Category Archives: GMG Tech Talk

brad byrd and friends Dog Bar Thursdays 8-12

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

Photo by Sheila Roberts Orlando http://www.bradbyrdofficial.com/# http://dogbarcapeann.com/

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SpamBots- A PSA- Don’t Ever Open Email When It’s Just a Link

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

I get roughly 2-5 emails a day from people I may or may not have heard from in forever whose email accounts get hacked and the hackers generally send out mass emails from their email accounts that say something like- … Continue reading →

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"Letters, E-Mail, Texts — What’s Next?", a podcast episode of "On Point with Tom Ashbrook"

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

From NPR- Letters, E-Mail, Texts — What’s Next? Letters are dead. E-mail outdated. Text messages so passé. What’s going on with how we communicate? http://onpoint.wbur.org Text messages passe?  Jeeze I’m a huge fan of the simple text message to get … Continue reading →

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BREAKING NEWS: GMG to be the Boston area’s first Slog (Smell Blog)

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Keeping up with bleeding edge technologies has always been Joey’s passion, so it was no surprise when he told me he had already been approved by Google to be the first Boston Area blog to get his smell into their … Continue reading →

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There’s a new website in town

Posted on March 17, 2013 by

Usually we post about music, but we’re so excited about having launched our latest Web project that we just can’t resist showing it to you.  Just in case you didn’t know, in addition to publishing gimmesound and producing concerts, Vickie … Continue reading →

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Al MF Bezanson Expounds On The Perfect Snow Shovel. Do You Agree?

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

Al writes- I’ve been shoveling for more than 70 years, starting back on the farm where we tended to the input and output of 20 cows.  Later, I learned in IE 1-01 that 21-1/2 lb is the optimum shovel-load, as … Continue reading →

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New York Times puts Gloucester’s big debate on the front page

Posted on February 16, 2013 by

The home page of today’s New York Times website features a story on Gloucester’s big debate about what to do with our waterfront (see story here). Mayor Kirk is quoted a number of times promoting her vision of our port supporting … Continue reading →

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Just to be safe, you might want to look up at about 2:25pm today, so you don’t get hit like the folks in Russia did earlier this morning

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

Scientists are still trying to figure out what happened here . . . Watch the Asteroid 2012 DA14 LIVE as it passes by Earth today. NASA will broadcast LIVE Video of the asteroid beginning at 2pm (click here) when it … Continue reading →

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Passports Restaurant- You Guessed It, Now On Twitter

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

Got a question about when the next wine dinner is happening? What their hours are going to be?  Request a special dish? Tweet my boy Eric Lorden @PassportsGlo And check out the Passports Website here New to twitter?  Intimidated?  Check … Continue reading →

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Robots set to invade Gloucester Harbor in June

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

I was at an events planning meeting with City of Gloucester officials yesterday (more on why I was there in another post coming soon) and so were some very interesting people from Olin College of Engineering, including their marketing person, Michelle Davis, … Continue reading →

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Well Lookey Here- Sista Felicia Is On Twitter

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

Follow her and ask her cooking questions.  I bet she’d be happy to answer your questions. look in your frig for some cooking inspiration add a little of this&that and create a dish thats all that#shrimp #yum twitter.com/SistaFelicia/s… — Felicia … Continue reading →

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Ryan Pinkham- Constant Contact Marketing Guru

Posted on January 25, 2013 by
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5 Questions With @Joey_C’s Favorite Twitter Peeps- @KidNS

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

5 Questions With Bill O’Connor @KidNS What are your duties at your job and do you use twitter as a tool for your job? Owner, publisher, graphic designer, technologist, photographer, and more!  Twitter is an integral part of how we … Continue reading →

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Video- January 23, 2013 Timelapse From Captain Joe and Sons

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Timelapse, 16 Times Fast, Shot With Kodak Playsport zx3 and Kayalu nClamp

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5 Questions With @Joey_C’s Favorite Twitter Peeps- @RyanPinkham

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

Five Questions With Ryan Pinkham- What are your duties at your job and do you use twitter as a tool for your job? 1. I work as a content developer on the marketing team at Constant Contact. My main responsibility … Continue reading →

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In This Day And Age…

Posted on January 5, 2013 by

I just don’t understand how freaking hard it is to install the equipment necessary to have wifi on all aircraft. Wifi makes a flight go by what seems 3-4 times faster. You know how airlines charge extra for checked luggage? … Continue reading →

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So I Hated Windows 8 So Much That I Just Ordered Up and Paid For Windows 7 Software To Install On My New Windows 8 Laptop

Posted on December 30, 2012 by

THAT’S HOW MUCH I HATED IT! I know of no man woman or child that went out of their way to defend Windows 7 to Apple fanboys like buddies Paul Morrison and Kim Smith than yours truly. This guy’s idea … Continue reading →

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Christmas Whimsy

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

Several weeks ago I posted several experiments taken with the new Fujifilm X-E1 multiple exposure setting. I really like this feature although I received some flack from a photographer friend informing me that double exposures can be created in Photoshop. Of course … Continue reading →

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Someone you should be following on Twitter- @CapeAnnMuseum

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

https://twitter.com/CapeAnnMuseum Cape Ann  Museum has started tweeting old photos from its archives. I know people can’t get enough of the stuff here on GMG that The Infamous Fred Buck sends us so if you’d like to see more of that, … Continue reading →

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PSA- In This Day of Cell Phone Cameras Try To Think Horizontal

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

Straight out of the Ed Collard School of Video- No joke in the past week I’ve received video footage from no less than 5 people who have  held their cell phones or regular cameras vertically while they take video. I … Continue reading →

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Multiple Exposure Fujifilm X-E1

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

To create a double exposure select the Multiple Exposure mode in the shooting menu. Take your first shot, and if acceptable, press ok. The first photo is now visible in both the viewfinder and the LCD monitor, which allows you … Continue reading →

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Just Moved The GMG Search Box To The Top Right Corner of The Blog

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

Thanks to a suggestion from one of our FOB’s that the search box can be difficult to find I just moved it to the very top right hand column of our page. For those of you who subscribe and get … Continue reading →

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Click the List to See The Latest Joey C Local Retailer Happenings On Twitter

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

https://twitter.com/Joey_C/cape-ann-retailers Is there a local retailer not on my list? tweet it to me @Joey_C Below is just a snapshot, Twitter updates as the retailers who are on my list update their twitter feeds. So click on the list for … Continue reading →

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Todays Twitter Highlights 12/4/12

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

Paint a#buoy for the #LObster trap tree! Sounds like fun! fb.me/1nz7ONtge — Paulines Gifts (@Paulinesgifts) December 4, 2012 So far, American leads our poll for the rudest staff. Do you agree? Vote! airfarewatchdog.com/reader-survey/ — airfarewatchdog (@airfarewatchdog) December 4, 2012 Lobster … Continue reading →

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Alrighty Pinheads- Expose Yourself!

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

Anyone else on Pinterest? I’ve been slowly adding to my Pinterest Boards.  It all seemed pretty redundant being on Pinterest while I’m already blogging, that was until I started doing searches for things that interest me. My favorite board is … Continue reading →

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