People drown because of it. An undeserved remedy.
- [Teach Safari a New Trick](https://mattbinkowski.com/teach-safari-a-new-trick/) - Tired of Safari adding .ps to .ai files? Use Automator to create a Folder Action like this screenshot.
- [WordPress WooCommerce Tip](https://mattbinkowski.com/wordpress-woocommerce-tip/) - If you want to add a standalone add to cart button in WooCommerce, use the shortcode. To center the button, this is how I did it: p.product.woocommerce.add_to_cart_inline { text-align: center !important; } Looks simple but it took a ton of trial and error to find this combination.
- [Interesting Correlation](https://mattbinkowski.com/interesting-correlation/) - I never noticed that when you invoke Apple's Dictionary function in Mac OS X (Command-Control-D while hovering your cursor over a word), that there are Apple Music and Twitter options in the navigation. Why is Twitter part of this line up? I get Apple Music, but even in this screenshot, the Apple Music result is confusing
- [Find My iPhone Satellite View from Space](https://mattbinkowski.com/find-my-iphone-satellite-view-from-space/) - Did you know that satellite view on find my iPhone can zoom out to look like this? I had no idea.
- [Missing Image Dimensions](https://mattbinkowski.com/missing-image-dimensions/) - Interesting choice for a missing asset's dimensions considering that the shape of these objects are known things.
- [Comforting Vision from the Past](https://mattbinkowski.com/comforting-vision-from-the-past/) - Gotta love old Mac utilities still hanging around in the latest version of the OS.
- [App Switcher Alternative](https://mattbinkowski.com/app-switcher-alternative/) - Option-Tab on your Mac to bring up a more detailed app switcher view compared to command-tab.
- [You Know Me So Well](https://mattbinkowski.com/you-know-me-so-well/) - After years of usage and purchases and total access to my library, iTunes requires me to select genres to make music suggestions? WTF
- [What Will Happen Tomorrow?](https://mattbinkowski.com/what-will-happen-tomorrow/) - Interesting. My Mac thinks these files were modified tomorrow?
- [Dark UI, Dark Text?](https://mattbinkowski.com/dark-ui-dark-text/) - Might want to look into that dark theme a little more before releasing it.
- [Blue Text Is Not a Link](https://mattbinkowski.com/blue-text-is-not-a-link/) - The blue bold text in the iTunes Store that says Complete My Album is not a link. Because yeah..
- [Tunnel Creature](https://mattbinkowski.com/tunnel-creature/)
- [Beyond the Third Rail](https://mattbinkowski.com/beyond-the-third-rail/)
- [Commuter View](https://mattbinkowski.com/commuter-view/)
- [Post Foo](https://mattbinkowski.com/post-foo/)
- [Last Tron](https://mattbinkowski.com/last-tron/)
- [Tunnel to a Concourse](https://mattbinkowski.com/tunnel-to-a-concourse/)
- [Straightaway on a Figure Eight](https://mattbinkowski.com/straightaway-on-a-figure-eight/)
- [Death Star Wall](https://mattbinkowski.com/death-star-wall/)
- [Blade and The Ground Below](https://mattbinkowski.com/blade-and-background/)
- [Dallas](https://mattbinkowski.com/dallas/)
- [Moon Needle](https://mattbinkowski.com/moon-needle/)
- [20 Minute Delay](https://mattbinkowski.com/20-minute-delay/)
- [Obscure Public Sculpture](https://mattbinkowski.com/obscure-public-sculpture/)
- [Feather Trees](https://mattbinkowski.com/puffy-trees/)
- [Space Pool](https://mattbinkowski.com/space-pool/)
- [Privacy Ship](https://mattbinkowski.com/privacy-ship/)
- [Warm Goodbyes](https://mattbinkowski.com/warn-goodbyes/)
- [Lone Palm Tree](https://mattbinkowski.com/lone-palm-tree/)
- [11 Floors to Starbucks](https://mattbinkowski.com/11-floors-to-starbucks/) - Since we've moved to the other side of the building, I have a much more dramatic view. Plus it's noticeably quieter since I can't directly see Market Street out my window now.
- [Spin Train](https://mattbinkowski.com/spin-train/)
- [Blue and Gold](https://mattbinkowski.com/blue/)
- [Backward Reflection](https://mattbinkowski.com/backward-reflection/)
- [From the Train to the Sea](https://mattbinkowski.com/electric-sea-train/)
- [Coming Up For Air](https://mattbinkowski.com/coming-up-for-air/)
- [Color Wheel](https://mattbinkowski.com/color-wheel/)
- [Surrounded](https://mattbinkowski.com/surrounded/)
- [Seventh Floor Passage](https://mattbinkowski.com/seventh-floor-passage/)
- [Moon Over SunPower](https://mattbinkowski.com/moon-over-sunpower-2/)
- [Delayed Patterns](https://mattbinkowski.com/delayed-patterns/)
- [Bartron](https://mattbinkowski.com/bartron/)
- [4](https://mattbinkowski.com/4/)
- [Crosstown Traffic](https://mattbinkowski.com/crosstown-traffic/)
- [In Broad Daylight](https://mattbinkowski.com/in-broad-daylight/)
- [435](https://mattbinkowski.com/435/)
- [Last Second Departure](https://mattbinkowski.com/4933/)
- [Slowdown](https://mattbinkowski.com/slowdown/)
- [When The Record Drops](https://mattbinkowski.com/when-the-record-drops/)
- [Underground](https://mattbinkowski.com/underground/)
- [Three Lights](https://mattbinkowski.com/three-lights/)
- [Starting to Burn](https://mattbinkowski.com/starting-to-burn/)
- [Inception in The City](https://mattbinkowski.com/inception-in-the-city/)
- [Outside In and Back Again](https://mattbinkowski.com/outside-in-and-back-again/)
- [A Flower For You](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-flower-for-you/)
- [Winter Sans Snow](https://mattbinkowski.com/sans-snow/)
- [Threes](https://mattbinkowski.com/threes/)
- [It Comes In Black](https://mattbinkowski.com/it-comes-in-black/)
- [Where We Stand](https://mattbinkowski.com/where-we-stand/)
- [The Cliff](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-cliff/)
- [Thinking](https://mattbinkowski.com/thinking/)
- [Flight](https://mattbinkowski.com/flight/)
- [Plaid](https://mattbinkowski.com/plaid/)
- [Calistoga Envy](https://mattbinkowski.com/calistoga-envy/)
- [Wine Country](https://mattbinkowski.com/wine-country/)
- [Star Bending](https://mattbinkowski.com/star-bending/)
- [San Francisco Exit](https://mattbinkowski.com/san-francisco-exit/)
- [Sunflower Searchlight](https://mattbinkowski.com/sunflower-searchlight/)
- [The Palace](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-palace/)
- [Precious Cargo](https://mattbinkowski.com/precious-cargo/)
- [Woven In Time](https://mattbinkowski.com/woven-in-time/)
- [Potter Would Be Proud](https://mattbinkowski.com/potter-would-be-proud/)
- [Walk Weather](https://mattbinkowski.com/walk-weather/)
- [One After The Other](https://mattbinkowski.com/consecutive-trains/)
- [Fast Approaching](https://mattbinkowski.com/fast-approaching/)
- [Walking Path](https://mattbinkowski.com/walking-path/)
- [2 Minutes Apart](https://mattbinkowski.com/2-minutes-apart/)
- [A Different Track](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-different-track/)
- [One of Two Eyes](https://mattbinkowski.com/one-of-two-eyes/)
- [Farsighted Traveler](https://mattbinkowski.com/farsighted-traveler/)
- [Faces](https://mattbinkowski.com/faces/)
- [Series 1](https://mattbinkowski.com/series-1/) - br />
- [iPhone Wallpaper](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-wallpaper/)
- [Above the Water at 55 Miles per Hour](https://mattbinkowski.com/above-the-water-at-55-miles-per-hour/)
- [Tower Arches](https://mattbinkowski.com/tower-arches/)
- [Between Four and Five](https://mattbinkowski.com/between-four-and-five/)
- [Thousand Yard Stare](https://mattbinkowski.com/thousand-yard-stare/)
- [Two for Tuesday](https://mattbinkowski.com/two-for-tuesday/)
- [Inverse Mountain](https://mattbinkowski.com/inverse-mountain/)
- [Dog On The Tracks](https://mattbinkowski.com/dog-on-the-tracks/)
- [The Wall](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-wall/)
- [Monday](https://mattbinkowski.com/5276/)
- [Green Sunset](https://mattbinkowski.com/green-sunset/)
- [Weak Signal](https://mattbinkowski.com/weak-signal/)
- [The Pendant and the Pendulum](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-pendant-and-the-pendulum/)
- [Kinetic](https://mattbinkowski.com/kinetic/)
- [The Garden](https://mattbinkowski.com/playing-with-light/)
- [Fort and Flag](https://mattbinkowski.com/fort-and-flag/)
- [Sunset Road](https://mattbinkowski.com/sunset-road/)
- [Strands](https://mattbinkowski.com/strands/)
- [Tiny Glider](https://mattbinkowski.com/tiny-glider/)
- [Saturn Sunrise](https://mattbinkowski.com/saturn-sunrise/)
- [Waterfall](https://mattbinkowski.com/waterfall/)
- [The State of California](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-state-of-california/)
- [Land and Sea](https://mattbinkowski.com/land-and-sea/)
- [Pocket Swirl](https://mattbinkowski.com/pocket-swirl/)
- [Haunted Mansion](https://mattbinkowski.com/haunted-mansion/)
- [Floating for Days](https://mattbinkowski.com/floating-for-days/)
- [Bob Ross Nightmare](https://mattbinkowski.com/bob-ross-nightmare/)
- [Starting Over](https://mattbinkowski.com/starting-over/)
- [Running Interference](https://mattbinkowski.com/interference/)
- [Pantene](https://mattbinkowski.com/pantene/)
- [Corkscrew](https://mattbinkowski.com/corkscrew/)
- [No Make Cookie Angry](https://mattbinkowski.com/no-make-me-angry/)
- [Orbiting the Oceans](https://mattbinkowski.com/orbiting-the-oceans/)
- [Sea Like A Fish](https://mattbinkowski.com/sea-like-a-fish/)
- [Northern Light Show](https://mattbinkowski.com/northern-light-show/)
- [First Day In](https://mattbinkowski.com/first-day-in/)
- [First Day Back](https://mattbinkowski.com/first-day-back/)
- [Stuttering](https://mattbinkowski.com/stuttering/)
- [The Contemporary Jewish Museum](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-contemporary-jewish-museum/)
- [Shipwrecked](https://mattbinkowski.com/shipwrecked/)
- [Chapel](https://mattbinkowski.com/chapel/)
- [How to Feel Centered](https://mattbinkowski.com/how-to-feel-centered/)
- [Fireworks](https://mattbinkowski.com/fireworks/)
- [Drawbridge](https://mattbinkowski.com/drawbridge/)
- [See the Ocean](https://mattbinkowski.com/see-the-ocean/)
- [Mirage](https://mattbinkowski.com/mirage/)
- [Sand In My Eyes](https://mattbinkowski.com/sand-in-my-eyes/)
- [Show Time](https://mattbinkowski.com/show-time/)
- [Let's Make a Raft](https://mattbinkowski.com/lets-make-a-raft/)
- [I Ride the Rides](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-ride-the-rides/)
- [Fight or Flight](https://mattbinkowski.com/fight-or-flight/)
- [The Hill Tree](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-hill-tree/)
- [The Hill](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-hill-2/)
- [The Droid Wants a Heart (Yellow Brick Road)](https://mattbinkowski.com/he-droid-wants-a-heart-yellow-brick-road/)
- [The Well of Enlightenment](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-well-of-enlightenment/)
- [They Don't Bother Me](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-dont-bother-me/)
- [Hard of Hearing](https://mattbinkowski.com/hard-of-hearing/)
- [Disco Star Death](https://mattbinkowski.com/death-star-disco/)
- [We Flew All This Way For You](https://mattbinkowski.com/we-flew-all-this-way-for-you/)
- [Live and Forget](https://mattbinkowski.com/live-and-forget/)
- [The Bridge I've Yet to Cross](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-bridge-ive-yet-to-cross/)
- [Achluophobia](https://mattbinkowski.com/achluophobia/)
- [The Line We're Willing to Cross](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-line-were-willing-to-cross/)
- [The Worst Is Yet To Come](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-worst-is-yet-to-come-crucifixion/)
- [Crashing Down](https://mattbinkowski.com/crashing-down/)
- [I Bought A Mask](https://mattbinkowski.com/they-are-anonymous/)
- [Armada Fair](https://mattbinkowski.com/armada-fair/)
- [I Can See Lando From My House](https://mattbinkowski.com/cloud-city/)
- [Passages](https://mattbinkowski.com/passages/)
- [If Snakes Could Fly](https://mattbinkowski.com/if-snakes-could-fly/)
- [Spin Me A Rose](https://mattbinkowski.com/spin-me-a-rose/)
- [7/8 Timing](https://mattbinkowski.com/78-timing/)
- [Phoenix In The Sky](https://mattbinkowski.com/phoenix-in-the-sky/)
- [High Flyin' 50's](https://mattbinkowski.com/high-flyin-50s/)
- [Ascension Outside My Window](https://mattbinkowski.com/ascension-2/)
- [Learning To Shred](https://mattbinkowski.com/learning-to-shred/)
- [Run Over](https://mattbinkowski.com/run-over/)
- [Falling Downstairs](https://mattbinkowski.com/falling-downstairs/)
- [One Car Behind](https://mattbinkowski.com/one-car-behind/)
- [Sunset Transfer](https://mattbinkowski.com/sunset-transfer/)
- [Bane's House](https://mattbinkowski.com/kubrick-road-trip/)
- [Picasso's Iron Man](https://mattbinkowski.com/picassos-iron-man/)
- [Chocolate Prison](https://mattbinkowski.com/chocolate-river/)
- [Twisted Path](https://mattbinkowski.com/twisted-path/)
- [Platforms](https://mattbinkowski.com/platforms/)
- [Fire on the Desktop](https://mattbinkowski.com/fire-on-the-desktop/)
- [Shredding](https://mattbinkowski.com/shredding/)
- [Shot Down and Turned Away](https://mattbinkowski.com/shut-down-and-turned-away/)
- [Ghost Town](https://mattbinkowski.com/ghost-town/)
- [The Electorate](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-electorate/)
- [Dejected](https://mattbinkowski.com/dejected/)
- [Fragfest on the Red Line](https://mattbinkowski.com/fragfest-on-the-red-line/)
- [Birth of a Death Star](https://mattbinkowski.com/birth-of-a-death-star/)
- [Alien Celebration](https://mattbinkowski.com/alien-celebration/)
- [Circulator](https://mattbinkowski.com/circulator/)
- [Morning on Mars](https://mattbinkowski.com/morning-on-mars/)
- [Pirate Church](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-church-by-the-sea/)
- [It Can't Go Any Faster](https://mattbinkowski.com/it-cant-go-any-faster/)
- [You Would Be Wrong](https://mattbinkowski.com/you-would-be-wrong/)
- [Disco Fever](https://mattbinkowski.com/disco-fever/)
- [Heat Rising](https://mattbinkowski.com/heat-rising/)
- [Watching Them Leave](https://mattbinkowski.com/watching-them-leave/)
- [Baby Steps](https://mattbinkowski.com/baby-steps/)
- [Circling the Station](https://mattbinkowski.com/circling-the-station/)
- [Rite of Passage](https://mattbinkowski.com/rite-of-passage/)
- [Imposer](https://mattbinkowski.com/imposer/)
- [Night Swimming](https://mattbinkowski.com/night-swimming/)
- [A Quick Profile of Me at the Invision App Blog](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-quick-profile-of-me-at-the-invision-app-blog/) - WHAT IS THE MOST FRUSTRATING ASPECT OF DESIGN? I don’t like when people quit. And I don’t mean quit the job; I mean quit on an idea. You can tell they’re starting to quit because they start saying, “No,” or, “This is difficult,” or, “I don’t know how to do that.” Well so what? Figure
- [Hardball Dock](https://mattbinkowski.com/hardball-dock/)
- [Needs Perspective](https://mattbinkowski.com/needs-perspective/) - I know Apple thinks of every detail, and this is likely an outlier use case, but I wish they programmatically drew that middle divider line in the dock to use a 1 point perspective.
- [Samsung TV Menu](https://mattbinkowski.com/samsung-tv-menu/) - Gee where have I seen this before...
- [Interesting Siri Screen](https://mattbinkowski.com/interesting-siri-screen/)
- [The Future of Siri](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-future-of-siri/) - My quick thoughts on where Siri could/might go, and some questions that are yet to be answered by Apple. [list type="circle"] [item]Why, when Siri is activated, does she beep twice rather than greeting you with speech? (ie hello name)[/item] [item]If Siri gets its own API, will it be strangely reminiscent of AppleScript?[/item] [item]At what point
- [Elise and Miles](https://mattbinkowski.com/elise-and-miles/)
- [Social Media FTW @ #WWDC](https://mattbinkowski.com/social-media-ftw-wwdc/) - Yes the new MacBook Pro is impressive, but what else would you expect from Apple? A lame laptop? They are expected to innovate in this space, and honestly it doesn't feel that mind blowing compared to where their OSes are going. Here are my reasons why social took a giant leap forward at WWDC: 1.
- [WWDC Thoughts](https://mattbinkowski.com/wwdc-thoughts/) - Yesterday's WWDC announcements were at times fascinating (airplay sync'd gaming & Siri updates) and wildly boring (Reminders). Who would have guessed that social media had a shot at stealing the show? There were many important social media-related bits presented during the show that, honestly, seemed a little uninteresting to the people who were presenting them
- [The Promise of Social Media](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-promise-of-social-media/) - Events like those unfolding in Japan put things in perspective for me this week. SXSW seems so hard to think about when a Tsunami wave from Japan was captured on video in our backyard of Emeryville, CA: Case in point but on a much smaller scale—a short blog post by Seth Godin also put things
- [Because I Could](https://mattbinkowski.com/because-i-could/) - No idea where this riff came from, but I just picked up my guitar and started playing it. Just Started Playing This
- [This Makes Me Happy](https://mattbinkowski.com/this-makes-me-happy/) - Based on data analyzed by Nielsen Buzz Metrics, the Ford Fusion was THE most talked about vehicle online at the North American International Auto Show.
- [Light and Insightful](https://mattbinkowski.com/light-and-insightful/) - Ironic how Mike Wallace, the most impressive interviewer, and Thomas Kincade, the least insightful painter, both passed away on the same day. I also can't believe how he is being referred to as "the painter of light." Have we not heard of the Impressionists, people?
- [My Near Future](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-near-future/) - This is a slightly messy post but it's really really important to me. After years of not sleeping, snoring like a mythological beast, occasionally startling her with gasps for air, and keeping my wife up at night in general, I finally made an appointment to see an ENT doctor. After an uncomfortable sinus cavity inspection,
- [Will Ferrell: Dog Trainer](https://mattbinkowski.com/will-ferrell-dog-trainer/)
- [Ready for bed](https://mattbinkowski.com/ready-for-bed/)
- [Are Apple In-App Book Purchases Okay?](https://mattbinkowski.com/are-apple-in-app-book-purchases-okay/) - In reading the iTunes Connect Developer Guide (v. 7.3) on Page 134, a section on In-App purchases caught my eye: For example, you could use In-App Purchase to implement any of the following scenarios: A book reader app that allows the user to purchase and download new books This made me recall a July 25,
- [Happy St. Patrick's Day!](https://mattbinkowski.com/happy-st-patricks-day/)
- [True Autocorrect Story](https://mattbinkowski.com/true-autocorrect-story/)
- [An Unforgettable Character](https://mattbinkowski.com/an-unforgettable-character/) - Last night, my last remaining grandparent passed away at age 93. I heard it happened while she was sleeping and on morphine, which if true, is not a bad way to go—all things considered. The last few months have been especially hard on our family since she was always the beacon of good health. Never
- [Guitar Comparison](https://mattbinkowski.com/guitar-comparison/) - Listen: Strat Les Paul
- [Are We Not Paying Attention?](https://mattbinkowski.com/are-we-not-paying-attention/) - TVs are ultimately about picture quality. Ultimately. How smart they are...great, but let's face it that's a secondary consideration. -Chris Moseley, AV product manager at Samsung providing a counterpoint to Apple's recent comments about their TV aspirations. Source Um. Let's review The Facts: Apple does not only deliver "picture quality" to its customers. Cable/Satellite set
- [Thank You, Steve Jobs](https://mattbinkowski.com/thank-you-steve-jobs/) - Reprinted here from the Cutter Consortium (full publication here) and Social@Ogilvy blog, to which I contributed these words: I, like many who have benefitted from the genius of Steve Jobs, can’t imagine what my life would have been like had he stopped pursuing greatness. What would the world be like today if he had given up after being
- [It's Not Easy Being Pink](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-not-easy-being-pink/)
- [Thomas Keeps Him Up at Night](https://mattbinkowski.com/thomas-keeps-him-up-at-night/)
- [Nitpicking the Nitpicker](https://mattbinkowski.com/nitpicking-the-nitpicker/) - Kottke.org is an amazing website. Jason Kottke's ability to provide a constant stream of interesting content is almost without peer. One such story caught my eye this morning: After reading this, I naturally wanted to read the full letter Mr. Butterick fired off to the director of the film. The letter was well written and
- [Getting Carried Away](https://mattbinkowski.com/getting-carried-away/) - Trying out the rewired Les Paul.
- [They Love Each Other](https://mattbinkowski.com/they-love-each-other/)
- [Morning Doozer](https://mattbinkowski.com/morning-doozer/)
- [Headed to Brussels](https://mattbinkowski.com/headed-to-brussels/) - Not three weeks into joining ICON am I asked to head to Brussels to work on an exciting branding project for one of our best clients, WorldAutoSteel. They're wanting a new brand for themselves. In an nutshell, they are the automotive group of the World Steel Association, which is comprised of seventeen major global steel
- [Speaking at Automation Alley](https://mattbinkowski.com/spoke-at-automation-alley/) - The decision to have me speak at this event came down after this press release went out. Nevertheless, I will be talking about the impact of mobile technology and corporate communications. Come check us out on May 11th @ 10AM for a half-day of great presentations and ideas. Press Release
- [Can Experiences Be Designed: A Response](https://mattbinkowski.com/can-experiences-be-designed-a-response/) - I just finished reading this revealing post by Oliver Reichenstein over at iA (which I think is amazing) and can't help but react to it. The gist is this: "UX" has become warped by people in many ways (in practice, in title, in promise) that he's fed up and needs to set things straight. The
- [Grippy Thing](https://mattbinkowski.com/grippy-thing/) - I just noticed that the grippy control in GarageBand is the same as in the new iOS notifications sheet that comes down fok the top of your display. Huh...
- [Lots of Little Things](https://mattbinkowski.com/non-omnipotent/) - Steve Jobs was a master at noticing the little things, so its not hard to imagine somethings will eventually slip through the cracks. However, this seems like a big one to miss. Is it me or is this page stuffed to the gills? It could use a little Steveing.
- [Mid-Size Screen Disadvantage](https://mattbinkowski.com/mid-size-screen-disadvantage/) - I haven't always been a big fan of Jakob Nielsen's ideas about usability, but his usability review of the new Kindle Fire has this surprising comment: 1. Kindle users should change their browser preference settings to mobile view. (In the Silk browser, tap Menu button > Settings > (scroll to "Advanced" items) > Desktop or mobile view.) I'm absolutely
- [50 Things About Me](https://mattbinkowski.com/50-things-about-me/) - This blog, founded on June 1, 2004, is written and produced by Matt Binkowski. Matt and baby Elise 1. I have been happily married for 14 years to my best friend, partner in crime, and all around love of my life. 2. My daughter Elise is perfectly cute, funny and smart as a whip. My
- [Miley Likes Books](https://mattbinkowski.com/miley-likes-books/)
- [Father’s Day @ Powell Gardens](https://mattbinkowski.com/fathers-day-powell-gardens/)
- [Purple Day](https://mattbinkowski.com/purple-day/)
- [Elise in California](https://mattbinkowski.com/elise-and-california/)
- [Miley in California](https://mattbinkowski.com/miley-in-california/)
- [Apple's Sense of Humor](https://mattbinkowski.com/apples-sense-of-humor/) - I’m sure this wasn’t intended to be funny, but to me, it’s hilarious. During the Samsung/Apple tablet patent fight, Apple had to offer some suggestions to Samsung to rebut their claim that they had no other design options for their device.The list is fantastic! My snark in red. Regarding smartphone options: Overall shape that isn’t rectangular, or
- [Understatement of the Day](https://mattbinkowski.com/understatement-of-the-day/) - "Massive insect" found in New Zealand. Just what is Peter Jackson up to down there?
- [First Lime Ridge Hike](https://mattbinkowski.com/first-lime-ridge-hike/) - This weekend we finally made the embarrassingly short drive to the end of our sub to the entrance of the Lime Ridge OpenSpace.
- [Facebook and the FTC](https://mattbinkowski.com/facebook-and-the-ftc/) - According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Facebook engaged in the following activities: In December 2009, Facebook changed its website so certain information that users may have designated as private – such as their Friends List – was made public. They didn't warn users that this change was coming, or get their approval in advance.
