February 2009
56 posts
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Stephane Moraille, Florida Water - Gold
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“But I was told I need to have a ____ to start a business.” Fill in the blank...”
– Matt @ 37Signals - Who needs a board of advisors?
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WatchSafari 4 (beta) new awkward tab browsing
What a bad UI idea to have merge the menu bar with the tab browsing. I don’t even understand why Apple did implement something so awkward for the user. Notice how the browser moves as you click the tab as they have multiple uses (menu bar and tab browsing).
(via Tuaw)
Photo Phonebook - Import Facebook Photos Into Your... →
Photo Phonebook (available free on the App Store) Finds the matches between the people in your iPhone’s contact list and your Facebook friends and downloads their Facebook profile photos.
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ZumoDrive - Cloud Storage For Your iPhone And More →
With “Supersize Me” on your iPhone, you get access to all your content. Play your entire music library directly over the air, go through all your photos without syncing, and have all your documents at your fingertips.
How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci →
Leonardo was the kind of person we have come to call a “genius.” But he had trouble focusing for long periods on a single project. After he solved its conceptual problems, Leonardo lost interest until someone forced his hand. Even then, Leonardo often became a perfectionist about details that no one else could see, and the job just didn’t get done.
(via GiveMeSomeThingToRead)
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Healthy Data - What Is Your Backup Strategy?
Beginning of the year 2009, I decided to make sure all my data should be healthy, in other words all my documents, pictures and home made videos and valuable piece of electronic documents should be backed-up.
I was not just talking about a backup on an external hard disk (something I regularly do) or hard DVD copies that you drop at a friend house, but a regular painless (every day) remote backup...
WatchSony Sucking Fucking God Dam Piece of Shit That Doesn’t Even Work
Hilarious!
(via The Onion News Network)
Changement de nom
Fred: Sté mon nom n'a pas toujours été Frédéric Lemieux.
JiPé: Comment ça?!?
Fred: Ben quand j'étais jeune je m'appelais Jean-Frédéric Fillion.
JiPé: Pouquoi ta changer nom?
Fred: Ben techniquement j'ai pas changé de nom. Ma mère a renoncé à ma garde l'égale et m'a ensuite adopté afin de changer mon nom.
JiPé: !?!?!?! #%^*%^ Tu es un orphelin adopté par ta mère biologique! Tu me niaises là?
Fred: Non, pour l'espace d'une minute j'ai été orphelin afin de changer de nom gratuitement.
JiPé: %}#%#!!!
Fred: Le travailleur social est même venu chez nous à quelques reprises pour vérifier que tout était beau.
JiPé: Sacré Fred. Le jour où tu va arrêter de me conter ta vie, je vais m'ennuyer en criss.
“Remaining positive and disarming yourself of negativity is the most effective...”
– Marco on Negativity - a post full of veracity.
WatchDay N Nite, The latest music video clip of Kid Cudi directed by So Me. Very impressive. Like the song, like the clip.
Podcast Listeners Do Better In Class →
Do what you want to do when you want to do it and you will mostly achieve better results.
“People sometimes ask us how much we look at the competition. The answer: not...”
– Matt at 37signals: What everybody else is doing is irrelevant
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Is The App Store Changing The Game Industry?
No so long ago Valve Software President Gabe Newell concluded at the annual DICE Summit that games are too expensive.
For me the games were always too expensive and this is the main reason I almost never bought any games (except for the first edition of Diablo). Not only they are too expensive, but the choice is very limited considering that the industry is controlled by a few majors.
A variety...
Lavage Sur Facebook
Alexi: Se demande, si un jour, sa laveuse frontale va finir par décoler et s'envoler...
JiPé: Autorisation de décoller AlphaRoméo-345, cycle 3. Bon lavage.
Alexi: Autorisation reçue Maytag 10410. Adoucissant en cours...
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Lost city of Atlantis found on Google Earth! →
UK tabloid The Sun has an article claiming that someone found Atlantis using Google Earth new ocean feature.
According to a Google spokesperson, the lines are actually sonar artifacts from a boat gathering data for Google Earth’s new ocean feature:
“What users are seeing is an artefact [sic] of the data collection process.… Bathymetric (or sea floor terrain) data is often collected from boats...
Urgency Is Overrated
This morning we had a good laugh about how email is used these days. We send an email and we take for granted that the person who will received it will read it immediately.
People have the tendency to use all the possible ways to let you know they have send you an email and are expecting an answer.
