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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
I never though the day would come when I wouldn’t have to worry about putting gas in my car, or paying my mortgage. If I help him, he’s gonna help me
I really want to find someone who voted for Obama because they understand his policies and honestly believe they are economically sound.
Great Resource
Great JS library thats lighter than Prototype.
Erick Schonfeld:
Okay, now he won. CNN is projecting
306 338 electoral votes for Obama. McCain just gave his concession speech. We’ll all be eating Obama O’s for breakfast tomorrow.
That is 100% correct. We will all be eating Obama O’s, at the local soup kitchen after his added regulations bankrupt business and his taxes send the unemployment rate sky-high.
They got him and Biden Palin above 270
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Ask Jud is finally on top
No excuses for you site to not work in non-js browsers.
Not Surprised.
SimpleCart(js) is a simple paypal shopping cart in under 11kb that you can setup in minutes. It uses cookies to keep track of the items in the cart. Therefore, simpleCart(js) doesn’t require any databases or programming knowledge.
Perfect for businesses that have a few SKUs and want to sell online. Google Checkout integration would make this much better.
Maybe MacSoda is right about this one, although, their track record isn’t so good.
John Grubber:
Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.
Grubber does a great job of breaking iPhone UI development down to the bear minimum.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Watch.
Surely, in a capitalistic order a fraction of national income is spent by the rich on luxuries. But regardless of the fact that this fraction is very small and does not substantially affect production, the luxury of the well-to-do has dynamic effects that seem to make it one of the most important forces of economic progress. Every innovation makes its appearance as a “luxury” of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a “necessity” for all.
Great perspective on the importance of “the rich” (people making $200,000+ according to Obama). Seems as though redistribution of wealth isn’t such a great idea after all. Von Mises continues:
The poor performance of public enterprises is usually blamed on bureaucratic management. In order to render state, municipal, and other public operations as successful as private enterprise, they should be organized and directed along commercial lines. This is why for decades everything has been tried to make such operations more productive through “commercialization.” The problem became all the more important as state and municipal operations expanded. But not by a single step has anyone come closer to the solution.
Von Mises could be one of the most brilliant economists of our time. Having attended lectures from guest speakers from the Von Mises Institute, he should really be in Washington helping out the House and Senate.
This makes the switch to rails even more tempting. I think I may switch to a ROR front-end connecting to RESTful Web Services written in PHP.
So what happens at an Apple Store Field Trip? We sent one of our classes to the Apple Store last week, and it was generally considered a good trip. There were six machines in the store set aside for the trip and the focus was podcasting. The kids were taken through a start-to-finish recording of their own ‘podcast’ in GarageBand including using Photo Booth to add chapter artwork and burning the CD in iTunes.
Seems as though little Johnny didn’t think things through when he went on his little tirade.
It seems that by turning off credit card security features like CVV2 and Adress Validation Service (AVS) for his online donations, Obama has been able to take donations that can’t be traced back to big business and put consumers at risk for credit card fraud.
This may well be Apple’s best MacBook to date.
Very true.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
My newest microcommerce (yea, I coined that term) is dedicated to providing avid Apple Fans access to low cost Zagg InvisibleSHIELD cases for their Apple branded devices.
As a special thank you to my readers, reward yourself with 10% off your total purchase when you use the unlimited-use promo code: 10offArmor in the shopping cart. Go ahead, you know you wanna buy the world’s thinnest iPhone 3G case.
Monday, October 13, 2008
With the emergence of Web 2.0 and sites like Facebook and MySpace creating dominate social networks that span millions of users, many are looking for the “next big thing”, one idea that has caught a lot of attention lately is “E“. In a nutshell, E allows users to exchange information on-the-go using a device called the E|Connector or your internet capable mobile phone (a la iPhone). Combine this with integration with popular web 2.0 apps such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Flickr and all of the sudden the possibilities of Web 3.0 and instant sharing of information are becoming more of a reality.
E is currenly in private beta testing, but I have invites. If you would like an invite, feel free to leave me a comment. The Video of the E|Connect in action is below.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
With the release of a software update for Apple TV, version 2.2, there are many new and exciting features being brought to Apple’s revolutionary product. The most notable features being written about include:
- HD TV shows - Finally watch and buy HD TV Shows on your Apple Tv
- Genius playlists - Create a Genius Playlist directly from your Apple TV
- On-The-Go playlists - Add a song to your playlist without your computer
While all of those features are excellent and much needed additions, the most exciting feature to me is Music Video Playlists (finally!). Before this update, no matter if the music videos were in a playlist or not, the Apple TV would refuse to play through all of the videos (even though iTunes will). If you have spent a small fortune on music videos and want to use them at say, a house party, the Apple TV came just short of expectations, but as always, Apple seems to come through in the end.
The funny thing is that I sent Apple this exact feature request about 1 week ago via their Apple TV Feedback Form. Maybe I am starting to get some pull these days. Thanks for the update guys.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
After a long night of work, there is nothing worse than the dreaded sound of an alarm clock going off, loudly letting you know that two hours of sleep goes by faster than you could ever imagine (theory of relativity anyone?). With all of the advances in technology, why is it that my alarm clock doesn’t slowly monitor my awareness and gradually bring me out of a state of rest? While the latter would be nice, I found what I would call alarm nirvana using software that is available today.
Honestly, I was not looking forward to reviewing software that, quite frankly, I didn’t think would be that interesting. Enter Awaken (by EmbraceWare), easily the best alarm clock software for mac and by far superior to the old-and-busted annoying as heck alarm clock you currently own. Awaken combines an innovative set of features and a superb visual interface to create an alarm clock that is actually fun to use on my mac.
Of the many features of awaken, the ones I like the most are:
- Volume + Screen Fade - Because your alarm should not startle you every morning with sheer volume.
- Integration With iTunes Genius Playlists - Wake up to a new “Genius” mix every morning.
- Fully customizable alarm “repeat” settings - Never forget to “unset” your alarm again!
- Awaken automatically wakes up your computer - Let your computer sleep while you sleep, Awaken takes care of the rest.
During my normal everyday use, as shown above, I have no need to ever worry about changing my alarm based on different days of the week, as I have a pretty routine schedule. My accounting class is only on Tuesday and Thursday, which is why Awaken only wakes me up at 8:00 am on those days and 11:00 am on MWF. Pretty intelligent eh?
Of course this application is not quite perfect, although it is pretty dang close. The one feature I would like to see implemented in a future release is the volume + screen fade for the snooze alarm. Hitting snooze will definitely make sure you get up in 10 minutes when your computer plays music at full volume all at once.
All in all, Awaken is easily worth the $12.95 price tag it carries. Trust me, you will never feel good about getting waken up until you try out Awaken. Also included in the pricetag is unlimited lifetime updates (major + minor), what a deal!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Yea, all the stuff that was here has been deleted up to this point. I just needed a clean start because there was no one clear theme that all the writings followed. Before you get excited that I will finally be picking up writing entries once more, not quite yet. I am still brainstorming about what direction to head in, but things should start picking up rather quickly.
In the meantime, feel free to follow me on twitter.