- [Last Night Being 2](https://mattbinkowski.com/last-night-being-2/)
- [Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf](https://mattbinkowski.com/red-riding-hood-and-the-big-bad-wolf/)
- [Big Backpack](https://mattbinkowski.com/big-backpack/) - I tend to forget just how little Elise really is. When I'm around her, she seems larger than life. However after I dropped her off at school this morning, it hit me like a ton of bricks that she's tiny! Her backpack looked absolutely massive on her, and I couldn't stop being amazed at how
- [Soccer Makes Him Smile](https://mattbinkowski.com/soccer-makes-him-smile/)
- [The Tontons Rock Camp Mighty](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-tontons-rocking-camp-mighty/)
- [Elise's 7th Birthday](https://mattbinkowski.com/big-7/) - Miles basically imitates Elise every day. Tonight, Elise had a 7 candle on her cupcake, so Miles reeeeally wanted a candle on his cupcake too, hence the tiny crayon-looking candle in this photo (just to the left of the 7 candle). Is it me or are chocolate cupcakes getting bigger every year? Thank you everyone
- [A Mighty Eye Opening Experience](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-mighty-eye-opening-experience/) - Last weekend Melissa and I went to Camp Mighty in Palm Springs CA. It was fun meeting people I've only known through their blogs: Heather Armstrong, Jon Armstrong, Alice Bradley, Maggie Mason. It was also very cool to meet some new faces: Cecily Kellogg, Margit Detweiler and many more. As great as they are, meeting
- [Newtons are SICK](https://mattbinkowski.com/newtons-are-sick/) - Everyone loves to rag on the old Apple Newton, but some people, including myself, still find it to be worth defending from those rickety Palm Pilot lovers out there. ;-) Today, an ingenious Newton developer released two cool pieces of software for the 'ol Newt. One is called IC/VC. It allows you to sync your
- [iPirate Radio](https://mattbinkowski.com/ipirate-radio/) - I guess until Apple releases an SDK for the iPod, this will have to suffice as "hacking." This hack lets you broadcast audio over FM signals.
- [The Creative Process](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-creative-process/) - I love finding these quotes from great creative companies. This one is from Apple. This is from a Newsweek article about the new, 4th generation iPod: "The click wheel. The iPod keeps getting slimmer and more streamlined. While the initial version had a relatively boxy feel, subsequent versions have been curvier and smaller. This one
- [Another Great Reason to Visit Paris](https://mattbinkowski.com/another-great-reason-to-visit-paris/) - From hardware repair demonstrations to Bluetooth and XML-RPC connectivity to old school geek-out, the Worldwide Newton Conference is taking place this September in Paris, France. I really wish I could go but I honestly feel like I'd be quite inferior to other attendees because I'm just not that much of a Newton freak to make
- [MoodPod](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-new-apple-iflake/) - I guess some people really need help when it comes to technology. There is a funny yet sad article in today's New York Times about the iPod and how its "Shuffle" function doesn't meet their owner's needs. Mostly because people are surprised their totally diverse music tastes aren't perfectly shuffled and arranged by the iPod
- [Under the Newton Microscope](https://mattbinkowski.com/under-the-newton-microscope/) - It seems that someone has been doing a little snooping on the small but hearty Newton enthusiasts. The Wired Article basically says that the Newton community has done a better job of extending and shepherding the Newton platform and products better than when it was a supported Apple product. I have to agree on that
- [The Newton Has Infinite Lives](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-newton-has-infinite-lives/) - The WorldWide Newton Conference wrapped up a few days ago and one piece of surprising news came from it. Paul Guyot trotted out a highly cool chunk of the future called Project Einstein. The Newton platform still rules the roost, but the hardware, while seriously ahead of its time, is becoming too difficult to maintain.
- [Paint that Cleans Your House?](https://mattbinkowski.com/paint-that-cleans-your-house/) - A while back, a scientist in the UK created this new use of nano-particles that was applied to a glass surface. The particles, when exposed to sunlight, broke down any organic dirt material on its surface. So, when you wanted to clean the glass, all you had to do was wash it down with regular
- [How Lightsabers Work](https://mattbinkowski.com/how-lightsabers-work/) - There is an entertaining writeup on howstuffworks.com about the inner workings of a lightsaber. The marketing around Star Wars 3 is so bad that even people with feeding tubes should know that the new movie is coming out soon. As if the Evil Emperor M&M's didn't spell it out enough for you."Important Safety InformationA lightsaber
- [Tiny iPhoto Hint (Literally)](https://mattbinkowski.com/tiny-osx-hint/) - I have become a regular iPhoto user ever since Elise was born. One day while flipping through some pictures in iPhoto, I got a little frustrated with the picture zooming via the slider. It has no mention of increments as you can see here: No percentages, no indicator of the zoom factor, nothing! Except for
- [Quick Applescripts](https://mattbinkowski.com/quick-applescripts/) - I've toyed with AppleScript for years now, usually just to do weird things that aren't easily accessible like automating iTunes Music Store contest entries, setting the desktop automatically. You know, generally useless things that at the time, present themselves as minor challenges that I must solve. Here are a few quick AppleScripts for you that
- [Harming Our Business?](https://mattbinkowski.com/harming-our-business/) - "To date, Apple has not agreed to design its popular iPod line of portable digital audio players to function with our music services and users of our music services must rely on our Harmony technology for interoperability with iPods. If we cannot successfully design our service to interoperate with the music playback devices that our
- [WindowDragon](https://mattbinkowski.com/windowdragon/) - The general rule of thumb is that you can only move OS X windows by dragging their titlebar or a bottom bar like in Safari. Other applications like GarageBand allow for window edge dragging because Apple just felt like it. Well, this Application Enhancer makes all apps equal. It's called WindowDragon. Simply put, it allows
- [iPhone Details](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-details/) - According to The New York Post, they have scoured some documents that were posted to a FCC website regarding the specs and features of the upcoming iPhone from Apple and Motorola. The i-Phone, as music fans have dubbed it, will have a VGA-quality camera, stereo speakers, and will be able to hold a gigabyte of
- [Someone’s Bitter](https://mattbinkowski.com/someones-bitter/) - "Screw the nano," said Motorola CEO Ed Zander. "What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs? People are going to want devices that do more than just play music, something that can be seen in many other countries with more advanced mobile phone networks and savvy users," he said. Zander's comments
- [It’s All About the Blue Pill](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-all-about-the-blue-pill/) - While reading MacSurfer's Headline News website, I came across this article. Let's face it. Buying a Mac is all about swallowing the blue pill. The blue pill is the enjoyable part of Mac ownership. You become amazed at the interoperability of the iApps suite, the simplicity of having to set up your own web server
- [I Shouldn’t Be Surprised](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-shouldnt-be-surprised/) - After yesterday's iPod Video announcement, I checked out the Apple website to get the scoop. One item I was naturally drawn to as I am a resident of the metro Detroit area, was the iPod Your Car page. If you click that link you will see a simple layout of vehicle thumbnails and links to
- [Built In Dictionary](https://mattbinkowski.com/built-in-dictionary-2/) - Press Command-Control-D when your mouse is over a word in a cocoa app like Safari and you'll get an instant dictionary lookup that's built-in to OS X. NICE!
- [Education: Apple Style](https://mattbinkowski.com/education—apple-style/) - Kevin Callahan is a guitar teacher who is gives lessons to people over the internet - live - via iChat AV and an iSight camera on his Mac. Pretty cool stuff. --- The University Channel is a Princeton Project that makes podcasts of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the
- [Nanophones](https://mattbinkowski.com/nanophones/) - Just found this cool set of headphones that has a slot for your iPod Nano. Sweet!
- [Mac OS UI Comments](https://mattbinkowski.com/mac-os-ui-comments/) - 1. Macintosh HD icon is not happy at 32x32 pixels: 2. Safari has a weird scrolling bug where if you load a page that creates a horizontal scrollbar, notice how the text in the browser actually drops down a few pixels once you start scrolling and returns to the original height when you stop. I
- [Steve Jobs Movie Poster Contest](https://mattbinkowski.com/steve-jobs-movie-poster-contest/) - A Sr. Associate Art Director for ESPN and Disney had some fun after Christmas this year. The winner was to receive a 1GB iPod Shuffle for designing a movie poster featuring Steve Jobs. Other people could be used but he had to be the main character. Not bad for a fun goof thing like this.
- [Branding and UI Design](https://mattbinkowski.com/branding-and-ui-design/) - I have always been a fan of the Mac. The notion that a machine is there to help me be ultra creative is the kind of thing I will always gravitate toward. What I don't like is how too many applications for the Mac are slowly starting to look the same. Here's what I mean:
- [Quick Game](https://mattbinkowski.com/quick-game/) - Ok, so Microsoft, Intel and Samsung all released their "ultra" portable PCs yesterday. Here's a quick game for ya: What do these three devices have in common? Answer: They're all nasty. I can just hear the laughter from Cupertino. They must be loving this. And everyone loves Wheel of Fortune, right?
- [Mail Weirdness](https://mattbinkowski.com/mail-weirdness/) - Can anyone explain why they had to separate the Paste options in Mail? I'm sorry but I totally didn't even see the group of 3 the first time I looked for it because every other app has them all together near the main default Paste command.
- [Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You](https://mattbinkowski.com/dont-say-i-didnt-warn-you/) - So you're looking for an easy way to crash your browser? just click this link and Safari will take an instant nose dive. I'm not sure why but I've already reported it to Apple and Autoblog. I was able to discover this by opening Safari's Activity window while the page was loading. I also then
- [Spotlight Is Funky](https://mattbinkowski.com/spotlight-is-funky/) - Hmm. Spotlight quiz: Open System Preferences and type "keyboard" in the search field. Which Preference Pane do you think would "come up first" in the Spotlight way: "Keyboard and Mouse or "Dashboard & Expose"? The answer? Dashboard & Expose of course! Huh?
- [Ballmer’s Kids](https://mattbinkowski.com/ballmers-kids/) - From Fortune.com: Q: Do you have an iPod? A: No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
- [April Fools Day](https://mattbinkowski.com/april-fools-day/) - Since it falls on a Saturday this year, I thought I'd share my little bit of fun with everyone who bothers to read this blog. This only applies to Macs, so Windows users can read on with their technolust in high gear. Actually it's not that geeky or cool but sure to mess with someone
- [Great Copywriting](https://mattbinkowski.com/great-copywriting/) - On the release of Boot Camp for Mac OS X: "Word to the Wise. Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it'll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world." "Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP,
- [Apple and the Environment](https://mattbinkowski.com/apple-and-the-environment/) - Phil Schiller's line at the end of this article is too funny: "Larry Fahn, a former president of the Sierra Club, said a recycling program recently announced by Apple didn't go far enough. He also said that Apple has only recycled 2.4 percent of the computer equipment sold seven years ago, compared to 10 percent
- [Big Apple Spenders](https://mattbinkowski.com/big-apple-spenders/) - From ifoapplestore.com on last week's 5th Avenue Apple Store grand opening: "Some of those purchases came from celebrities that just happened to show up: James Woods, Kevin Bacon (6 computers, more than one FC Studio), Julianne Moore, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Elizabeth Berkley, Kanye West, Tina Fey (MacBook Pro), two guys from the show "Queer
- [Player Piano Circa 2006](https://mattbinkowski.com/player-piano-circa-2006/) - Note the iPod integration.
- [Blood Free Pixels](https://mattbinkowski.com/blood-free-pixels/) - Below is an excerpt from a Wired article about Joesph DeLappe, an art professor at the University of Nevada who is engaged in what he calls online gaming intervention. Every day he logs into the U.S. Army's official online game (America's Army) and broadcasts names of actual soldiers who have died in Iraq. "By bringing
- [Permission to Terminate](https://mattbinkowski.com/permission-to-terminate/) - from slashdot: "Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker. The company said the undisclosed daily check is a safety measure designed to allow the tool, called Windows
- [Daringly Funny](https://mattbinkowski.com/daringly-funny/) - From Daring Fireball about the differences between mac and pc users in relation to some high profile open source people who announced they are moving from the mac to something open source. First of all, as if we couldn't predict that* happening, but i digress. Here's the funny bit: "Hence the difficult situation faced by
- [Apple’s TODO List](https://mattbinkowski.com/apples-todo-list/) - I regularly poke around inside the contents of applications just to see what's there resource-wise in case there's a specific pre-made icon that I could use in a design somewhere to speed up the prototype process. Well, I was in my Utilities folder and dug into the Keychain Access app. That app has alot of
- [Safari RSS Tip](https://mattbinkowski.com/safari-rss-tip/) - I'm into coding in certain instances. One of which is learning about how my Mac works and making modifications to it. So, this tip is really from an Apple developer's blog that goes through all the gyrations on how he figured it out...I'll spare you that. The situation is this. If you use Safari's built-in
- [Quick Applescripts](https://mattbinkowski.com/quick-applescripts-2/) - I've toyed with AppleScript for years now, usually just to do weird things that aren't easily accessible like automating iTunes Music Store contest entries, setting the desktop automatically. You know, generally useless things that at the time, present themselves as minor challenges that I must solve. Here are a few quick AppleScripts for you that
- [Apple Sanity Check](https://mattbinkowski.com/apple-sanity-check/) - Anyone who writes CSS will appreciate note. Apple's Safari FAQ page for developers lists this note regarding supported CSS properties. Note the language in the last sentence. ;-) 16. What CSS properties are supported in Safari? Safari is designed to provide the most complete implementation of the CSS specification. There are however, some CSS properties
- [iSee for iPod isCool](https://mattbinkowski.com/isee-for-ipod-iscool/) - Ignore the tired "i" product name for a sec and look at this. This iPod accessory actually lets you directly record TV shows and more to MPEG-4 format. How cool is this? Well the makers of iSee (ATO) are planning on releasing an HDTV version of this. From ZDNET Asia: "San Carlos, Calif.-based ATO will
- [Voice Wreckognition](https://mattbinkowski.com/voice-wreckognition/) - And people thought the first version of the Newton handwriting recognition got flamed. At least the Newton didn't make it on Google Video like Microsoft's new voice recognition software did. Enjoy!
- [My Great Movie](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-great-movie/) - Ugh if anyone out there dislikes the line "My Great Movie" as much as I do when using iMovie please know that you can easily change it to whatever you want. Open this file with a text editor: /Applications/iMovie HD.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings and down on line 114, change what's in the quotes: defaultNameForNewProject = "My Great Movie";
- [It’s About Time](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-about-time/) - BenQ-Siemens recently showed off their button-less phone concept: It never made much sense to me why phones had to have a static button interface anyway. I wonder how long before Apple releases their iPhone that utilizes this same idea.
- [Sal Sagosian iChat Icons](https://mattbinkowski.com/sal-sagosian-ichat-icons/) - For those of you who don't know who Sal is, he's the AppleScript and Automator project manager at Apple Computer. He's one of the old school guys from Apple who obviously enjoys the technology that he's presenting. I made these quick screenshots from a webcast he made on Remote Desktop and Automator ideas. Gotta love
- [So Disturbing…Must Watch Again](https://mattbinkowski.com/so-disturbingmust-watch-again/) - Poor Aismo. Even though this is just a robot, it's so frightening to watch. Maybe it's because the robot seems so gentle with its movement. Maybe because it's helpless when it's falling down. It looks like it is being shot by a sniper and then acting out its rehearsed death scene.
- [Power User or Poor Usability?](https://mattbinkowski.com/power-user-or-poor-usability/) - After reading this article via my pal Eddie G's blog, I thought I'd share an iTunes oddity with those 2 people out there that actually read this blog. After importing a CD, I noticed that iTunes did not want to group all of the songs together. I then realized after searching the iTunes support forums
- [Team Player](https://mattbinkowski.com/team-player/) - With the very recent launch of Microsoft's Zune and its related e-store, I find this quote from Bill Gates regarding DRM schemes to be completely mindblowing: "People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then." Nothing like totally undercutting your most recent product by in essence saying "Hey, I know we've
- [Leopard Wish List - Item 1](https://mattbinkowski.com/leopard-wish-list-item-1/) - You know, the one thing that would be a beautiful Christmas present to Mac users would be a totally new Finder as one of their top secret features. So many people have piled on the damn thing, people have written apps to replace it, and with all the pretty eye candy we all know Apple's
- [Missing Climbers Solution?](https://mattbinkowski.com/missing-climbers-solution/) - Wouldn't it just make sense to those who enjoy mountain climbing to just carry a simple GPS device that could transmit your location when you're embarking on difficult trips? I mean, why there isn't some kind of universal device that could globally transmit your location to a search and rescue unit is beyond me. Make
- [She Pissed Off Mail](https://mattbinkowski.com/mail-stops-counting-attachments/) - My wife's lovely grandmother just came back from a 21 day trip to China and wanted to share her photos with us...via email...and didn't leave one out. She sent 157 images in one email. Mail then decided enough was enough. This is the way Mail described the number of attachments in the main viewer window:
- [I Bought an iPhone](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-bought-an-iphone/) - I know, it's nutty. I've never had a personal cell phone before this. There's no point in me writing up a review since there are literally hundreds if you search Google News or do virtually any blog. I went to the Twelve Oaks Apple store in Novi, walked to the back display unit, futzed around
- [Google Hates Dora](https://mattbinkowski.com/dora-is-taking-over-google/) - For some reason a search in Safari 3 beta's integrated Google search field for "dora backpack mp3" results in this: 4GB for a search string? Hmm. I reported this to Apple via the bug reporter. Here's the actual full search string. And why was I searching for that? Because I was hoping to terrorize a
- [Latin to Clipboard](https://mattbinkowski.com/latin-to-clipboard-2/) - I was just sitting here looking for some Latin to use in a design and had an idea. There's no need for me to visit some website or locate a stray file on my computer to do this. I wrote an AppleScript to do the work and I'm sharing it with you. Just download it,
- [Interesting iPhone Developer Video Details](https://mattbinkowski.com/fsj-in-demo-at-wwdc/) - A new developer-only video for developing web sites for the iPhone was just released. During the demo, I noticed these frames: Someone at Apple is a fan of Fake Steve Jobs A quick Google Maps demo for a restaurant showed this secondary link beneath the map image (note that the restaurant's actual website is Flash
- [Boycott Anti-Fake Steve Jobs News](https://mattbinkowski.com/boycott-anti-fake-steve-jobs-news/) - I love reading the FSJ blog and vow not to visit any site that discusses his true identity. And you should too. I have no interest in knowing who the real FSJ is. I encourage everyone to join my boycott. The first target is Valleywag.
- [Back From The Dead](https://mattbinkowski.com/back-from-the-dead/) - So my laptop completely bit the dust yesterday and DiskWarrior saved me. I had several apps running at once when out of nowhere, the entire machine totally locked up. Couldn't force quit. Couldn't quit any app. So I had to do a hard restart (power + command + control). The machine tried to restart but
- [Command Click Your Bookmarks](https://mattbinkowski.com/command-click-your-bookmarks/) - I just accidentally found this and it doesn't appear to be documented in Safari's Help content. If you're like me, you use the Bookmarks Bar for things like news websites. If you Command-Click on the little menu item, Safari will automatically open every URL in that folder in separate tabs.
- [Hilarious Side by Side Comparison](https://mattbinkowski.com/hilarious-side-by-side-comparison/) - New iMac vs Dell XPS 410 from Apple.com. Nuff said.
- [ARRRR MATEY, the .Mac Gallery is a Real Hoot!](https://mattbinkowski.com/mac-gallery-is-real/) - So, Apple released iLife 08 and as part of that, a high res video that you can download to learn about all the new features in each app. I got it and got to the .Mac photo gallery / sharing portion when the video showed a Safari window with a .Mac gallery as the example.
- [They Will All Come Back](https://mattbinkowski.com/they-will-all-come-back/) - So Universal Music has decided to ditch iTunes so they can distribute their DRM free MP3s elsewhere. This has everything to do with price jumps because Apple really set the tone for music pricing. What Universal doesn't understand is the consumer's hatred for price gouging. At least that's what consumers will perceive it as since
- [Shift Command R(etired)](https://mattbinkowski.com/shift-command-retired/) - Apple just posted a technical document that states it's no longer necessary to hold Shift-Command-R to bypass the cache when attempting to reload a page in Safari. It already bypasses the cache anytime you reload a page. It'll be hard to drop that habit of including ol' Shift to the reload party.
- [iTunes Source List Bump](https://mattbinkowski.com/itunes-source-list-bump/) - I think this is unintentional but it happens and it's weird. Notice the alignment of the icons in the source list (red screen guide included to help): And now look at it when you click a disclosure triangle in the Playlist section below:
- [Try iWork? I Own It. Now Go Away](https://mattbinkowski.com/try-iwork-ok-now-go-away/) - So I'm using iWork '08 and noticed a grayed out menu item in the "Keynote" menu that says "Try iWork…". Hey Apple, since the software is mine, why not just simply remove the menu item programmatically? Why do I have to have this extra disabled menu item in there now that I own it?
- [Scaring Keynote](https://mattbinkowski.com/scaring-keynote/) - Why is it that when you save an open Keynote document, the gradient behind the window's top row of icons suddenly shifts to white and back when it's done saving? See what I mean:
- [DRAG THIS!](https://mattbinkowski.com/transparency-kick/) - Leopard is coming and Apple has done a nice job adding the new QuickLook functionality in the Finder. Now you can drag any item that is showing in the CoverFlow view to a folder or disk or whatever. That's not new because iTunes lets you do the same thing (not that I ever tried it
- [The Back of Steve’s Mind](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-back-of-steves-mind/) - From a NYTimes article: The Apple development team worried constantly that the approach might fail during the years they were creating the iPhone, he said. "We all had that Garry Trudeau cartoon that poked fun at the Newton in the back of our minds," he said, citing Doonesbury comic strips that mocked an Apple handwriting-recognition
- [Leopard Dock Shadows](https://mattbinkowski.com/leopard-dock-shadows/) - Every dock icon automatically gets a cast shadow that is in perspective with the dock when it's positioned at the bottom of the screen. But hang on. I just noticed something kinda weird. They also have a drop shadow that is projected behind them so they stand out from the background. Is someone going a
- [Get Your Leopard DashClipping Today](https://mattbinkowski.com/get-your-leopard-dashclipping-today/) - An enterprising developer hacked together a cool widget for your Mac dashboard. It's called Dash Clipping. Why wait for Leopard when this does the same thing.
- [Crashing Around You Every Day](https://mattbinkowski.com/living-in-your-own-world/) - Here's a direct quote from Bill Gates in an article on msnbc: Q: In many of the Vista reviews, even the positive ones, people note that some Vista features are already in the Mac operating system. A: You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about
- [Really Big iTunes Album Art](https://mattbinkowski.com/really-big-itunes-album-art/) - This is clearly just a minor detail that was overlooked during the build of iTunes but it's functional. When in Album View, the first column on your left is the album image (or it should be). Resize that column by dragging it to the right and you'll notice there's no maxium width to the column.
- [Put a File’s Path In the Clipboard](https://mattbinkowski.com/useful-applescript/) - I'm not the best at writing scripts (Google is my personal assistant). However, I did manage to stumble across this script that I use quite regularly. It's really simple and a missing part of the Mac OS. I tend to need the full path to a file on my computer. [code] on open (theFile) set
- [Designer Tip: Zoom In Anytime](https://mattbinkowski.com/designer-tip-zoom-in-anytime/) - For those of us who need to know if something is "off" by a pixel, this is a great way to do so in any application at any time. Open the "Universal Access" Preference Pane and on the default tab "Seeing" is the "Zoom" on/off radio button. Click the "on" radio button and then configure
- [Taking Questions](https://mattbinkowski.com/taking-questions/) - From the recent shareholder meeting in which the difference between an uninformed shareholder and Steve Jobs was made this obvious: A member of the audience questioned Jobs on Apple's relatively low figure of reinvestment in R&D, saying that he felt the company was missing low handing fruit with new product opportunities, particularly with the delay
- [Delicious Teaser](https://mattbinkowski.com/delicious-teaser/) - Apple's announcement of the WWDC Design Awards includes some more info on Delicious LIbrary 2. Delicious Monster walked away with the "Best Mac OS X Leopard Application" and Apple posted this screenshot of the app on their site.
- [WWDC Math](https://mattbinkowski.com/wwdc-math/) - WWDC - no iPhone SDK - no new iWork - new Finder still makes Path Finder look like it's from the future - no new hardware - no new details on CoreAnimation = Boring I wasn't able to keep up with the live blogging and feel like I didn't miss anything at all.
- [I Love Local Advertising](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-love-local-advertising/) - The latest issue of X-OLOGY (Spring 2007) ran this ad and it caught my eye: Not because of the repeating stock photo of the man but because the man at the top of the stack is holding a Newton: HA! It's hilarious to see references to Apple's Newton well after the product was discontinued.
- [Extra Extra!](https://mattbinkowski.com/extra-extra/) - Leopard's Safari RSS functionality is a little on the obsessive side. Or should I say, nagging side. Even though I've selected this one RSS feed several times in a row, the menu bar doesn't show the unread count, but that menu sure does!!
- [Weird Help Viewer Navigation](https://mattbinkowski.com/weird-help-viewer-navigation/) - According to the Help Viewer application's documentation, "To see a previous help topic, click the Back button. To return, click the Forward button." There's no mention of using what I've found. The delete key takes you backward one page at a time while Shift-Delete goes forward. HUH??
- [Less Transparent Changes](https://mattbinkowski.com/less-transparent-change/) - Despite Steve Jobs' sell job at Macworld on Leopard's "cool" transparent menu bar, the people's voices have been heard. Today's update to OS X includes the following two changes: Desktop Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences. Adjusts menus to be slightly-less
- [Extended Battery Life](https://mattbinkowski.com/extended-battery-life/) - Because of Apple's legendary silence (lack of communication), the burgeoning iPhone developer community is wondering aloud why Apple isn't allowing background apps to exist on their phone. Mike Ash has a great breakdown and why Apple's current argument just doesn't add up. Jon Gruber is happy to explain from an unknown source of authority that
- [iTunes Bookmarks?](https://mattbinkowski.com/itunes-bookmarks/) - Random thought: Why doesn't iTunes allow people to bookmark pages? I'd rather not fill a cart with things...
- [Tiny Safari Hint](https://mattbinkowski.com/tiny-safari-hint/) - This is really just an odd thing I stumbled upon one day... In Safari, open one window and then create a new tab so you have 1 window with 2 tabs beneath the address & bookmarks bar. Open a URL in the first tab. When it's finished loading, you can drag the url's Favorite icon
- [A Slow Realization](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-slow-realization/) - I think I'm just starting to realize that there's almost nothing original about the whole GTA series, and in particular, GTA4. Nothing. It's more like a demented take on the state of the United States than an actual game. I get no enjoyment from running over random virtual pedestrians with my bullet-ridden vehicle. Nor do
- [Mac Help Needs Help](https://mattbinkowski.com/mac-help-needs-help/) - So I was recently in Boston for business and decided to look up something in my mac's built-in help system. Unfortunately, it seems that the Help Viewer application requires internet connectivity because this is what I saw: Hey Apple, don't require me to be online to get help with my Mac. That's just stupid. So
- [Plainview is Right!](https://mattbinkowski.com/plainview-is-right/) - A new app for the Mac came out today to, ironically, help people present web based content without what is called "the chrome" of Safari (the address bar, status bar, and especially the Title bar). Unfortunately for this company, they overlooked their own presentation on their site by having this screenshot that helps demonstrate their
- [Insane Simpsons Map for Quake 3 Arena](https://mattbinkowski.com/insane-simpsons-map-for-quake-3-arena/) - Holy COW!
