Eddie On Everything

All of this fuss over Rebecca Black and her surprise hit “Friday” got me to thinking.
“Hmm, what are some songs about other days of the week?”
I put this list together using my music collection and a few internet searches.  I’ve left out the songs that I’ve never heard of before, so if I omitted your [...]

Yay, Shark Tank is back on ABC!
I’ve written about the show Shark Tank before.  It’s a show where inventors & business owners pitch their idea to a group of investors who then choose whether or not to fund the invest in their company. 
From what I understand, Shark Tank is based on the UK’s Dragons’ [...]

I haven’t been making smoothies at home for a long time, so I nearly forgot all of my recipes!
In trying to rediscover how I used to do things, I came up with a pretty good concoction.
This one has flax seeds – you’re going to want to grind that up in the blender before adding [...]

I heard that my favorite skeptics Penn & Teller were going to be on XM radio so I headed over to the Sirius/XM website to have a listen.  I hit the main page and signed up for a “free” trial.  “Sweet!,” I thought.  “30 days free!” 
Nope.  Not quite.
Because step two of the “free” XM [...]

I recently ran across a story about a young Minnesota-based author who’s having tremendous success selling her books in eBook format via Amazon Kindle’s web store.
Her name is Amanda Hocking, and she’d collected hundreds of rejection letters from publishers before turning to self-publishing. Unlike traditional publishers, she offers her eBooks for about $1.00 per [...]

I have a pretty old iPhone. To be more precise, I have the original iPhone – aluminum backing, 4GB, EDGE-only, fake GPS.  I can’t even update to the latest version of iOS, because I’m told my phone is too old.  Why not get a new one, you ask?  I dunno. Call me lazy. Call me [...]

I’ve been a Chrome devotee since nearly day one.  It’s a stable, reliable, lightning fast browser that handles today’s javascript-heavy pages with ease.  It’s so fast, in fact, that I used to show off how I could use Chrome to look something up before Firefox would even start up – that’s right, I could click [...]

I just wrote a post about my free Tassimo Coffee Maker, and went to make a cup of coffee using one of my remaining free T-Disks. The thing overflowed all over my countertop, for the SECOND TIME in just 10 uses. That’s a 20% failure rate!
The first time was about a week ago. I loaded [...]

About a month ago, the On Everything household received a free Bosch Tassimo coffee system in the mail.  If you’re not familiar with the product, it’s a coffee machine that will brew a single cup of coffee in about a minute.  It doesn’t take regular coffee, though – this system only works with special coffee [...]

I got an email from LinkedIn containing a list of “people I might know.”  Doesn’t sound too shocking, it’s a social networking site just like Facebook, right?  Here’s the creepy part:  I don’t even have a “real” LinkedIn account, but the email contained lists of people that I actually do know. Scared? You should be. [...]

Hi, thanks for checking out the TT Commander app.
Unfortunately, I’ve decided to take the app down, and pull it from the marketplace.
Changes to the Twitter API have made maintaining the app a bit of a chore for me.   I never set out to make money from the app, I just wanted to build a [...]

Had a problem while working on a new Flash App today.
I have a number of dynamic text fields (TextAreas), and they scroll in-place when the user highlights the text and when the user uses the mouse wheel while hovering over them.
I searched for a way to stop this scrolling for quite a while and found [...]

Well isn’t this just the most hypocritical thing I’ve seen all week.
Seems that Marc Andreeson, one of the brains behind NCSA Mosaic and its successor Netscape Navigator, is working on a new web browser dubbed RockMelt.  With its integrated social networking features, RockMelt claims to be “Your Browser, Re-Imagined.”
First, I don’t want my browser re-imagined.
Second, [...]

Well this is a fine way to start the morning.
I grab my laptop, sit down in the front of the fireplace, open Chrome, crash.  Open Chrome again, crash.  And again, crash.
Ugh.
I did a little searching (in Firefox, not Chrome) and found that this is a pretty common problem as of late.  Here’s one [...]

I’ve been hearing a lot about George W. Bush’s new book, Decision Points.
I’m not normally one for politically-themed reading, but I’m a sucker for presidential history, so I thought I’d pick up a copy.
I went to Amazon & was shocked to see that the Kindle edition is actually more expensive than the print version!

Are you [...]

I’m a long-time Citi Dividends card holder, and I recently received a new card in the mail.
I called the number provided on the card to activate my new Dividends card, and after entering all of my information I was redirected to an actual live person to complete the card activation.
Credit card companies like to make [...]

Bogging can get cumbersome.  Logging in to each blog individually, using the online Wordpress editor and working around its quirks, positioning your screen so you can see everything at once, etc.  Not to even mention that if you maintain multiple blogs, you’ll need to do this a little bit differently for each blogging platform that [...]

Gevalia Coffee (or Gevalia Kaffe) will send you coffee by mail. You sign up by giving them your name, address, and credit card info, and they take care of the rest.
I signed up for a trial offer a few months ago, drawn in by their promise of a free coffee maker. I received the [...]

Got some mail today from American Express.
They’re now offering personal savings accounts that pay 1.30% APY.
In this rough and tumble economy, that’s a pretty good deal.
Emigrant Direct is currently offering just 1.00%, while Dollar Savings Direct is paying 1.10%.

With PERSONAL SAVINGS FROM AMERICAN EXPRESS, you can have the same peace of
mind with your savings account [...]

Confusing morning here at the On Everything household.
Half of my computers went ahead and adjusted themselves an hour back, presumably for the end of Daylight Saving Time. But the other half didn’t. I even had XP sync the time with a remote time server, but I was still seeing different times on different [...]