StudioGlyphic

I often find it useful at work to get screenshots of web pages, but until now getting an entire page has always been a tedious process of stitching together multiple screenshots and editing out the "browser chrome."

Screen grab! makes life easy.

Yet another reason to use Firefox instead of IE.

I get knocked out in 285th. See if you can guess the other guy's hand.

It's a good thing Pokerstars emailed me about this afternoon's blogger tourney, or I might have slept right through it. Pretty much in the same way that I slept through the fact that Stars has a blog dedicated to this tourney; they've been naming names and prizing prizes to various blogs out there, including SoCal's very own Geek and Proud. Alan should get props just for having created the terror alert box, not to mention the poker content. Belated congratulations!

In other news, Studioglyphic Blog has sold out to the fastest growing poker site on the net, Full Tilt Poker. The only poker site designed by the world's best players. While some of the staff members here at SG Central have protested this new move, grousing about outdated ideals such as journalistic integrity and bias-free blogging, I for one welcome our new corporate overlords, and look forward to seeing a FullTilt banner on every page (Hey, if Myspace can survive a NEW$Corp acquisition, I think this little blog will do just fine).

See you at the tourney.

...but just once a year.

AnnualCreditReport.com is a joint service of the three major credit reporting companies that allows all consumers to check their credit for free as part of the FACT Act. Even if you're not comfortable transmitting a lot of personal information like Social Security and credit card numbers over the Internet, there's info on how you can phone or mail in your request.

I like to request these credit reports just for my own amusement, but sometimes you may notice a forgotten account or a mistake in your file. This is also a good time to ask these same companies not to sell/use your personal information for spam.

Ramen.

This is hands-down the coolest thing I've seen in a while.

Google Map API + Craiglist housing ads = One Supercool web app

Back when I was putting together my poker machine, I asked Glasstrack for tips on the hot deals in components. The prices were good then, but some of them have gotten even better.

Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Elite Keyboard w/Tilt Mouse Combo

Purchased: 3B Tech.net

Price (after tax, s/h, rebates): $53.00 Now only $19.89!!! Crazy.

Ben's Bargain Center has the scoop on the 24" 1920x1200 Dell Widescreen LCD for $780 shipped. If that's more screen than you need, Ben's also got info on the 20" widescreen ($395) and the 19" regular aspect ($276). The latter two, however, aren't quite big enough for four-tabling. Now that Party's letting you open 10 tables at once, you really should pick up two of the 24 inchers.

I don't know what was going on with the commenting on this blog, but apparently even registered TypeKey users weren't able to sign in and comment. I've turned unregistered commenting back on for the time being. I'll try installing the next version of MT and see if that helps any.

They're just too easy to parody...

Thanks to eight23 for the link.

Fry's Electronics, the legitimate face of Outpost.com's evil empire, has a great deal on Polk Audio R30s:

One speaker goes for only $49.98. Limit two per customer. You can probably pick up these babies at most of the CA Fry's locations, but you'll want to act quickly, since Polk Audio has decided to discontinue this and the R50. Call ahead to make sure your local store has them. Burbank's got at least 40-50 of them.

By comparison, etronics has the speakers selling for $199.95 per pair. Even if it weren't double the price, I'd probably shy away from etronics just because the name. I mean, like... what? So they shortened "electronic electronics" to "etronics?" Pffbt.

Anyway, I picked up a pair this afternoon and canceled my Outpost order this evening.

I don't even know if I count as a poker blog reader anymore.

I have registered to play in the
Online Poker Blogger Championship!

This event is powered by PokerStars.

Registration code: 1672101

Still, thanks to Absinthe for the tip-off. I wouldn't mind getting my glyphy hands on any one of those things (it's a shame I can't say "grubby" anymore).

Outpost.com has a great deal on Polk Audio R15s:

One pair goes for only $49.98. Ground shipping to my office starts at $18.72/pair; additional pairs get a price break on the shipping. By comparison, J&R (who has bad-ass customer service) has the same speakers for $89.88, which is also a good price, but obviously not as good as Outpost's.

Note: Stay away from microuse_stores. They offer the speakers for $38.95, but they're just an Amazon affiliate. If you go to the Amazon Marketplace, a sketchy company is selling the R15s for $38.95 per speaker, saying that they must be ordered in pairs. But none of this is obvious if you go through the microuse shill link, which takes you directly to the Amazon cart.

Oh, and J&R rocks because they offered me an additional $10 off per pair for speakers that had already shipped!