- [Keynote Tips and Tricks](https://mattbinkowski.com/keynote-tips-and-tricks/) - Here's a short list I recently made for some folks who were new to Keynote. Maybe this is useful to other people who live in Keynote as much as I do every day. 1. Use multiple Inspectors. Option-Click any of the tiles at the top of the Inspector palette to create a new Inspector window.
- [iPhone App Wishlist](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-app-wishlist/) - 1. A real spam filter for MobileMail. Unfortunately, Apple's MobileMail 2.0 description only talks about "support for mass email move and delete." Maybe the developer of SpamSieve will come out with an iPhone version. 2. Cutomize.app. 3. A great voice notes app. I've even considered trying to create my own version. 4. A remote control
- [A Little Before Its Time](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-little-before-its-time/) - Hey iTunes, if you had a built-in feedback mechanism that was easy to find, I wouldn't have had to post this to my blog: In Utero came out in 93, not 83.
- [Remote.app Hints](https://mattbinkowski.com/remoteapp-hints/) - This is a helpful hint if you're running 10.4.11 like I am and would like to try the new iPhone app called Remote. Step 1: update iTunes to 7.7. Step 2: Go to your System Preference > Sharing and make sure Remote Apple Events is checked in the Services tab. Also check iTunes Music Sharing
- [First Post on 360](https://mattbinkowski.com/first-post-on-360/) - Here's a first. I've been asked by my company to write regular posts on their blog. Here's my first one: Link
- [Mobile Me Is In My Face](https://mattbinkowski.com/mobile-me-is-in-my-face/) - Hey Apple, I don't want Mobile Me so please remove your lame promo for the service. I do not need this banner ad taking up space in my iTunes sync window under the Info tab. This forces me to scroll down to get to all of the stuff I ACTUALLY WANT. Pushy. THIS KIND OF
- [Updated and Activated](https://mattbinkowski.com/updated-and-activated/) - I did the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade last night without a hitch. Well, actually I had to remove all the data from my iPhone prior to the update because the backup of the iPhone failed. My phone was jammed with gigs of photos and, once I saw that the upgrade process required a backup, I
- [Making Steve Jobs Happy, Part 1](https://mattbinkowski.com/making-steve-jobs-happy-part-1/) - In a new series of sarcastic posts, I attempt to find the things that make Steve Jobs smile widely because to him, these things help maintain his job security. The new Mozilla "concept browser":
- [Strange Omission](https://mattbinkowski.com/strange-omission/) - So I bought Delicious Library a little while back to catalog all of my books, cds, etc. It works great. One new feature is the ability to catalog gadgets. Being an iPhone owner, I happily tried to enter mine in the software and lo and behold, you can't. After confirming with DL support, it's not
- [iWork In The Sky](https://mattbinkowski.com/iwork-in-the-sky/) - I'd like to chime in on the latest rumor that the update to iWork, including Keynote, will have a "cloud" version. This is a horrible idea. I can't imagine why I would want to have this option, especially when presenting at client sites is always a nasty hit-or-miss wifi scenario. I have no interest in
- [iPhone Audio Cracks Me Up](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-audio-cracks-me-up/) - Not sure if anyone else has had this problem... I have a first gen iPhone and find it really helpful to plug in the stock earbuds for the drive home from work. Lately I've noticed that if I push the earbud cable all the way into the headphone jack, the audio playback is garbled and
- [Sharing an iTunes Library Between Users the Easy Way](https://mattbinkowski.com/sharing-an-itunes-library-between-users-the-easy-way/) - For a while now, I've been trying to share my iTunes library with the other 2 user accounts on our home computer. Apple has a suggestion of placing the Library that has the music in it into a shared location on your computer but there's an easier way that's much more reliable. All you have
- [414 Error?](https://mattbinkowski.com/414-error/) - Huh.. Turns out this URI is too long for Google to process.
- [Flash and the AppStore](https://mattbinkowski.com/flash-and-the-appstore/) - I'm really getting the feeling that most people are missing the bigger unspoken point about Apple's position on Flash: Apple does not want a revenue threat against their AppStore. Anyone who knows anything about Flash knows that this isn't about Flash but the development platform it uses. That platform is sophisticated enough so that a
- [Rockstar Honesty](https://mattbinkowski.com/rockstar-honesty/) - From a recent Q&A: Q: “Come on R*! You say you listen to popular demand, yet you seem to flatly refuse everyone asking for a train in multiplayer, why is that?” - captaincabbage A: We absolutely listen to popular demand, but we don’t necessarily do what people want. We may simply not like an idea.
- [Flash and the AppStore Part 2](https://mattbinkowski.com/flash-and-the-appstore-part-2/) - It seems the CEO of Adobe and I think alike. Back in July of 2010 I wrote this blog post: I’m really getting the feeling that most people are missing the bigger unspoken point about Apple’s position on Flash: Apple does not want a revenue threat against their AppStore. Today, Adobe CEO Shantany Narayen seems
- [Elise the Witch and Her Black Cat](https://mattbinkowski.com/elise-the-witch-and-her-black-cat/)
- [iOS 5 Folder Triangle Alignment](https://mattbinkowski.com/ios-5-folder-triangle-alignment/) - With all the nice UI tweaks in iOS 5, it seems that Apple didn't do anything about the folder triangle alignment. Interesting.
- [Speak Into the Light](https://mattbinkowski.com/speak-into-the-light/)
- [Some Days I Feel Like This Too](https://mattbinkowski.com/some-days-i-feel-like-this-too/)
- [Lonely Sculpture](https://mattbinkowski.com/lonely-sculpture/) - The only sculpture I've ever made. I really need to take another class somewhere.
- [Walking the Bat](https://mattbinkowski.com/walking-the-bat/)
- [f8 Reception](https://mattbinkowski.com/f8-reception/) - When I watched the Andy Samberg comedy intro and obvious entrance by Mark Zuckerberg, I was struck by the strangely long delay before the audience began to applaud his appearance. I think of that now on the day after Steve Jobs passed away, and can't help to compare their vastly different audience reactions when their
- [Pumpkins!](https://mattbinkowski.com/pumpkins-2/)
- [Natural Born Planker](https://mattbinkowski.com/natural-born-planker/)
- [Symmetrical Butterfly](https://mattbinkowski.com/symmetrical-butterfly/)
- [Facebook Updates: Why People Get So Upset and How To Improve Them](https://mattbinkowski.com/facebook-updates-why-people-get-so-upset-and-how-to-improve-them/) - Today, with the noticeable numerous UX changes on Facebook, many people I'm directly connected to or read about via 3rd party social media news websites seem to be more upset about those changes than others in the past. I think I might know why. Dealing with Change Last night I was watching What Not to
- [Kites in San Francisco](https://mattbinkowski.com/big-weekend/) - The kite at the top center of the photo is Elise's!
- [iPad2 GarageBand Test](https://mattbinkowski.com/ipad2-garageband-test/) - Now if only I had the time to play this through my actual guitar instead of tapping on the iPad... [wpaudio url="http://mattbinkowski.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/My-Song-2.mp3" text="Test Song" dl="0"]
- [Miles Loves Ice Cream](https://mattbinkowski.com/we-love-ice-cream/)
- [Boy, You’re Awesome](https://mattbinkowski.com/boy-youre-awesome/) - While serving as a Creative Director at Hallmark I had several conversations with the in-house recording studio team about music. I also happened to mention my background in playing guitar with bands over the years. Little did I know that experience would come in handy. While sitting at my desk, the phone rang. On the
- [Jill and Miles and Paul!](https://mattbinkowski.com/miles-and-jill-and-paul/)
- [A Gift](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-gift/)
- [Roadside (Disappearing Springboard Icons)](https://mattbinkowski.com/roadside/) - Update: I just noticed that if you use that image above as your home screen and then tap into a folder, the opacity of the Springboard icons almost matches the background, thereby making them seem to disappear.
- [Alex and Henry](https://mattbinkowski.com/alex-and-henry/)
- [We've Got a Talker](https://mattbinkowski.com/we-got-a-talker/) - Source Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told Floridians Sunday that Hurricane Irene and the earthquake felt along much of the East Coast last week were messages from God to warn "politicians" to start heeding divine guidance, which she suggested is being channeled through small government conservatives. "I don't know how much God has to do
- [Caterpillar Rollercoaster](https://mattbinkowski.com/caterpillar-rollercoaster/)
- [Wreath](https://mattbinkowski.com/wreath/)
- [Sprinklers!](https://mattbinkowski.com/sprinklers/)
- [Local Ads](https://mattbinkowski.com/local-ads/) - I had no idea Disney licensed their corporate font to a pool company! I had no idea Facebook needed advertising!
- [Red Bedtime](https://mattbinkowski.com/red-bedtime/)
- [BART](https://mattbinkowski.com/bart/)
- [Custom Cards!](https://mattbinkowski.com/custom-cards/)
- [BART Photos](https://mattbinkowski.com/bart-textures/)
- [They Call Me Eagle Eye](https://mattbinkowski.com/they-call-me-eagle-eye/) - I KNEW that stupid triangle underneath the iPhone's "folder" icon wasn't centered!
- [Exploring California](https://mattbinkowski.com/california-exploring/) - I'd say I'm getting to see the Bay Area pretty well.
- [Weecie's Tooth!](https://mattbinkowski.com/weecies-tooth/)
- [Elise's Dance Recital](https://mattbinkowski.com/elises-dance-recital/)
- [Gotta Do What Ya Gotta Do](https://mattbinkowski.com/gotta-do-what-ya-gotta-do/)
- [Mt. Diablo](https://mattbinkowski.com/mt-diablo/)
- [Private Lunch](https://mattbinkowski.com/private-lunch/)
- [Slide Time!](https://mattbinkowski.com/slide-time/)
- [Elise and Her Guitar Pajamas](https://mattbinkowski.com/elise-and-her-guitar-pajamas/)
- [Miles is a Robot](https://mattbinkowski.com/miles-is-a-robot/)
- [Pledge This](https://mattbinkowski.com/pledge-this/) - After watching this last night, I hereby pledge to watch more Real Time with Bill Maher. He killed it.
- [My Backyard](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-backyard/)
- [Path](https://mattbinkowski.com/path/)
- [America at 10 mph](https://mattbinkowski.com/america-at-10-mph/) - Four people are about to embark on an adventure that defies all logic: travel across America on a Segway. That's right. They plan to create a "documentary" of their encounters along the way. Sign up for updates on this incredibly slow-moving journey here:Segway Across America
- [Johnny Carson, Dead at 79](https://mattbinkowski.com/johnny-carson-dead-at-79/) - Lately I've noticed this weird feeling I have around 11:30 on Saturday nights...I get all excited about SNL coming on the air and realized how important really good comedy has been to me in my life. This weekend was a doubly sad one for me. One, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost their title game and are
- [GM Promotion Cracked Early](https://mattbinkowski.com/gm-promotion-cracked-early/) - It seems that someone decided to end the suspense to a nationwide GM billboard promotion. The idea was to post one word per billboard across the country eventually spelling out an entire phrase. However, if you have a simple tool like a SWF decoder, you can easily read the code and therefore the entire phrase
- [Chris Rockâ„¢](https://mattbinkowski.com/chris-rock/) - I found this comment kinda weird considering who it came from. I was reading an article from the NY Times recently and it was about how Chris Rock was preparing to host the Oscars this year. In it, he discussed his initial thoughts about being asked to host and this is where I was caught
- [Project Greenlight](https://mattbinkowski.com/project-greenlight/) - Lately, 10pm is the family bedtime but for some reason, I stayed up until midnight watching the premiere of Project Greenlight on Bravo. I am very interested in filmmaking and kinda considering going for my masters in film somewhere, so I thought it might be cool to watch this show from the start since I
- [Balance](https://mattbinkowski.com/balance/) - Most people have heard of AIBO from Sony. You know, that weird little robotic dog that they're trying to use as a platform for humanoid robots that can walk? Who knew that in my own backyard, the fine folks at uMich have created their own walking robot that even compensates for its balance when it
- [If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…](https://mattbinkowski.com/if-you-cant-beat-em/) - When Melissa and I went out to dinner last night, we were trying to name the things that scared us the most. I'm not sure why I didn't mention sharks but I should have. It turns out that the grandson of famous oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau believes the best way to learn about sharks
- [Google Maps Hacking](https://mattbinkowski.com/google-maps-hacking/) - Finally someone is putting Google to good use by marrying it with all kinds of interesting databases that actually help the public stay informed on things that they normally couldn't. For example, a guy in Chicago has been mining the Police Department website to locate all crimes and then plotting them to Google Maps. This
- [Funny Spam Headlines](https://mattbinkowski.com/funny-spam-headlines/) - I've always been fascinated by the headlines spammers use in their email subject lines. Mostly because I can't imagine anyone out there actually clicking into an email that started like that. Here's a collection of my favorites from the past few months. (Yes, I have a Sidenote running to capture these things). I'll file this
- [Post-It Mosaic Art](https://mattbinkowski.com/post-it-mosaic-art/) - Someone's boss said their brainstorming conference room needed some spicing up. Sounds like a task for Elvis, a boatload of Post-It notes and Photoshop. How to Flickr Photoset of the office
- [A Reduction In Comfort](https://mattbinkowski.com/you-just-gotta-love-it/) - "The Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) is a newly developed electronic damper adjustment for the shock absorber system. It actively and continuously controls the damping forces of the pneumatic suspension according to driving situation and driving dynamics. When driving very dynamically with high acceleration and deceleration rates, PASM neutralizes unpleasant movements before they can lead
- [Mega M&M’s](https://mattbinkowski.com/mega-mms/) - MMM. When a major brand decides to remake their product, it usually ends in disaster (eg. Vanilla Coke), but the people at Mars Co. are not one of them. MEGA M&Ms - 55% bigger than standard M&Ms!
- [The End of a Magical Era](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-end-of-a-magical-era/) - The Walt Disney Company decided to shutter its last remaining traditional (hand drawn) animation studio this week. About 250 animators will be out of work in Australia. This is really upsetting to me. I haven't written much about it yet in my about page but it is true that I was highly motivated to attend
- [3d Television by 2020](https://mattbinkowski.com/3d-television-by-2020/) - From Reuters: Imagine watching a football match on a TV that not only shows the players in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the stadium and maybe even pat a goalscorer on the back. Japan plans to make this futuristic television a commercial reality by 2020 as part of a broad
- [Does Anyone Hear An Echo?](https://mattbinkowski.com/does-anyone-hear-an-echo/) - This really should be filed under anti-creativity but oh well, here it sits. Hey Quark, the Scottish Arts Council called. They want their corporate identity back. DOH!
- [Rembrandt Painting Recovered](https://mattbinkowski.com/rembrandt-painting-recovered/) - Remember this from 2000? It was just five minutes before closing when three masked and heavily armed men walked into the museum, located in the centre of the Swedish capital, and snatched the precious works of art from the walls as numerous witnesses looked on. The three robbers threw spikes onto the road to slow
- [Tracking Art](https://mattbinkowski.com/tracking-art/) - Someone created an art experiment consisting of a painting with a GPS device embedded in the back. They left it out in a park one day and tracked it's path via google earth until they found it resting in an odd place. They then posted flyers in the area saying that they had been part
- [Google Maps Art](https://mattbinkowski.com/google-maps-art/) - A week or so ago, a friend introduced me to Digg.com. As a Total Information Nerd, I always welcome more sources of random bits of information to digest. Today, digg has a link to a blogger who said it was neat finding abstract areas of the earth via Google Maps and posting your link to
- [So You Call This A Sketch?](https://mattbinkowski.com/so-you-call-this-a-sketch/) - Now, I like to read Autoblog. Partially for work reasons, partially for personal reasons. This story's image caught my eye. Not because it's a great image but because this is officially considered a concept sketch. Um, that's a nice drawing of a grille but other than that, um, what does the rest of this car
- [ASCII WARS](https://mattbinkowski.com/ascii-wars/) - Now this is weird. Someone has been working on an ascii version of starwars episode 4. This is so bizarre and funny it's cool. Just do the following and then return: 1. Open the Terminal and type the following: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl The movie will play automatically. No need to hit return or any keys.
- [Oops I Birthed It Again!](https://mattbinkowski.com/oops-they-did-it-again/) - This new sculpture is quite funny. And well done, technically speaking. It's Britney Spears giving birth. The kicker is that it was commissioned by a Pro-Life movement group. How weird. Statement from the gallery: "A nude Britney Spears on a bearskin rug while giving birth to her firstborn marks a "first" for Pro-Life. Pop-star Britney
- [One or Many](https://mattbinkowski.com/one-or-many/) - Thanks to my bro for catching this article. Excerpt that caught my eye: "Mr. Berger complained about a remark Mr. Liodice had made in a recent article in the trade publication Adweek, saying that marketers are often better off hiring multiple agencies rather than entrusting their entire accounts to one agency. Mr. Berger said that
- [Why Google Is Different](https://mattbinkowski.com/why-google-is-different/) - Here's an interesting excerpt from a great Wall Street Journal commentary article about Google and how it has managed to not kill itself off: "Elitism may be out of fashion, but Google is famously elitist when it comes to hiring. It understands that companies begin to slide into mediocrity when they start to hire mediocre
- [Joe Kral Needs Help](https://mattbinkowski.com/joe-kral-needs-help/) - Joe Kral, of Test Pilot Collective typeface fame, has had a serious medial emergency and, because he doesn't have health insurance, is asking the public to help with his medical bills, which are expected to be around $50,000. He already has 6k from donations and needs more.
- [Web 2.0 Business Model Problem](https://mattbinkowski.com/web-20-business-model-problem/) - TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Basecamp faces competition in free alternative It only makes sense that someone is trying to build and distribute a free version of Basecamp. That in and of itself is the big problem with web 2.0 businesses that rely on webbased software. Me thinks Adobemedia is watching this all pan out
- [You Were Expecting Text?](https://mattbinkowski.com/you-were-expecting-text/) - The Iconfactory is redesigning their site to meet W3C standards and are "documenting" this effort on their website:
- [Striking Photograph](https://mattbinkowski.com/striking-photograph/) - This is a few days old but it's worth showing. Here's what I consider a pretty beautiful photograph that was on the front page of the New York Times.
- [Best of Flogs](https://mattbinkowski.com/fake-blogs/) - I've been reading about them so much lately that I've decided to keep a little history of them in this post. Click the image for the full screenshot in case the blog is taken down someday. The List: Sony PSP Blog Walmarting Across America
- [Get Well Soon](https://mattbinkowski.com/get-well-soon/) - It's every artist's nightmare. To have something wrong with your eye. My friend Rob Harrell had just that happen to him. Fortunately, he's recovering. Rob is a fellow Ringling grad from my class. We became pals and he even drove up to Detroit to stand up in my wedding. He and I will never forget
- [Making a Great Point](https://mattbinkowski.com/making-a-great-point/) - Props to my brother for this comment about the superbowl ads: The Doritos ad illustrates my point: When your Superbowl commercial contest winner was an Ad guy, whose "finalist" status was approved by Ad folks and voted on by what amount to online focus groups (a la American Idol) then it really doesn't count as
- [Suggestive Advertising](https://mattbinkowski.com/subliminal-advertising/) - Am I seeing something more in this cover of a recent 4wd parts catalog? It just makes me wonder how much of this is planned or is purely accidental.
- [Inspired By?](https://mattbinkowski.com/inspired-by/) - I can't verify this but after googling around the internets this afternoon I stumbled across a site for the company The Barbarian Group (VW's flash vendor) and noticed something odd: Their little rollover tooltip is much like this one: -my old site design. Will the real slim shady please stand up? ;-)
- [Attractive Things Work Better](https://mattbinkowski.com/attractive-things-work-better/) - From an article discussing the internals of Apple, Inc.'s design process: Norman cites research in cognitive science suggesting that people's emotions affect the way their minds process information. In his 2004 book Emotional Design, he writes, "Positive emotions are critical to learning, curiosity, and creative thought. ... The psychologist Alice Isen and her colleagues have
- [Sweet Retouching](https://mattbinkowski.com/sweet-retouching/) - John Mayer has always struck me as the quiet type but I had no idea that he could literally disappear from a photograph, here pictured with Jessica Simpson at the beach:
- [Great Photoshopped Celebrities Site](https://mattbinkowski.com/great-photoshopped-celebrities-site/) - -- officially added to my links section. This person takes celebs and turns them into "normal" people. HA!
- [Is This Really Considered Successful?](https://mattbinkowski.com/is-this-really-considered-successful/) - I'm sorry but this is just startling to me. Google has a new ad system. Read about it here. What's weird is that there's this "success story" page. On it is this example from Ogilvy Interactive for Six Flags: Results Scale: Delivered 94.5M impressions to 17.1M uniques across the Google content network Engagement: 0.3% of
- [Robin’s Egg Pink](https://mattbinkowski.com/robin-egg-pink/) - My pal Lisa Samartino has just thrown open the doors to her super cool Etsy shop and I am really impressed! What cool clothing! Way to go Lisa!
- [Post Secret Still Amazes Me](https://mattbinkowski.com/post-secret-still-amazes-me/) - I don't think I've written anything about this site before but it has remained in my favorite blog link list for ages and it still, like the title of this post says, amazes me. I find it so fascinating that people mail in creative postcards about their deepest inner feelings. What an incredible use of
- [ICON Quotes](https://mattbinkowski.com/icon-quotes/) - I've had the great opportunity to work with some really funny people in my career and found it entertaining to record things overheard in the office. I've been saving this list until I left ICON and I think it's safe to let them run free now. I've abbreviated the names to protect the innocent. ;-)
- [Stefan Sagmeister’s Diary](https://mattbinkowski.com/stefan-sagmeisters-diary/) - Just found a great TED conference talk by Stefan Sagmeister in which he showed a slide of some of the things he's learned over the years by keeping diaries. I'll share them with you here: Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. Thinking life in the future will be better is stupid, I have to
- [That’s All Folks (Cause We’re Almost Dead)!](https://mattbinkowski.com/thats-all-folks-cause-were-almost-dead/) - Via BoingBoing:
- [The Best](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-best/)
- [Human Mirror](https://mattbinkowski.com/human-mirror/)
- [Awesome UFO Project](https://mattbinkowski.com/awesome-ufo-project/) - From Cinimod Studio
- [I SWEAR This Isn’t Elise](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-swear-this-isnt-elise/) - It's a little girl who attended this year's ComiCon conference. Boing Boing linked to a gallery of the best costumes this year. [Link]
- [When Normal Legos Aren’t Violent Enough](https://mattbinkowski.com/when-normal-legos-arent-violent-enough/) - There's Brickarms.
- [Cleaning the Cage](https://mattbinkowski.com/cleaning-the-cage/) - Australia has a new, what I call, extreme vacation attraction: Cage diving with saltwater crocs. Yikes!
- [My Favorite Super Bowl Ad](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-favorite-super-bowl-ad/) - I laugh out loud every time I watch this. CareerBuilder.com Official Super Bowl 2009 Commercial @ Yahoo! Video
- [Friday Night Fire](https://mattbinkowski.com/friday-night-fire/)
- [A Quiet Moment](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-quiet-moment/)
- [Ping and the WWDC Keynote](https://mattbinkowski.com/ping-and-the-wwdc-keynote/) - Apple sure had a big day yesterday at it's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Many new and overdue innovations were presented, but one thing was curiously missing from this list of Apple Wunderstats: Apple Misc: #1: App store's rank among software retailers 5,200: Number of developers at WWDC 2011 14 billion: Apps downloaded from store in
- [Nutter Butter!](https://mattbinkowski.com/nutter-butter/)
- [Skyline](https://mattbinkowski.com/skyline/)
- [Swarm](https://mattbinkowski.com/swarm/)
- [I'm Ready for My Close Up](https://mattbinkowski.com/im-ready-for-my-close-up/)
- [Puppy T](https://mattbinkowski.com/puppy-t/) - It's so hard to know where to begin. My mind keeps traveling up and down the timeline of his 11 year life. From the first time I saw him in the breeder's kitchen scrambling to fetch a rubber dog toy, to the freezing Michigan winter nights where we'd play endless games of fetch in a
- [Highway 1](https://mattbinkowski.com/highway-1/)
- [Ice Cream!](https://mattbinkowski.com/ice-cream/)
- [Miley Likes 3D Movies](https://mattbinkowski.com/miley-likes-3d-movies/)
- [Not cool, bud.  ;-) @IanSohn I...](https://mattbinkowski.com/not-cool-bud-iansohn-i-2/) - Not cool, bud. ;-) @IanSohn I'm here. You're not. (@ Le Meridien Resort & Spa - Pool)
- [@blitfin @shiftglobal No-A/C d...](https://mattbinkowski.com/blitfin-shiftglobal-no-ac-d-2/) - @blitfin @shiftglobal No-A/C day at ShiftGlobal? Boy you guys know how to party! What's next? No-Deodorant Day? ;-)
- [@unterekless @CraigDaitch http...](https://mattbinkowski.com/unterekless-craigdaitch-http-2/) - @unterekless @CraigDaitch http://bit.ly/iOKXPq
- [RT @ogilvypr: "No researc...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-ogilvypr-no-researc/) - RT @ogilvypr: "No research shows consumers want to be part of a brand's community. It comes down to experiences - shareable with friends ...
- [My guitar handiwork made it in...](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-guitar-handiwork-made-it-in/) - My guitar handiwork made it into a new Hallmark book w/sound called "Boy You're Awesome!" buy it @hallmark gold crown stores now! @joeywan
- [“@joeywan: Signs of Spri...](https://mattbinkowski.com/joeywan-signs-of-spri/) - “@joeywan: Signs of Spring: proud that I nursed this plant all winter. http://t.co/CByGldJ” Please take the "plant" on my desk. ;-)
- [Bill Murray on Letterman as Ke...](https://mattbinkowski.com/bill-murray-on-letterman-as-ke/) - Bill Murray on Letterman as Kentucky Derby jockey = COMEDY GOLD
- [@CraigDaitch @unterekless Grea...](https://mattbinkowski.com/craigdaitch-unterekless-grea/) - @CraigDaitch @unterekless Great working with you these past two days!
