So while I was bored this week with organizing my office for 2009, I started to surf around on YouTube for a video I remember finding around XMas time … but I just couldn’t remember the video title 100%. I knew what the video was about so I typed in the keywords and jumped from page to page until I finally located the video. Took me about 5 minutes to do, but I found it. It was from this experience that I thought maybe a sleeker YouTube search using just thumbnails would’ve helped me out … so I sat down and came up with Tube Nails.

Now I know there are other websites out there that have similar features to Tube Nails, but there were a few that were missing. On Tube Nails when you mouseover an image it will display all the available YouTube thumbnails for each video, thus helping in the finding of a specific video based upon thumbnails. Secondly instead of losing you place in the search results, each video opens up and plays in an AJAX window right on top of the search results.

So let me know what you think of Tube Nails and if you can see anything that could make it better for you.

Yes, I know I could make the headline even dirtier funnier but for some reason its hard (no pun intended) to come up with the proper wording when talking about Hillary and Bill Clinton. But anyways …

According to the AccuWeather it will be 1-degree out when the Clinton’s help bring in the New Year during the annual Times Square ball drop.

I’m not 100% sure why you’d want to do this, but if for some reason you wish to use your iPhone as a very expensive iPod (why not just buy the ipod touch???), then here is a possible solution for you. I say possible since I can only afford an iPod Touch and have not personally tried this out.

Leave it to those crazy folks over at iPhone Dev Team posted a fun cryptic message on their blog today under the title “2008?” and it opened the doors for all the 3G unlock speculators on the web.

01110110
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A big thanks to MobileCrunch for coming up with a possible solution for the message:

ignore 61060174

Does this mean the Dev Team has cracked 2.2? We’ll know later tonight.

Alright - so, we’re ignoring something with an ID of 61060174. Let’s take a look at the original blog post URL:

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67687499/2008

How convenient - an 8 number chunk beginning with 6, just like what we’re supposed to ignore. Lets swap it out. We get this. It’s the blog post “The man from DelMonte - he say yes!”, in which the Dev Team announces that anyone hoping to unlock their iPhone should NOT upgrade to the official 2.2 release.

What does that mean? Well some people over at the iPhone Dev Team believe it means that the 3G iPhone Unlock is about the be released and should work for all 3G iPhone’s no matter if they’ve been PWNED (jailbroken) or not. Now all we can do is countdown until New Years and see what happens.

… otherwise you will get arrested! Just ask this bar parton about his 2006 incident.

According to the news article, a bar parton removed his sweater revealing the POLICE T-Shirt he had on underneath. It was at this time a waitress came out and informed the patron a police officer would like to speak to him outside … and that is when the following reportedly happened:

According to the lawsuit, a waitress told Weinstein that some police officers wanted to speak with him outside the bar. Weinstein went outside, he said, and was greeted by Belleville Police Officer Jeff Vernatti.

Vernatti, Weinstein alleges, asked him for his police credentials. Weinstein says he told the officer he didn’t have any credentials because he wasn’t a police officer.

That’s when, according to Weinstein, the police officer started screaming curse words and became physically and verbally abusive. Weinstein says he was cuffed and later released by the officer, but made to take the t-shirt off while standing in the cold.

Weinstein was ticketed for impersonating a police officer, but it was later dismissed. The ticket only alleges Weinstein wore the t-shirt.

“I’m afraid to go to Belleville,” Weinstein said in an interview. According to the lawsuit, Weinstein is a firefighter.

And now the patron is suing the the police department for this incident … craziness! His attorney actually makes a good point about how people are now sporting NYPD apparel all over the country as a sign of respect, however (at least not on record) has any of those people been arrested for impersonating a police officer.

While on a fun holiday break I couldn’t stop thinking about the guy who was making $10k per day selling the iFart application and the reasons why people thought it was a wise $1 purchase. Then when I read about his Christmas sales numbers which reached upwards of $27,249 net on Christmas day, I began to think of how to create a free alternative that anyone could use. So I browsed through the Apple AppStore and started to notice a lot of the applications listed in the store could easily be stand-alone websites, even with a mobile version of them. This started to get my brain moving a little bit (very tough for a slacker like myself without enough Mt. Dew) and thought why not see what it would take to create a website that played a few fart noise over the iPhone/iPod Touch.

After going back and forth on a name I came up with My Farter (www.myfarter.com). From there is was just coming up with a very basic design and coded it up in about 30 minutes. Since this is my first try at the mobile content world, I also threw on some AdSense Mobile just to see how that whole program works. So if you are bored, head over to My Farter and give it a whril. It will also work on your normal computer.

Honestly you know our country is defintely in the economic-crapper if an “application” for the iPhone/iPod Touch called iFart Mobile (selling for 99-cents) is generating upwards of $10,000 a day for the developer.

Most interesting is that the developer of the app has been very transparent about his sales numbers during his app’s climb in ranking. From a previous blog post:

12/14 - 841 units - #76 overall
12/15 - 1510 units - #39 overall
12/16 - 1797 units - #22 overall
12/17 - 2836 units - #15 overall
12/18 - 3086 units - #10 overall
12/19 - 3117 units - #9 overall
12/20 - 5497 units, - #4 overall

He’s since revealed to us the most recent sales numbers for the last couple of days which includes the coveted #1 spot on the App Store’s Top 100 sales.

12/21 - 9760 units, #2 overall
12/22 - 13274 units, #1 overall

After Apple’s 30% cut, that means the iFart Mobile is generated $9198 in one day.

How in the hell can ANYONE come to a rational decision that purchasing a 99-cent application that makes a farting noise is a great purchase. Yes, I do see the humor in this application, but you know you can make those same exact noises (even with a little bonus mixed in if you are lucky) for free? You don’t even have to own a $300+ phone to do so.

Don’t blame the oil companies or the car makers … blame the f’ing consumers who make purchases like this!

PS: Now if this application would allow you to make another person’s phone “fart” remotely (lets say your annoying boss who is making you work all day on Christmas Eve even though he’s out at Hooters), then maybe, just maybe I could see someone making the purchase.

The NY Daily News is reporting that Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die website “raised $3 million in cash from a single secret benefactor.”

They a very merry Christmas for the gang over at Funny or Die … just can you please stop posting videos of Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones rolling around on the floor (or bed). I know I’m probably going to get a lot of hate-email for that comment, and don’t get me wrong, I loved the first video of them with puppies, but its time for them to move on to another “style” of video on your website. Oh, and BTW, I know that Natalie and Rashida read my blog, so I wanted to let you know that both of you have more talent in your pinkie-toe than I do in my whole body.

If you are living in Tempe, Arizona and notice a giftwrapped present next to one of your favorite traffic lights then you gotta think Santa for such a unique gift …