Author: Jose
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Are we fast yet? Well, then, release the Kraken. The charts on Are we fast yet don’t show too far back in time to see how the trend has been going since the beginning of the year. You still get the picture, though.
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Balkanizing the Web
“I would have happily paid 4 dollars per episode for the Season 3 of Damages. But since it was not available thru any legal channel, I managed to get my weekly fix the very next day it was aired in the US.”
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Apple’s Move, Patently Bad Idea
News of Apple suing HTC for patent infringement do take away from the nice general feeling of their products. In an open letter to Steve Jobs, Wil Shipley writes: If Apple becomes a company that uses its might to quash competition instead of using its brains, it’s going to find the brainiest people will slowly…
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“Software” is dead…
Guy English postulates that software has been democratized. It is loud, it is ugly, it is popular and we fear it will never improve. He has coined Pop Software, or so it would seem from a quick Google search. Pop Apps might have been better, being as he says that “software” is dead, if it…
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The end of the record labels?
John Gruber mentions a post by Tristan Louis about where Apple is going with LP. The article focuses on video, but I think that the biggest change Apple can do, and I believe that is only a matter of time, will be to allow musicians to upload their music to iTunes directly, with LP extras…
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Stack Overflow – Programmer’s Help
Believe I had come across the site in the past, and I’m just rediscovering it.
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The Art of the (Title) Smoke
One of my favo(u)rite movies on this site full of movie and tv series credit sequences. There is also the Donnie Brasco title sequence. I remember it being mentioned in Hillman Curtis’ book MTIV – Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer that I read many years back. This section of the book…
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Free our Bills!
Feel free to lend a hand. They need your help. “The Nice Polite Campaign to Gently Encourage Parliament to Publish Bills in a 21st Century Way, Please. Now.”
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See if you can find a favicon
Check this favicon collection application running in Google’s App Engine service and see if you can find Broutek’s logo.
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Google’s Chart API
Look mum! No images! This image was generated through the Google Charts API. Just copy and paste the following text http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:10,10,20,30,30&chs=240×90&chl=Hello|World|How|Are|You into your browser to see it in action. The best part is that it supports sparklines as easily as this.
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Antivirus Reloaded – Clamwin for Vista
It’s old news now, new for me, worth mentioning, though. Clamwin, the free Windows antivirus does work under Vista. The installation went smoothly, which was to be expected. The software still needs quite a bit of work in a number of areas relating to the user interface and OS integration (looks like Windows 2000). There…
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Firefox 3 Easter Egg
If you are playing around with the beta versions of Firefox 3, try typing about:robots in the address bar. It plays with the theme that has been used in the first-run pages of Firefox since beta2.
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IT, CAD Management and Strategy
My first post in this blog, though it is not the first time I start a blog. I’m hoping this time around I will be able to keep it running indefinitely. My plan is on writing about all things that interest me one way or another with no specific focus. Hopefully there is always going…