Can Of Awesome

Lean Phx “Tactical Dance-off”

Sean — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:41:27 +0000

Here’s a video of a presentation Matt Smith and Sean Tierney did at the last Lean Phx user group. In the interest of cramming the most actionable content into one hour, we came up with this “DJ Battle” format where we trade 5min sessions showing various techniques and tools. Here’s a time-stamped [...]

Get an edge on Craigslist deals via real-time SMS notifications

Sean — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:08:00 +0000

You can use this technique to setup “snares” and monitor Craigslist for deals. This trick uses persistent RSS searches combined with a service that converts an RSS feed into real-time email notifications. Taking it a step further you can receive those notifications as SMS and be the first person to know as certain deals become [...]

Time-saving tips with Spotlight

Sean — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:49:33 +0000

Spotlight does search well but it can also simplify other things like launching apps and making it super-convenient to perform math calculations. Check this 4min episode for some tips on how to get the most out of Spotlight for finding files, tracking down stuff in web pages you’ve visited and other useful tricks. Here’s a [...]

Typinator for canned text responses

Sean — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:18:32 +0000

Typinator is an app that allows you to predefine blocks of text and paste them with a set of unique keystrokes. It’s very useful if you find yourself having to repeatedly copy/paste text snippets or re-type boilerplate blocks of text. In this 3min demo I’ll show you how I use it for streamlining support [...]

Table Capture Chrome Extension

Sean — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:26:32 +0000

This gem when added to the Chrome browser allows you to easily move tabular data from a webpage to a spreadsheet program like Google Docs, Excel or Numbers. In this video I do a 4min demo of how to use this extension to determine the average population of a US state.

Interview: Jason Barney

Sean — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:16:22 +0000

Super excited to share my interview with Jason Barney. Jason is a long-time friend and former boss. As a music teacher back in the late 90′s he taught himself to code and worked nights to build iTOOL (which was essentially Yahoo Store before Yahoo Store existed). I met Jason as employee #5 [...]

Interview: Mike Fioritto

Sean — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:10:29 +0000

Mike Fioritto joins us today on this the latest episode of Can of Awesome. Mike is the Executive Director of Product Strategy and Project Management for Tribune Media Services and was my boss back in the day in the web services department of AZCentral.com. Mike has a background in photography & web and is [...]

Interview: Bill Ramsey

Sean — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:07:30 +0000

Bill Ramsey is a close personal friend, mentor and business advisor for us in Scratch Audio. Having known Bill since ’95 I can vouch that he’s not only a rock for others, but he’s also a legitimate rockstar having been the original drummer for the AZ punk band Horace Pinker.

In [...]

Interview: Ted Williams

Sean — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:58:06 +0000

Below is an interview with Ted Williams of Arizona Behavioral Health Corporation. With experience spanning government and private sectors Ted has had an impressive career and advanced several important causes for the State of Arizona. In this second episode of “Can of Awesome” we’ll explore some of the formative stories of Ted’s childhood and [...]

Interview: David Tierney

Sean — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:38:06 +0000

2010 winds to a close today and like most people I’m looking ahead to 2011 with some New Year’s resolutions. One of these is to resume podcasting. Today launches the “Can of Awesome” podcast – a series of interviews with amazing people to learn what makes them tick. These interviews will tend to be [...]