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kevruger

373 karma · joined February 24, 2010

Live in beautiful San Francisco. Implementing wireless technology in emerging products by day, sports and beer by night.
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kevruger··on A new day for Google Calendar
I don't think you need any 3rd party products. I use an iPhone, an Android phone for work and use a Macbook Pro and my main calendar is my Gmail Google calendar which syncs among all 3 devices without any 3rd party software. I guess you may just need to know how to set it up on iOS and Mac products.
kevruger··on How to Know If You’re Cheating
If you're not cheating, you're losing!
kevruger··on Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches
I experienced the 7.2 earthquake on Easter of 2010 in Southern California (San Diego area) and the thing I remember the most is that I felt at least one aftershock per day for at least the next 30-45 days. Nothing serious, they were always in the 4.5-5 scale region.
kevruger··on Connect.me Opens up for Invitations, Reserve your Name now
Not sure exactly what this company/service will do, but I read about it a few times today on various sites and twitter. Anyone have any info or background about connect.me?
kevruger··on Ask HN: Need a design for an iPhone app I'm building. Who do I hire?
oh and i forgot to mention the best one! Forrst.com. Get invited as a developer and you can meet great designers there.
kevruger··on Ask HN: Need a design for an iPhone app I'm building. Who do I hire?
authenticjobs, elance, scriptlance. A lot of programmers, but there are some good designers hiding in there too. I personally have used rob45degrees.com
kevruger··on Charlie Sheen Will Live Demo "Winning" Tonight on Ustream at 7pm
Can't...wait.
kevruger··on Ask HN: What's the best email capture form to use?
I came across this during my search. So you've used it? Could I see your example?
kevruger··on Show HN: I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50
Wow, ok $100 now? Must be getting some pretty serious orders to jump from $20 to $50 and now to $100? Good for you. I'm with the rest of them though, I'd like to see some results/examples!
kevruger··on Ashton Kutcher Bets on SeatGeek
I knew Kutcher has been invited to some of the recent YCombinator Demo Days and this article shows a couple YCombinator companies he has invested in. Does anyone know if he has invested in any others than the ones mentioned?
kevruger··on Ask HN: Why does it cost money to post on online job boards?
I've seen them and they're not free ($25): https://post.craigslist.org/sdo/J?guide=yes

Bigger cities are even more expensive, ie San Fran, NYC. I'll agree that the job postings on craigslist don't look spectacular, but with a few friends who just found jobs and other who are currently jobless, their go to job site is Craigslist. Sure they fill out profiles on Monster and Career Builder, but then they just sit back and wait to be contacted by recruiters.

kevruger··on Apple to Unveil IPad 2 on March 2 in San Francisco
I'm in the same boat you are. I love my android phone because I use google apps for my business and gmail for my personal - but I wasn't overly impressed when I played with the Xoom. I love the new format for Google Talk, Gmail and Maps, but the screen quality seemed not as stunning as the original iPad. I'm waiting myself to see the iPad 2, but I will be getting something this time around as well.
kevruger··on Confessions of an Apple Store Employee
Tell all? Does this kid think they are just paying him to hang out? Retail is retail kid, you either drink the kool-aid or become a customer. It's called a J-O-B.
kevruger··on Ask HN: Need suggestions for online t-shirt store business.
threadbird.com does awesome printing. They used to be Storenvy printing when I've used them - but they've branched off just for printing now it looks like. But they are based out of the US. Maybe drop them a line.

BTW, I don't know if your startup is just a temporary t-shirt store, but here is my 2 cents from my brief experience selling shirts: Spend a little more for the better quality shirts, you will get repeat customers. I highly recommend the American Apparel shirts. It really does make a difference. Also, if customers know that the shirt is AA, they are definitely more likely to buy if you list it for a moderate price. The quality is far superior and in my opinion, just feel better wearing them.

kevruger··on New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon
When did you sign up for the google apps account? I've seen this issue with new google apps accounts because google now has all google app accounts also set up as a regular google account for other google services. For example - before if you had a google apps account for your business, but wanted to use a service like google voice - you had to sign in to google voice with a separate google account. Now Google Apps allows you to use your custom domain to sign into all google services. I've seen this conflict in setting up newer Google Apps accounts for customers because the Google Apps account is treated as traditional Google Account. I'm sure there has to be some sort of work around for this.
kevruger··on How I sold my company to Google ($80million)
ahhh really? i was giving reasons to watch the video rather than enforce the other comments that say it was a waste of 2 minutes. It was just positive feedback?
kevruger··on How I sold my company to Google ($80million)
eh... the blonde was cute
kevruger··on How Two Shoe Enthusiasts With No Programming Experience Built An iPhone App
I have absolutely no feeling, as they should be the top search in google. I do not use the .com or the .net at the moment, like I pointed out. I was just asking if they are a business called SoleSearch, why settle for the domain sole-search.net? It's fairly easy to come into contact with the owner of domains if they are not available.

I'm sure all of their customers find it in the app store and that's why they've never worried about it. But take a successful app like angry birds for example. If I go to angrybirds.com, it takes you to their shop where they earn additional streams of revenue. If these guys want to create something special and "be bought out by yahoo for a billion", in my opinion they need to offer something more to a customer than just the name, address and phone number of a sneaker store. It's all stuff I can do myself by using a free app like google maps.

kevruger··on How Two Shoe Enthusiasts With No Programming Experience Built An iPhone App
I happen to own the domains solesearch.com and solesearch.net and used to use the .com as a footwear auction marketplace (bigger niche than most think). Still toying with rejuvenating the idea. I've never received any contact from them about acquiring domain. They can't be happy with sole-search.net right?
kevruger··on Paypal alternatives
I've been using Venmo (venmo.com) quite a bit. Real easy to use and no fees at all so far whatsoever. It's in beta, but you can sign up for an account if you download the app on your iphone or android device for free. I also have about 8 invites left if anyone is interested. Anybody using this as well
kevruger··on Lifetime Mixpanel.com Startup Plan - $17
I signed up for the startup plan yesterday and followed the instructions that appsumo sent off to me, but my account has yet to be upgraded. My initial email to the mixpanel server keeps bouncing back. Has anyone else had this issue?
kevruger··on Coupon code 'GOBBLE' - $1 .com domains with GoDaddy
Great coupon! Just used it and got a good one tonight. BTW - it does not work for renewals. Renewed 2 .com's in the same cart purchase and did not get the promo.
kevruger··on Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?
blame facebook
kevruger··on He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
Pretty amazing guy. I wanted to question how big of a ny mets fan he was living in the 80s. So I went to October 27, 1986 - and yep there he was. What a great shot of the celebration at Shea Stadium.