Max Beatty

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    Archive for November, 2008

    The End Is Near

    In just three weeks, I’ll be done with one of my hard­est semes­ters of col­lege. I’m almost fin­ished with the hell of 17 credit hours that trans­lates to 7 courses includ­ing a grad­u­ate level teach­ing class and an hon­ors sem­i­nar. The semes­ter has been rea­son­able thus far since most of my classes have been project […]

    Laptop Hard Drive Recovery

    A few weeks ago an old friend of mine sent me a Face­book mes­sage say­ing that he lap­top was run­ning out of hard drive space and wanted my opin­ion on what she should do. Of course, I told her to get an exter­nal hard drive to store all of her music, pho­tos, and movies so […]

    TwiTunes = Quicksilver, iTunes, Twitter updater

    I had the idea last night that I wanted to update my Twit­ter account with the cur­rent song that was play­ing in iTunes. Turns out other peo­ple had the same idea, but hadn’t quite devel­oped it like I preferred.

    Converting My Tweets into Bling-Bling

    I received an email today through Game­Zom­bie from the CEO of Mag­pie & Friends Ltd. about a new ad net­work for Twit­ter that works a lot like Google’s AdWords/AdSense. There are two sides to it– adver­tis­ers and those who tweet adver­tise­ments. I signed up to be the latter.

    Frats and Sororities Failing in Age of Social Networks

    What’s the #1 rea­son to go greek? The social life! Sure they are also great for aca­d­e­mics and phil­an­thropy, but let’s be hon­est, most of those events end in par­ties. The greeks are still the best when it comes to fill­ing a base­ment with fresh­man or crawl­ing the bars, but what about online? I don’t […]