- [“@joeywan: RT "Ther...](https://mattbinkowski.com/joeywan-rt-ther/) - “@joeywan: RT "There are 5 advertising 3.0 opps" Mike of Google”. Mike who?
- [@BoJacobson congrats on your b...](https://mattbinkowski.com/bojacobson-congrats-on-your-b/) - @BoJacobson congrats on your bees award win.
- [On the way to Detroit via SFO....](https://mattbinkowski.com/on-the-way-to-detroit-via-sfo/) - On the way to Detroit via SFO.
- [@irinaslutsky @_strada @bojaco...](https://mattbinkowski.com/irinaslutsky-_strada-bojaco/) - @irinaslutsky @_strada @bojacobson @beesawards great to have met each of you and participate on the panel today. I had a good time.
- [@VirginiaMiracle @beesawards @...](https://mattbinkowski.com/virginiamiracle-beesawards/) - @VirginiaMiracle @beesawards @joeywan I think the food truck is a premonition. ;)
- [Glad I acted fast! I picked up...](https://mattbinkowski.com/glad-i-acted-fast-i-picked-up/) - Glad I acted fast! I picked up one of those steve jobs in carbonite iPhone cases before the cease and desist letter arrived at society6.
- [1st Obama proves he's American...](https://mattbinkowski.com/1st-obama-proves-hes-american/) - 1st Obama proves he's American as Chuck Norris, then gets Bin Laden. We don't need SETI. Aliens will be here to congratulate him any minute!
- [@dirkmshaw nice app. Thanks!...](https://mattbinkowski.com/dirkmshaw-nice-app-thanks/) - @dirkmshaw nice app. Thanks!
- [I WISH: “@DeathStarPR: C...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-wish-deathstarpr-c/) - I WISH: “@DeathStarPR: Congrats William & Kate! To celebrate Empire-style, we now kidnap the Princess and blow up her planet! #RW11
- [@pattonoswalt are there really...](https://mattbinkowski.com/pattonoswalt-are-there-really/) - @pattonoswalt are there really any* words that go well with motel? Other than the obvious: hell.
- [@mlogan bees awards....](https://mattbinkowski.com/mlogan-bees-awards/) - @mlogan bees awards.
- [@mlogan Are you going to atten...](https://mattbinkowski.com/mlogan-are-you-going-to-atten/) - @mlogan Are you going to attend? I'll be on the panel from 3-3:30.
- [@blitfin didnt know you were a...](https://mattbinkowski.com/blitfin-didnt-know-you-were-a/) - @blitfin didnt know you were a slayer fan. ;-)
- [@blitfin http://t.co/0YBqnxF...](https://mattbinkowski.com/blitfin-httpt-co0ybqnxf/) - @blitfin http://t.co/0YBqnxF
- [Had a great day at the client ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/had-a-great-day-at-the-client/) - Had a great day at the client site. Now onto production!
- [RT @michaelianblack: Sometimes...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-michaelianblack-sometimes/) - RT @michaelianblack: Sometimes I skip my workouts just to make it fair for other dudes.
- [I hate Apple's Game Center. Ea...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-hate-apples-game-center-ea/) - I hate Apple's Game Center. Easily the most un-apple, obnoxious, stupid app ever out of Cupertino. That is all.
- [Will all the chatter about Emp...](https://mattbinkowski.com/will-all-the-chatter-about-emp/) - Will all the chatter about Empire Avenue, you'd think they'd have more than 3,500 fb Likes.
- [RT @CraigDaitch: RT @eric_ande...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-craigdaitch-rt-eric_ande/) - RT @CraigDaitch: RT @eric_andersen: Good to know! You can opt out of iAd behavioral tracking by going to https://oo.apple.com on your iO ...
- [@IanSohn @craigdaitch does tha...](https://mattbinkowski.com/iansohn-craigdaitch-does-tha/) - @IanSohn @craigdaitch does that w stand for "willheplay"? ;-)
- [@dbinkowski right there with y...](https://mattbinkowski.com/dbinkowski-right-there-with-y/) - @dbinkowski right there with ya. Too bad I can't say the same for the rest of Wasting Light. #bummer
- [@dbinkowski I think the new fo...](https://mattbinkowski.com/dbinkowski-i-think-the-new-fo/) - @dbinkowski I think the new foo record is overly complicated.
- [@shelleyrisk are you in Napa t...](https://mattbinkowski.com/shelleyrisk-are-you-in-napa-t/) - @shelleyrisk are you in Napa too?
- [I think I drove up the mountai...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-think-i-drove-up-the-mountai/) - I think I drove up the mountain a _little- too fast tonight. #ifeelseasick
- [@CraigDaitch that's a win, Cra...](https://mattbinkowski.com/craigdaitch-thats-a-win-cra/) - @CraigDaitch that's a win, Craig.
- [@IanSohn or why it didn't rock...](https://mattbinkowski.com/iansohn-or-why-it-didnt-rock/) - @IanSohn or why it didn't rock.
- [@IanSohn that foo video really...](https://mattbinkowski.com/iansohn-that-foo-video-really/) - @IanSohn that foo video really was lame.
- [“@michaelianblack: Solar...](https://mattbinkowski.com/michaelianblack-solar/) - “@michaelianblack: Solar power would be a lot more effective if they made a gasoline-powered version.”lol@VirginiaMiracle @joeywan @kevinti
- [@mrsflinger multiquestion twee...](https://mattbinkowski.com/mrsflinger-multiquestion-twee/) - @mrsflinger multiquestion tweet: are you referring to expression engine? if so, are you using the latest version? what do you think of it?
- [RT @DeathStarPR: Love is like ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-deathstarpr-love-is-like/) - RT @DeathStarPR: Love is like Sarlaac: all tentacles & teeth at first, but you usually end up feeling like you're being slowly digested ...
- [@IanSohn Booqbags are so nice ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/iansohn-booqbags-are-so-nice/) - @IanSohn Booqbags are so nice and their customer support, when I just called on it, was top notch.
- [I like taking photos of incorr...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-like-taking-photos-of-incorr/) - I like taking photos of incorrect uses of quotation marks. @VirginiaMiracle @gemsie http://t.co/6J31CfD
- [@gemsie you looking for good s...](https://mattbinkowski.com/gemsie-you-looking-for-good-s/) - @gemsie you looking for good signs? Check this out. http://t.co/QU0zDsx
- [Govt. shutdown averted. Now we...](https://mattbinkowski.com/govt-shutdown-averted-now-we/) - Govt. shutdown averted. Now we anxiously await a flood of newsy info-Flash-ics to illustrate the deal which will be quickly ignored.
- [I can't get the new #foofighte...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-cant-get-the-new-foofighte/) - I can't get the new #foofighters single "Rope" out of my head. Well played, Mr. Grohl. ;-)
- [Social sharing on The Daily's ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/social-sharing-on-the-dailys/) - Social sharing on The Daily's iPad app dropping fast: # of tweets down from 200 to < 50 in past few months since launch http://aol.it/hb1dSx
- [@CraigDaitch right back at ya....](https://mattbinkowski.com/craigdaitch-right-back-at-ya/) - @CraigDaitch right back at ya. Hopefully next time I can stay longer and bring a guitar. :-) Really excited to work with you and the team.
- [@zeptolab so when will we be a...](https://mattbinkowski.com/zeptolab-so-when-will-we-be-a/) - @zeptolab so when will we be able to design our own levels? Great Magic Box update on #cuttherope btw!
- [Denver airport: love the free ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/denver-airport-love-the-free/) - Denver airport: love the free wifi. Hate how your wide banner ads in a frame destroy the layout of mobile-aware websites.
- [Denver airport....](https://mattbinkowski.com/denver-airport/) - Denver airport.
- [@IanSohn so glad I didn't both...](https://mattbinkowski.com/iansohn-so-glad-i-didnt-both/) - @IanSohn so glad I didn't bother to watch it.
- [@mantia I have never once thou...](https://mattbinkowski.com/mantia-i-have-never-once-thou/) - @mantia I have never once thought bn.com = barnesandnoble. I always spell it out. Probably internal knobbery at work.
- [Gonna be fascinating to see ho...](https://mattbinkowski.com/gonna-be-fascinating-to-see-ho/) - Gonna be fascinating to see how pres. candidates use social media & mobile for 2012 election. Obama kicks it off with a new iPhone app.
- [@dbinkowski they must be relat...](https://mattbinkowski.com/dbinkowski-they-must-be-relat/) - @dbinkowski they must be related to mine in some way.
- [RT @wxyzdetroit: Charlie Sheen...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-wxyzdetroit-charlie-sheen/) - RT @wxyzdetroit: Charlie Sheen show at Fox Theater seems to be an absolute disaster. Fans booing, streaming out, yelling "refund." @Juli ...
- [@hellogeri I agree. AppleTV is...](https://mattbinkowski.com/hellogeri-i-agree-appletv-is/) - @hellogeri I agree. AppleTV is sweet.
- [Listened to Helmet's Meantime ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/listened-to-helmets-meantime/) - Listened to Helmet's Meantime record on the way home. Got me up the mountain in record time. #jerrywasaracecardriver
- [This RIP Jackie Chan hoax is j...](https://mattbinkowski.com/this-rip-jackie-chan-hoax-is-j/) - This RIP Jackie Chan hoax is just not cool.
- [Whoa: salesforce acquires @Rad...](https://mattbinkowski.com/whoa-salesforce-acquires-rad/) - Whoa: salesforce acquires @Radian6 http://t.co/JvcIdA4”
- [#hyperboleandahalf is easily t...](https://mattbinkowski.com/hyperboleandahalf-is-easily-t/) - #hyperboleandahalf is easily the funniest blog in the world right now. Go read it. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/
- [@KingJames claims he was in th...](https://mattbinkowski.com/kingjames-claims-he-was-in-th/) - @KingJames claims he was in the restroom during intros @ the Cleveland game? wow #thingsJordanwouldntdo. @IanSohn
- [@cbarger so provocative! ;-) W...](https://mattbinkowski.com/cbarger-so-provocative-w/) - @cbarger so provocative! ;-) Will you be blogging about it afterward?
- [@cbarger sry that social media...](https://mattbinkowski.com/cbarger-sry-that-social-media/) - @cbarger sry that social media is dead.
- [@cbarger did someone actually ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/cbarger-did-someone-actually/) - @cbarger did someone actually say that?
- [Kansas and NC out? Time to sta...](https://mattbinkowski.com/kansas-and-nc-out-time-to-sta/) - Kansas and NC out? Time to start watching the finals!
- [@lucapenati how was the show? ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/lucapenati-how-was-the-show/) - @lucapenati how was the show? I haven't heard constantine's name in a while.
- [@ciaobess donuts = increased a...](https://mattbinkowski.com/ciaobess-donuts-increased-a/) - @ciaobess donuts = increased attendance.
- [@ciaobess I think 4pm is one p...](https://mattbinkowski.com/ciaobess-i-think-4pm-is-one-p/) - @ciaobess I think 4pm is one piece. 4pm on a FRIDAY is another. ;)
- [Having to drive Old La Honda r...](https://mattbinkowski.com/having-to-drive-old-la-honda-r/) - Having to drive Old La Honda road up the mountain kinda put a damper on a late hot dinner from Roberts market. #dinnerfail
- [@jboller have you been to Aqui...](https://mattbinkowski.com/jboller-have-you-been-to-aqui/) - @jboller have you been to Aqui in san Jose? Try to get down there before you jet.
- [Two words that, in my book, sh...](https://mattbinkowski.com/two-words-that-in-my-book-sh/) - Two words that, in my book, should never go together: costco steak. I am starting to see deceased relatives walk around in front of me...
- [RT @mantia: There are people w...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-mantia-there-are-people-w/) - RT @mantia: There are people who make stuff and people who talk about making stuff. I want to be in the first camp for as long as I poss ...
- [RT @michaelianblack: Day 2 of ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-michaelianblack-day-2-of/) - RT @michaelianblack: Day 2 of my campaign to become the @tacobell spokesman begins. My slogan: "Tacos taste good." #mibfortacobell
- [@jboller Before I clicked thro...](https://mattbinkowski.com/jboller-before-i-clicked-thro/) - @jboller Before I clicked through to see the photo, I had a feeling your plates would have hearts on them. ;-)
- [RT @tonyhawk: Q: How many hips...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-tonyhawk-q-how-many-hips/) - RT @tonyhawk: Q: How many hipsters does it take to replace a lightbulb? A: It's this really obscure number, you've probably never heard ...
- [Duh, #winning  http://t.co/DiH...](https://mattbinkowski.com/duh-winning-httpt-codih/) - Duh, #winning http://t.co/DiHC3DT
- [RT @blitfin: Social sign-in (F...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-blitfin-social-sign-in-f/) - RT @blitfin: Social sign-in (Facebook, Google, etc.) seen widely as an attractive alternative to website registration http://shiftb.it/g ...
- [Sad to see @jboller hit the ro...](https://mattbinkowski.com/sad-to-see-jboller-hit-the-ro/) - Sad to see @jboller hit the road to hk. Best of luck with everything!
- [Today only, 100% of any softwa...](https://mattbinkowski.com/today-only-100-of-any-softwa/) - Today only, 100% of any software purchase from Panic (makers of Coda + Transmit) will go to the Japan relief effort. http://bit.ly/dUqfTI
- [PlayDoh Master](https://mattbinkowski.com/playdoh-master/) - I swear, my wife is a freaking genius making these little PlayDoh things!
- [@blitfin I heard if you tilt y...](https://mattbinkowski.com/blitfin-i-heard-if-you-tilt-y/) - @blitfin I heard if you tilt your iPad at a 69 degree angle, you can get the porn channels for free!
- [#NerdAlert   Wouldn't it be co...](https://mattbinkowski.com/nerdalert-wouldnt-it-be-co/) - #NerdAlert Wouldn't it be cool if Safari on the Mac allowed you to shift-drag multiple windows around the screen at the same time?
- [Looks like I might not be so f...](https://mattbinkowski.com/looks-like-i-might-not-be-so-f/) - Looks like I might not be so far off with my #ogilvypr blog post ( http://bit.ly/e3BjQ6 ) after all: http://on.mash.to/hth1W3
- [@disattend NO:  http://blog.og...](https://mattbinkowski.com/disattend-no-httpblog-og/) - @disattend NO: http://blog.ogilvypr.com/2011/03/the-promise-of-social-media/
- [My first post on the Ogilvy Di...](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-first-post-on-the-ogilvy-di/) - My first post on the Ogilvy Digital Influence blog. Check it out! http://lnkd.in/YHnKzT
- [@IanSohn Momento iPhone app. K...](https://mattbinkowski.com/iansohn-momento-iphone-app-k/) - @IanSohn Momento iPhone app. Kind of a long way around but it'll get you there.
- [RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth's Blo...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-thisissethsblog-seths-blo/) - RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth's Blog: Bring me stuff that's dead, please http://bit.ly/eGtM6I Seth read my mind PERFECTLY. Thanks Seth!
- [@gwrthryfel txt REDCROSS to 90...](https://mattbinkowski.com/gwrthryfel-txt-redcross-to-90/) - @gwrthryfel txt REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10.
- [Text REDCROSS to 90999 to give...](https://mattbinkowski.com/text-redcross-to-90999-to-give/) - Text REDCROSS to 90999 to give $10 of support to the #Japan #earthquake or #tsunami relief operations.
- [@crawlspacegames kinda goes ag...](https://mattbinkowski.com/crawlspacegames-kinda-goes-ag/) - @crawlspacegames kinda goes against the laws of physics but maybe confetti? :-)
- [@crawlspacegames daughter said...](https://mattbinkowski.com/crawlspacegames-daughter-said/) - @crawlspacegames daughter said it would be funny if 1 was a water balloon so when it popped, water would splash everywhere. Hah
- [@crawlspacegames I appreciate ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/crawlspacegames-i-appreciate/) - @crawlspacegames I appreciate the offer but I'm happy to pay the full price.
- [@crawlspacegames just installe...](https://mattbinkowski.com/crawlspacegames-just-installe/) - @crawlspacegames just installed the free version and my 6 yo daughter likes it. My 2 yo boy likes to blow up the balloons. Hah!
- [Can't believe the news about J...](https://mattbinkowski.com/cant-believe-the-news-about-j/) - Can't believe the news about Japan.
- [@crawlspacegames clearly the g...](https://mattbinkowski.com/crawlspacegames-clearly-the-g/) - @crawlspacegames clearly the gameplay is different. I was more commenting on the design style.
- [Does the new iOS game Float lo...](https://mattbinkowski.com/does-the-new-ios-game-float-lo/) - Does the new iOS game Float look like a massive ripoff of @Cut_The_Rope? It's not the same dev company for both. @crawlspacegames
- [It's been so long since I've f...](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-been-so-long-since-ive-f/) - It's been so long since I've fired up the #WiiFit, my trainer has probably found a new Mii by now.
- [Oh #apple #iPhone ui designers...](https://mattbinkowski.com/oh-apple-iphone-ui-designers/) - Oh #apple #iPhone ui designers. Now the new edit list function is live checkmarks? http://t.co/ojM4wY9
- [@AspyrMedia I ask bc I bought ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/aspyrmedia-i-ask-bc-i-bought/) - @AspyrMedia I ask bc I bought quake 3 when you put it on sale and it didn't have any multiplayer servers. I felt ripped off.
- [That last tweet pic? The addre...](https://mattbinkowski.com/that-last-tweet-pic-the-addre/) - That last tweet pic? The address of the "office" #comcast directed me to in Daly City.
- [#comcast finale: directions 2 ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/comcast-finale-directions-2/) - #comcast finale: directions 2 an office from live rep but address was wrong. Found it by going in the opposite direction http://t.co/KN8KfS0
- [According to google maps, this...](https://mattbinkowski.com/according-to-google-maps-this/) - According to google maps, this is a #comcast location. right. http://t.co/PPOUDPT
- [Congress is voting to silence ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/congress-is-voting-to-silence/) - Congress is voting to silence NPR and PBS. Don't let it happen: http://freepr.es/hXIcvp (via @freepress)
- [@AspyrMedia so does COD4 for M...](https://mattbinkowski.com/aspyrmedia-so-does-cod4-for-m/) - @AspyrMedia so does COD4 for Mac support multiplayer? I've read reviews that people can't find servers.
- [@ComcastWill  system didn't ca...](https://mattbinkowski.com/comcastwill-system-didnt-ca/) - @ComcastWill system didn't capture service cancellation, had to speak to 3 reps 2 make 1 payment, directions 2 an office that didnt exist.
- [I'm using #labelbox to stylish...](https://mattbinkowski.com/im-using-labelbox-to-stylish/) - I'm using #labelbox to stylishly label my photos. It's new and you can get a free label pack from @steplyapp http://t.co/L4JTuFg
- [I've found the actual person w...](https://mattbinkowski.com/ive-found-the-actual-person-w/) - I've found the actual person who voiced the O.K. Computer "fitter happier" track. She works for #comcast.
- [I hate #comcast. Hands down th...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-hate-comcast-hands-down-th/) - I hate #comcast. Hands down the worst service ever. I can't stand dealing with their inept customer service people & lame automated systems.
- [@k_krakatoa @MomentoApp @Insta...](https://mattbinkowski.com/k_krakatoa-momentoapp-insta/) - @k_krakatoa @MomentoApp @Instagram I use M - it's a big idea but it's not there yet. An archiving function seems like the next logical step.
- [I'm no paleontologist, but I b...](https://mattbinkowski.com/im-no-paleontologist-but-i-b/) - I'm no paleontologist, but I bet the first dinosaur to go extinct was Barney. #icantwatchanymoreofthiscrap
- [RT @daringfireball: CBS and Ne...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-daringfireball-cbs-and-ne/) - RT @daringfireball: CBS and Netflix Announce 2-Year Licensing Agreement for Library Content: http://df4.us/h6o
- [RT @Pogue: Unbelievable. Congr...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-pogue-unbelievable-congr/) - RT @Pogue: Unbelievable. Congress is about to vote on eliminating ALL public TV and radio funds! HELLO!? Please help! htt… (cont) http:/ ...
- [just noticed that while readin...](https://mattbinkowski.com/just-noticed-that-while-readin/) - just noticed that while reading through some #facebook developer docs, a user on facebook is consistently referred to as "she."..hmm
- [Let's hope this report is wron...](https://mattbinkowski.com/lets-hope-this-report-is-wron/) - Let's hope this report is wrong. #twitter in buyout talks with #google and #facebook? http://huff.to/f6KVxn
- [Decks don't kill audiences. Bu...](https://mattbinkowski.com/decks-dont-kill-audiences-bu/) - Decks don't kill audiences. Bullets do. #smwsf @ogilvypr #smwsfogilvy
- [@jrwiese Thanks Joshua! We are...](https://mattbinkowski.com/jrwiese-thanks-joshua-we-are/) - @jrwiese Thanks Joshua! We are going to post the slides to slideshare soon.
- [@christianprada @jm3 @lostinth...](https://mattbinkowski.com/christianprada-jm3-lostinth/) - @christianprada @jm3 @lostintheflog @kazkang Hi Christian. Thanks! We will post the slides to slideshare soon.
- [RT @btrax: Brian D. Johnson, @...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-btrax-brian-d-johnson/) - RT @btrax: Brian D. Johnson, @intelfuturist says "By 2015, 500 billion hours of video content available on internet" #smwsfogilvy
- [RT @amywhiggins: Brian Johnson...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-amywhiggins-brian-johnson/) - RT @amywhiggins: Brian Johnson @Intel skyped in- talking about future of social science and the power of TV #smwsf #ogilvy #smwsfogilvy
- [RT @amywhiggins: #smwsfogilvy ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-amywhiggins-smwsfogilvy/) - RT @amywhiggins: #smwsfogilvy Really cool! servers connected to MB cars at consumer race event to upload user experiences to social networks
- [RT @vioma: Thx for the great s...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-vioma-thx-for-the-great-s/) - RT @vioma: Thx for the great session! @dirkmshaw Thx 2 all who attended "beyond the like button" stay tuned 4webcast w @lithiumtech #smw ...
- [RT @jackyhayward: People don't...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-jackyhayward-people-dont/) - RT @jackyhayward: People don't hate advertising, they hate advertising that has nothing to do with them #smwsf #ogilvy
- [Thanks to everyone for the kin...](https://mattbinkowski.com/thanks-to-everyone-for-the-kin/) - Thanks to everyone for the kind words after our social media week presentation. I hope it got people's brains going. #ogilvy #smwsf
- [RT @dirkmshaw: Thanks to all w...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-dirkmshaw-thanks-to-all-w/) - RT @dirkmshaw: Thanks to all who attended "beyond the like button" stay tuned for a continuation webcast with @lithiumtech #smwsfogilvy ...
- [I'm not sure why The Daily's s...](https://mattbinkowski.com/im-not-sure-why-the-dailys-s/) - I'm not sure why The Daily's screenshots show an image with "Video not available" text. So not all content is viewable? http://bit.ly/eZnKwz
- [At first glance, the Slashdot ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/at-first-glance-the-slashdot/) - At first glance, the Slashdot redesign seems to have removed the Apple feed. Not so. Go 2 http://apple.slashdot.org, & it's in the nav again
- [@jackyhayward @neatorama  whoa...](https://mattbinkowski.com/jackyhayward-neatorama-whoa/) - @jackyhayward @neatorama whoa that's totally believable.
- [This is the web right now - Th...](https://mattbinkowski.com/this-is-the-web-right-now-th/) - This is the web right now - The Oatmeal http://bit.ly/fGg9B2
- [Anyone else notice the slight ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/anyone-else-notice-the-slight/) - Anyone else notice the slight background texture to the apple.com homepage? Is this a slow brand change? http://twitpic.com/3s625p
- [And another for my Keynote ner...](https://mattbinkowski.com/and-another-for-my-keynote-ner/) - And another for my Keynote nerd friends... http://bit.ly/VSaWu can ya tell i'm having "that' kind of a day?
- [@VirginiaMiracle At least they...](https://mattbinkowski.com/virginiamiracle-at-least-they/) - @VirginiaMiracle At least they didn't say "Dirty Diana" HEE! HEE! OW!
- [RT @SimpleGeo: If your website...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-simplegeo-if-your-website/) - RT @SimpleGeo: If your website requires a user to input their zip code, city, or state, ping us. We've got some code that will do it aut ...
- [This is for my fellow Keynote ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/this-is-for-my-fellow-keynote/) - This is for my fellow Keynote nerds. http://bit.ly/dq5xJo
- [@shelleyrisk Congrats!!...](https://mattbinkowski.com/shelleyrisk-congrats/) - @shelleyrisk Congrats!!
- [IMHO, new kid on the block #Qu...](https://mattbinkowski.com/imho-new-kid-on-the-block-qu/) - IMHO, new kid on the block #Quora has a creepy default user image. Is this a hooded guillotine operator? http://twitpic.com/3pf98i
- [@dirkmshaw I'm lost. what are ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/dirkmshaw-im-lost-what-are/) - @dirkmshaw I'm lost. what are you two talking about?
- [Too hilarious! RT @iA: Now eve...](https://mattbinkowski.com/too-hilarious-rt-ia-now-eve/) - Too hilarious! RT @iA: Now even @TechCrunch writes about Glenn Beck's tomfooleries: http://tcrn.ch/hStA41 by @erickschonfeld
- [As if my kids need another way...](https://mattbinkowski.com/as-if-my-kids-need-another-way/) - As if my kids need another way to perfectly hide my iPhone: http://bit.ly/fQ9pEb
- [Dear #iTunes on my #iPhone, if...](https://mattbinkowski.com/dear-itunes-on-my-iphone-if/) - Dear #iTunes on my #iPhone, if I remove#Ping from my main button bar, please don't put it back there when I'm not looking. Thanks.
