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Google Maps Street View | Cyclists and Pedestrians

Going Beyond The Streets

By Eric Yang on Friday, 16 Oct, 2009 – 13:35 | Comment Now
Google Maps Street View | Cyclists and Pedestrians

Bikers, pedestrians take heed! Google needs your help. Well, not so much your help but rather your insight. Google is looking to bring their map street view to bike trails, paths, or pedestrian malls, and …

SeatGeek.com

Ticket Buying Gets All Smart Like

By Ben Bowers on Friday, 18 Sep, 2009 – 16:44 | One Comment
SeatGeek.com

Ticket buying, especially from the secondary market (e.g. scalpers) is rarely a pleasant experience. Since we know there’s a limited quantity, we automatically assume that the closer it gets to go time, the more expensive …

Google Fast Flip

Goodbye Google Reader. Hello Google Fast Flip.

By Eric Yang on Thursday, 17 Sep, 2009 – 9:00 | One Comment
Google Fast Flip

Attention Google Reader and RSS fanatics. Google Labs’ new Fast Flip is a web app that helps you discover news, articles, and sites for that matter. Better yet, it does so with Google’s signature simplicity …

Auto Erotica a.k.a The Work of Joshua Herron

Indulging Man's Need for Speed

By Ben Bowers on Wednesday, 22 Jul, 2009 – 16:30 | One Comment

Formula D, New Jersey - “The Gauntlet” from Joshua Herron on Vimeo.
Man’s love for fast cars is instinctual. Their speed, sound, and power, speak to the grunting, club thumping brute in us all at a …

Trunk Club

A Revolution In The Way You Buy Clothes

By Bradley Hasemeyer on Monday, 6 Jul, 2009 – 13:20 | 16 Comments
Trunk Club

In a perfect world, every business deal would close, every workout would yield visible results, and everything we wore would draw men’s respect and women’s phone numbers. But all those things take time and, in …

Firefox 3.5

Now Featuring: "The Awesome Bar"

By Eric Yang on Wednesday, 1 Jul, 2009 – 12:30 | 6 Comments
Firefox 3.5

50%. That’s the percentage of Gear Patrol readers who use Firefox to read the crew and our readers’ glorious articles and posts. That’s a hefty portion.
If you’re specs obsessed like me, then you care about …

Bing.com

Not Chandler's Search Engine

By Eric Yang on Thursday, 18 Jun, 2009 – 13:34 | 2 Comments
Bing.com

Having used Google for as long as I remember “searching for stuff,” I’ve come to know the various in’s and out’s of its essential searching capabilities (looking up “definitive men’s resource,” notwithstanding). But as you …

Be a Better Man in 30 Days | Day 16: Know How to Manage Your Online Identity & Image

By Ben Bowers on Wednesday, 17 Jun, 2009 – 16:30 | 3 Comments
Be a Better Man in 30 Days | Day 16: Know How to Manage Your Online Identity & Image

By now, everyone has heard the stories. A guy interviews for a job, asks the right questions, provides perfect answers, and knocks the whole affair right out of the park. Unfortunately, he doesn’t get the …

Hulu Desktop

The Department of Productivity Called...

By Eric Yang on Thursday, 28 May, 2009 – 16:20 | 5 Comments
Hulu Desktop

Don’t lie. You catch up on episodes of Lost and The Office at work. It’s okay, we do too. Well, Hulu’s schemes to “turn your brains into mushy mush mush” are getting a boost with …

Playing For Change

Music That Transcends Borders and Beliefs

By Eric Yang on Tuesday, 28 Apr, 2009 – 13:41 | 3 Comments
Playing For Change

Gear Patrol hasn’t previously published many posts like this, but maybe its time we start doing more so because some things are just worth sharing.
On a recent trip out to Los Angeles, I was having …