DIVA GEEK BARBIE!

// February 13th, 2010 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

So, they finally came out with a Diva Geek Barbie.. ok so maybe that’s not her REAL title but it should be!

According to a release from Mattel, the unveiling of Computer Engineer Barbie–she’ll hit stores this fall–coincides with “a year-long, global brand initiative to inspire girls of all ages

Earlier on Friday, toymaker Mattel announced the results of an online contest to name the profession that the latest edition of Barbie dolls would have, and ultimately two were named: alongside “News Anchor” was the popular-vote winner, “Computer Engineer Barbie.” Yes, she has a Bluetooth headset, a pink laptop, a smartphone, and hot-pink glasses. Oh, and she wears sparkly black leggings and a neon green shirt patterned with binary code, the sort of outfit that was probably only acceptable among Burning Man attendees in the late 1990s who liked to talk about “cyberspace.”   Read the rest of the article on cnet.com

Can you freaking believe that it took til to the year 2010!!!for Mattel to come up with a Barbie in the technical industry? Meanwhile in the “real” world computers effect the daily life of almost every human in every generations and has had a HUGE socioeconomic effect on our country and our earth in general. But Barbie is just now considering a career in computer engineering?? LOL Hilarious.
How many Ballerina Barbie’s have you seen? Too many! Bride Barbie? Are you kidding me? That’s what they came up with?
By the way..I don’t know any computer engineers that look like this or would wear that but to be honest I’ve only personally met a very small handful of women in the industry but they’ve all been hip dressers and very cool but far from blonde bombshells. We usually the only girl in the room so it’s not in our best interest to play up the sex pot thing.
I really wish there were more women in our industry.  Hmmm.. maybe I’ll start blaming Mattel for that? Maybe there wasn’t enough geeky Barbie’s for my generation of women? Maybe this new Barbie will change all that!! Haha! Yeh right. Women from my generation (from my experiance) either don’t get why I’d be interested in technology or they think I do stuff straight of the Matrix and it’s all just way to complicated for them.

I don’t have the answer or care to much “about the meaning of it all”.. I just think it’s kinda cool – a Diva Geek Barbie!

My real name is Barbara, I’m a geek and I’m a Diva! so Wow she tickles me pink. Regardless of her lame fashion sense.

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Linkshare and Docstoc.com

// December 31st, 2009 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

Docstoc – Documents, Templates, Forms, Ebooks, Papers & Presentations

Docstoc is a community for people to find and share professional documents. Find free legal documents and free business documents.

This website is pretty damn cool and I recommend people check it out. You can even upload your own documents and connect it to your adsense account so when people read your documents you can make money with adsense. Sweet!

Example below of a code they provide you to add to your website. I uploaded a file I had saved on my computer in .rtf file format with one of my linkshare links embedded so you can see how you could easily use affiliate networking with linkshare and Docstoc.com. More Sweetness!

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Great Wide Graphic Web boxes and Banners

// December 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

For your website.. need a box? These are super useful, HOT and 4 bucks!!

Web boxes, 1 PSD Layered, easy to modify:

2 Different designs 3 different color scheme (you can create many more)

Ready to use!

Also these web banner Themes are available by the same web designer..these can be used as templates to create your company web banners.

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Dreamyicons – Free Profile Icons for Live Journal

// May 25th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Alice in Chains, Blogging, Design, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Ibdreamy, Icons, Live Journal, Personal Pictures, Personal Posts, Pictures, Useful, free

When I started really getting into the whole online social thing it all began with Live Journal and a community I started called Dreamyicons. We held icon contests based on themes. Now the community is just members posting icons that they’ve created..no more contests. So you’ll notice a lot of the icons have themes and you’ll also notice a lot of adult themed icons. I love pin-up art so.. I hope your eyes are not offended by sexy chicks.

• My Live Journal – Ibdreamy
• DreamyIcons Community – Free Profile  Icons 100×100 pixels

Today I dragged all those old icons out of the closet and dusted them off. It’s been a couple years now since I made any new icons. Your free to use them for your journals, websites, Myspace, Twitter profile or what have you.

DreamyIcons

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Café Serré

// May 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

Café Serré from Denis Bouyer on Vimeo.

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Britney slide show

// May 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

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I was just testing this slideshow plugin but eh I might as well leave the gallery..oh so Britney..

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Crying Sorority Girl Video

// May 20th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Ibdreamy, Videos

Girl sobs in a car about setting off the fire alarm while her friend tries to control her own laughter.

One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time!

“So many people do bad things, and I didn’t mean to”

“Maybe I’ll just sweep… I’LL SWEEP THE FLOOR!!”

“I just wanted to make it snow!”

**Back Story**
Apparently, she wanted to make the hallway appear that it had snow in it, so she decided to use a fire extinguisher (this is something that her dad has successfully done in the past). Instead of there just being a “little poof”, the entire hallway filled with chemicals that caused the fire alarm to go off in the middle of the night during finals week.

Now this is her in the car upset that everyone at Alpha Chi (the sorority she wants to be in and presumably those who live where the fire alarm went off) hates her. She explains how she isn’t a bad person and it was just an accident.

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Add a twitter field to your Wordpress form (video tutorial)

// May 17th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Ibdreamy

Instructional video on how to install and configure the wp-twitip-id plugin for Wordpress blogs. 5 minutes and you can include a field for your commentators to add their twitter ID

Add a twitter field to your form (Wordpress) wp-twitip-id from Andy Bailey on Vimeo.

