Hello. My name is Harry Wolff.

I am a web developer working at GetGlue.

I enjoy tweeting, taking pictures, and making movies.

This is where I write.

Music: new Dirty Projectors and The Walkmen Albums Coming This Year

Posted on 03/31/2012 by Harry

I’m beyond words to describe my excitement right now.

Two of my favorite artists are putting out new albums this year.

Dirty Projectors is finally releasing the follow-up to their amazing “Bitte Orca”. They just posted a video for the upcoming single off the new album and it is awesome. Groovy drum beat, thumping bass line, and the always amazing vocals.

Watch and listen to the new single from the Dirty Projectors now.

Even more exciting than that…my all time favorite band The Walkmen are putting out a new album this year as well. Titled “Heaven” it’s due out later this year. From Pitchfork:

The followup to 2010′s Lisbon was recorded with noted indie rock producer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, the Shins, Modest Mouse) at his Seattle-area studio in the woods. Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold sings on the track “No One Ever Sleeps”.

So that was enough to make me start dancing. But what really threw me over the moon was the music playing in their newly released trailer for “Heaven”.

Watch the trailer for The Walkmen’s upcoming album “Heaven” now.

This is going to be an amazing year for music.

Amazing Lytro Camera Now Available

Posted on 02/26/2012 by Harry

Lytro is one of those amazing companies that has created a new piece of technology that is wildly like nothing else. Lytro’s cameras are able to take a picture that can later be refocused to any point in the image.

What does that mean? If you took a picture of someone and found out later their smile was out of focus you would be able to refocus the image so that their smile would be focused and crystal clear. No other camera can do that.

If it didn’t start at $400 I’d probably snatch one up, but as it stands it looks to be more of a niche purchase. Although…

There have been whispers that Apple is interested in lytro’s technology. Imagine lytro’s technology in your next iPhone. How wicked would that be?

iPad 3 Coming Soon

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The biggest news item today is from none other than that little electronics company Apple Inc. According to AllThingsD Apple is planning to launch the iPad 3 in the first week of March. This isn’t that surprising as the iPad 2 was released during the same time last year. What remains a surprise is what the iPad 3 will contain.

Current rumors point to a quad-core processor and longer battery life. I’m hoping for one more surprise that’ll make me yearn that much harder to pick one up.

New Sleigh Bells Song “Comeback Kid”

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Sleigh Bells is gearing up for their second album. In preparation they’ve released the second song off their soon-to-be-released Reign of Terror album titled “Comeback Kid”. From the sound of it Sleigh Bells definitely knows who they are and what their sound is, and they’re executing it very nicely.

New Theme, ‘Ari’

Posted on 09/06/2011 by Harry

If you can’t tell, I’ve changed the theme of my blog. The old one was beginning to grow old for me. I liked a lot of what it did, which is why I haven’t switched to a radically different layout, but I was yearning for something a little more fresh. (Also the font choices on the old theme were beginning to really grate on me. They didn’t make any sense and seemed to arbitrarily capitalize things with no reason arbitrarily. Just like that sentence.)

So this new theme’s name is Ari. I found it from this post about WordPress themes and downloaded it from the official WordPress theme repository (which always makes me feel safer).

It has three columns like the old theme with the left column staying fixed as you scroll.

For comparison’s sake here’s what the old theme looked like:

As you can see, not much different.

But as everyone likes to say, it’s the little things that matter! And matter they do!

Excellent New TV Season Begins

Posted on 07/04/2011 by Harry

So many TV shows have resumed their TV seasons in the past two weeks. Among them are True Blood, Weeds, Louie, and Futurama. What does this mean for me? Frankly, my productivity level is going to dip as I’ll be spending less time in front of the computer, and more time in front of the TV. Although to be fair all the time that I spend on the computer isn’t necessarily productive…it’s just time spent trying to lull myself into a state of productivity. This doesn’t always work. Sometimes I find myself going on Facebook, only to close Facebook and re-open Facebook in a new tab. So maybe with these distractions I’ll find myself even more productive than before, when I didn’t have TV shows that I needed to watch. Just so you know, there are NO spoilers ahead. I’m speaking as generally as a Major General.
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Redesign of Wolff Technologies

Posted on 06/08/2011 by Harry

Today it is my great pleasure to present to you the redesign of my freelance web design company, Wolff Technologies! This redesign has been in the works for just over a month, going through quite a few changes in concept and approach.

I’ve decided to go back to a design style that I find quite beautiful when done correctly – minimalism. This design approach incorporates both the space used by the content as well as the space left between the content. Through the wholesome union of these two components it is my belief that it leaves the viewer with a sense of clarity and richness without causing confusion or overwhelmingness.

I believe I’ve achieved this goal with my redesign. Although I already have more improvements in mind to add, I felt it was ready to go live in its current state. So if you’re looking for a website designer then look no further than Wolff Technologies! We got you covered

At Work: Redesign of dLife.com

Posted on 03/01/2011 by Harry

Redesigning a website is never a light task. Depending on the size and breadth of the existing website it can sometimes be a horribly arduous undertaking. Yet usually redesigns are for the better. Without the pain of change there can be no joy from progress.

For the past couple of months I’ve been living this process. When I first began work at dlife.com I was quickly thrown into the middle of a 100%-top-to-bottom-bottom-to-top website redesign. This redesign was not just a visual overhaul but also an architectural one. Every aspect of the dlife.com website was to be touched, leaving no page un-modified.

Some two weeks ago the redesigned dLife was finally ready to go live. So on February 16th my co-workers and I hunkered down at dLife HQ till the early hours of the morning and launched dLife 2.0.

Take a look at the attached screen-shots to see how dLife looked before and after the redesign. And please – visit dLife.com and enjoy a premier online diabetic resource.

My Verizon iPhone Is Coming!

Posted on 02/05/2011 by Harry

For over four years I’ve waited for the iPhone to become available on Verizon’s Wireless network.

My wait has finally paid off. Come next week I’ll be the proud owner of an iPhone.

Let’s Try Some New WordPress Themes

Posted on 01/26/2011 by Harry

It’s been almost a year that I’ve had this blog using the default WordPress theme “TwentyTen”. Well, it’s about time for a change! So feast your eyes around…there’s new decorations everywhere you look!

In case you weren’t sure, this theme redesign is a work in progress that will be progressing in a live fashion – as in I’ll be making changes that’ll take immediate effect without testing them beforehand. So if you see something weird don’t fear! I’m probably working on it!

Hope you enjoy! Let me know your thoughts in the commentsss!