- [My iPhone's Navigon & wife...](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-iphones-navigon-wife/) - My iPhone's Navigon & wife's Garmin disagree alot: If u want 2 get 2 your destination, stop listening 2 her and listen 2 me. Turn left NOW!
- [@StephenAtHome don't hurt your...](https://mattbinkowski.com/stephenathome-dont-hurt-your/) - @StephenAtHome don't hurt your tweeter, Stephen.
- [Still insanely pissed that I c...](https://mattbinkowski.com/still-insanely-pissed-that-i-c/) - Still insanely pissed that I could've bought 10k worth of Apple stock @ $2 just prior to the iMac's release but never did. re: AAPL @ $330?
- [@VirginiaMiracle I happened to...](https://mattbinkowski.com/virginiamiracle-i-happened-to/) - @VirginiaMiracle I happened to wake up 1 minute before mine was scheduled to go off. There's always tomorrow...
- [Movie theater butter popcorn....](https://mattbinkowski.com/movie-theater-butter-popcorn/) - Movie theater butter popcorn.
- [@dbinkowski im sure it's the c...](https://mattbinkowski.com/dbinkowski-im-sure-its-the-c/) - @dbinkowski im sure it's the chicken sandwich #probablytheflufromyourfamily
- [@jboller here we go....](https://mattbinkowski.com/jboller-here-we-go/) - @jboller here we go.
- [RT @daringfireball: Yahoo to C...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-daringfireball-yahoo-to-c/) - RT @daringfireball: Yahoo to Close Del.icio.us: http://df4.us/gsc
- [It's somewhat unsettling to me...](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-somewhat-unsettling-to-me/) - It's somewhat unsettling to me to search YouTube for video explanations of software and discover a walkthrough being done by a preteen.
- [I got Process ($39 Mac app) fr...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-got-process-39-mac-app-fr/) - I got Process ($39 Mac app) free just by checking out MacUpdate's bundle and so can you! Plus more apps for 90% off! http://bit.ly/muPromo
- [@dbinkowski I bet the sound at...](https://mattbinkowski.com/dbinkowski-i-bet-the-sound-at/) - @dbinkowski I bet the sound at the Members Only Arena really* blows.
- [What's up with @LinkedIn? It s...](https://mattbinkowski.com/whats-up-with-linkedin-it-s/) - What's up with @LinkedIn? It seems to be nosediving the past 2 days.
- [@barkerja_my 2 year old played...](https://mattbinkowski.com/barkerja_my-2-year-old-played/) - @barkerja_my 2 year old played w the lock screen passcode so much that I was locked out of the phone 4 60 min & iProtect is jailbreak only.
- [It's been a while since I've d...](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-been-a-while-since-ive-d/) - It's been a while since I've done web prod. but wow! 50 reasons to use Fireworks instead of Photoshop for web design. - http://bit.ly/dMSzny
- [@gruber Do you have any though...](https://mattbinkowski.com/gruber-do-you-have-any-though/) - @gruber Do you have any thoughts as to why Apple won't allow an iOS app that lets users password protect their apps?
- [So in return for updating my i...](https://mattbinkowski.com/so-in-return-for-updating-my-i/) - So in return for updating my iPhone to 4.2, iTunes decided to surprise me by not resyncing my music afterward. #funcommuteonbart
- [@VirginiaMiracle OMG that is w...](https://mattbinkowski.com/virginiamiracle-omg-that-is-w/) - @VirginiaMiracle OMG that is worse than peopleofwalmart.com
- [@mantia What's sadder is how c...](https://mattbinkowski.com/mantia-whats-sadder-is-how-c/) - @mantia What's sadder is how corporate IT people are the ones who set this up for users, and they never change it.
- [Thank you! California takes Oh...](https://mattbinkowski.com/thank-you-california-takes-oh/) - Thank you! California takes Ohio's and Wisconsin's rail money because their newly elected officials said no. http://bit.ly/fxfpZV
- [My favorite mug shot belongs 2...](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-favorite-mug-shot-belongs-2/) - My favorite mug shot belongs 2 a former Miss Arizona contestant. If only she emoted like that during the Q&A section... http://bit.ly/dRsLUI
- [@nandoism If I was going to ch...](https://mattbinkowski.com/nandoism-if-i-was-going-to-ch/) - @nandoism If I was going to change my name to something ridiculous, I would be far more creative than that. :-)
- [@nandoism I think it's rad....](https://mattbinkowski.com/nandoism-i-think-its-rad/) - @nandoism I think it's rad.
- [The best part of Starbucks cof...](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-best-part-of-starbucks-cof/) - The best part of Starbucks coffee in the morning? Pouring it on your hand. #not
- [@VirginiaMiracle so do they fi...](https://mattbinkowski.com/virginiamiracle-so-do-they-fi/) - @VirginiaMiracle so do they fit?
- [RT @CandaceKuss: Great list fr...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-candacekuss-great-list-fr/) - RT @CandaceKuss: Great list from @lakey. (And has been much the same for 15 years) '25 reasons why I'll leave your website in 10 seconds ...
- [@pattonoswalt Wikileaks releas...](https://mattbinkowski.com/pattonoswalt-wikileaks-releas/) - @pattonoswalt Wikileaks releases a #1 and #2.
- [RT @pattonoswalt: 50 more ways...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-pattonoswalt-50-more-ways/) - RT @pattonoswalt: 50 more ways to leave your lover just released by Wikileaks.
- [2 #bart train breakdowns in th...](https://mattbinkowski.com/2-bart-train-breakdowns-in-th/) - 2 #bart train breakdowns in the span of 1 week. #notcool
- [@Lauren_Turner anyone who like...](https://mattbinkowski.com/lauren_turner-anyone-who-like/) - @Lauren_Turner anyone who likes Steeler Football is good in my book.
- [@ScottMonty Too many red m&amp...](https://mattbinkowski.com/scottmonty-too-many-red-mamp/) - @ScottMonty Too many red m&m's? ;-)
- [Having never needed to use Spa...](https://mattbinkowski.com/having-never-needed-to-use-spa/) - Having never needed to use Spaces in the past because I've had multiple monitors, I must say that it's really really slick. I'm loving it.
- [RT @TUAW: Check out the "...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-tuaw-check-out-the/) - RT @TUAW: Check out the "featured app" on this demo video. It's our own Erica Sadun's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAnY54JcVA
- [Wow, * I * actually just gave ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/wow-i-actually-just-gave/) - Wow, * I * actually just gave someone directions as to where someone sits in the office. hah
- [There's a big difference betwe...](https://mattbinkowski.com/theres-a-big-difference-betwe/) - There's a big difference between winging it and seeing what happens. #MACGRUBER!
- [Its sad I have to ask but what...](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-sad-i-have-to-ask-but-what/) - Its sad I have to ask but what is the best #Wordpress iPhone app? I need to find one. Hint: #Wordpress for iPhone shouldn't be your answer.
- [That #Ravens #Steelers game wa...](https://mattbinkowski.com/that-ravens-steelers-game-wa/) - That #Ravens #Steelers game was awesome. So good to see my Steelers in first place!
- [Can't wait for the Steel Curta...](https://mattbinkowski.com/cant-wait-for-the-steel-curta/) - Can't wait for the Steel Curtain to come down on Joe Flacco's head today.
- [Sometimes I consider sending a...](https://mattbinkowski.com/sometimes-i-consider-sending-a/) - Sometimes I consider sending away for those Art Instruction Schools applications just to see if I'd get rejected. lol
- [Just finished setting up the D...](https://mattbinkowski.com/just-finished-setting-up-the-d/) - Just finished setting up the DVD, cable box, Wii, Receiver, phone and surround speakers in record time.
- [Apparently I'm not used to rid...](https://mattbinkowski.com/apparently-im-not-used-to-rid/) - Apparently I'm not used to riding BART because I feel like I'm moving while sitting at my desk.
- [@joeywan http://www.stumbleupo...](https://mattbinkowski.com/joeywan-httpwww-stumbleupo/) - @joeywan http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/29IJCL/www.good.is/post/in-the-future-you-will-use-your-phone-to-save-energy/
- [@kaimac Who knew that rigormor...](https://mattbinkowski.com/kaimac-who-knew-that-rigormor/) - @kaimac Who knew that rigormortis would set in like this for Kim K? Even Death can't stop #KimKardashian from striking a sexy pose.
- [Is it outsourced or an in-hous...](https://mattbinkowski.com/is-it-outsourced-or-an-in-hous/) - Is it outsourced or an in-house group that lives in Dick Cheney's rented out underground bunker for protection purposes?
- [Entering the world of Helpdesk...](https://mattbinkowski.com/entering-the-world-of-helpdesk/) - Entering the world of Helpdesk.
- [@VDog yeah I'm not the first. ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/vdog-yeah-im-not-the-first/) - @VDog yeah I'm not the first. Although this happens to be my* first delay.
- [#Bart train pulled out of serv...](https://mattbinkowski.com/bart-train-pulled-out-of-serv/) - #Bart train pulled out of service at west Oakland. Our SF train is going to be FULL and I'm going to be a little late.
- [RT @thadaus: The client may be...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-thadaus-the-client-may-be/) - RT @thadaus: The client may be the judge, but the consumer is the jury and executioner. (RT @leeclowsbeard)
- [RT @michaelianblack: Hey Kinec...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-michaelianblack-hey-kinec/) - RT @michaelianblack: Hey Kinect, if I wanted to use my entire body to play sports, I would just play sports.
- [Turns out you can't run a tric...](https://mattbinkowski.com/turns-out-you-cant-run-a-tric/) - Turns out you can't run a trick play to get it through the uprights. #bleedblue.
- [#ShineALight "We can't bu...](https://mattbinkowski.com/shinealight-we-cant-bu/) - #ShineALight "We can't burn up Mick Jagger." LOL
- [RT @JimGaffigan: People shoppi...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-jimgaffigan-people-shoppi/) - RT @JimGaffigan: People shopping is news? And I thought televising people playing poker was pathetic.
- [@michaelianblack isn't "K...](https://mattbinkowski.com/michaelianblack-isnt-k/) - @michaelianblack isn't "Killing Me With Boringness" a great show?!
- [I think Black Friday should be...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-think-black-friday-should-be/) - I think Black Friday should be followed by Storage Room Saturday.
- [Done listening to the #Detroit...](https://mattbinkowski.com/done-listening-to-the-detroit/) - Done listening to the #DetroitLions get destroyed.
- [Listening to the Lions Pats ga...](https://mattbinkowski.com/listening-to-the-lions-pats-ga/) - Listening to the Lions Pats game on my phone thanks to #ooTunes.
- [#HarryPotter7 felt too much li...](https://mattbinkowski.com/harrypotter7-felt-too-much-li/) - #HarryPotter7 felt too much like #LOTR to me. I think I can already predict how part 2 will go.
- [“@kaimac: Unless you act...](https://mattbinkowski.com/kaimac-unless-you-act/) - “@kaimac: Unless you actually got groped, anyone who makes a groping joke is getting unfollowed.” So now there r groping twitter rules too?
- [“@dflyonthefly: Again, I...](https://mattbinkowski.com/dflyonthefly-again-i/) - “@dflyonthefly: Again, I say: Jay Z is brilliant: http://bit.ly/iiV3Il” so awesome.
- [I love #NeilDiamond's twitter ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-love-neildiamonds-twitter/) - I love #NeilDiamond's twitter profile. 175,000 followers and he is following exactly ZERO people. So DIAMOND!
- [Going without tv in our househ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/going-without-tv-in-our-househ/) - Going without tv in our household. Not sure if I will be able to take it on Sundays. Then again, I won't have to watch the 49ers get killed.
- [RT @michaelianblack: Now Maroo...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-michaelianblack-now-maroo/) - RT @michaelianblack: Now Maroon 5 is on Conan. I didn't realize they were actual people.
- [My Top 5 Strengths as determin...](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-top-5-strengths-as-determin/) - My Top 5 Strengths as determined by #Strengthsfinder2.0 : Strategic, Ideation, Futuristic, Maximizer, Responsibility. No surprises there.
- [RT @kaimac: Excellent. RT @ros...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-kaimac-excellent-rt-ros/) - RT @kaimac: Excellent. RT @rossdawson: Editor of The Guardian on 15 reasons why Twitter is important for media organizations http://bit. ...
- [#AdAge article on the new #McC...](https://mattbinkowski.com/adage-article-on-the-new-mcc/) - #AdAge article on the new #McCann CCO is odd. It named two of the other candidates who didn't get the job. #awkward http://bit.ly/bZJjAx
- [Hello New Mexico!...](https://mattbinkowski.com/hello-new-mexico/) - Hello New Mexico!
- [#TinaFey's Mark Twain Prize ac...](https://mattbinkowski.com/tinafeys-mark-twain-prize-ac/) - #TinaFey's Mark Twain Prize acceptance speech was brilliant. Too bad #PBS cut one of her better jokes. Thanks for the censorship! #ironic.
- [RT @michaelianblack: Congratul...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-michaelianblack-congratul/) - RT @michaelianblack: Congratulations to Prince William and his bride-to-be. Let the search for a suitable mistress begin!
- [The invasive TSA search rules ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-invasive-tsa-search-rules/) - The invasive TSA search rules are the best thing to happen to the auto industry in quite a while. More people might go on road trips.
- [I'm thinking #Dallas forgot to...](https://mattbinkowski.com/im-thinking-dallas-forgot-to/) - I'm thinking #Dallas forgot to reserve some money for a good field goal kicker.
- [I kinda like how #Fox is letti...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-kinda-like-how-fox-is-letti/) - I kinda like how #Fox is letting analysts from around the U.S. comment on the Cowboys / Giants game. It feels like social media on TV.
- [Birds http://instagr.am/p/QUOI...](https://mattbinkowski.com/birds-httpinstagr-ampquoi/) - Birds http://instagr.am/p/QUOI/
- [Is it just me or does #JayCutl...](https://mattbinkowski.com/is-it-just-me-or-does-jaycutl/) - Is it just me or does #JayCutler think he's a lot better than he really is? #2ints
- [New Call of Duty brings in $36...](https://mattbinkowski.com/new-call-of-duty-brings-in-36/) - New Call of Duty brings in $360 mm in it's first day. #NPR
- [Just signed a lease on an amaz...](https://mattbinkowski.com/just-signed-a-lease-on-an-amaz/) - Just signed a lease on an amazing house in the Berkeley Hills. Short commute, killer home and 10 rated school for Elise! Yes!
- [Big news: I accepted an offer ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/big-news-i-accepted-an-offer/) - Big news: I accepted an offer from OgilvyPR to be the SVP, Digital Influence in their San Francisco office! Moving end of month; start Dec.1
- [RT @smashingmag: Microsoft pic...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-smashingmag-microsoft-pic/) - RT @smashingmag: Microsoft picks HTML5 over Silverlight for Internet apps - http://zd.net/c7CQCb
- [iFashionista](https://mattbinkowski.com/ifashionista/) - It seems to be Apple Fashion News Day. Matchy Matchy Isn't it odd how Steve Jobs and Tim Cook dressed so alike at the last Apple event? Cheap Seats Even Scott Forstall got in on the black shirt/blue jeans look too. I wonder if a requirement of Jobs' successor be that he look good in
- [Isn't it odd #SteveJobs & ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/isnt-it-odd-stevejobs/) - Isn't it odd #SteveJobs & #TimCook dressed similarly at the last Apple event? http://twitpic.com/31m998
- [“Coolness is a certain k...](https://mattbinkowski.com/coolness-is-a-certain-k/) - “Coolness is a certain kind of detachment from yourself.. it’s not exposing of something of yourself” – Brian Eno
- [I wish #TerminalReality would ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-wish-terminalreality-would/) - I wish #TerminalReality would convert #4x4Evo2 to an #iPhone app.
- [Weecie’s New Hat!](https://mattbinkowski.com/weecies-new-hat/)
- [I <3 Glitch Paintings](https://mattbinkowski.com/i/) - One of the fun nerd things about live QuickTime streams has to be the pixellated renderings of frames when the video is buffering. This recent post from Kottke about glitch paintings reminded me of the post I wrote a while back about the Sal Saghoian images I captured during one of his AppleScript webcasts: I
- [Fractured left clavicle for #T...](https://mattbinkowski.com/fractured-left-clavicle-for-t/) - Fractured left clavicle for #TonyRomo. Maybe the #Cowboys have a shot at the playoffs now?
- [Gone In A Flash](https://mattbinkowski.com/no-more-flash-pre-installed-on-macs/) - Back in July of 2010, I wrote a post about Flash and the AppStore. In that post, I brought up the notion that if Flash was such a security issue with iOS devices, Apple should consider removing it from their desktop OS. Today Daring Fireball confirmed what I thought Apple might do with Flash for
- [RT @GOOD: Google doesn't pay t...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-good-google-doesnt-pay-t/) - RT @GOOD: Google doesn't pay taxes http://su.pr/8A8Hou
- [Gone In A Flash - http://mattb...](https://mattbinkowski.com/gone-in-a-flash-httpmattb/) - Gone In A Flash - http://mattbinkowski.com/?p=2751
- [This is the system requirement...](https://mattbinkowski.com/this-is-the-system-requirement/) - This is the system requirements popup layer. It's pulling from the UK apple site. Maybe this isn't a good idea. http://twitpic.com/2zt7u5
- [#Apple, what's w/the cheap woo...](https://mattbinkowski.com/apple-whats-wthe-cheap-woo/) - #Apple, what's w/the cheap wood shelves in #iPhoto'11? A DIY project gone wrong? They make your Projects look terrible. http://bit.ly/9BdoOd
- [RT @michaelianblack: Baseball ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-michaelianblack-baseball/) - RT @michaelianblack: Baseball pitchers are really on the cutting edge of horrendous necklace fashion.
- [Gadget Kids](https://mattbinkowski.com/gadget-kids/) - Miley (L) on his Leapster and Elise (R) on her DS. Gee, I wonder if they would love iPads someday.
- [Bonky Brunch with Grandma Lynne](https://mattbinkowski.com/bonky-brunch-with-grandma-lynne/)
- [Pumpkins!!](https://mattbinkowski.com/pumpkins/)
- [Will #Apple put the death grip...](https://mattbinkowski.com/will-apple-put-the-death-grip/) - Will #Apple put the death grip on competing apps in the new #MacAppStore? God, I hope not. Everyone needs competition, including Apple.
- [The Facetime for Mac beta down...](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-facetime-for-mac-beta-down/) - The Facetime for Mac beta download button starts a download of the iWork 09 trial version? WHOOPS! http://bit.ly/c80yb0
- [The day I write about multitas...](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-day-i-write-about-multitas/) - The day I write about multitasking on the iPhone compared to the Mac, Apple releases Mission Control. LOL I was close. http://bit.ly/aVQZWe
- [Multitasking on iOS](https://mattbinkowski.com/multitasking-on-ios/) - It always starts with three little letters, right? W h y To manage your running apps on the iPhone, you must hit the home button twice. That triggers an animation that dims the screen and slides up everything on the screen to reveal a row of full color icons, sitting at the bottom of the
- [Hey twitter, say it isn't so. ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/hey-twitter-say-it-isnt-so/) - Hey twitter, say it isn't so. Now you think you own my photos when I post them here? http://bit.ly/bI1kKh
- [RT @daringfireball: Judge Rule...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-daringfireball-judge-rule/) - RT @daringfireball: Judge Rules Against ‘Edge’ Trademark Troll Tim Langdell: http://df4.us/ge6
- [@VirginiaMiracle are you sitti...](https://mattbinkowski.com/virginiamiracle-are-you-sitti/) - @VirginiaMiracle are you sitting next to Ray Ozzie? http://df4.us/ge2 ;-)
- [Interesting coincidence: as #N...](https://mattbinkowski.com/interesting-coincidence-as-n/) - Interesting coincidence: as #NFL owners discuss extended season, there are an abnormally high # of violent hits & injuries to top players.
- [@adamseitz video??...](https://mattbinkowski.com/adamseitz-video/) - @adamseitz video??
- [RT @unmarketing: Just found ou...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-unmarketing-just-found-ou/) - RT @unmarketing: Just found out #BeatCancer. 5 cents every time hashtag used to beat cancer. RT please. I never ask. #bwe10
- [Blue Eyes](https://mattbinkowski.com/blue-eyes/)
- [Convincing 3D Effect](https://mattbinkowski.com/convincing-3d-effect/) - Gotta love the rotating bookshelf effect in iBooks for iPhone.
- [#Wordpress for #iPhone should ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/wordpress-for-iphone-should/) - #Wordpress for #iPhone should be removed from the #AppStore. Doesn't display posts accurately, doesn't retain categories, blah blah.
- [It just hit me. Why do you thi...](https://mattbinkowski.com/it-just-hit-me-why-do-you-thi/) - It just hit me. Why do you think #Apple used 1 row of icons at the bottom of the screen for multitasking instead of the whole screen?
- [@VirginiaMiracle lol!...](https://mattbinkowski.com/virginiamiracle-lol/) - @VirginiaMiracle lol!
- [Make tha Controlla Biggah!](https://mattbinkowski.com/make-tha-controlla-biggah/) - Sorry Sony, but your GoogleTV controller looks like you just duct taped my 4 remote controls together. If this is real, I don't want one. Source: Engadget Photo source: abcnews.com
- [1 last Jamba Juice before we h...](https://mattbinkowski.com/1-last-jamba-juice-before-we-h/) - 1 last Jamba Juice before we head home from San Jose (pomegranate pick me up!)
- [@sarno @mattbinkowski @squares...](https://mattbinkowski.com/sarno-mattbinkowski-squares/) - @sarno @mattbinkowski @squarespace Its nice but it's too expensive. I was hoping to stay with #wordpress but get a better mobile experience.
- [#WordpressApp for #iPhone = fa...](https://mattbinkowski.com/wordpressapp-for-iphone-fa/) - #WordpressApp for #iPhone = fail. #Wordpress for #MobileSafari on #iPhone = fail. Is there a better app for posting to a WP blog? Bueller?
- [My, that new #Gap logo looks l...](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-that-new-gap-logo-looks-l/) - My, that new #Gap logo looks like a load of nothingness.
- [@wilshipley are you in SF toda...](https://mattbinkowski.com/wilshipley-are-you-in-sf-toda/) - @wilshipley are you in SF today seeing the blue angels too? Those things are freaking LOUD.
- [“@iA: Microsoft to buy A...](https://mattbinkowski.com/ia-microsoft-to-buy-a/) - “@iA: Microsoft to buy Adobe? http://nyti.ms/94x6Da” maybe this will finally force Apple to build a CS6000 web-standards competitor?
- [“@StephenAtHome: I absol...](https://mattbinkowski.com/stephenathome-i-absol/) - “@StephenAtHome: I absolutely love this time of year. 8:12 p.m. on a Thursday, Eastern Time.” LOL there's something very deep bout this one.
- [RT @dbinkowski: So tired of th...](https://mattbinkowski.com/rt-dbinkowski-so-tired-of-th/) - RT @dbinkowski: So tired of the talkers in social media. Can you please stop self promoting for 5 minutes and do some work?
- [@ the ranch in the Santa Cruz ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-ranch-in-the-santa-cruz/) - @ the ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains and it's insanely beautiful here today. And virtually every day of the year.
- [Getting ready for San Francisc...](https://mattbinkowski.com/getting-ready-for-san-francisc/) - Getting ready for San Francisco!
- [@kaimac how bout an iPhone? ;-...](https://mattbinkowski.com/kaimac-how-bout-an-iphone/) - @kaimac how bout an iPhone? ;-)
- [Thoughts On Location-Based Services](https://mattbinkowski.com/location-based-services/) - As mobile phones and other devices become more "location aware", marketers are starting to wrap their heads around this new information about their consumers. I think this presents a huge opportunity to all brands, but most importantly, to those that are trying to improve their customer service/satisfaction reputations. For example, let's say you're a big
- [Movie Review: Anvil: The Story of Anvil](https://mattbinkowski.com/movie-review-anvil-the-story-of-anvil-2/) - Those who know me know that I grew up on 80's metal. Mostly because that's how I learned how to play the guitar…and partially because it was the coolest thing going (sorry, INXS / Depeche Mode / Whatever Other Pouty Band You Can Name Next). I thought I had heard of every 80's metal band,
- [Just noticed the Audi tagline ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/just-noticed-the-audi-tagline/) - Just noticed the Audi tagline uses Verdana. BARF. Maybe they'll upgrade to Hobo soon.
- [Interesting new site with a ne...](https://mattbinkowski.com/interesting-new-site-with-a-ne/) - Interesting new site with a new twitter popularity algorithm: http://129.105.6.241/~ran310/twitter/index.php
- [I now know that 50+ MB of jpg ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-now-know-that-50-mb-of-jpg/) - I now know that 50+ MB of jpg email attachments can definitely crash Mail and reboot your #iPhone. #iPhoneMailSucks
- [Interesting how 1 decides to r...](https://mattbinkowski.com/interesting-how-1-decides-to-r/) - Interesting how 1 decides to remove functionality people wished the iPhone had. Will @iA listen & put it back if users ask 4 it? #writer.
- [enjoyed writing my first post ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/enjoyed-writing-my-first-post/) - enjoyed writing my first post over at http://www.everyotherthursday.com today. #eot
- [Movie Review: The Other Guys](https://mattbinkowski.com/movie-review-the-other-guys/) - It seems an extraordinary feat to create a movie with Will Ferrell in it that’s not funny, but unfortunately, that’s just what Adam McKay did. The Other Guys, a story about two NYPD desk jockeys, one of which was on the way up until he shot Derek Jeter in the leg during the World Series,
- [Halloween In Kansas](https://mattbinkowski.com/halloween-in-kansas/) - Our super friendly neighborhood put on an amazing Halloween event for the kids this year. It all centered around a scary hay ride that took kiddos up and down the streets, some of which, were decorated by volunteers from each. Melissa and I did the cul-de-sac near our house, and I thought it turned out
- [I think the "Oops, someth...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-think-the-oops-someth/) - I think the "Oops, something went wrong…" message from twitter needs to be sponsored by Britney Spears and changed to Oops, we did it again.