For exemple:
Your client send you an email
He sends you a SMS that he sent you an email
He...
“Things suck when you don’t give them your full attention”
– Jason’s thought on Multitasking - A good reminder…
“T-minus 10 minutes until President Obama touches down in Canada. Hopefully he...”
– Jeremy Watt
How Much of a Typical Video Online Is Actually... →
Interesting Market Analysis from TubeMogul:
Most videos steadily lose viewers once “play” is clicked, with an average 10.39% of viewers clicking away after ten seconds and 53.56% leaving after one minute.
Scott Fahlman :-) →
Scott is credited with originating the first smiley emoticon which he thought would help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes. He proposed the use of :-) and :-( for this purpose, and the symbols caught on.
I always wonder who has popularized the emoticons.
Twitter Raises $35 Million →
What the hell!
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Edit Google Spreadsheets on Your iPhone →
I don’t see how I would do that unless it’s a 4 x 4 spreadsheet, but it’s nice.
“First, it’s Friday the 13th. And like if it wasn’t enough, it’s also 1234567890...”
– Frank - 1234567890day.com
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WatchCell Phone Reunion - CollegeHumor
Just funny!
UX > Fred's Home →
What a cool site to present stuff you don’t need.
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Apptism: Currently Tracking 20,151 iPhone Apps →
Ya! The iTunes App Store has now more than 20, 000 apps. All this in less than a year. This is exactly what the new Apple iPhone Ads are saying: “There is a app for everything!”
Panasonic LX3 vs Leica DLux4 →
Here’s a good product comparison for some people like my friend Martin who believed that the Panasonic LX3 and Leica DLux4 were different in build and image quality.
Even, Ianho, this gadged freak, says that most of his followers find him crazy for having both cameras and specially the Leica at almost twice the price.
Panasonic and Leica have an agreement in the development of their...
WatchEmbedr - Create Video Playlists and Embed Them Anywhere
Create a playlist of video from any sources (YouTube, MySpace, DailyMotion, You-Name-It) and combine them into a single player that you can embed anywhere.
Pretty nice idea.
StumbleUpon Hits 7 Million Users →
Interesting overview-article from ReadWriteWeb about StumpleUpon.
Fetlife - A One Man Success →
One of my friend start a year ago a Facebook for fetish lovers. Being both a experience designer and a programmer, he simply started it from the ground up alone from his little apartment. Today some members are helping him maintaining the communities and selling advertisements on the site. Today, John and some others are living from the site.
You can say what ever dirty words about this exclusive...
Top 5 Considerations Before You Start Twittering →
Good humorous-but-true post from my friend Frank about Twitter.
It’s probably for all of those reasons that I still don’t get Twitter.
You can still follow my posts on Twitter if you wish.
“Memories are only true when you share them.”
– happiness also…
Ma.gnolia Is Dead For Good →
From the last message of Larry on the home page of Magnolia, it’s look like the service is dead for good as it appears he cannot solve the data lost he suffered last week.
I feel so sorry for him… Four years of work that has vanished in a single day.
Life is fragile as the thing we try to accomplish.
I wish him a big and more impressive return on Ma.gnolia 2.
I’m pretty...
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UX > Alltop: The Online Magazine Rack For All Your... →
Alltop aggregate RSS feeds around topics for you. The interface is clean and simple. Unfortunately when you arrive on a topic it is a bit overwhelming of information as all the sources has the same level of hierarchy and importance.
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Google Latitude Coming Soon For The iPhone →
The new Google Mobile product called Latitude let you know where your friends are. It’s coming soon for the iPhone. It’s already available for Android and a other popular platforms like the Blackberry and Windows Mobile. Is the iPhone not popular enought?
Are Brightkite and Loopt are already in danger with this new Google product?
The Internet is Down... →
You’ve been warned.
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Spark: Customize Your Shortcuts →
Spark let you customize and (re)define your Mac OS X shortcuts. It’s also let you control iTunes and system command like the brightness and sound control.
Until now I was using Keyboard Maestro to customize my keyboard shortcuts and control system command from my external PC keyboard.
Spark is simpler, powerfull and most of all free.
Note: Spark has small plugin called Plain Clip Plug...
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Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts →
Always good to remember some of the shortcuts that save you hours of productivity at the end of a year.
I specially like the shortcuts for the Dock like the Command+Option+Click to hide all other applications (except the one you’re clicking on).