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Fantastic Flowery Wordpress Theme!

// February 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

Fantastic Flowery theme

There are three different colors: Black, Green, and Orange available in the theme which user can switch from one another easily.  Another feature is custom search box as you can see the text within it.

A very cool theme worth that’s definitely worth checking out if your looking for a simple clean theme with cool features..

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7 Web 2.0 Icon Sets from FastIcon.com

// January 25th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Graphic Design, Graphics, Ibdreamy, Icons, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, free, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

Here you’ll find 7 beautifully designed web 2.0 Icon Sets from FastIcon.com

Including icons for all your favorite social networking sites and RSS feed icons.

MORE..

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Get your Social Networking fix at Soup.io

// November 18th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Facebook, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphics, I recommend, Ibdreamy, Live Journal, Pictures, Social Network, Twitter, Update, Useful, webmaster

Get your Social Networking fix at Soup.io -

You really need to check out Soup.io if you haven’t already. I just found it tonight and thought I had stepped into heaven.

Ok well, maybe it wasn’t that dramatic but it’s pretty damn cool. You can stream all your social networking sites into one page like all your digg submissions, delicious, twitter, live journal posts, flickr, youtube, last.fm and any rss feed so it’s sweet as hell. I know there are other sites that do this but not like this..
So, visit mine to see just how cool it is..I actually pointed my other domain name to my stream..so just go to ibdreamy.com

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I heart Dorks..

// November 17th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Ibdreamy, Pictures, Update

Here’s a picture of Me and couple of my friends at one of those old time photobooths in Portland. We were at this bar/arcade called Ground Kontrol and they have all the old school arcade games, like Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong & Space Invaders.. so it was pretty cool.

In the first picture I was trying to smile but Annie was cracking me up, she makes great funny faces. Oh yeah..that’s me in the middle.

Good Times. :X

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I heart Wood – Wood Textures and Wallpapers

// November 14th, 2008 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

I heart Wood Wallpapers and Textures :X

I LOVE this wallpaper - Wood dreams by ~wow-dg

Wood by ~Daisuke-Paster

Old Wood by ~DEVi8design 

Wood Pack 1 by ~J-Owen

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WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 Released!

// November 1st, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Update, Useful, Wordpress, webdesign, webmaster

WordPress 2.7

Wordpress Final release won’t be available on November 10th as originally scheduled but they have released a beta version and plan on releasing we will make a release candidate available instead. The release candidate is intended to be a high-quality, almost-finished release that we are comfortable recommending for broad use”. Read the rest…

Take a peek at the The Visual Design of 2.7

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 Released!

“The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is here at last. Join the thousands of people already testing 2.7 by downloading 2.7 Beta 1. WP 2.7 is bringing a new visual design. This design is almost completely implemented, but there are still a few areas that aren’t quite finished in Beta 1. There are also several glitches in certain browsers. Beta 1 provides the best experience in Firefox and Safari. Don’t worry, we are working on IE and Opera and will have those looking good in time for the final release.

Make sure to check out WP Weekly Podcast for

free Wordpress news, tips, tutorials and more..

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Google phone G1 coming out to play with Tmobile

// September 26th, 2008 // No Comments » // Apple, Applications, Browsers, For Geeks, Geeks, Ipod, Mobile, News, Software, Update, Useful, Videos, web tools

With the introduction Tuesday of the Google phone — dubbed G1 by wireless carrier T-Mobile — we’re starting to see the potential disruption that Google and Android will bring in the coming year or two. It’s even greater than what Apple and the iPhone have already accomplished.

Under the hood with the G1

• of course the main difference with the iPhone is that the G1 sports a QWERTY slide-up keyboard, not a touchscreen keyboard
• the G1 will be a little heavier and thicker than the iPhone
• the “swipe” gesture is used on both the iPhone and G1; however, the G1 does not utilize the “pinch” gesture to zoom in/out on the touchscreen
• a 1 GB MicroSD card is preinstalled; the G1 supports an 8 GB MicroSD card
• the HVGA display is also a 3.17-inch, 65k color touchscreen
• for radio frequency buffs: GSM (800Mhz), GPRS (900), EDGE (1700). Wi-Fi and UMTS (1900) and HSDPA (2100) are supported (only 16 cities currently have T-Mobile’s 3G network)
• G1 allows dragging and dropping of pictures and text, which the iPhone lacks

Google offers a video explaining its Gmail, contacts, Calendar, and GTalk applications.

The on board apps…

Like the iPhone, the G1 ships with a few pre-installed applications (or Google Goodies) beyond the usual (contacts, browser, mail, chat), including:

• YouTube (duh)
• Maps (double duh)
• Search (duh x 3)
• Android Market
• Amazon MP3
• ShopSavvy (help people do comparative shopping)
• Ecorio (tracking your daily travel and carbon footprint)
• BreadCrumbz (step-by-step visual mapping and social network)
• Maps will utilize “compass mode” or “Street View,” giving you a live 3D map of where you need to walk (don’t bump into any streets signs as you walk and look at your G1)
• Push Gmail, which eliminates the need for a faux-Exchange server for push email. Remember: Google is already running mail servers for Gmail, while Apple operates MobileMe mail (formerly .Mac) on a much smaller scale and larger price tag (it’s $99 a year)

Looks interesting…so far…

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