Lawn Mower Tricycle
July 14, 2010 3:23 pm
Great way to trick your kids into taking care of the yard work.
The Smartest iPhone Case Ever
The Smrtcase Glide for the iPhone 3G / 3G S has an integrated cardholder for a your most frequently used cards. It has this clever sliding design so that you can easily swipe your Metrocard without fumbling. The cool design allows you to stash your credit card, ID, etc, for ...
I'm not thirsty anymore, can we play?
If you're gonna drink your beverages out of a plastic bottle, then why not reuse that bottle for some construction fun? Y Water is totally organic, and comes in four flavors: Brain Water, Bone Water, Muscle Water, and Immune Water. I could probably use a little of each. When you're done, you can ...
Posts
Hello Kitty Mini Pizzas
July 10, 2010 9:53 pm
Because Hello Kitty is so cute, you just want to eat her.
Video – High Five Puppy Lessons
9:23 pm
This video is too cute. This little puppy is trying so hard to help his human sibling learn the fine art of the high five. Alas, the kids just not ready.
Video – Kid misses pool.
July 8, 2010 4:53 pm
I’ve watched this five times today. And laughed every time. I’m an inconsiderate dad. I’ve already convinced myself that he wasn’t hurt, so it’s OK to laugh.
The Post-It Pillow You Can Write On!
7:43 am
This is a fun way to share some pillow talk. A great place to jot down some middle of the night insight. Or pass a note to a sleeping spouse. The kiddies can do their own designs (just don’t accidentally swap out a sharpie). The ink washes off and the pillow is ready for another design/message/insight.
Fun design. Let the ink dry before putting your head back on the pillow. Your coworkers might wonder why you have a heart with love spelled backwards on your cheek.
If Its Hip, Its Here: The Post-It Pillow You Can Write On! (via imjustcreative)
Father’s Day Time-lapse
June 17, 2010 11:39 pm
Happy Father’s Day, folks. Best part about this video was the 38 minutes worth of peace and quiet as the camera and kids did their things.
Birthday Party Time Lapse
June 7, 2010 4:48 pm
Kids birthday parties always feel like a chaotic blur of cake, screaming, and truncated conversations. We just hosted our son’s fourth at NYC Elite gymnastics and I set up this little time-lapse of the pizza/cake portion and I think it really captures the spirit of the day. I like the way the balloons dance around.
I used a Canon SD 780 IS with a CHDK intervalometer script. Then I imported the image sequence using Quicktime Pro. It was so easy to do. Hardest part was getting the right framing since I didn’t have a view of the LCD screen from the highest shelf I could reach. So I just did a trial and error for a few frames.
A Mobile Site in Minutes
June 2, 2010 1:53 pm
I have been having some fun playing with an easy to use mobile site creation tool over at Widgetbox. While my blog works with the mobile browsers, the Widgetbox tool makes it dead simple to create a standalone mobile site.
I like that it requires absolutely no programming or design skills. You can implement any number of widgets for the site including latest posts (from RSS feed), YouTube channel, Twitter, Facebook Page, Photos, Maps, Polls, Share, and Custom Content.
It works best on the iPhone. It’s easy to set up a shortcut on the homepage for quick access to my mobile site. It is supposed to work with Android as well, but I found that you have to scroll to get to the navigation buttons, which naturally sit at the bottom of the iPhone screen.
Aside from that, the scrolling, navigation, load time, thumbnails, makes for an excellent mobile user experience. I was happy with it.
It takes a minutes to get a free, ad-supported, site. Or you can upgrade to Pro for the ad-free version. ($3.99 or 19.99 a month, depending on bells and whistles and any other Widgetbox things you want for your site).
Check out my site here: http://m.wbx.me/dadhoc and vote in my poll! So far, 50% of respondents think that kids should be over 12 before having an iPod touch. But so far sample is too small to really draw any conclusions.
The get started page on Widgetbox.
Empire State Building Time Lapse
May 27, 2010 11:19 pm
One of my first attempts at time-lapse. Going to loop the kids into some fun projects now that I’ve got my intervalometer all set up from the CHDK (Canon Hackers Developer Kit). That, and I just love using the word intervalometer. I’ve been trying to naturally weave it into my conversations at work as much as possible. Anyway, its not bad for an early attempt. I’m not expecting any cinematography awards either.
Inappropriately Wonderful Golden Books
May 26, 2010 4:28 pm
Josh Cooley who is a Story Artist at Pixar Animation Studios has been posting these hysterically inappropriate takes on famous film scenes with the Golden Books from kids treatment. Well, he’s planning on putting a bunch together into a book. He’s going to sell some high quality prints via his Website as well. He has a bunch of them up on his site – link below. (via DaddyTypes)