- [Just picked up a copy of Commo...](https://mattbinkowski.com/just-picked-up-a-copy-of-commo/) - Just picked up a copy of Commonsense Direct & Digital Marketing by Drayton Bird. http://lnkd.in/A2BKq9
- [Check out this SlideShare Pres...](https://mattbinkowski.com/check-out-this-slideshare-pres/) - Check out this SlideShare Presentation on LinkedIn : What Digital Design Students Need to Know http://slidesha.re/96Stb7
- [Can Experiences Be Designed: A...](https://mattbinkowski.com/can-experiences-be-designed-a/) - Can Experiences Be Designed: A Response http://mattbinkowski.com/?p=2500
- [Even the best of them have the...](https://mattbinkowski.com/even-the-best-of-them-have-the/) - Even the best of them have the occasional bad idea. Case in point: "Mr. Macintosh" by Steve Jobs. http://bit.ly/1aG6rZ
- [Hi kids. The blog is live (aga...](https://mattbinkowski.com/hi-kids-the-blog-is-live-aga/) - Hi kids. The blog is live (again)! Check it out: http://www.www.mattbinkowski.com/blog
- [New ICON Brand and Website](https://mattbinkowski.com/new-icon-brand-and-website/) - One of my first tasks at ICON was to lead a comprehensive identity redesign for our company. The centerpiece of the new brand is a green 3D shape that represents the many facets of the company's services and philosophy. Why green? Well, in addition to the standard digital agency work, ICON produces several green technology
- [Audi Diesel Launchpad](https://mattbinkowski.com/audi-diesel-launchpad/) - So we launched the new Diesel Launchpad website for Audi USA and it was actually mentioned on wired.com! Audi came to ICON to create a website dedicated to explaining diesel technology and highlighting Audi's efforts in both consumer products and motorsports. The launchpad is part PR, part news and part Consumer all at the same
- [Keeping Up With The Binkowskis](https://mattbinkowski.com/keeping-up-with-the-binkowskis/) - Now that we're in Kansas, we need a quick way for my parents to see the kiddos, and video chat is the answer! Miley loves it!
- [The Other Guys sucked. And the...](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-other-guys-sucked-and-the/) - The Other Guys sucked. And the highly depressing closing credits featuring recent financial disasters was the icing on the cake.
- [Wow Mark Sanchez picked a good...](https://mattbinkowski.com/wow-mark-sanchez-picked-a-good/) - Wow Mark Sanchez picked a good day to snap out of his funk.
- [And They Thought TiVo Was Bad](https://mattbinkowski.com/and-they-thought-tivo-was-bad/) - As if tracking online ad impressions wasn't difficult enough for advertisers, Apple Computer is showing up to the party with their own twist on what their customers can do to any website. It's called WebClip and it resides within Mac OS X's Dashboard layer. Dashboard is essentially a hidden layer of your desktop where numerous
- [High Caliber Project](https://mattbinkowski.com/high-caliber-project/) - Imagine you're building a piece of software that is going to be publicized every single day on and offline and the main content creators have never seen it before or been fully trained to use it. This is the short story of how we overcame that and other issues. First, a little background on the
- [Homeland Security Issues on YouTube](https://mattbinkowski.com/homeland-security-issues-on-youtube/) - And you thought YouTube was all about backyard wrestling moves gone wrong or poorly executed viral marketing videos: From the Washington Post: Michael De Kort was frustrated. The 41-year-old Lockheed Martin engineer had complained to his bosses. He had told his story to government investigators. He had called congressmen. But when no one seemed to
- [How Zune Before You Sell Yours?](https://mattbinkowski.com/how-zune-before-you-sell-yours/) - With user generated content sharing all the rage, along comes Microsoft and their interpretation of "sharing" as it applies to their new "Zune" MP3 player. New York Times tech writer David Pogue took it for a spin and wrote this: "Microsoft is leaving nothing to chance here. The Zune will be available in 30,000 stores
- [Defining Your Self Image](https://mattbinkowski.com/defining-your-self-image/) - Microsoft's Zune player is getting all the press lately since it's release and it just made the rounds on the Today Show. The video has a section when after Matt Lauer and Al Roker make mention of how they're "iPod guys", Matt asks Al about what's on his iPod right now (keep in mind, this
- [Nielsen and Nuts](https://mattbinkowski.com/nielsen-and-nuts/) - For the uninitiated, Jakob Nielsen is a usability guru who made his name in the early 90s by criticizing the poor usability of many websites. His voice helped shape the web and is generally respected by just about all in the interactive field and simultaneously despised by designers who consider pushing the envelope a part
- [YouTube on NBC](https://mattbinkowski.com/youtube-on-nbc/) - In a blatant attempt to take from YouTube's audience, NBC has launched a new show called IYS (It's Your Show). In their words, "it's like YouTube for TV." You could win up to $100,000 and/or $1,000 a week. But wait a minute, Matt. Doesn't this sound alot like America's Funniest Home Videos? Why yes it
- [My Favorite YouTube Videos](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-favorite-youtube-videos/)
- [Jack Morton Social Media Engagement Strategy](https://mattbinkowski.com/jack-morton-social-media-engagement-strategy/) - With the explosion of social media, Jack Morton Worldwide in Detroit hired me to help them adapt to today's marketplace. I was instrumental in conceiving eVerbâ„¢, a social media engagement strategy. eVerbâ„¢ connects Jack Morton's offline experiential marketing fare to the web by identifying where target audiences "live" on the web and providing high-quality content
- [GMNext and BoingBoing Conversations](https://mattbinkowski.com/gmnext-support/) - Soon after I joined Jack Morton, I was asked to provide digital strategy support for my office's main project, GMNext. GMNext was a massive celebration of GM's 100th anniversary, and was heavy on social media tactics. I met with top executives in their Global Communications Group to advise them on the program's metrics and potential
- [Sweet UI, Lame Icon](https://mattbinkowski.com/sweet-ui-lame-icon/) - I'll make this short. New audio slowdowner app called Capo. Cool UI: Lame App icon:
- [Greener Pastures](https://mattbinkowski.com/so-yall/) - As it turns out, I did find a new job. I'm at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Missouri. Technically, the company is located in Missouri but we now live in Kansas. On this side of the road, it's Kansas. The other? You get the idea. Anyway, we're slowly adjusting to this new environment. We chose
- [Introducing the Hallmark Kids Collection Website](https://mattbinkowski.com/introducing-the-hallmark-kids-collection-website/) - Hallmark research finds a discrepancy between how much moms think they encourage their kids…and how much kids say they receive. To bridge that gap, Hallmark launched Kids Collection, products designed for parents to show their love, encouragement, understanding and acceptance of their children. The cards and gifts are designed for school-aged children in kindergarten through
- [Jack Morton Virtual Events](https://mattbinkowski.com/jack-morton-virtual-events/) - As lead digital strategist, I helped define their industry-leading virtual event solution. The Virtual Experience Platform delivers on the immediate need for virtual alternatives as well as a long-term paradigm shift where live, event-based networking will always be linked to some form of digital interaction or social networking online. Attendees can download event documents, network
- [Introducing the Hallmark Girlfriends Website](https://mattbinkowski.com/introducing-the-hallmark-girlfriends-website/)
- [My blog migration is almost co...](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-blog-migration-is-almost-co/) - My blog migration is almost complete. Should be live Monday!
- [iPhone 3.0 Nits](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-30-nits/) - Some quick notes on what I think can be improved: 1. Why do we now have two separate applications for note taking? One is verbal (Voice Memos) and the other is textual (Notes). I could easily imagine a Notes interface button with the old style microphone as its icon that brings up the audio recording
- [Never Buy Litter Again?](https://mattbinkowski.com/never-buy-litter-again/) - This is bizarre and you know someone somewhere had to be working on it. I guess this ultra-bored couple that was WAAAY too attached to their cat, devised this device called the CityKitty. Just watch their animation and see for yourself. OMG
- [are you sure he said this?](https://mattbinkowski.com/are-you-sure-he-said-this/) - From today's NY Times: "I don't want to be that guy anymore," (Mike) Tyson said, talking calmly about his past while sitting in the locker room of Burr Gymnasium on the campus of Howard University. "I liked to humiliate people, because I had been humiliated. I wanted other people to feel the pain I felt
- [That’s a Biggun](https://mattbinkowski.com/thats-a-biggun/) - Holy Christo, this is out of control. I feel for this woman. After seeing Melissa have such uncomfortable days while pregnant, I just can't imagine how she would have dealt with this scenario: Doctors are not quite sure why, but Robin Buzzell keeps having big babies. Now she's delivered the biggest one yet, a daughter
- [A Killer Blog](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-murders-blog/) - No not mine! Silly rabbit! I'm talking about Joseph Duncan's blog. You know. The guy who in Minnesota was being watched by the government to trace his whereabouts because he was a wanted fugitive from Minnesota? His last post entry was two days before police believe he committed the brutal slayings of 40-year-old Brenda Groene,
- [Hilarious Truck Review](https://mattbinkowski.com/hilarious-truck-review/) - I normally don't care much for Lincoln vehicles but I just had to read the review from the New York Times on their newest vehicle—a $50k+ pickup truck. That notion is what drew me in and the NYT didn't fail to produce some good lines from the article: "IF you spend nearly $50,000 for a
- [Attack of the 50 Foot Auto Show Model](https://mattbinkowski.com/attack-of-the-50-foot-auto-show-model/) - Everyone knows that Lotus makes super small, lightweight cars that look like many people's wet dreams (see exige for mine -warning it's a 1024 x 683px image). But, did anyone know that they're also model makers as well? Just check out the typical Auto Show model standing next to their new, and larger**, version of
- [Adventure Quotient](https://mattbinkowski.com/adventure-quotient/) - You hear that howling? Of course you do it's the sound of adventure inviting you to follow. Our calculations reveal that you are the Spontaneous Seeker. You're a free spirit of sorts; a day-to-day routine feels more like a sentence to you than a safety net. You are constantly searching for novelty—gravitating toward people and
- [Back from the Trail](https://mattbinkowski.com/back-from-the-trail/) - I just got back from a whirlwind trip to the Rubicon Trail and 4 straight days of new-house painting so give me a day to recover and I'll post lots of photos from both.
- [Proving Grounds Locations](https://mattbinkowski.com/proving-grounds-locations/) - Auto Express is running an article on their website about some of the top test tracks in the world as seen from satellite imagery.
- [Ray vs. Matt](https://mattbinkowski.com/ray-vs-matt/) - People have told me many times in my life that I have a face that is either a) hard to read or b) looks pissed off most of the time when in fact I'm not. This little image made me smile and yes it was actually visible to those outside of my body. Jalopnik Associate
- [Shocked and Saddened](https://mattbinkowski.com/shocked-and-saddened/) - I really couldn't believe this video when I saw it. Kiri Davis, a budding film student, decided to recreate a 1950's study on children and race. You just need to watch this to believe it.
- [Traveling with a Toddler](https://mattbinkowski.com/traveling-with-a-toddler/) - Here are my tips for loading up your iPhone before you go on vacation with a toddler. 1. Put a movie on it. I put Barbie In The Nutcracker since Elise is so big on Bawh-Bee and the ballet lately. You can also put other non-iTunes movies in there that she finds entertaining. 2. Install
- [How I Blog](https://mattbinkowski.com/how-i-blog/) - Sometimes people comment to me in person about how quickly I can get posts up on my blog as if I'm doing some magic trick. I'm also writing this because at the same time, I was looking at MarsEdit and wondering how it would make my blogging experience easier. I guess I've determined that it
- [Slow Moving Death](https://mattbinkowski.com/slow-moving-death/) - From CNN: "A man died after falling several stories in a Hollywood shopping mall while apparently attempting to slide down the banister of an escalator, authorities said. The Hollywood & Highland complex includes the theater where the Academy Awards ceremony is held. The victim's friends told officials investigating the Saturday night incident at the Hollywood
- [Missed A Lot](https://mattbinkowski.com/missed-alot/) - Quick update. Just got back from Disney & St. Pete's Beach today and tried to stay as unplugged as possible. In the process, I seem to have missed a few things. Brett Favre retiring. No surprise and probably a relief to whoever has played behind that dude forever. I feel bad for Pack fans. They
- [Reverse Globalization](https://mattbinkowski.com/reverse-globalization/) - From ABC News: As the cost of shipping continues to soar along with fuel prices, homegrown manufacturing jobs are making a comeback after decades of decline. While it once cost $3,000 to ship a container from a city like Shanghai to New York, it now costs $8,000, prompting some businesses to look closer to home
- [Ain’t She Purty?](https://mattbinkowski.com/aint-she-purty/) - One mis-selection in my Numbers spreadsheet and chart click later and I got this: oopsie!
- [Starbucks Closings in Michigan](https://mattbinkowski.com/starbucks-closings-in-michigan/) - I got the list from Huffington Post and quickly put them in a custom map in Google Maps. Zoom out a few times to see the whole state. View Larger Map
- [My Superhero Is Dead](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-superhero-is-dead/) - God how I loved Evel Knievel. As a young boy I initially thought he was fictional. Later on I realized he was a real guy who was on the fast track to superhero-dom. I had the jumping toy, watched him on TV, and just felt so inspired by his insanely stupid yet important heroic deeds.
- [E85 Is More Expensive](https://mattbinkowski.com/e85-is-more-expensive/) - From Jalopnik: Filing up your E85 vehicle might initially feel better due to prices that are, on average, about 20% cheaper than regular octane, but the joke is on you. Because gas engines burn the typically corn-based fuel less efficiently, the adjusted cost of E85 is $4.321 per gallon compared to gas that averaged about
- [Speed Costs](https://mattbinkowski.com/speed-costs/) - According to a AAA rep on NPR this morning, for every 5 MPH over 60 MPH that you drive, your cost of fuel rises 20 cents. So if you're going 80 MPH every morning to work, instead of paying $4.09 at the pump, you're actually paying $4.80/gallon.
- [How to Buy a Car and Not Get Screwed](https://mattbinkowski.com/how-to-buy-a-car-and-not-get-screwed/) - I have to say. The whole "walk out if the deal changes" line is absolutely true. I did that when I was recently shopping for a used car and the dealer froze in his chair. I walked about 500 feet across the parking lot to my car, got in, and started to drive away when
- [FINALLY](https://mattbinkowski.com/finally-2/) - The Chevy Volt is here. I'm normally not much of a car nut outside the Jeep Wrangler and the insanity of the Bugatti Veyron or Lambroghini Reventon but I really think this car looks good. I'd happily get one if they were out now. And check this out: GM estimates that the Volt will cost
- [There's a Reason…](https://mattbinkowski.com/theres-a-reason/) - why there are separate schools for Journalism and Art. Is this a joke? Does anyone at Car and Driver think this is a plausible and good idea?
- [This Is How You Say It](https://mattbinkowski.com/this-is-how-you-say-it/) - Peter DeLorenzo has a great article on the impending devastation of the Big 3 and the subsequent ramifications to our economy and country if the federal government doesn't act immediately. [Link] It scares me to read that article but it's true. For all the people out there who think our country can absorb the massive
- [How to Instantly Change the Electoral Map](https://mattbinkowski.com/how-to-instantly-change-the-electoral-map/) - Don't bail out the Big 3. Watch those states turn bright red faster than you can brush off your federal governing duties.
- [Pinning Their Hopes](https://mattbinkowski.com/pinning-their-hopes/) - The New York Times is wrong with this horribly stupid assessment: "G.M. has pinned its future on the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in electric car due two years from now, and another small Chevrolet, the Cruze, aimed at many of the same customers who have bought Toyota Corollas the last 40 years." Actually, GM hopes the
- [Pointing Fingers](https://mattbinkowski.com/if-it-fits-our-vision-well-print-it/) - I think my response to a NY Times article today is worth reposting here: I'm sorry but the truth is, if it weren't for the credit crisis, the Big 3 would have continued selling their vehicles just fine. Would their marketshare have continued to slide? Yes. Is "making cars the people want to buy" the
- [Undead Preparedness 101](https://mattbinkowski.com/undead-preparedness/) - The Zombie Survival Guide Author: Max Brooks Funny Excerpt from the chapter "On the Defense in Public Spaces: Schools": Unfortunately for our society but fortunately for a zombie siege, inner-city schools have taken on a fortress-like atmosphere. Not only are the buildings themselves built to withstand a riot, but chain-link fences surrounding them make these
- [More College Stupidity](https://mattbinkowski.com/more-college-stupidity/) - It was discovered that a college student was writing down the ISBN numbers and the pricing of his required textbooks. His goal was to then search the web for the same book but at a better price. Sounds like a smart kid. Unfortunately, his college didn't like it. They kicked him out of the bookstore
- [Ruining My Afternoon](https://mattbinkowski.com/oldie-but-a-goodie/) - Event though this bit of news is quite old, I just ran across it so I'm posting it here for the first time: "The actor Richard Griffiths has launched a furious tirade against mobile phones after ejecting a member of the audience from his West End play when her ringtone sounded for the third time.
- [Peppers Sue Producers](https://mattbinkowski.com/peppers-sue-producers/) - A new Showtime tv series is being called "Californication". Sound familiar? The Red Hot Chili Peppers do so they're suing for creative identity theft. I find it interesting how the two production companies named in the suit are called "Twilight Time Films and Aggressive Mediocrity, Inc." A fulfilling prophecy perhaps? ;-)
- [me-Harmony](https://mattbinkowski.com/me-harmony/)
- [Totally Missing Out](https://mattbinkowski.com/totally-missing-out/) - So American Idol is over and the new twist on the post season activities is how they're lumping the winner with the rest of the top 10. It makes sense from a marketing perspective: Get people to want to see them all in concert. It also makes sense from an investment perspective: They've just spent
- [Sulfur Hexafluoride is Funny](https://mattbinkowski.com/sulfur-hexafluoride-is-funny/)
- [Adam Lambert](https://mattbinkowski.com/adam-lambert-cook/) - I've only seen Adam Lambert sing a handful of songs now on American Idol but I'm starting to hear a pattern. Starts low, jumps into jazzy broadway-esque musical theater only to push the upper register throughout the last third of the song until he unleashes that god-awful failed 80's metal band screech. Too predictable and
- [Backyard Shots](https://mattbinkowski.com/backyard-shots/) - "Mickelson was 247 yards away, some 10 yards behind the plaque in the fairway that commemorated the 1-iron Jack Nicklaus hit to the green in 1967 to win the U.S. Open. He tapped it twice with his 4-wood for luck, but the shot came up short in grass that covered the tops of his shoes.
- [Kobe Slays Raptors](https://mattbinkowski.com/kobe-slays-raptors/) - Man, 81 points in one NBA game is sick. Little did I know that Wilt the Stilt had so many other great high-scoring games. And those were before the 3 point line even existed!
- [A $15,000 Laptop?](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-15000-laptop/) - I'm just blown away by this news item: Someone stole a laptop from the Auburn University football team that had its entire playbook. At first I thought wow, someone had the courage to steal this during a team meeting with the players watching. But then I read they valued the laptop at $15,000. If anyone
- [Overwhelming Vote of Confidence](https://mattbinkowski.com/overwhelming-vote-of-confidence/) - DAVIE, Fla. (AP) -- There's no mystery this week. Joey Harrington will remain as the Miami Dolphins' starting quarterback. For now, anyway. Dolphins coach Nick Saban said Monday that when his team opens practice for next Sunday's visit to the New York Jets, Harrington will be the first-stringer. Daunte Culpepper will enter a rehab-type program
- [Monkeys and Vindication](https://mattbinkowski.com/monkeys-and-vindication/) - "I don't get into monkeys and vindication," he said. "I don't play that card. I know how hard I worked this season, I know how hard I worked this week." And that's why I like Peyton Manning. No need for supernatural explanations. He's just good at what he does and busts ass.
- [Hail To The Victors!](https://mattbinkowski.com/hail-to-the-victors/) - So I came home from work yesterday and my wife tells me that her new friend has a nephew who is in the hospital. I asked why. She said because he was hit by a F-350 after the Michigan/Penn State game in Ann Arbor. And he wasn't alone. He was with 4 other U of
- [Awaiting the Start or Finish?](https://mattbinkowski.com/awaiting-the-start-or-finish/) - I stumbled across this somewhat creepy photo of Usain Bolt in
- [Great Sportsmanship by Mr. Phelps](https://mattbinkowski.com/great-sportsmanship-by-mr-phelps/)
- [The Randomness of Life](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-randomness-of-life/) - Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life
- [Actual Transcript of Snoop Dogg’s Chrysler Voicemail Message](https://mattbinkowski.com/actual-transcript-of-snoop-doggs-chrysler-voicemail-msg/) - "Yo, what up? This is big Snoop Dogg, trying to put these new legs down for this new 300C. What I gotta do to get that brand new 300 up outta you? Get back in contact with my nephew so you can make it happen, then it's official like a referee's whistle. If you want
- [Open Mic Night at the Elbow Room](https://mattbinkowski.com/open-mic-night-at-the-elbow-room/) - Every so often, my brother's friend Judd organizes a "tribute" style open mic night at the elbow room in Ypsilanti. The rule is, you can play, but only from a certain artist's catalog. This month, R.E.M. is the chosen artist. We plan on playing three or four songs...and most likely changing the arrangements quite a
- [U2 Tribute Night](https://mattbinkowski.com/u2-tribute-night/) - Well my brother has coaxed me out of my self-imposed retirement from playing the Tribute Night shows at the Elbow Room in Ypsi. He called me yesterday and asked if I'd fill in for his band's regular guitar player who's out of town for the show. I think it will be pretty cool since the
- [NIN and Garageband](https://mattbinkowski.com/nin-and-garageband/) - Trent Reznor has decided to release his latest single from the record "With Teeth" in Garageband 2.0 format. I can't describe how cool this is. He's basically letting you see a version of the guts of what it takes to professionally record a song. Although he did the original recording in Pro Tools, he did
- [My Music Purchasing Habits](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-music-purchasing-habits/) - from the New York Times: "I don't think it's time yet," said Jimmy Iovine, the chairman of Interscope Records, Universal's biggest division. "We need to convert a lot more people to the habit of buying music online. I don't think a way to convert more people is to raise the price. "I believe that he
- [Rockstar INXS](https://mattbinkowski.com/rockstar-inxs/) - I've read that many people find this show a joke, and why shouldn't they? For MONTHS they'd held on to the premise of finding a new lead singer when the truth is, you know right away whether someone is right for your band or not. Trust me, I've been through many auditions and you can
- [World Tour for Shut-Ins](https://mattbinkowski.com/world-tour-for-shut-ins/) - This isn't news but it seems that people are really taking advantage of performing for audiences around the world via the internet. I think it's highly cool and I have considered doing something like this in the past with my former bandmates from college. Except we'd be collaborating over the web by emailing recordings and
- [Foxy Phlegm](https://mattbinkowski.com/foxy-phlegm/) - I'm sitting here listening to Hendrix' Foxey Lady and heard a weird thing. Jimi clearing his throat. Go ahead. Listen from 1:06 to 1:07 and right before he starts the next verse, he does this really quick AHEM away from the mike. ha.
- [Unable to Use Your Own Image](https://mattbinkowski.com/unable-to-use-your-own-image/) - Wow. I just made a quick search for Chris Daughtry's pre-American Idol band, Absent Element), and found this image: Naturally, the first thing you would look for on that page is an image of Chris to know where his bio starts on the page. Instead, this group image is in the top right corner of
- [Catchin’ Up With Google](https://mattbinkowski.com/catchin-up-with-google/) - This isn't what you think. For some reason I went to youtube.com and looked up Hot Water Music. They used to play with my band in college and I just wondered if there was anything "out there." Well as the internet naturally leads you from one odd place to another, I thought for old time's
- [And Just Like That](https://mattbinkowski.com/and-just-like-that/) - I'm in a band again. Sorta. My bro called yesterday and asked if I'd like to be the rhythm guitarist for a fellow Tribute Night'er who's recording some new stuff. So, off to the music store I go trying to get my guitar setup again. This should be cool. It seems the drummer is out
- [Ultimate Diamond Cover Art](https://mattbinkowski.com/ultimate-diamond-cover-art/)
- [TIME TO RAWK](https://mattbinkowski.com/time-to-rawk/) - My bro is moving to New Jersey to work in NYC in June and we're playing one last show that will cover the massive range of music we've played. And we won't be alone. The following bands are scheduled to play: Mound, Mumble, The Exhaustones, The Ungodly 77s, Corndaddy, and possibly one more. June 2
- [hAXEorz](https://mattbinkowski.com/haxeorz/)
- [How to Spend $40-50](https://mattbinkowski.com/how-to-spend-40-50/) - While walking past an indie record shop in downtown A2 today, Sean pointed out a small handwritten sign on their street sign. It said something about Smashing Pumpkins decided to release their new record at four different outlets, each getting a version that had only 1 song that was unique to each on it. I
- [Music Notes](https://mattbinkowski.com/music-notes/) - I just read an interesting recap of Prince's career on the New York Times and it got me thinking about some musicians that have come into my view lately: Prince, Billy Corgan, and Buckethead. They each have their own way of promoting their music in the digital age where everything can be copied and redistributed
- [Acute Anxiety and Philmont](https://mattbinkowski.com/acute-anxiety-and-philmont/) - So no tour for 07 for the Stripes. It's too bad. I hope Meg gets better soon because they're simply one of the more interesting acts in rock. Hey Jack, nice Philmont jacket! I remember going there when I was 15 and drooled over that jacket at the time.
- [On Being a Decent Human Being](https://mattbinkowski.com/on-being-a-decent-human-being/) - Something really irked me this morning. In a NY Times article, one of Radiohead's managers said the following regarding people's response to their Tip In Hat approach to pricing their latest record: "The majority of the public are really decent human beings who are honest," Mr. Hufford said. Mr. Hufford, had it ever occurred to
- [BANGERS DUDE!](https://mattbinkowski.com/bangers-dude/) - Via BoingBoing is the funniest and scariest 80's documentary of all time: HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT
- [Slo-Mo Nude](https://mattbinkowski.com/slo-mo-nude/) - Check the video
- [What Could This Mean?](https://mattbinkowski.com/what-could-this-mean/) - So our baby boy is on the way and this is just too funny to not post about. Melissa was driving alone running an errand and she had the radio on. Back in Black came on and she turned it up. The baby started kicking her! I heard what happened so I played the song
- [Jane's Addiction Reunion Show](https://mattbinkowski.com/janes-addiction-reunion-show/) - Playing "Ocean Size" on Oct. 23, 2008, reposted from 6767.com. Hope ya don't mind!
