Joe the Web Guy Hints, Tips, Solutions, and Warnings from a Web Geek

22Nov/110

Apple’s Siri Protocol Cracked and a Siri Parody

Siri is the new, intelligent voice-recognition service deployed on Apple’s iPhone 4S. With it you can ask your iPhone conversational questions, and get back conversational answers. It’s really quite impressive. Siri is so impressive that an Android “equivalent” (“Iris”)was built in around 8 hours. It’s not nearly as polished as Apple’s, but it’s a start. [...]

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22Nov/110

Internet Connected Baby Monitor

Baby monitors. Every “responsible” parent has one. They usually come in two parts, a transmitter and a receiver. One listens to your baby, the other lets you (and that creepy neighbor down the street) hear what’s going on when your baby is sleeping. It’s an awesome invention. Instead of being within earshot of your sleeping [...]

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22Nov/110

Geek Gift Idea: Angry Birds Stuff

And you thought Angry Birds was just a video game… Get that geek in your life an Angry Birds hat, or t-shirt, or IRL game, or… well, you get the idea. Need more? Check out these Angry Birds gift ideas.

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22Nov/110

Star Wars Dark Side Coffee

I don’t drink coffee, but if I did, this is the coffee I’d drink.

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21Nov/110

Hilarious Dirt Devil Commercial

What do you get when you take one part “The Exorcist” and add one part “old lady cleaning her carpets”? This hilarious video!

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15Nov/110

Carrie, from Sex in the City, enters the Matrix

What would happen if you mixed equal parts of Sex and the City with The Matrix? Featuring Jimmy Fallon as Neo! Carrie, there’s something I have to tell you about the Martix… [...] no, no, you threw up in the real world. The Matrix is a system created by robots. It’s like the real world, [...]

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15Nov/110

In Japan, cats say “Nyan”

If you’re not familiar with Nyan Cat yet, I’m so sorry for what I’m about to do to you. In Japan, cats apparently don’t “meow”, they “nyan”. Oh, and they fly through the sky with a rainbow coming out their backside.

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5Oct/110

Farewell Tribute to Steve Jobs from an Android Guy

They say parody is the sincerest form of flattery — or something like that. Today, computer icon Steve Jobs passed away after a long battle with various health problems. I can’t think of any better way to honor the man than to share some parodies of his products and services — not to make fun [...]

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22Dec/100

How to tick off sci-fi geeks

My buddy knows that I’m a sci-fi geek. I love Star Trek. I love Star Wars. I love Firefly. So he sent me this picture to tick me off: Via: Mike Dopp

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20Dec/100

Katy Perry and Elmo sing Hot n’ Cold

I don’t know what to think of this music video…

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