January 2012
17 posts
Apple's iBooks 2: Why Users Downloaded 350K in 3... →
Pretty interesting: 350K textbooks and 90K iBooks Author downloaded in just 3 days. Pretty amazing, looking fwd to see what will be of this industry in an year from now.
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Simple Git guide, straight to the point →
A lot of people have trouble understanding how to use Git, specially when they come from the experience of using Subversion or other old VCS. This site has a super straight forward guide to start using Git in a few minutes.
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The Dead Kindle And What I Learned About Amazon... →
Good to know that Amazon has such a great Customer Service for its devices The only thing I did interacting with Amazon is returning some products, which works flawlessly BTW.
Apple really has a big competitor in Amazon as they keep on evolving their services and devices.
Great Products Are Nice. But Great Businesses Add... →
via Co.Design
Apple’s Siri Feature Doubles IPhone Data Usage →
“Apple’s voice recognition software Siri has prompted owners of the iPhone 4S to use almost twice as much data compared with the handset’s predecessor, placing greater pressure on operators, network firm Arieso said.”
Interesting, after having a lot of fun right after getting my 4S, I barely use Siri these days, once in a while I set an alarm or a timer.
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“The reason I’ve invested so much time and money (creating Industrial Light &...”
– George Lucas, in conversation with Marco R. della Cava of USA Today
Verizon Kills Planned $2 Convenience Charge... →
Good to see that we can really make things change when we protest. This was a total abuse from Verizon, as non sense as the idiotic Bank of America debit card charge.
December 2011
7 posts
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The Social Networks and Services I use
These days we have so many social networks and services that it is quite overwhelming to update everything with all posts and keeping it synced. I use all this services daily to share some specific content.
Facebook - This is a very personal network, I don’t add a lot of people, actually I remove people more frequently than I add them. I want to keep the amount of ppl in a manageable size.
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Moving out of Go Daddy
I was never a fan of GoDaddy, their prices are very steep and their site is incredible hard to use. Finally, given the whole crap around their support to SOPA, I will take action and get my domains out of there.
Here is a good site that explains how to move your domains out of it.
http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy
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January 2010
1 post
“With great power comes great responsibility”
– Uncle Ben
May 2009
1 post
simplify:
allisonweiss:
I hate how the Vista advertisements rave about how parents can limit their kids’ time spent on the internet. One parent says, “…because sometimes I catch them up at 2:00 in the morning still surfing the web.”
I attribute 100% of my web and graphic design skills to the fact that I spent an insane amount of time on the computer in my youth. I wasn’t playing. I was...
February 2009
6 posts
“Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There...”
– Douglas Crockford, Javascript: The Good Parts (via cassiano)
“Code talks. Twikis don’t talk.”
– Completely Orginal Thought from CJ while having an inspiring chat with Lucas (via charanjeet)
Process as defined by Seth Godin
charanjeet:
Process, on the other hand, refers to the emotional intelligence skills you have about managing projects, visualizing success, persuading other people of your point of view, dealing with multiple priorities, etc. This stuff is insanely valuable and hard to learn. Unfortunately, it’s usually overlooked by headhunters and HR folks, partly because it’s hard to accredit or check off in a...
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people...”
– Steve Jobs, 1998 (via uxquotes) (via simplify)
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people...”
– Steve Jobs, 1998 (via uxquotes) (via simplify)
November 2008
16 posts
“Writing software is about people People! That’s what agile and Lean and...”
– Peter Gillard-Moss
WatchHack Day Brazil no Yahoo! Vídeo
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
– Henry Ford
WatchJohn Battelle and Zuckerberg talking at Web 2.0 Summit
“Consider this: the BlackBerry Storm offers cut-and-paste (duh!) functionality,...”
– News.com
“If you don’t have a solution to a problem, you don’t have a problem”
– I don’t agree totally with this quote, but it’s an interesting Point of View (via charanjeet)
Viral Loop →
(via charanjeet)
Testing Instapaper →
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Apple issues fix for MacBook trackpad woes →
WatchBeanbags Hacking