- [Is This True?](https://mattbinkowski.com/is-this-true/) - Someone on the bucketheadland message board posted this intriguing bit of recon from a recent event: Hey Bots I was at the Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland last night for the Les Paul tribute featuring Henry Jeskowitz (sp?) who is the CEO of Gibson USA, and Ace Frehley. During the Q+A, someone asked Henry what
- [12 Notes](https://mattbinkowski.com/12-notes/) - I just read a so-so interview with Eddie Van Halen and he had one interesting response to a question that I think really sums up his entire approach to music: "You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them." I love that notion. In my college band days, I never wrote the lyrics
- [Looking Forward to Halloween](https://mattbinkowski.com/looking-forward-to-halloween/) - I know it's a little early to think about Halloween, but it is my favorite holiday of the year. I was just stopping by the iTunes Music Store Movie Trailer section to see what's coming the pipe and Tim Burton has, what looks to be, like a pretty cool little Nightmare Before Christmas style animated
- [Cool Star Wars Auction](https://mattbinkowski.com/cool-star-wars-auction/) - Gary Kurtz, one of the original producers of Episodes 4-6, is having an auction of screen-used memorabilia from the Star Wars series he worked on. Some of the highly cool things up for auction are Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, Yoda's walking cane, an actual Snow Speeder used in The Empire Strikes Back, and Luke's X-Wing Pilot
- [Star Wars III: A Lost Hope](https://mattbinkowski.com/star-wars-iii-a-lost-hope/) - This is a great little sendup of the final SW installment. It's not common for me to laugh at these types of parodies when they're done by amateurs but this one's different. It runs more like a trailer than a short film but there's some funny stuff in there. This image is from my favorite
- [Better Off Dead Camaro Is Alive!](https://mattbinkowski.com/better-off-dead-camaro-is-alive/) - After putting Elise down for a nap I turned on Comedy Central and caught the last 10 minutes of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I had seen this movie a few times before, so it's odd that I never noticed that one of the Princesses in the England scenes, and eventually Ted's girlfriend, is the
- [From the This Isn't Real Department](https://mattbinkowski.com/from-the-this-isnt-real-department/) - Nick Cage Names Son LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage's wife of 14 months gave birth on Monday to the couple's first child together, a son they named Kal-el -- a moniker recognized by comic book fans as the birth name of Superman. The child's delivery in New York City and his full
- [Mel’s Still Wacky!](https://mattbinkowski.com/mels-still-wacky/) - A story on digg.com mentions a weird frame (1:46) that appears in the trailer of his latest movie: Apocalypto. This may have been unintentional but with Mel, who knows.
- [Bullitt (Poster) Remake?](https://mattbinkowski.com/bullitt-poster-remake-hopefully/) - Um, I could care less if they remake the movie Bullitt but if a studio decides to move forward with it, anything could be better than the original movie poster. Jesus this thing is the worst subliminal advertising in the world:
- [Cars: The Movie Review](https://mattbinkowski.com/cars—the-movie-review/) - From :the NYTimes: "This ethnic and cultural profiling is pretty much par for the animated film course, hence Jenifer Lewis, as a two-tone 1950's ride with big fins called Flo, provides the only identifiable "black" voice. Less wince-inducing are Luigi (Tony Shalhoub), a banana-yellow Italian-accented Fiat that runs the local tire store; Sarge (Paul Dooley),
- [The Bright Light](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-bright-light/) - Just saw The Dark Knight and all I can say is, WOW. What a movie. EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER had a dramatic role to play. No one dropped the ball. The pace was thrilling. Heath Ledger was unbelieveable.
- [Bullseyeing Womprats](https://mattbinkowski.com/bullseyeing-womprats/) - Nothing says Thanksgiving like Star Wars on tv and pumpkin cheesecake.
- [David Fincher Ruined Christmas](https://mattbinkowski.com/david-fincher-ruined-christmas/) - Seriously, if anyone reading this blog has small children, do NOT go see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It has the most gut wrenching moment in the history of cinema. After three hours of investing in Brad Pitt's bizarre character, you watch him age in reverse until he ends up as a tiny baby
- [Back from the Jeep Jamboree](https://mattbinkowski.com/back-from-the-jeep-jamboree/) - UPDATE: Here's a silly video I put together to the random bits of footage.
- [Jeep Jamboree 04](https://mattbinkowski.com/jeep-jamboree-04/) - Yes, it's true. My dad and I are heading up to Drummond Island for the 04 Jeep Jamboree. We can't wait! We're bringing along digital video and still cameras to capture as much of it as we can. I think i'll bring my laptop so I can download the footage each night so we're ready
- [And You Thought Jeep Owners Were Bad](https://mattbinkowski.com/and-you-thought-jeep-owners-were-bad/) - "Mercedes may have gained some insights on these matters recently, through a survey conducted by the Roper polling organization in conjunction with a Mercedes marketing program called the LoveMercedes Tour. In the survey of more than 1,000 adults, 36 percent of Americans said they loved their car and 23 percent considered their car their best
- [Resourceful Jeep iPod Owners](https://mattbinkowski.com/resourceful-jeep-ipod-owners/) - It took me a second to decide which category to file this under. ;-) As my pals know, I'm a Jeep guy through and through. Same goes for Apple. This morning I stopped by my Rubicon Owners Forum and saw a cool post about mounting iPods inside a Wrangler. Normally, guys write in about mounting
- [A Remote Controlled Rock Crawler? :-)](https://mattbinkowski.com/a-remote-controlled-rock-crawler/) - Some imaginative folks at the Art Institute of California are whipping up a sweet remote controlled rig that is destined to take on the DARPA offroad challenge in just a few weeks. It's called the Robomonster.There's a short video of someone "driving" it around a small parking lot over big tires and the like. It's
- [An Electric Motor That Produces Torque?](https://mattbinkowski.com/electric-motor-produces-torque/) - I just read this article that talks about a new electric motor that, the makers claim, can generate 400% more torque than any motor (consumer i believe) that's available on the market today. If this is true, I might swap out my engine for one of these bad boys someday! here's a quote: "The motor
- [TK SPY SHOTS](https://mattbinkowski.com/tk-spy-shots/) - If you don't know what the TK is, you probably should stop reading. ;-) The TK is the '07 Wrangler that's being redesigned as we speak. God I wish I was involved in that somehow. Anyways, here's the latest and greatest spyshot on the web for your viewing pleasure. If this thing even remotely resembles
- [Hella Response](https://mattbinkowski.com/hella-response/) - Wow. Just on a lark I wrote a company for some help on finding stores who sell their specific product. I was expecting just a name of 1 place but instead got this: ####### Original Message Hi, I'm looking at the FF75 lights and can't seem to find an online retailer who sells these. Can
- [Did Anyone Else See That?](https://mattbinkowski.com/did-anyone-else-see-that/) - "The sales rate has been lower than we thought," Mr. Leclair said in a telephone interview on Tuesday evening. "We think that is a continuation of a trend of changing consumer preferences away from traditional, truck-based S.U.V.'s toward more fuel-efficient models." Um, that's from an exec at Ford this Tuesday at an earnings-lowering press conference.
- [Must Get This](https://mattbinkowski.com/must-get-this/) - This would be a great replacement for my current Swiss Army knife. Nuff said.
- [07 Jeep Wrangler and Rescue Comparison](https://mattbinkowski.com/07-jeep-wrangler-and-rescue-comparison/) - I just found some new spy shots of the 4 door Wrangler and have read reports that the name will be the Rescue and the 2 door (what I have) will remain Wrangler. I am seriously considering moving on to the 4 door so I can get the family in and we can cruise around
- [More TKL Spy Shots!](https://mattbinkowski.com/more-tkl-spy-shots/) - TKL, in case you're wondering, is the codename for the new 4 door Jeep Wrangler that should be introduced early next year. Here's some more pics just posted on the inside line with some older concept pictures of the Jeep Rescue sprinkled in for comparison.
- [Real-World Commander Pics](https://mattbinkowski.com/real-world-commander-pics/) - Get this thing some wood paneling, QUICK!
- [TKL Spy Shots Part 2](https://mattbinkowski.com/tkl-spy-shots-part-2/) - Just for my organizational sanity, I've made a photo gallery of every TKL spy shot I have found. I also added it in the left nav Links category so it's easier to find than a bunch of old posts. Here's the latest shots to get you interested:
- [Actual Jeep Compass and Patriot Photos](https://mattbinkowski.com/actual-jeep-compass-and-patriot-photos/) - An Italian website claims to have pics and more details of the upcoming lower-end Jeeps. I think they look too good to be photoshopped. That Patriot doesn't look half bad. Jeep Patriot Jeep Compass
- [2008 Land Rover Defender](https://mattbinkowski.com/2008-land-rover-defender/) - Now THIS is interesting news. From MotorTrend: "2008 Land Rover Defender: Out of the U.S. market since 1997, the Defender will return for 2008 with a redesigned vehicle codenamed L317. By the time it's replaced, the Defender would have been manufactured for 25 years. This next-gen vehicle will be based on the LR3's platform." I
- [Jeep Helps Land a Plane](https://mattbinkowski.com/jeep-helps-land-a-plane/) - NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In an hourlong ordeal that resembled a scene from an action-adventure movie, cool flying and steady driving prevented a potential tragedy at New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport on Friday morning. Jason Messenger, a senior instructor with Epic Aviation in New Smyrna Beach, was flying with student pilot Kenneth Barrett. They were
- [Toyota FJ CONQUERS Rubicon Trail!!1!!1!](https://mattbinkowski.com/toyota-fj-conquers-rubicon/) - heh. Well if it were only as easy as writing that headline. Some folks at Toyota decided to run a new FJ Cruiser through the Rubicon trail. Of course the article caught my eye. Then I read it and found this lovely line neatly tucked in between the cheers: "We stacked a few rocks along
- [It’s Getting Closer](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-getting-closer/) - I've come across another good pic of the 4 door Wrangler and posted it to my photo gallery. What's cool about this one is that from what I can see, it's probably the final version of vehicle. It doesn't look like a test mule.
- [Wrangular](https://mattbinkowski.com/wrangular/) - Yes, I'm coining that word. I said it first and noone can use it without paying massive sums of money. I happen to have seen some real photos of the 2-door 07 Jeep Wrangler. Here are my thoughts: Front grille: Straight from the Gladiator. It also is more of a flattened, rounded corners, rectangular shape.
- [Jumping The Gun](https://mattbinkowski.com/jumping-the-gun/) - Looks like some people in the press just can't wait to publish magazine articles with photos of the new Wrangler before it's been announced. Naughty naughty. Can't believe DC will be too happy with that move. So here it is:
- [W00t There It Is!](https://mattbinkowski.com/w00t-there-it-is/) - Finally, the 07 Wrangler (2door) made its debut last night. That roof is really making it look more toy like than ever before. My favorite part about this whole product launch is that print magazines jump the gun with specs and photos, spy shots of the damn thing have been all over the web for
- [iPod and Jeep Integration Is Here](https://mattbinkowski.com/ipod-and-jeep-integration-is-here/) - The Chrysler Group today announced that it will be the first American automaker to provide full iPod integration as an option in most of its 2006 models, with over three million 2006 Chrysler, Jeep® and Dodge models offering seamless iPod® integration beginning this spring. Drivers will be able to listen to their iPod through the
- [Nader vs Jeep](https://mattbinkowski.com/nader-vs-jeep/) - AutoWeek The Detroit auto show attracted throngs of appreciative fans last week, but Ralph Nader wasn't among them. The consumer advocate, presidential candidate and perennial industry critic told Automotive News he was appalled by the stunts that car companies pulled to launch their vehicles at the show. Nader was especially annoyed by a 2007 Jeep
- [My Next Jeep](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-new-jeep/) - Well, I don't have it yet but when my lease is up, I'm getting on of these immediately: If you don't know what this is, it's the new '07 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited buried under 6 tons of mud at the New York auto show today, mid-reveal. This is just what I've been waiting for. Ever
- [GOTTA HAVE IT](https://mattbinkowski.com/gotta-have-it/) - "Offering easy-to-use, comprehensive driving directions, Jeep Wrangler Unlimited's available navigation system provides real-time guidance. In addition, a trail feature leaves behind a virtual breadcrumb trail that shows where the vehicle has driven off-road, enabling the driver to retrace the route and return to the trailhead." Nice GPS addition by the folks at Jeep for the
- [The Opposite of a Jeep](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-opposite-of-a-jeep/) - "The 2007 Lexus LS-460 will have a factory-installed 30GB hard drive partitioned for music and navigation, three cameras for lane departure warning and park assist, touch-screen and voice activated navigation system, Bluetooth phone control, monitored telematics, live traffic reports and a 19-speaker audio system that reads compressed audio formats."
- [Not-So Submilinal Advertising](https://mattbinkowski.com/subversive-advertising/) - I was checking out the Toyota website for some images and got sucked into the FJ Cruiser photo gallery and saw this image. To say I was surprised was an understatement. I can't believe Toyota is actually showing a Jeep Wrangler in the background of the picture behind the FJ. As if this were to
- [Weece’s Deep](https://mattbinkowski.com/weeces-deep/) - My little Elise really loves those motorized cars like the Barbie Jeep, so I'm sure I'll have to break down in the spring and haul one back from Toys R Us just like the rest of the parents in my neighborhood. As luck would have it, it seems there's a new kids Jeep based on
- [Big Shocker](https://mattbinkowski.com/big-shocker/) - I bought my Jeep. Yeah I'm sure alot of my friends are saying, "I thought you already did that" when I really hadn't. In fact, I had a serious guilt over potentially owning a vehicle that gets sub-par gas mileage and considered dumping it altogether. Luckily Melissa talked some sense into me.
- [Not So Great (Car and) Drivers](https://mattbinkowski.com/not-so-great-car-and-drivers/) - I'm sorry but I just couldn't help but laugh out loud over Car and Driver's new review of the 4 door wrangler. I drove the same vehicle over the same stretch of trail and it seems I had MUCH fewer troubles than they did. Just read this: "We bump down the Rubicon's boulder-filled Big Sluice
- [Successful Upgrade](https://mattbinkowski.com/successful-upgrade/) - Ok, I can't believe it was that simple...I'm impressed. Not that it was something literally anyone could do but if you can follow directions, it should work fine and hopefully the Akismet spam plugin will help. I was lucky enough to find these step by step instructions. I'm also saving them as PDFs and archiving
- [Smashed Rooflines](https://mattbinkowski.com/smashed-rooflines/) - With the Detroit Auto Show underway for the press, some manufacturers have been "fighting" broken embargo agreements with the press. The general issue is that they are releasing photos of new vehicles whether they be concept or actual production revisions. There's just one question I have for every auto designer out there if they ever
- [Lazy Reviewer](https://mattbinkowski.com/lazy-reviewer/) - Not that anyone uses the New York Times as their benchmark for a vehicle purchase but, I still have to point this out. Today they've posted a new review of the 4 door Jeep Wrangler. In the "review" the "journalist" said the following regarding the soft-top: The Wrangler X has a standard soft top that
- [Diesel 4-Door Wrangler?](https://mattbinkowski.com/diesel-4-door-wrangler/) - While out running errands I happened to spot a Rescue Green 4 door Wrangler in a parking lot and asked Melissa if she minded the color. I insisted we drive up close to see it and when we pulled up next to it I noticed that this was a diesel mule vehicle for testing. I
- [New Brute Conversion Kit](https://mattbinkowski.com/new-brute-conversion-kit/) - The innovative folks over at American Expedition Vehicles just released their widely anticipated Jeep Wrangler "Brute" conversion kit today. I have to say that I really do like the way this looks and would seriously consider converting mine over to this if I had the dough. It's really slick.
- [Thursday Night](https://mattbinkowski.com/thursday-night/) - In case you can't tell, that's a huge bolt and washer that's punctured straight through my rear passenger side tire. I was able to drive on it for 2 miles and park it in the driveway. Then it took about another hour for the tire to go flat while I was trying to change it.
- [Engorging on Jeeps](https://mattbinkowski.com/engorging-on-jeeps/) - Man I can't wait for this day. Aug. 9, the Chrysler Museum is having an open viewing of all of the latest Jeep concept vehicles from 6-9pm. What are the chances that my camera will be fully charged and its memory completely cleared for shooting? :-)
- [Vehicle Crash Test Videos](https://mattbinkowski.com/vehicle-crash-test-videos/) - Consumer Reports has launched a new page on their site that lets you watch the actual crash test videos they used when determining their ratings. Pretty cool!
- [The Best Thing I Ever Saw](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-best-thing-i-ever-saw/) - For those of you who don't know, Melissa and I are pregnant again. This morning, we had the 12 week ultrasound, during which I asked our wonderful doctor if we could videotape the screen. He said we were the first to ever request that. LOL Anyways, I'm still speechless...
- [I’m Too Sexy for My Name](https://mattbinkowski.com/im-too-sexy-for-my-name/) - I knew my name drove the women wild. ROFLMAO! This article from CNN PROVES IT! "Scientists say the right name can make you sexier. Linguist Amy Perfors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted photos of men and women on the U.S. Web site "Hot or Not," which lets viewers rate pictures according to how
- [Tiny Binks Updates](https://mattbinkowski.com/tiny-binks-updates/) - UPDATE 1: First, we had our 20 week ultrasound two weeks ago and T.B. wouldn't cooperate, so...unless it's medically necessary, we won't know the gender of our baby until it is born. What a bummer. Then again, we think it could be a nice surprise...that is, if you're the type who's into surprises (we're NOT).
- [Baby Elise Update](https://mattbinkowski.com/baby-elise-update/) - It’s been a while since my last update on the baby making so here it goes. We are about 10 weeks away from the big day and cannot believe it. This pregnancy has been really hard on Melissa most of the way through and I love her like crazy for having such a good attitude
- [Family Update](https://mattbinkowski.com/family-update/) - It’s almost been a month since my last post and I have a good reason. :-) Our little baby girl was born on November 17—almost a full month early. Her name is Elise Peri Binkowski and she is perfect. She weighed 6 pounds and 4 ounces then promptly, and expectedly, lost a few ounces down
- [Learn to Speak a New Language](https://mattbinkowski.com/learn-to-speak-a-new-language/) - Elise has passed the 6 week mark and we are both having a blast. The lack of sleep is tough and I now know what people mean by becoming a zombie...but we truly don't care because Elise is such a joy. In the meantime, Melissa and I are working on a new language that we
- [Family Trees Are Cool](https://mattbinkowski.com/family-trees-are-cool/) - For some reason, I woke up Saturday morning and thought it was a cool idea to document our family tree. I must have been in an IA state of mind or something. The tree is still in process but I got really far with it in just a few hours. I am thinking of taking
- [What a Difference 5 Degrees Makes](https://mattbinkowski.com/what-a-difference-5-degrees-makes/) - Being sick when you are an adult is no fun. But when you are 5 months old and it's the first time, you probably feel like your world is ending. Turns out Elise came down with something called a Rotavirus.It essentially makes you vomit whatever you eat, have disgusting diahrrea, and jacks up your body
- [Hello world!](https://mattbinkowski.com/hello-world-2/) - Okay, I just couldn't take the Blogger experience anymore. It was driving me crazy with the neverending site rebuilding and lack of basic features. I switched over to WordPress and the install worked just as described. In five minutes, I had my blog up and running. I had to only edit 2 lines of code.
- [Sadness](https://mattbinkowski.com/sadness/) - Well, I'm officially alone now for the next 3 weeks. Well, 2 actually if you don't count the Jamboree I'm attending this weekend. Melissa and Elise are on a jet plane to Atlanta to visit her dear friend Mary. Mary's husband is already back in Germany and she is soon to follow. I know they'll
- [The Ultimate Cemetary Experience](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-ultimate-cemetary-experience/) - That is how Joe Joachim, creator of the Vidstone—a solar powered tombstone that plays video and audio, describes his invention. He will unveil his creation at the annual funeral directors convention. "What we're trying to do is create the ultimate funeral experience," Joachim said. "Funeral directors are realizing it's an important service we can offer,
- [I’m Freaked Out](https://mattbinkowski.com/im-freaked-out/) - Okay, I was upstairs in our bedroom tonight around 9pm when Melissa calls me to the stairs. She said, you really need to be here to see this. I walked over and heard this little patting noise. I turned the corner at the landing and saw Elise standing on the third step. She was using
- [Why I Married My Wife](https://mattbinkowski.com/why-i-married-my-wife/) - I have a history of terrible haircuts and only until recently when I went to this new stylist did they turn out well. So when I got home last night from getting my hair cut and Melissa said she thought it looked good, I was a little surprised. I repeated her reply in the form
- [Predicting a Child’s Height](https://mattbinkowski.com/predicting-a-childs-height/) - Some researchers claim to have developed an equation that will accurately predict a child's adult height. In fact, they've even posted the equation online as a working form that you can fill out. Height Predictor They claim that this equation is accurate to within 2.1 inches 95% of the time in boys and to within
- [It’s Official](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-official/) - I got a new job. Yay. I've been looking for so long and finally found something that fits. I am the Creative Director at a small company in downtown Ann Arbor. The people are nice and I can't wait to get thing going around here. I'm also sitting pretty with a loaded 17 inch PowerBook
- [G1ft4g3!](https://mattbinkowski.com/g1ft4g3/) - The loot was as follows: Think Geek Swiss Army knife w/1GB USB drive as previously blogged about here to replace my older Jeep-branded swiss army knife which was confiscated at the Amsterdam International Airport even though I was able to bring it there on my recent trip to Germany: 2GB iPod Nano in black: A
- [Weece’s Phone](https://mattbinkowski.com/weeces-phone/) - Look out a new Hello Kitty phone is coming to the U.S.. I'm so glad Weece isn't old enough for this thing yet or I wouldn't be able to afford our new house with all the likely TXT messaging going on.
- [The Neighbors Are Burning](https://mattbinkowski.com/burning-neighbors/) - I normally come home via Ridge Road, not 6 Mile, but I decided at the last minute to drive around and grab the mail since it was a million degrees outside today. Well on the way to the mailbox, I couldn't believe my eyes. There were Fox 2 and some other TV truck parked out
- [NoFlix](https://mattbinkowski.com/noflix/) - From The Wall Street Journal: "The deal seems to be rather simple: you pay a monthly fee, receive a certain number of DVDs, and as soon as you watch them, and send them back, there's more coming. This simple model made Netflix into a $1.4 bln company, but now, Wall Street Journal reports, some Netflix
- [Weece’s 2nd Bday Parties](https://mattbinkowski.com/weeces-2nd-bday-parties/) - Whew. Elise had 2 big birthday parties to accomodate our families and she had a total blast. I've put photos from each party online here: Party 1 Party 2 I guess this officially makes her a big girl now. :-(
- [Photo Studio Hell](https://mattbinkowski.com/photo-studio-hell/) - Melissa tried taking Moosh the Goosh to the Toys R Us photo studio this week and experienced a total meltdown only a 2 year old can drum up. Not two days later Melissa sends me this link from a blog she occassionally reads and says: "We could have a matching one of Elise if I
- [I Can’t Stop Thinking About This](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-cant-stop-thinking-about-this/) - Our office has a huge plasma tv tuned to CNN all day and it faces me just 20 feet away...interrupting my day with updates and clues as to his whereabouts. Now it's over. He worked in the tech industry, had a young family, and was 35 years old. All matches up with me today. The
- [Live Your Dream](https://mattbinkowski.com/live-your-dream/) - There seems to be a push for houses to be built completely by robots. This sounds like you're going to end up with a cement box but that's not the goal. For a creative guy like myself, this is just the kind of thing that will totally liberate us from the McMansion type houses to
- [Big Girl Bed](https://mattbinkowski.com/big-girl-bed/) - The Moosh officially moved into her "big girl" bed and it leaves Melissa and I a little sad. We can't believe she's already at this point. It seems like just yesterday she was a tiny goosh just wrapped up in her baby burrito: Now she's Big Girl (thanks to Aunt Sharon for these pictures):
- [Weece at the Zoo](https://mattbinkowski.com/weece-at-the-zoo/)
- [He’s 4Real!](https://mattbinkowski.com/hes-4real/) - There are days when I look at Elise and imagine what she will be like in the future. And like any parent who has a daughter, it's natural to think of who she'd eventually meet someday regardless of it being a dating or marriage situation. Naturally when I read this article the first thing I
- [Back from Vacation](https://mattbinkowski.com/back-from-vacation/) - Ahh. The fam just got back from California for a much needed break. It was very hard to be stressed out when staying at Melissa's dad's ranch in La Honda: I'll post more pictures soon.
- [Thanks for Remembering My Birthday](https://mattbinkowski.com/thanks-for-remembering-my-birthday/) - Mom and Flashloaded. LOL
- [Holly Lives There](https://mattbinkowski.com/holly-lives-there/) - Melissa visited her Grandmother yesterday. For some reason, her uncle moved her car out of the driveway and parked it in the street facing north (away from 24 Mile Road). When Melissa and Elise left Grandma's house, Melissa drove forward and did a quick turnaround in a neighbor's driveway to head back south toward 24.
- [Elephant](https://mattbinkowski.com/elephant/) - So Elise went to a new doctor today to get her lungs checked out because we believe she's developing asthma. While at the office, Elise asked Melissa to draw an elephant, which she did. Elise then asked Melissa to write the word "elephant" next to the drawing. And Melissa fulfilled the request. She then handed
- [Excuse Me, Please Catch My Child](https://mattbinkowski.com/excuse-me-please-catch-my-child/) - A building fire in Germany led this family to decide that the best thing for their 2 year old was to throw it out the window from their third story window to someone on the street waiting to catch him. He did and the baby lived. Holy cow!
- [What a Relief](https://mattbinkowski.com/what-a-relief/) - I know the people who work at the prison located at 5 and Beck aren't too happy today but to me, this is a great day. When we bought our home in Northville, there were two major concerns about the area and now one of them is going away. The Robert Scott Facility will be
- [Elise’s Disney Experience](https://mattbinkowski.com/elises-disney-experience/) - In a single photo: Elise doing her ballet dance in her Belle costume with Cinderella's castle and the nightly fireworks display happening behind her.
