Audio after the readmore A while ago, Dave's Dad asked me to take a look at a record for him. The record was actually a recording his mother had made at Coney Island in the summer of 1942. I was intruiged at the idea of being able to digitize the...
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Google can you hear me?
Give me a call! A while ago, Google bought Grand Central, a web-app designed to help you manage your phones. The original idea was that you could have one Grand Central number that could forward to other phones. If you get a new cell or home phone...
Read MoreBalloon Camera Mark-II
Saturday is a pretty big day for us here at ValpoLife.com. We'll be at Thomas Jefferson Middle School giving out prizes, filming, and showing a video right before the fireworks. For my part, I'm readying my Balloon Camera Rig to launch at 6:15. In...
Read MoreFlight
Click here for more photos There was something about seeing the balloons rise up that made me giddy. While I knew that the whole endeavour was perfectly logical, watching the balloons pull my camera up into the sky, I couldn't help but feel the whole...
Read MoreA Geocaching We Will Go
ValpoLife.com now has a geocache! A geocache is sort of high tech scavenger hunt. The idea is that someone takes some kind of container (the cache) and fills it with a random assortment of items and a log-book. That someone then hides the cache in a...
Read MoreValpoLife Turns to Twitter to Tweet to Town
ValpoLife.com joins Twitter and would love to tweet with you! For anyone who hasn't yet heard of it, Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are...
Read MoreDo You Have Your Facebook Vanity URL Yet?
Facebook has announced that starting Saturday, June 13, the social networking platform will begin allowing user names for profiles tomake finding friends, family, and contacts on the network easier. Currently, your profile’s URL goes something like...
Read MoreMaking Posters on the Cheap
A couple of years ago I had wanted to do something fun for my roommate's birthday. I had pondered filling the room with balloons, arranging a surprise party, and a few other ideas. Eventually I decided it would be great to get him a lifesize poster...
Read MorePainting with Light
I remember seeing my first light painting, and being amazed. It was this light painting by Picasso The technique goes by many names : Light Painting, Light Graffiti, Light Drawing, or Long Exposure Photography. The basic idea is that if you set your...
Read MoreMaker Profile : College Kid App
For those who don't know me I'll say this : I love making things and I love makers. I think being a maker is one of the highest callings. So whenever I see a small local business gearing up to make something, I get excited. Entrepreneurs Cameron...
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