July 2009
Valet. →
My new fave Men’s magazine. Can’t find it on the stands though.
Traders Profit With Computers Set at High Speed →
Real-time taken to the next level. I don’t know why business don’t get the need to be operating fast - fast like real-time. If you look at these companies, it doesn’t matter if they invest millions of dollars in hardware and software because they earn billions by taking advantage of Moore’s law and slower counterparts!
Imagine real-time analytical Call Center applications...
Consumers frustrated by internet ads →
More solid proof that websites need to get rid of their ads. It’s a shitty business model that makes the user experience crappy.
somethingchanged:
Surveyed people loathe ads that cover the content (80%), followed by the ones that make it difficult to find the close or skip button (79%) and pop-ups (76%).
But in the same study Harris also polled marketers, 92% of which said they use...
Why Japan’s Cellphones Haven’t Gone Global →
OB
I’ve been troubled by this ever since I keep on entering different areas and buildings of prospects and clients because I never understood what it meant until recently.
Security normally asks you to surrender an ID and sign a log before getting inside. Visitors frequently write “OB” as the reason for being there.
So what does OB mean?
“Official Business”
Your Complete Mac VLC Makeover Kit
VLC is absolutely the best Mac media player out there. Version 1.0 is out after many years and it should look its best on the best OS.
The Skin
Download the skin.
The Icon
Download the icon kit.
What ever happened to affordable and classic...
What sucks is that you can’t find a decent pair of leather-soled leather shoes for under 5K pesos in Manila. Everyone likes rubber soles and the market is giving it to them. Furthermore, most of those rubber soles have this fancy modern-ass design with colors like gold and copper.
Florsheim and Rockport and all the rest of those American-style-that-feels-like-you-can-do-basketball shoes...
Activate Twist Gesture on Mozilla Firefox 3.5 (for... →
I love this feature on my multi-touch MacBook Pro. Just imagine me putting my thumb down on my trackpad and then moving my index finger from left to right to switch to the tab on the right; then moving my index finger from right to left to switch to the tab on the left. Neat stuff.
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport →
I want one. It’s only USD 2.1 million.