- [What’s That Rattling?](https://mattbinkowski.com/whats-that-rattling/) - I awoke early this morning to a strange rattling sound in my bedroom. The double doors were closed but the one without the top-side deadbolt was moving back and forth just a little bit. I got up and walked over to the door and thought it might've been a window that popped open somewhere thereby
- [Tim Russert - Dead at 58](https://mattbinkowski.com/tim-russert-dead-at-58/) - Russert was recording voiceovers for Sunday�s �Meet the Press� program when he collapsed, the network said. He and his family had recently returned from Italy, where they celebrated the graduation of Russert�s son, Luke, from Boston College. I feel so bad for his son, Luke. That is just so sad. I can relate in a
- [Name Voyager](https://mattbinkowski.com/name-voyager/) - Hmm why would I find this interesting? Hmm…
- [Betting on the Right Horse](https://mattbinkowski.com/betting-on-the-right-horse/) - When I decided I wanted to get a better handle on my finances, I looked online for alternatives to Quicken. I had used it in the past and found it to be a) not mac-like enough and b) total overkill for what I need. My research into a new finance app uncovered a trend. There
- [Miles Owen Binkowski](https://mattbinkowski.com/miles-owen-binkowski/) - After four long years, we have finally completed our family. I can't even begin to express how happy Melissa and I are with the birth of our son, Miles. Not 30 minutes after his birth, my mother-in-law was coincidentally driving in Northville with Elise and they stopped by to meet him. Later that night, our
- [Been a Long Time, Been a Long Time](https://mattbinkowski.com/been-a-long-time-been-a-long-time/) - I don't normally post about my career but kinda feel compelled to. I was laid off last week and it's weird. I'm shocked because I really thought Digital was a strategic advantage and direction for my company, especially in the Detroit market, where clients just refuse to pay for anything that could be misconstrued as
- [Once a Month?](https://mattbinkowski.com/once-a-month/) - I just noticed that my attention has been siphoning off to facebook and it's been a month since I've written anything. That kinda makes me sad. The big news is that I've been interviewing like a madman. Constantly on the phone talking to recruiters, talking to companies in many different states, selling my house, and
- [Madness...](https://mattbinkowski.com/so-yah-and/) - It's been quite the bizzy around here lately. The short story is that I'm going to write a book about my Recession 09 Layoff Madness Experience. I promise it will be hilarious. I've run into all types of people: executives, HR, creatives, receptionists, etc. It's been wildly interesting. If you're being perceptive upon the first
- [I Got Into Yale!](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-got-into-yale/) - I'm not sure exactly how this one started last night but I found myself sitting in a kind of dorm room in what I believed to be Yale University (I have aspirations to attend Yale's School of Art for my Masters degree someday). There was this other young man in the room and I noticed
- [Blog Weirdness](https://mattbinkowski.com/blog-weirdness/) - I am finally getting started on my privately long-discussed business idea and need the extra server space. So, if you experience some broken links throughout this blog, it's probably because I've taken most everything down and archived it. Sorry.
- [Now How Did THAT Happen?](https://mattbinkowski.com/now-how-did-that-happen/) - I woke up extra early this morning (5) to make a trip out to Grand Rapids for work and the first song in my head was Seek and Destroy by Metallica. I don't even OWN any Metallica records and haven't listened to them in years. WTF? I'm going to chalk it up to some weird
- [Imagine If No Heaven](https://mattbinkowski.com/imagine-if-no-heaven/) - I had a random thought this morning while in the shower...what if there was a worldwide, simultaneous awakening for all people in which they truly believed that after they died, they'd come right back to Earth. I'm reminded of the John Lennon song Imagine as I type this but let's imagine this premise as a
- [Et Tu, Verdana?](https://mattbinkowski.com/et-tu-verdana/) - Why the heck do product designers totally fink out when it comes to fonts on a device? Case in point, this newly announced HTC Polaris. It's super charged with all sorts of gadget-head fancyness and uses VERDANA as the device font. WHAT?! Have the decency to either commission a new font for the device or
- [iPhone Madness](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-madness/) - People are complaining that Apple is playing tough guy on third party developers by not taking into account unknown hack apps when providing updated iPhone software. I'm sorry, but if you hacked the phone and expect everything to work smoothly when updating...best of luck to you. Don't upgrade your phone if you want to keep
- [iPhoto Detail](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphoto-detail/) - Wouldn't it be nice if when you were setting up a Smart Album in iPhoto '06 that you could simply say: [Date] [is the month of] [January] [2007] Instead of: [Date] [is in the range] [10/01/2007] to [10/31/2007] I mean, we do* have iCal on every Mac, right? The majority of my iPhoto library is
- [You Value What You Pay For](https://mattbinkowski.com/you-value-what-you-pay-for/) - One man's opinion reminds me of a recent guest appearance by Tina Fey on The Late Show with David Letterman. When the time came for Dave to bring up the DVD of 30 Rock's first season, Tina quickly mumbled a line that really stuck with me and was at first funny, but now, it's quite
- [Adobe CS3 UI Debate](https://mattbinkowski.com/adobe-cs3-ui-debate/) - Now that CS3 is finally getting out there, some people are waxing on about the UI "inconsistencies" so now seems like the right time to add my two cents on something I've noticed: First let me say that I think alot of effort was put into addressing the management and display of palettes. It's a
- [Myspace.com’s UI Dilemma](https://mattbinkowski.com/myspacecoms-ui-dilemma/) - Since I'm in the business of making interactive applications usable and visually appealing, I have often wondered why Myspace continues to grow despite it being so visually lacking since the web first took off—and I think I have the answer: Despite its size and popularity, there is no one way to visually describe the Myspace
- [Busted Wide Open](https://mattbinkowski.com/busted-wide-open/) - I couldn't resist. With all the talk about the SDK and how the 2.0 iPhone firmware had been hacked, I'm back in the fold of the hackers by jailbreaking my iPhone. Everything works perfectly and I'm back with my fun 3rd party apps like Sketches, Voice Notes, Screenshots, etc. YAY! I used iPlus 2.0, their
- [For Every Action](https://mattbinkowski.com/for-every-action/) - I
- [Watch Your Code](https://mattbinkowski.com/move-this-crap/) - While I was working on a client project today, I wondered what the new NYTimes CSS looked like. I especially was interested in the new font size and face for articles. So, after locating the CSS file I checked out the source. Two things struck me. One was the meta data added by the author:
- [Apple iTable?](https://mattbinkowski.com/sounds-like-apple/) - Wow this concept from HP Labs is pretty interesting. Embedding a PC into a large coffee table. I would be surprised if Apple didn't get involved in this one. It sounds weird but it makes sense when you think about it. How many times do you gather around the table at parties or family functions
- [Touch Table Interface](https://mattbinkowski.com/touch-table-interface/) - Applied Minds, a highly cool company in California headed by a former Disney creative leader, has released a video demonstrating their Touch Table interface. Basically, the table, which is shareable over the web in real-time, allows for natural gestures with your hands to act as a kind of mouse to control the interface. The demo
- [Rollable Displays](https://mattbinkowski.com/rollable-displays/) - A while back, Philips made the claim that they could develop a display technology that was flexible like paper. Looks like they've already come up with a cool prototype. This could really change the way some consumer products are made and how interfaces of the future are designed. Imagine if you could take a website
- [Now That’s a Real Flash Killer](https://mattbinkowski.com/now-thats-a-real-flash-killer/) - Adobe is buying Macromedia. Was Adobe listening to my prayers? I hope they fix Flash's interface. It's too bad Apple didn't purchase Macromedia. I wonder if now that Adobe has Flash, Apple will come out with their own version as part of the Pro applications? They already directly compete with Adobe in the video market.
- [Say Goodbye to Sherlock](https://mattbinkowski.com/say-goodbye-to-sherlock/) - With the upcoming release of Apple's Tiger OS, it seems that the Sherlock app is finally history. With the new Spotlight and Dashboard functions, Sherlock has been eclipsed. Maybe because there weren't that many 3rd party plugins that were made for it? I mean, they made it such a pain to do, I'm not surprised
- [If you thought you had a stressful job…](https://mattbinkowski.com/if-you-thought-you-had-a-stressful-job/) - I came across this cool blog and the owner linked to an air traffic controller animation that actually showed what it was like to see what they see while working. Fascinating. Check out this Quicktime movie
- [Apple Geekery](https://mattbinkowski.com/apple-geekery/) - While perusing the Apple developer website this afternoon, I came across this "mildly amusing" segment in their specs for User Interface Sound Effects. WARNING: SystemSoundPlay was actually exported in Mac OS X 10.2 and SystemSound.h says that it is available on Mac OS X 10.2. Although technically correct, calling SystemSoundPlay on Mac OS X 10.2.x
- [Custom Color](https://mattbinkowski.com/custom-color/) - I never noticed this before. If you make your window size bigger than the actual image you're working on in Photoshop, the areas around the image will fill with a gray color. Did you know you could change the gray fill to whatever you want? I had no idea. Control-click in the gray area and
- [Shapeshifter Is Addictive](https://mattbinkowski.com/shapeshifter-is-addictive/) - About six months ago, I had a client project that required me to document a system on a PC. Well, being the ultra mac snob that I am, I just couldn't bear the thought of spending a month sitting in front of a PC for 8-9 hours a day. So, I bought a copy of
- [Apple Store Disconnect](https://mattbinkowski.com/apple-store-disconnect/) - If I had to look at all of the Apple .com properties I think the Apple Store is in the biggest need of redesign. For one, it is the direct philosophical opposite of the physical experience. Secondly, it's not remotely iPhone-ready. I've tried to browse the store several times on my iPhone and it's damn
- [SimCity Meets Web Traffic Statistics](https://mattbinkowski.com/simcity-meets-web-traffic-statistics/) - I'm not a fan of SimCity games, but I think this is a really creative view of something most of us take for granted: website traffic trends. VisitorVille will visualize your stats in a SimCity-like environment.
- [Twitter claims it "isn't ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/twitter-claims-it-isnt/) - Twitter claims it "isn't a social network." note to Twitter: claiming something doesn't make it so. Go ask Microsoft about the Kin. #notcool
- [Duuude that's a slogan many pe...](https://mattbinkowski.com/duuude-thats-a-slogan-many-pe/) - Duuude that's a slogan many people can believe in.. http://twitpic.com/2ouc3s
- [Heisman Trust said it's been 5...](https://mattbinkowski.com/heisman-trust-said-its-been-5/) - Heisman Trust said it's been 5 yrs. & too much has happened since then to call a re-vote. Really? I thought the 2005 stats were complete.
- [Newton OS emulator for iPhone:...](https://mattbinkowski.com/newton-os-emulator-for-iphone/) - Newton OS emulator for iPhone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocZcMlz4Unk
- [It's kind of hard to believe i...](https://mattbinkowski.com/its-kind-of-hard-to-believe-i/) - It's kind of hard to believe iOS hasn't had printing capabilities until the 4.2 OS comes out in November. Then again, look at copy/paste.
- [I swear I've never seen happie...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-swear-ive-never-seen-happie/) - I swear I've never seen happier people in my life than the contestants in the front row on #ThePriceIsRight. What di they feed these people?
- [Still not used to the huff pos...](https://mattbinkowski.com/still-not-used-to-the-huff-pos/) - Still not used to the huff post iPhone app behavior that requires a tap to an article's headline to force the navigation bar to appear.
- [The Most Interesting Man In Th...](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-most-interesting-man-in-th/) - The Most Interesting Man In The World - on careers: "Find out what it is that you don't do well, and then don't do it."
- [Interesting take on "doin...](https://mattbinkowski.com/interesting-take-on-doin/) - Interesting take on "doing UX" work. ;-) http://twitpic.com/2n2fu1
- [Seriously unimpressed w/iBooks...](https://mattbinkowski.com/seriously-unimpressed-wibooks/) - Seriously unimpressed w/iBooks UI: a Wal-Mart clearance pine bookshelf done badly in Photoshop. Did the Notes designer get promoted? FAIL
- [Saints win 14-9? Not feeling t...](https://mattbinkowski.com/saints-win-14-9-not-feeling-t/) - Saints win 14-9? Not feeling too bad I missed that shootout.
- [Kind of amazed at the level of...](https://mattbinkowski.com/kind-of-amazed-at-the-level-of/) - Kind of amazed at the level of language used in the new iPhone App Review guidelines doc. Quite informal and at some times, unprofessional.
- [I love the iPhone and the Newt...](https://mattbinkowski.com/i-love-the-iphone-and-the-newt/) - I love the iPhone and the Newton but this is too much: Apple Newton to be reborn as iPhone case http://t.co/yY5tEVW via @TUAW
- [So Not BBC](https://mattbinkowski.com/so-not-bbc/) - On the announcement of Biden as VP choice, they posted a ridiculous iPhone video showing the actual arrival of the SMS announcement.
- [Presidential 404 Pages](https://mattbinkowski.com/baracks-404-page/) - Barack Obama: The filename? Oops.jpg. Nice. John McCain:
- [So is the inclusion of the #Pi...](https://mattbinkowski.com/so-is-the-inclusion-of-the-pi/) - So is the inclusion of the #Ping function into #iTunes the first instance of an Apple-initiated installation on an iOS device?
- [iProtect locks down your entir...](https://mattbinkowski.com/iprotect-locks-down-your-entir/) - iProtect locks down your entire jailbroken iPhone so your kids can't make emergency calls and delete your apps. Nice!
- [Watched an amazing documentary...](https://mattbinkowski.com/watched-an-amazing-documentary/) - Watched an amazing documentary last night: #Anvil: The Story of Anvil. Seriously, it was great.
- [Isn't it odd how many companie...](https://mattbinkowski.com/isnt-it-odd-how-many-companie/) - Isn't it odd how many companies are dying to monetize digital TV content yet most people say "there's nothing good on?"
- [Anyone else notice that the #i...](https://mattbinkowski.com/anyone-else-notice-that-the-i/) - Anyone else notice that the #iPhone #iTunes app automatically updated itself to include the new #Ping functionality?
- [The only way to disable Ping i...](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-only-way-to-disable-ping-i/) - The only way to disable Ping in iTunes is by disabling the entire iTunes store in Parental Controls preferences? Yeesh.
- [Here's something that would ge...](https://mattbinkowski.com/heres-something-that-would-ge/) - Here's something that would get me geeked about Ford products again: http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/FordLevacarPage.htm
- [New #iTunes 10 window button a...](https://mattbinkowski.com/new-itunes-10-window-button-a/) - New #iTunes 10 window button are so not good. Then again, as iTunes goes, so do many of the Apple apps, so you might as well get used to it.
- [So should iTunes go in the soc...](https://mattbinkowski.com/so-should-itunes-go-in-the-soc/) - So should iTunes go in the social media or music folder on my iPhone now?
- [Project Sword on iPhone using ...](https://mattbinkowski.com/project-sword-on-iphone-using/) - Project Sword on iPhone using the Unreal 3 engine? Crazy slick. I am amazed. This is the kind of game I'd want to play hooked up to my tv.
- [Apple, show Notes some UI love...](https://mattbinkowski.com/apple-show-notes-some-ui-love/) - Apple, show Notes some UI love. First Marker Felt, now this depressing accounts screen? http://twitpic.com/2kf0cz
- [Google Maps by Apple?](https://mattbinkowski.com/google-maps-by-apple/) - According to an article on Wired.com: As of this writing, this is not allowed. Apple, of course, can stick whatever it likes inside Safari, but third parties are prohibited. The Google Maps application for the iPhone was actually written by Apple, not Google as many people think, as Apple likes to control what is going on.
- [The free @digg app comes to yo...](https://mattbinkowski.com/the-free-digg-app-comes-to-yo/) - The free @digg app comes to your iPhone! They're giving out a custom iPad everyday for 2 weeks to celebrate! http://bit.ly/diggapp
- [@ciaobess lol did the deck I g...](https://mattbinkowski.com/ciaobess-lol-did-the-deck-i-g/) - @ciaobess lol did the deck I gave you help at all?
- [When will these shingles go aw...](https://mattbinkowski.com/when-will-these-shingles-go-aw/) - When will these shingles go away? I don't know how much longer I can take this.
- [Facebook's New Layout Vote](https://mattbinkowski.com/facebooks-new-layout-vote/) - 38,300 votes approve 612,128 votes do not Only 6% of the voters approve of the redesign. Damn that's rough. Hate to be the UI designer who worked on that one. Didn't they do any user testing and analysis? My guess is yes...with hardcore FB users, not average joes. Me thinks a new FB design will
- [Safari 4 Reaction](https://mattbinkowski.com/safari-4-reaction/) - I've been using the Safari 4 beta since the day it was released and I have a few comments to make. 1. The page loading UI device is just too hidden. The current spinner approach is worse than the previous aqua background animation in the address bar. Users look at the page itself to see
- [See the Guts](https://mattbinkowski.com/see-the-guts/) - In case you're curious to sift through the files from your iPhone backups, try using a new app called iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor. It's Leopard only. Check it out
- [You Say Tomato and I Say Tomahto](https://mattbinkowski.com/you-say-tomato-and-i-say-tomahto/) - Me thinks Apple needs to have a group hug at some point and discuss this whole "create/add/write" function. You think they would have standardized this by now. In Notes, the "create" note or "add" function is represented with a + in the top right corner: In Calendar, it's a + sign in the top right
- [How to Fix Headphone Problem](https://mattbinkowski.com/how-to-fix-headphone-problem/) - I've had the occasional headphone jack weirdness with my iPhone where the iPhone still thinks you have headphones plugged in when they're not. To fix it, just reinsert the headphone plug into the iPhone several times in a row.
- [Not Up-To-Snuff](https://mattbinkowski.com/appstore-language/) - Does this read strangely to you? It's very uncharacteristic of Apple's writing standards. UPDATE: I guess someone at Apple got wind of this and fixed it:
- [iPhone 2.0 Map Feature](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-20-map-feature/) - I don't have the 3G model but that didn't stop Google Maps from being super useful when using their targeting function. If you are in Maps and press the targeting button in the lower left corner, the usual blue circle with inward facing blue tick marks will appear. What's new (to me at least) is
- [Super Sneaky Screen Shot](https://mattbinkowski.com/super-sneaky-screen-shot/) - If you're into that whole unapproved 3rd party iPhone thing, you should open Installer and install RiPDev's Apple Screenshot Enabler. It does what it says and the method of taking screenshots is genius. When you're on the screen you want to capture just hold down the Home button and toggle the Mute switch in either
- [iPhone 1.1.3 Bits](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-113-bits/) - So I restored my phone and upgraded to 1.1.3 with the hope that the upcoming SDK will bring many of those back in the fold. However, before I restored, I had already performed several minor hacks that seem to have been retained in the aftermath of the 1.1.3 update. Specifically, this hidden preferences hack still
- [Remote Buddy for iPhone](https://mattbinkowski.com/remote-buddy-for-iphone/) - On a lark I was surfing around looking for any kind of iPhone supported Keynote controller app and did I come across something highly cool. It's called Remote Buddy. I literally had this thing downloaded, installed and working with Keynote in a matter of minutes. It totally lets you control the Keynote presentation with a
- [iPhone Update 1.1.2](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-update-112/) - There appears to be absolutely no new features except to remove your third party apps and to close the jailbreak loophole. No thanks.
- [Unchained](https://mattbinkowski.com/unchained/) - The "instant jailbreak for iPhone" does indeed work. You have to hand it to those iPhone hackers. They not only used the Safari TIFF exploit to get in, they offer a way to close the door behind you once you're safe inside the phone.
- [Insanely COOL!](https://mattbinkowski.com/insanely-cool/) - Steve has made the right PR and business call by setting everyone's iPhone developer alarm clocks for February 08. In some weird way, if this 1.1.1 update had never turned out to brick anyone's phones and simply updated the system software, I could see how this announcement wouldn't have been made today. Either way, this
- [Get ‘Em While They’re Hot!](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-web-app-directory-catch/) - The new directory is live and I just noticed two interesting web apps on this page: Free SMS app? Um I wonder how long AT&T will let that remain available for downloading? If I can get unlimited free SMSs, I should be able to remove that portion of my contract with AT&T. By the way,
- [What Will It Take?](https://mattbinkowski.com/what-will-it-take/) - Well the iPhone Dev Team is working overtime on jailbreaking the 1.1.1 update and I can't help but wonder how Apple perceives these efforts. Of course Apple holds all the cards with the iPhone's app development, but this group of independent talent is essentially acting as the sole competition to Apple for its own product.
- [Pixelmator First Impressions](https://mattbinkowski.com/pixelmator-first-impressions/) - I don't have the time to write a full review of this new app but I thought I'd share my initial impressions. I didn't reposition the windows in this post. I just happened to read the review on TUAW, downloaded the trial and this is how the app appeared on my screen. The bottom line
- [Restored and Happy About It](https://mattbinkowski.com/restored-and-happy-about-it/) - Yesterday I did the whole sync, restore, update to my hacked with a lower case h iPhone and things are working great. I used to have all the NES roms and sketches app and whatever else on there but I never went as far as the SIM unlock route. I have to say that my
- [iPhone GPS App is Cool!](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphone-gps-app-is-cool/) - Via Gizmodo. I wouldn't really call it a hack though. Maybe just a mislabeled app. Here are my results:
- [My iPhone Desktop](https://mattbinkowski.com/my-iphone-desktop/)
- [Future* Interior Designs?](https://mattbinkowski.com/future-interior-designs/) - Sorry this isn't very timely but I was busy preparing for vacation when this news tidbit came out. I made a note to post this but just ran out of time. GM just released a series of images that show off possible future interior designs for Cadillac vehicles. What's funny to me is this tiny
- [Part Genius, Part Wha?](https://mattbinkowski.com/part-genius-part-douchebag/) - So a New Jersey teen + 4 anonymous helpers hacked apart the iPhone so that it is freed from AT&T. The whole process is extremely difficult because it requires a) taking the iPhone apart so you can b) perform expert soldering with the hope that c) you won't totally brick the thing in the process.
- [PPC iPhone Hacking Guide](https://mattbinkowski.com/ppc-iphone-hacking-guide/) - This works. Period.
- [iPhoto](https://mattbinkowski.com/iphoto/) - Apparently iPhoto
- [Designing for Tight Spaces](https://mattbinkowski.com/designing-for-tight-spaces/) - The first time I saw the iPhone's home screen interface (the Springboard), I wondered how Apple would handle the iPhone's lack of real estate when they'd add new apps down the line. Now that people are hacking it to add their own test apps, the issue is more relevant today. As you can see from

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- [Hallmark](https://mattbinkowski.com/portfolio/hallmark/) - HALLMARK: ECOMMERCE OVERHAUL Background Originally hired as the Creative Director for digital marketing at Hallmark Cards, I expanded my role to oversee the eCommerce platform amid a corporate reorganization. The impetus for the e-commerce overhaul stemmed from an outdated website, underwhelming conversion rates, and the growing impact of Facebook. As individuals turned to social media
- [Comerica Treasury](https://mattbinkowski.com/portfolio/comerica-treasury/) - COMERICA TREASURY: MOBILE APP Background Comerica initiated its digital transformation journey with the Treasury Mobile App, designed for business customers to access account information, approve payments, and view account reports. The initial version of the app faced challenges with an outdated interface and mediocre ratings at best. Recognizing its pivotal role, our digital transformation aimed
- [Direct Express](https://mattbinkowski.com/portfolio/direct-express/) - DIRECT EXPRESS: MOBILE BANKING APP Background The Direct Express® program caters to federal benefit recipients, offering them accessibility and spending capabilities without the need for a bank account. When MasterCard ceased support for the Direct Express app, Comerica, among other participating financial institutions, faced the challenge of swiftly creating its own version of the app.
- [Comerica Retail](https://mattbinkowski.com/portfolio/comerica-retail-banking/) - COMERICA RETAIL BANKING APP: REDEFINING EXPECTATIONS Background Comerica’s Retail mobile banking app faced widespread criticism from customers and external research providers due to lacking key features, low usability, and an outdated design. Upon my arrival, the Retail Domain CIO challenged my team to modernize the app, not only as a standalone project but also as
- [ScreenFuture](https://mattbinkowski.com/portfolio/screenfuture/) - SCREENFUTURE: DIGITAL SIGNAGE SAAS PLATFORM Background Recognizing the common challenges faced by companies managing digital signage in their offices—limited internal staff, time constraints, and a tendency to resort to static images or unattractive PowerPoint slides—our ambitious goal with ScreenFuture was clear. As the leader spearheading this vision, I directed engineering resources and collaborated closely with
- [Quikly](https://mattbinkowski.com/portfolio/quikly/) - QUIKLY: SaaS Product Design Background As the inaugural Head of Product at Quikly, I played a pivotal role in transforming the rewards-based marketing platform to meet the engagement needs of over 17 million consumers for numerous top brands. Recognizing the hindrance posed by the platform’s initial non-customer-facing nature to the company’s growth potential, I collaborated
- [FORD FUSION 3D & Augmented Reality App](https://mattbinkowski.com/portfolio/ford-fusion-3d-augmented-reality-app/) - FORD FUSION 3D & Augmented Reality App Background When Ford aimed to relaunch the redesigned Fusion, the head of Ford Communications entrusted me with the task of devising a strategy to generate maximum online conversations and mentions by the global press ahead of the vehicle’s official unveiling at the North American International Auto Show in
- [McGregor Fund](https://mattbinkowski.com/portfolio/mcgregor-fund/) - MCGREGOR FUND: WEBSITE AND MESSAGING Background Established in 1925, The McGregor Fund has been a dedicated force in advancing the welfare of Detroit residents. Recently refining its priorities, the Fund enlisted the expertise of M3D, where I served as the Creative Director and Tech Lead. Our mission was to develop a website that not only
- [Tonechaser](https://mattbinkowski.com/portfolio/tonechaser/) - TONECHASER: MOBILE APP FOR MUSICIANS Background With years of experience as a guitar player and a penchant for collecting gear, I found joy in experimenting with different combinations of guitars, amplifiers, and pedals. Despite discovering great sounds, I struggled to capture the details of my setups for future reference. This recurring challenge led me to

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