j. paul arterburn: Archive

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An opening class act

I ended up at a Baywood show on Friday at Larimer Lounge - Baywood was amazing, as expected (check out ‘I Can Breathe Again’ for some sing-along-clap-along). The surprise, however, came from one of the opening bands out of Boulder who call themselves The Yawpers. The lead singer/guitarist rocking cowboy boots was an all-out entertainer with great talent. I picked up a copy of their...

Dec 12th

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FLOW

Csíkszentmihályi identifies the following ten factors as accompanying an experience of flow: Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one’s skill set and abilities). Moreover, the challenge level and skill level should both be high. Concentrating, a high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention (a person...

Nov 29th

A growing TED →

I’m a huge fan of TED, so I’m delighted to hear that their facebook page just reached 999,999 other fans. TED is one of those things that I wish more people knew about. Ideally, all 230 million adults in the US would be fans. They cover topics that will be sure to reach every single one of us in some way. It’s about pushing the World to a better place through individual...

May 22nd

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preVU gadgets for iGoogle & Gmail

Right now most of the daily deal sites require you to put in your email before you can even view the deals for any particular city. This is so they can send you daily reminders of what the deal of the day is; this isn’t exactly the best user experience in my eyes. It’s certainly best for the daily deal companies, I understand, as it’s putting their content in front of you without...

Feb 18th

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preVU - daily deal aggregator for the smaller...

I launched a new project this week that acts as an aggregator for the plethora of daily deal sites on the Internet. If you were one of the 111 million viewers of the Super Bowl last Sunday you were exposed to two of the major players in the arena: Groupon & LivingSocial. Visit the new site here: preVU Part of the idea for the site is to make it easier for people to get this information...

Feb 9th

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Goodbye Vlookup: Index/Match can play nice with...

I’ve been using a lot more of Index & Match functions together instead of Vlookup because it’s a faster calculation for Excel, faster for me to put in and copy across (especially multiple columns of lookups), and can go pull back values both right & left of the lookup column (as well as a matrix lookup). I ran into a sang recently, though. By default, Index/Match...

Nov 5th

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So you can tether with your phone, do you go USB...

Go USB; the results speak for themselves… iPhone 4 (AT&T) over bluetooth: iPhone 4 (AT&T) using USB: I also have a Blackberry 8330 (Sprint) that I use for work, so I tested the same theory… Blackberry 8330 (Sprint) over bluetooth: (dial-up modem, no user/pass, dialing #777) Blackberry 8330 (Sprint) using USB/Sprint Smartview:

Oct 24th

charity:water soda-pop challenge

charity: water caught my eye earlier this year as an organization that I felt was running their 501(c)(3) nonprofit the right way. There are a lot of different types of charities - many who also do amazing things, but what I really like about this particular one is how they provide long-term solutions as well as how the finances are handled. charity: water makes it clear that they are not a...

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Football season is here...

Below is the 2010 Nebraska Cornhuskers football schedule in Google Calendar format. If you already use GCal and want to follow Husker football, just click the “+” button at the bottom to add this calendar to your list.

Sep 8th

Free app that extends a Mac's multi-touch trackpad...

I’ve been using an add-on for Snow Leopard called BetterTouchTool that I’ve found to greatly improve the use of the already awesome touchpad on the latest Macbooks, including older Macbook Pros. It made my transition to Google Chrome on the Mac a breeze because it allowed for me to use the multi-touch gestures of the touchpad for things like tab management, paging, and, of course,...

Aug 22nd

Punk Rock Roots

It’s like I passed out for 20 minutes and remembered all these songs…295 songs from Pennywise/NOFX/The Ataris/Sugarcult & more (list in spreadsheet form here). It’s like we’re back in Logan Pribbeno’s 1996 Jeep Cherokee all over again. Grooveshark playlist:

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LED Light for iPhone 4

One of the nice-to-haves with an iPhone 4 I soon realized was being able to use the flash on the back for the camera as a light. It doesn’t take very many steps to click on camera and turn the flash on, so I wasn’t too disappointed when I found out Apple wasn’t allowing flashlight apps that utilized the flash (because they are using “hardware not for its designed...

