Blogalicious 2010 - Patrice, Adria, Nichelle, Luvvie
I received a set of wonderful makeup items from Patrice from Afrobella.com. Thank you!
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Category: Gift Ideas
Gifts: MAC Makeup and other glamour from @afrobella
Gift: Personalized Women’s Study Bible from @tammyhart
Thank you to my good friend Tammy Hart for sending me a spiritually based gift for my birthday!
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Gift: Godiva Chocolate Gold Ballotins 8 Piece Set from @aravindajith
Thank you to Aravind for picking up a set of chocolates for me for my birthday!
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Self-Rescuing Princess – Be Your Own Hero With This Thinkgeek Shirt
Here’s the shirt I’m wearing today. The first time I wore this was on my San Francisco visit in March to explore neighborhoods. It reminded me I was brave and ready to face any challenge that came my way!
Be your own hero with this awesome shirt from Think Geek!
The Best Girls Are Black
I got this shirt at the Goodwill in St. Paul, Minnesota which has text and a Black/Brown woman with a big, healthy afro on her head.
It looks like I may have found the company who makes them and a reprint may be under way! If you’re interested in getting a shirt, email me at adria@butyoureagirl.com so I can start creating a list.
Today I got two more compliments on it in San Francisco so I tweeted it. Last time I tweeted about wearing it, the shirt got a big response on Twitter. It struck a chord today as well.
“The Best Girls Are Black” – Two compliments today on my shirt. Reprint! #blck pride #bwb http://yfrog.com/87y7rcj
Adria Richards
adriarichards
Thoughts on my Spa Facial at Juut
I Loved the massage provided by Kelly today and after lunch, connected
with Lori for my first ever spa facial.
removed through a series of clensing, exfoliation, massage and the
plant peel. Lori was very knowledgable about holistic approaches to
good skin care and recommended I eat more spinich and melons. I shared that I’d joined the Seward coop, started a probiotic in
January and had been seemg good results using Dr. Hauska’s holistic
facial skin care products. She tipped me off on using Brown Rice syrup as a sugar replacement. We talked about the toxicity in beauty products and agreed organic
foods are the way to go for long term health. Writing this on the iPhone so I’ll do a final update once I’m home! What a great birthday experience!
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Birthday Massage at Juut
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My Triple Screen setup for Dell with Windows 7 and Macbook Pro
Photo Credit: adria.richards
In case you were curious on “What I’m working with” behind the scenes of ButYoureAGirl, AskAdria and Freshworkshops, here’s a view of my desktop from a few weeks ago. The two monitors connected to my Dell are the Samsung 23″ 2333SW model. My 3rd 23″ Samsung, a P2370HD which is also a HDTV, just arrived back from an RMA with Buy.com so I will take some new photos soon.
I have all 3 monitors on desktop stands which allow me to pivot them 360 from Ergotron
I blogged about both my systems late last year:
My desk is from IKEA and it’s called the Jerker (haha, now discontinued). I scored 2 of these desks on Cragslist in early 2009 after reading about them on Lifehacker. Lifehacker featured the IKEA Jerker again in September, 2009.
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Why I WON’T Get A Nexus One And Extend My T-Mobile Contract
All day on Twitter, people have been talking about the newly released, Google phone. It’s called the Nexus One and runs Google’s Open Source software called Android. Not having an Android, I’ve watched from the sidelines as people bragged about how superior the Android OS was compared to the iPhone operating system.
Well, my time has come because T-mobile just confirmed I’m due for contract renewal February 20th, 2010!
Dell Discontinues XPS 8000 After Christmas Delivery Delays [VIDEO]
I noticed a lot of traffic to my Dell XPS 8000 post in the last few days and it looks like Dell has discontinued the XPS 8000 and a rumored 8100 will be released soon
But why?
- Why is Dell so far behind in system builds?
- Is there a problem with these computers?
- Are systems being returned by angry consumers?
- or…
Free 2 Day Shipping With Amazon Prime
I’ve been using Amazon Prime for 6 months now and I…LOVE IT! Not only do my items ship with free 2 day shipping, I pay $3.99 for 1 day shipping. This has been a huge deal with all the blog conferences I’ve attended.
Chocolate Bon Bons For Tech Support #willtech4chocolate [VIDEO]
I received a priority delivery from a courier who graciously delivered chocolate bon bons to my door from Chocolat Celeste!
Video
A giant thank you to @roddee for this wonderful and tasty treat!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIrnhzSuJWA[/youtube]
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New Technology For The Holiday Season: Mario’s “Digital Spin”
A big thanks to Mario for having me on his show this evening as a guest of “Digital Spin”!
We answered questions from callers and there were a lot of mobile, digital recording questions!
- How to get internet for my laptop from my cell phone?
- It’s known as “tethering”
- You need a data plan from your cell company
- The speeds are much lower than regular wireless
- USB is faster than Bluetooth tethering
- It will drain your batteries
- Is the Flip Mino the best pocket recorder?
- Cameras with removable batteries are better for beginners
- HD isn’t for the budget conscious
- Adria prefers the Panasonic Lumix ZS3 over the Flip Mino HD and Kodak Zx1
- Why do so many HD video recorders not come with hard drives?
