October 2009
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September 2009
62 posts
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“Successful Experience Design is Invisible.”
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Jeff Rock:
Front right: keys.
Front left: iPhone.
Back right: wallet.
Back left: empty.
You?
Me (I’m left handed):
Front left: iPhone (always.. I may even get testicle cancer because of it!).
Front right: Money clip.
Back left: Headphone. Back right: Most of the time empty (or keys).
“While everyone else is making devices, we’re providing a holistic...”
– Fake Steve Jobs - We have your credit card info, and we are unstoppable
Fake Steve may be a joking spoof of the Real Jobs, but he is dead-on with this point. So much, that I will call this article a MUST READ.
(via Chartier)
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“Watching Dexter premiere is like falling in love again.”
– JiPé after watching season 4 premiere.
“Web sites are like puppies. No one should be allowed to own one unless they know...”
– Stop poluting the web for cry’s sake!
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Instapaper vs Tumblr iPhone App
The 2.1.2 update was just approved and is now available in the App Store.
New in Instapaper Pro:
Tumblr and Twitter sharing now work offline. Posts are submitted when you regain an internet connection.
Tumblr sharing can now optionally post as a draft or queued post.
Tumblr’s “(via Instapaper)” attribution is now optional.
Fixed Birdfeed sharing.
If you haven’t yet installed Instapaper on...
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How To Extend Your Laptop Battery Life - Laptop... →
Marco wrote a good post about what you should know about your laptop battery.
It is false to believe that you need to empty your battery and charge it back regularly to extend its life. And this is true for all the lithium-polymer batteries used in any modern laptops these days.
To extend your battery life, you should plugged your laptop much as possible and run it on battery for a while at...
PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100... →
CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.
Probably the most hilarious 2.0 press release you’ll ever read this year. Thanks to Jason, Matt and David who had contribute to write this masterpiece. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch must be pround.
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Clean Firefox Address Bar History
The Firefox address bar auto-suggest feature is very useful, but sometime it gets to crowned with many URLs.
You may want to start fresh by cleaning it all using the Clear Recent History functionality in the Tools menu. Select Browsing & Download History and set the time range to: Everything.
OR
You may want to be more granular and delete an individual entry from the History in Firefox....
“Why you’ll ever go back to the regular Facebook?”
– Jipé using Facebook Lite for the first time.
Mail.app Shortcuts
I always thought that productivity lied also in little details, like knowing the most useful keyboard shortcuts for your most used app.
Here’s for Mail.app in OS X, knowing Command+R for Reply, Command+Shift+R for Reply All, and Command+Shift+D to Send your mail, may save you a good 30 minutes in your day while making the application more responsive to your desires.
Other productivity...
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Everything Dexter - Prepare Yourself Before The...
The season premiere will be aired September 27th. Prepare yourself for the best series on earth.
Where’s Dexter?
Find Dexter in those four levels of interactive videos and watch the new Season 4 Trailer. A nice effective e-marketing campaign using some linking functionality of YouTube.
Body Bag Toss
Play this interactive Flash game and throw the body bag as far as you can.
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The New Literacy →
“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen >since Greek civilization.
…
Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that >wasn’t a school assignment.”
A must read for who ever think our children don’t know how write.
(via Instapaper)
Fix Annoying JavaScript Errors In 5 Minutes! →
I’m sure plenty of people are falling for this one.
We found that site, after a joke here at the office.
One of the JavaScript component in a Steph’s XHTML page was not working and I said: “Your JavaScript function doesn’t look to work”. Fred came up with the line: “Did you install JavaScript?”
Then we both look at each other, smiled, and search for...
The Ultimate Productivity Blog →
Pretty effective, you should read it.
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The Photojojo Book Is Out! →
I like Photojojo and their simple, but effective interface designs. Photojojo begun as a newsletter and grew also as an amazing online store. Now they have their own book.
I like the single promo page for their book, sweet and simple. Maybe the text about the book can be revised to make it more simple and interesting to read as being more descriptive of the book (some snapshots of the book pages...
