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About chris

Ok, so my name is Chris Carlton. I’m a web developer/geek. I’m currently the Webmaster for the Agency for Health Care Administration of the State of Florida. I love building web sites and just working with web technologies.

I also work with my good friend, Dan Snider, and together we are Partners In Design, a small web design/development company that focuses on quality functional web sites for small businesses and churches.

My lovely wife, Wendy, and I have been married for eight(?!) years now, and we have two beautiful children, Sydney and TJ.

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Google Latitude

May 21 2009, 10:11am | Comments

I just added a Google map below that will display my current location using the Google Latitude, http://www.google.com/latitude/, service that runs on my HTC Diamond smartphone. This is more or less an experiment just to try out the service plus I think it's kinda kewl.

What's the deal Facebook?

February 17 2009, 6:39pm | Comments

Ok, so I've been using Sweetcron for about a week now to grab the RSS feeds from my various online services, flickr for my photos, del.icio.us for my bookmarks, twitter for my status updates, and google reader for news I find interesting. I decided to throw my Facebook feed in…

Redesigning ye olde personal website

February 12 2009, 9:35am | Comments

For the last few months my site has consisted of a kludged together lifestream setup. You can still see the old page if you like, but I'm moving on. I'm in the middle of setting up an automated life stream solution, Sweetcron, as you can see from all the mess.…

Google Latitude
May 21, 2009 10:11 am
What's the deal Facebook?
February 17, 2009 6:39 pm
Redesigning ye olde personal website
February 12, 2009 9:35 am

google.com Dec 18 5:00 am

Five last-minute gifts you can print!

No more late-night runs to the convenience store for something, anything, you can wrap. If you've got five minutes and a printer, you can create a genuinely nice gift. Originally posted at The Cheapskate
google.com Dec 17 1:30 pm

Tracking and killing insurgents? There's an app for that.

Filed under: iPhoneThe Guardian has a story on US military contractor Raytheon who's begun building a series of applications for the iPhone for use in the battlefield. Their first military app is called One Force Tracker and uses satellite positioning…
google.com Dec 16 7:26 am

Neato's VX-11 robot vacuum maps out your floor for efficiency, doesn't ask for weekends off

Heads-up, Roomba -- your worst nightmare just waltzed into this space we like to call "reality," and it looks fully capable of giving your dirt sucking powers a run for their money. Neato Robotics, a Silicon Valley startup, has just…
google.com Dec 15 11:38 am

Android Market hits 20,000 apps, over 60 percent free

Quantity rarely equals quality, of course, but it's still fairly notable that the Android Market has now managed to top 20,000 apps just a little over a year after it opened its doors -- Apple's App Store had over 50,000…
google.com Dec 15 7:16 am

Verizon’s Affair With Wi-Fi Heats Up

Verizon Wireless’s love affair with Wi-Fi heated up again today with the carrier’s announcement that its broadband subscribers can now connect to thousands of hotspots in North America at no additional charge. Subscribers with Verizon laptop cards, mobile broadband USB…
google.com Dec 15 7:00 am

Stocking Stuffer: Fake pregnancy test

I’m just reporting, of course, so let’s not kill the messenger. Don’t think of this fake pregnancy test as a cruel/hilarious joke to play on your significant other but as more of a relationship barometer. If your boyfriend, fiancé, or…
google.com Dec 14 6:40 am

One Potential Batmobile [Concepts]

How could Christopher Nolan ever follow up on the Tumbler? Maybe he won't. Maybe Batman will just walk. But should Nolan give in to inevitable studio pressure to design another new, marketable Battoy, I humbly propose this modified Lamborghini Ankonian.…
google.com Dec 14 5:49 am

I Would Buy the Philco PC Right This Second [Concepts]

The iMac? That would be sent back in a heartbeat for this glorious homage to the 50s. The Philco PC is pretty much a reimagined Philco Predicta—a short-lived but ridiculously iconic television. Then there are other fantastic touches as well,…
google.com Dec 14 3:24 am

Text to Speech via HTML5 Audio

Weston Ruter has created a nice mashup that marries HTML5 Audio support in modern browsers with the new Google Translate API that does text to speech (for them): Recently Google Translate announced the ability to hear translations into English spoken…
google.com Dec 11 6:27 am

Something Tells Me This Paintball Gun Is Cheating [R/c]

That could be a real gun mounted on those wheels, but 20 non-lethal paintballs a second honestly sound a whole lot more cruel than regulation bullets. This understated "Robotic Weapon" is a paintball gun mounted on a 4-wheel-drive E-Maxx truck.…
google.com Dec 11 6:23 am

Turn your PC into a TiVo for $39.99

It's a great option for a spare PC. And even if you're not wild about the TiVo software or service, the bundled Hauppauge tuner is worth $99 all by itself. Originally posted at The Cheapskate
google.com Dec 10 10:40 am

Surprise! There will be another iPhone next year

After 3 years of back-to-back new iPhones, it probably doesn't take a whole lot of guts (or brains, for that matter) to predict that Apple will be announcing a new iPhone in 2010. But when this guy comes along and…
google.com Dec 10 10:40 am

Surprise! There will be another iPhone next year

After 3 years of back-to-back new iPhones, it probably doesn't take a whole lot of guts (or brains, for that matter) to predict that Apple will be announcing a new iPhone in 2010. But when this guy comes along and…
google.com Dec 10 10:40 am

Surprise! There will be another iPhone next year

After 3 years of back-to-back new iPhones, it probably doesn't take a whole lot of guts (or brains, for that matter) to predict that Apple will be announcing a new iPhone in 2010. But when this guy comes along and…
google.com Dec 10 10:18 am

Can’t Decide Which Smartphone To Get? Measy Can Help.

With new smartphones hitting the shelves what seems like each and every week, it’s getting harder and harder to figure out which one’s right to buy. Sure, you, dear Tech blog reader, probably know exactly what you want 6 months…
google.com Dec 10 9:04 am

Mechas, Hovercycles and Flying Bikes: Meet the Tony Stark of Wasilla, Alaska [Inventors]

Wasilla, Alaska: Home to moose, human, and most notoriously, one Sarah Palin. Its most famous resident may be a divisive one, but I think we can all agree that Carlos Owen, backyard roboticist and aspiring mad scientist, is a hero.…
google.com Dec 10 1:14 am

AT&T says you’re using too much bandwidth! Bad you!

All you punks out there watching Internet video and downloading monkey porn had better stop! There's a current 5 gigabyte cap on data right now but soon, friends, AT&T is going to close up that "unlimited" plan and hopes to…
google.com Dec 10 1:14 am

AT&T says you’re using too much bandwidth! Bad you!

All you punks out there watching Internet video and downloading monkey porn had better stop! There's a current 5 gigabyte cap on data right now but soon, friends, AT&T is going to close up that "unlimited" plan and hopes to…
google.com Dec 9 12:23 pm

Graphic courtesy of Column Five Media

Graphic courtesy of Column Five Media
google.com Dec 9 11:31 am

6 Killer Extensions for Google Chrome

On the heels of delivery of Mac and Linux beta versions of the open-source Chrome browser, Google is out with its Chrome Extensions Gallery. For now, the gallery houses only extensions that work with the Windows version of the browser,…

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