- How to Choose a Future Proof Video Camera – PCWorld
- Many do and can be connected to your computer with Firewire
- How do you setup a shoulder mount video recorder? Accessories?
- Still need an answer on this one…
- Voice to Text options for a friend who can’t type and how much?
- Speech recognition software is the name
- Dragon Naturally Speaking (PC) $41 at Amazon
- Via Voice (PC) $49 at Amazon
- Macspeech Dictate (Mac) $154 at Amazon (I have this and love it!)
- Mario’s CNN video on Internet Savvy Senior Citizens featuring keyboard
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw7Nlq6vj8[/youtube]
Mario’s website is full of appearances on television and radio as well as projects focused on technology and helping people embrace this new world of shiny gadgets! You can also follow him on Twitter @marioarmstrong
You can catch Mario’s shows here:
NPR affiliate. WEAA 88.9fm. Only tech show on FM radio in MD, DC & DE.
Wednesdays 7p-8p(EST) listen live online!
Sirius XM Radio ch.169-M-F 6p-7p EDT, Saturdays 5pm EDT & Sundays 11am EDT
Thursdays 3pm-4pm EDT ch. i5 at 1club.fm or ustalknetwork.com
Hot! 23″ Samsung LCD $160 at Dell Store
Folks, this is the same monitor that I have and right now it’s $160 with Free Shipping at the Dell store.
Move on it before it’s gone!
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My New Dell XPS 8000 Intel Quad Core i7
My New Dell arrived and it’s smoking hot!
New post 1/2/2010 Dell XPS 8000 Discontinued? What The Hell Dell? [VIDEO]
This shiny new desktop arrived Tuesday just after I was getting over not feeling so well. When the Fedex guy showed up, I felt instantly better! I unboxed it on Wednesday night over at AskAdria.com.
Specs
- Quad Core Intel i7-860 2.80GHZ
- 8GB DDR3 Memory
- 1.5 TB 7,200 Seagate Sata hard drive (I selected a 1TB)
- nVidia GeForce GTS 240 1024MB GDDR3
- Two 16X CD/DVDRW-+ drives (I only ordered one)
- Windows 7 Home Premium
- Dell 6-button Laser mouse
- Dell keyboard
“I’m Tweeting This” Girl Geek T-shirt At ThinkGeek
Mid February 2011 photo o fme in my “I’m Tweeting This” Shirt.
Video and photo of my awesome ThinkGeek t-shirt I bought in 2009. Get your own Unfortunately, it looks like ThinkGeek doesn’t carry this shirt anymore *sad face* girl geek shirt at ThinkGeek
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGiKzZXFJW8[/youtube]
You Can Now Buy Computer Stuff Here!
Know how you folks are always asking what kind of hard drive should you buy, what kind of mouse, video camera and mic I use?
You can now buy all those gadgets right here! I’m also listing books that I recommend often and books I’ve read for fun!
A Technology Gift for Mother's Day She'll Remember
So at my daily lifestream show on AskAdria.com, I received a question from BMET about what would be the best gift to give his mom. A Netbook? An iPhone?
The Gift of Knowledge
Rather than giving your mom some new fangled techo device which may leave her feeling lost (how does this thing work?) or offended (why did my child give me a pink laptop?), for just $99 you can give her 1 year of One-To-One training at the Apple store.
As a One to One member, enjoy a year’s worth of personal training sessions for just $99. Sit down for in-depth, face-to-face sessions with your very own personal trainer. Experts in all things Apple, our Trainers help you get the most out of your Apple products. Just tell them what you want to be able to do, and they’ll teach you how. To become a One to One member, visit your local Apple Retail Store.
Invest in Your Mom’s Success
A couple of minutes into the video, BMET shares that his mom is a teacher so this suggestion really struck a home run! I think buying someone you love a gift based on them becoming more knowledgeable says, “I Love You” more than any technical trinket because you are saying, “I want to see you be happy in life and I know technology is here to stay”.
Who Should Take Apple One-To-One Training?
Once I get my macbook (or macbook pro), I plan to sign up for the Apple One-To-One as well so when I recommend it to my clients, I have already walked a mile in their “future” shoes and can go into detail about the benefits.
Some people may be thinking, “But Adria, my mom has a PC so these classes won’t help her”. Au contraire, these sorts of classes benefit your mother for a deeper reason. They give her the opportunity to become comfortable with technology. Many people find technology to be frustrating and too fast paced. They often have a ton of unasnwered questions and feel they never have a chance to truly understand “what’s going on”. Now just put your mom in the Apple One-To-One environment and you can see how it would be a dream come true…no distractions, a focused topic, hands-on training. This will build confidence, competentancy and most likely create an increased sense of comfort around technology for your mom.
View this as an opportunity
You: “Mom, meet technology.”
Your Mom after a few sessions: “You know, that technology stuff is pretty awesome. I understand why <fill in the blank> and I am going to try <some awesome technology thing>. Please don’t forget to confirm for next Saturday on your Google Calendar.”
You: “Ok, Mom. Geeze! You’re all techie now! I kinda like it.”
Your Mom: “Good because I like it too.”