Jul 8th

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[How-to] Jailbreak & Unlock (for non-AT&T) iPhone...

I wasn’t able to find this anywhere, and it was fairly simple. I had a problem with my iPhone recently that forced me to do a complete restore and only the greatest & latest firmware (3.1.3) would actually work during the restore process. Everything I was finding said that jailbreaking & unlocking were not supported if you did this upgrade, but I’ve managed to make it work. ...

Jun 3rd

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Asher Roth - Fallin'

You might have heard of this guy singing about pizza & booze in “I love college”…this has a little more mellow feel… Lyrics after the bump… I remember Way Back I mean way back ages. Eighth grade I think, feels like yesterday. Bowl cuts was the craze I was crazy long blond hair all over the place. And I’m pale as I ever was baby face, with a frame...

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Network Neutrality: A Letter from Sam Brownback →

From Karl Fundenberger’s blog: Network Neutrality is a complicated issue. At its core, however, proponents suggest legislation requiring that Internet access providers not give priority to any traffic on the net, and serve packets on a first-come, first-served basis. Opponents of Network Neutrality say that smart networks give priority to certain kinds of traffic, i.e. faster connections...

Apr 28th

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Jónsi

Last night I went to the sold-out Jónsi (from sigur rós) in Lawrence. The ambient sound was incredible. All 4 musicians shuffled instruments throughout the set, although the drummer was mostly consistent - this man knew how to beat a drum. Review from Back to Rockville blog: The performance culminated with “Grow Till Tall” and the most powerful emotional moment I’ve experienced at a concert....

Apr 23rd

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Add back the "definition" link to the new Google...

Google announced on May 5, 2010 that they started rolling out their new search results layout to everybody. You’ll notice it immediately because it adds a new left column to the results: If you were like me, you might of noticed right away that the “Definition” link was gone. Even before they switched the layout, they changed it from Answers.com to their own internal version...

Apr 2nd

Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing

I found this band searching for artists that rocked out during SXSW last week; they give me a bit of early Bouncing Souls vibe. My favorite are the first 3 tracks, including an Ole-like sing-along ‘Bang Pop’. http://www.freeenergymusic.com/ http://www.myspace.com/freeenergymusic

Mar 24th

These are about 900x the size of the boots that led to me speaking my first word: “boots”. Found, of course, only in San Antonio at the North Star Mall. View Larger Map

Mar 23rd

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Not just "Why Topeka"...but rather "Why Topekans?" →

Mar 1st

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#1G4Topeka to be renamed as Google, Kansas?

A movement has started to bring Google into Topeka as an Internet Service Provider and I can think of only a few that are against it (I’m looking at you, Cox Communications). It wouldn’t be the first time Topeka was officially renamed to fulfill corporate fantasies of having a city named after them. Supporters with some high energy leaders have done quite the job to get: Think Big...

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Feb 25th

me: I wish there was some kind of certification you could get that would give you credibility during customer support calls. I know what I'm doing, don't tell me to press start, all programs.
Matt: exactly; a code word
me: "how bout them bananas today?"
Matt: "Ah, indeed, The Winters are extremely cold in St. Petersburg"

Feb 25th

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Feb 24th

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Excel Waterfall Chart

Have you ever needed to make one of these charts? I have and I never knew how to do it. I found a template on Juice Analytics and modified it to make it easier to make it go up or down. Click on the picture for an Excel template.

Feb 24th

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Recently launched blog, Stuff That Was Cool, that celebrates the things in life that used to make the now twenty-somethings smile (and probably still do). It’s a project hopefully-eventually-turning-profit-venture that I’m collaborating with 2 other guys currently residing in San Francisco.

Feb 10th

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Jan 5th

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There's a (web)app for that...

tipTapp was my very first iPhone web-app. Since creating this, I’ve put together trackTapp (package tracking) & scoresTapp (sports scores). Although the release of the App Store has taken visitors away, many users still find the price (FREE!) & features very useful. One nifty feature that I added as a personal choice was the ability to create a palindrome out of the total...

Oct 27th