The MP3 Experiment - ImpovEverywhere

So, I know that most of you know that I love these guys, and love what they do. In fact I'm currently trying to set up a meeting through an intro to Charlie Todd to just get to chat with the master! These guys are "creativity in action". Every one of these "missions" is full of excitement, imagination, and passion from everyone involved! I'll be in NYC this summer and cannot wait to participate in a mission myself in July!!!

Feel free to check out all of their missions here.


Enough rambling, here is the latest and greatest from our man Charlie Todd at Imporov Everywhere:

10 Simplest, Free, and most useful apps!

Ok - I found myself constantly suggesting the same free software packages to people. There are tons of software packages out there, a lot of them are expensive, complex, require lots of resources, and truly are un-necessary! Same tasks can be accomplished by a FREE application which uses a fraction of the resources the alternatives use and is SIMPLE to use. In the light of having SIMPLE, FREE, and RESOURCE-EASY software I want to share with you these must have software packages.


To get rid of viruses, I do not like Norton, McAfee and the giants that take over your machine, instead I've been VERY successful with these tools (I run both of these):


1.) http://www.malwarebytes.org/


2.) http://spybot.com


For cleanup of your PC (making in faster and deleting all the gunk and junk) these are the best free tools:


3.) http://www.ccleaner.com/ - cleans up the junk on your computer


4.) http://www.defraggler.com/ - best free degrag tool I know out there


To burn Audio, Video, Data CDs, burn ISOs, or copy CDs this is the best:


5.) http://infrarecorder.org/


To manipulate images and convert to many other image formats as well as create transparent images this is the best free tool:


6.) http://www.irfanview.com/


To play Divx, DVD, and most video encodings:


7.) Media Player Classic


For easiest, simple, free email client:


8.) Mozilla ThunderBird


Best and simplest free Word Doc to PDF converter:


9.) http://cutepdf.com/


Best and simplest free PDF to Word Doc converter:


10.) http://hellopdf.com

CrossLoop - Mac Releasing buzzing all over!

Yes... it's here!!! And yes... we have Mac and PC guy hugging on front page of our Crossloop coverage post here. It's been a long long long road to this point, lot's of emails from users asking for this, and we've been overjoyed to announce the release of the Mac client. The response has been phenomenal. We've had hugs:

We've had friendships:



It has been phenomenal to scroll through all the great coverage people have given us!!! We could not have been more happier with the reception on the net, you can look through the specific stories and link here:, but here is the great collage of all the places that covered our release:

MagPie - Your Thoughts?

I know I have not blogged for a while... I have been buried under people. Been incognito... I'm slowly coming back to normal life from all the craziness, and wanted to ask people's opinion of this controversial little app titled: Magpie Magpie is actually a type of a bird - go figure right? Twitter.. birds... i don't see any relation. In any case, as an Stanley's guest blog post points out people can generate a pretty decent amount of cash by simply tweeting advertisements. I am still a bit skeptical and uneasy about, will this be the beginning of the conversion or Twitter into MySpace? As Mrinal puts it in his Tech Crunch post here the behavior of Twitter is really starting to lean toward main stream, myspace, ads, and all that stuff that make you loose interest in a social network. Magpie might be the latest addition to things that are starting to make Twitter more like Myspace. What do you think is next? Will twitter take any actions? Will more Magpies start to surface? What do you think?

Trouble with Twitters

I am sure all of you have heard of "Twitter" by this point, even NPR is even talking about it these days! In any case - here is a short HILARIOUS little film about "Trouble with Twitters". Pretty funny! Enjoy!

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

A friend reminded me of one of the best books which I read about 1 year ago... it is a book titled: "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" By Robert Fulghum. Fulghum is an author of many short stories and teacher of philosophy out in Seattle, WA. During his lifetime he actually worked as: ditch-digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand, salesman for IBM, and singing cowboy :) :) This is a very easy read and applies to everyone!!! This is a must read! See link here.

I want to share a small excerpt from the book here:

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't yours.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

Wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup — they all die. So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK.

Hang out with weird, an thou shall be weird

All of you know Tom Peters probably, well just a few weeks ago I received an email from a friend of mine who sent me an old video on Innovation by Tom Peters. I've seen this a number of times, and really really love this clip! It is interesting to re-state and remember that there are ways for people to become innovative. Toyota, Google, IBM, Intel were not just born innovative, they actually have things they do which make them more innovative. There are processes, actions, and sequences of processes people use to learn and become innovative. I absolutely love this quote: "Hang out with weird, an thou shall be weird!!!", and also this one: "To be remarkable, you don't follow someone who is remarkable"... This little clip from early 2007 is full of these nice little quotes and lessons on innovations... Love this clip... Enjoy!