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The Pacific - New HBO Series In The Making After... →
Just heard today that HBO is preparing another series on World War II called The Pacific. It is similar, although unrelated, to Band of Brothers. Whereas Band of Brothers focused on United States Army’s involvement in the European Theater of Operations, the new series will be about the United States Marine Corps’s actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations. It will still be produce...
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“Jason Stackhouse is the best character ever been created after Dexter in...”
– JiPé after watching the last episode of season two of True Blood. More info here.
WatchThe “Good Enough” Test: Flip Vs. Apple iPod Nano
Since Apple added a video camera to his Nano, some argue that the days of the the low cost Flip video camcorder are counted. NewTeeVee did a compare test, and when it is true that more light are going in the lens of the Flip for a clearer and cleaner image, the Nano is clearly passing the “good enough” test. And please keep in mind that...
The Revolutionary High Jumper Dick Fosbury →
You probably tought like me that high jump olympic track and field discipline has been unchanged for centuries. That the jumpers have always been using the back-first technique. But no! A single man, Richard “Dick” Fosbury, has changed everything at the Mexico City Olympic in 1968 by setting a new Olympic record and winning the gold medal.
Before him, every athletes, no exception,...
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Finished Symphony (Remixed by Deadmau5)
If...
uQuery.com - The Appstore Search Engine →
Finally something useful. What a pain to look for Apps in iTunes Store.
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Music And Me
I’ve decided to begin to talk about music on this blog. Not intensively as others can do it, but sometime by suggesting something to listen. But first you need to know about how I perceived music. Many will say that I don’t like music. Where it’s true that I can enjoy peace and quietness for months, its not true that I don’t like music. I’m just extremely picky to...
You Hit Me With Your Prius
Me: Bicyclist heading to jury on 10th Street, Friday at 8:50am.
You: Prius Driver, crossing over two lanes, hitting me with your car and speeding away.
Me: I was hoping we could catch up for a cup of coffee, so I could get your views on the environment, and strangle you.
Source: Best of Graiglist and Jeff Rock
“The World is brighter. I can now smell colors and taste imagination. I went to...”
– A good day in So in, so out…
Regarding The Future Of The iPod Touch
Steve Jobs:
“Originally, we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was, they started to see it as a game machine, (we) started to market it that way, and it just took off. And now what we really see is it’s the lowest-cost way to the App Store, and that’s the big draw. So what we were...
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Google Just Launches Internet Stats →
This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place. These have been collected from a number of third party vendors covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.
(via ReadWriteWeb)
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Fix The Slow Emptying Trash In Snow Leopard. →
Just noticed that my trash was really slow to empty since my upgrade to Snow Leopoard. Look like the Empty Trash securely was checked in the Advances Preferences of Finder. Just uncheck and enjoy.
For whatever reason it is more slow in Snow Leopard than Leopard to empty the trash securely.
The New Apple iPod Nano Will Be A Killer →
Apple already sold 100 millions copies of the iPod nano. It’s the most popular music player in the world. The revise version will sell like hot cakes:
Video Camera (VGA 640x480 H.264 ACC 30 fps, but no still pictures just video!)
Larger 2.2 inches display
Microphone (at the back of the iPod, just on the top of the camera) and speaker (probably at the same hidden place as the iPod...
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“Each season of Entourage is like having back a reunion with good friends you...”
– JiPé after watching the first 8 episodes of Entourage season 6 in a row. This show is pure sunshine.
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10.6 Snow Leopard - First impression →
Last Friday I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard. As wrote Marco Arment, you don’t really notice a difference, as almost nothing in the UI changed except for some enhancement in the Dock and Exposé. Everything is under the hood. The engineers at Apple spend all their time boosting the motor. Nothing we didn’t expect, as Apple already briefed us on their OS preview page. So no big...
True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten Talks About Living A... →
Interesting interview with Ryan Kwanten who plays Jason Stackhouse, the town Casanova, in Alan Ball’s hit HBO TV Series True Blood.
The interview is for a Men’s health and muscle magazines, so expect some questions around that, but it’s still very interesting.
I’ve been interested in Ryan since his amazing role and actor performance in True Blood. I cannot think of any other...
